Geotechnical Engineering:

Geo-technical Engineering: involves the application of soil and rock mechanics as well as engineering geology to solve engineering problems such as design of foundations, slopes, excavations and other Civil, Mining and Environmental engineering projects relating to the mechanical response of the ground, and the water within it. Work includes studies on geo-synthetics, long term performance of landfill liners, shallow and deep foundations and deep excavations, pipes, culverts and other buried infrastructure as well as Geo-technical Earthquake Engineering. 

Testing Facilities; a large scale landslide flume, and a prototype scale reinforced wall test facility and shake table. 

Contaminant Migration 

Landfill Design 

Geo-synthetics 

Reinforced Embankments and Walls 

Tunnels in Soft Ground 

Anchors, Retaining Walls and Pile Foundations 

Buried Infrastructure 

Soil-structure Interaction 

Trenchless Technology 

Buried Pipeline and Culvert Design 

Load-out Tunnel Analysis and Design 

Geo-synthetics and Buried Polymer Structures 

Protection, wrinkles and leakage through geo-membranes 

Performance and design of leachate collection pipes for municipal solid waste landfills 

Laboratory testing and analysis of polymer manholes for landfills 

Geo-synthetics in waste containment facilities 

Municipal solid waste landfill design issues 

Shoring systems for deep excavations 

Numerical analysis of non-linear soil-structure interaction problems 

Small - and Large - strain behavior of granular materials 

Geo-synthetic liners in waste containment, natural resource extraction, and potable water applications 

Durability of polymeric geo-membranes 

Long-term Performance of Bituminous Geo-synthetic liners 

Large scale testing of composite liners under combined chemical and physical exposure conditions 

Interface shear strength of Geo-synthetic Barriers 

Digital image-based measurements of deformations and strains in soils and structural materials 

Slope stability, landslide triggering processes, and run-out 

Unsaturated behavior of geo-synthetic liner system components 

Field performance of geo-membrane composite liner systems 

Soil structure interaction 

Physical modeling of a wide range of geotechnical processes