
Geomechanics Research Group
Geomechanics covers activities related to the characterisation of granular materials, soil, clays etc and understanding, and modelling, their behaviour under a range of conditions and time scales.
Particular areas of interest are the modelling of soil-structure interactions including soil-vehicle interactions for extra-terrestrial applications and the behaviour of liquefiable soils subject to seismic and other dynamic effects.
- Mechanics and micro-mechanics of granular materials including image analysis
- Discrete Element Modelling (DEM) of granular materials including laboratory validation
- Physical modelling of geotechnical problems including soil-structure interaction with particular emphasis to off-shore wind turbines
- Soil-Vehicle interactions including extra-terrestrial applications
- Wave propagation in, and constitutive models for, nonlinear materials
- Pipelines and piles in seismic areas including liquefiable soils
- Study of soil liquefaction using element tests
We can carry our Advanced Soil Testing as well as bespoke scaled model tests of geotechnical problems. Please contact us if you need any further information.
We are pleased to announce our new MSc course in Advanced Geotechnical Engineering.
Please find a list of the academic, research and support staff that make up the Ground Engineering group.
Academics
Research students
- Mr Hasan Emre Demirci - working on "Numerical modeling and simulations of the pipe subjected to faulting provide reasonable predictions for the axial and bending strain distributions obtained during the tests."
- Mr Saleh Jalbi - working on "Dynamic Soil Structure Interaction for offshore Wind Turbine Support Structures."
- Mr George Nikitas - working on “Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction of Offshore Wind Turbines”