Soil is a multi-phase granular system typically consisting of organic matter, minerals, water and air. Our world is literally built on soil, so having a good understanding of a soil’s deformation when it is subjected to loads is clearly essential for designing foundations which are safe but not unnecessarily conservative.
The Granular Mechanics and Industrial Infrastructure group uses laboratory triaxial experiments, particle-scale discrete element method simulations and continuum finite element method simulations to explore soil behaviour for a broad range of civil engineering applications. Projects within the Soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering theme are listed below.
Related Projects
| Lead researcher | Title | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lin Bu | Multiphase flow and coupled flow-mechanical behaviour in Filling type Disaster-induced structure in tunnels | Ph.D. | ONGOING |
| Quisheng Gu | Effect of particle shape, size and particle friction in granular solid flow in railway ballast | Ph.D. | ONGOING |
| Joel Keishing | Investigating the micromechanics of granular soils subjected to cyclic loading using the discrete element method | Ph.D. | ONGOING |
| Milena Velikova | Are some phobias good? Examining hydro-mechanical relationships in hydrophobic soils | Ph.D. | ONGOING |
| Jiawei Xu | Effect of particle shape, size and particle friction in granular solid flow in railway ballast | Ph.D. | ONGOING |
| Meixia Wang | Mechanistic study of hydraulic fracturing and water inrush of rock mass in TBM tunneling | Ph.D. | ONGOING |
| Lorenzo Conti | Nonlocal rheology of dense granular systems/Robotics in sand | Ph.D. | COMPLETE |
