Research Group Computational Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering (COMPSOIL)

Research at COMPSOIL group

Exploring soil behavior across the scales (micro to macro), our research encompasses experimental, theoretical, and numerical frontier approaches to investigate soil-structure interactions for foundation and subsurface engineering, energy geotechnics, as well as climate-induced geohazards, fostering innovative and sustainable solutions for a better future.

Physical-Numerical modeling of interactions in geostructures

Research topics

  • Underground construction in urban area
  • Tunneling in swelling clay rocks
  • THM coupled modeling and laboratory testing
  • Constitutive modeling for geomaterials
  • Geosynthetic-reinforced geostructures
  • Energy foundations
  • Shallow and deep foundations
  • Optimal design of monitoring systems in geotechnics
  • Landslide and geohazard
  • Machine learning and soft computing methods in geotechnics
  • Uncertainty quantifications through probabilistic and stochastic analyses

Research projects

  • EnergWALL

    Energy activated sheet pile walls: Coupled Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical analysis and field testing

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Courses

  • Soil Mechanics
  • Hydromechanics
  • Foundation Engineering
  • Numerical Soil Mechanics
  • Geostructures (Advanced Soil Mechanics)

Testing equipment in the laboratory of soil mechanics

  • Field testing (soil densitometer, SPT, DCP, vane shear test, geophone, …)
  • Soil classification (Sieve analysis, hydrometer, Casagrande device, …)
  • Permeability testing (constant and falling head cells)
  • Compressibility testing (odometer cells)
  • Soil shear strength testing (digital direct shear and triaxial cells)

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