– Geotechnical Engineering
– Constitutive laws for geologic materials
– Numerical modelling of complex geotechnical structures
Specific Research Interests and Activities
Geomechanics
Study of dilatancy of granular materials under both monotonic and cyclic loads; Modelling density and pressure level dependency of granular materials; Description of inherent and induced anisotropy through incorporation of some fabric tensor reflecting the evolution of material microstructure; Modelling of soil behaviour along various imposed stress/strain paths.
Numerical modelling of geotechnical structures
Development of robust plasticity algorithms with high efficiency and accuracy within numerical computations; Soil-pipeline interaction induced by soil movement; Liquefaction of soils under earthquake loading; Stability of slopes and deep excavations; Coupled thermal-elasto-plastic analysis with multi-phase flow through porous media; Bearing capacity of off-shore structure foundations under partially drained conditions;
