Geotechnical Engineering
Geotechnical 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, dams, tunnels and other Civil, Mining and Environmental engineering projects relating to the mechanical response of the ground, and the water within it. Research work being undertaken in the GeoEngineering Centre includes studies on shallow and deep foundations, tunnels and deep excavations, pipes, culverts and other buried infrastructure as well as GeoTechnical Earthquake Engineering.
Specialized testing facilities include a GeoTechnical Centrifuge, Buried Pipe Test Cells, A CFI funded Large Scale Buried Infrastructure Laboratory at Queen's, and a prototype scale reinforced wall test facility and shake table located at RMC.
A new GeoEngineering Centre links fifteen GeoEngineering researchers in Civil Engineering, Mining Engineering, Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering at Queen's with Civil Engineering at RMC.
- Contaminant Migration
- Landfill Design
- Geosynthetics
- 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
- Loadout Tunnel Analysis and Design
- Geosynthetics and Buried Polymer Structures
- Protection, wrinkles and leakage through geomembranes
- Performance and design of leachate collection pipes for municipal solid waste landfills
- Laboratory testing and analysis of polymer manholes for landfills
- Geosynthetics 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 behaviour of granular materials
