All topics of Geotechnical Engineering are research interest to our division, but current research is on the following topics:

• Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering (Soil Liquefaction, Engineering Seismology, Seismic Hazard Analysis, Ground motion models, Seismic source characterization)
• Collapsing soils, Dispersive soils,
• Expansive soils (Swell amount and swell pressures, Lateral swell behavior)
• Stabilization of soils by waste materials, Use of fly ash for soil stabilization
• Soil stabilization by bacterial cementation
• 2D and 3D Numerical Modeling,
• Unsaturated Soils (Triaxial testing of unsaturated soils for modeling unsaturated soil strength and deformation, Soil-water retention curve prediction and hysteresis, Hydraulic conductivity function and flow modeling
• Geotechnical testing system and methodology development,
• Slopes and Landslides, Rainfall triggered landslides, Stabilization of slopes by passive piles
• Embankment dams, Behavior of earth and rock fill dams under earthquake motions
• Ground Improvement, Stone columns
• Geosynthetics,
• Offshore Geotechnical Engineering, Offshore foundations
• Retaining walls and Deep Excavations,
• Buried pipelines,
• Uncertainty and risk calculations in geotechnical engineering
• Transportation Soils and Pavement Design,
• Software Engineering for geotechnical engineering,
• Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for geotechnical problems,
• Site survey and damage assessment with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
• Tunnel Design