Geotechnical and Environmental Group
The Geotechnical and Environmental Research Group is home to nine academic staff, a computer officer, seven technicians, two administrative staff, two post graduate researchers and 56 graduate students. The interests of the group are wide, ranging from the fundamental mechanics of soils to encompass applications such as construction processes; infrastructure such as tunnels and shafts; environmental engineering; petroleum engineering structures such as offshore piles and pipelines; sustainable and renewable energy technologies like offshore wind farms and earthquake engineering including soil liquefaction.
The Group has extensive facilities for laboratory testing, centrifuge modelling, and numerical analysis. They operate both at the National Research Facility for Infrastructure Sensing where they have the Geomechanics Laboratory and the high-Pressure Testing Laboratory and at the Schofield Centre where they undertake Geotechnical Process and Construction Modelling.