Geotechnical Engineering

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The Institute of Engineering has a team of specialists with extensive experience and national and international recognition whose vision is focused on identifying, evaluating and designing solutions to problems related to geotechnical engineering using cutting edge innovations and techniques. The main lines of research in this discipline are:

• Dam engineering
• Tunnels in soft soils
• Soil-structure interaction
• Development of numerical solutions (finite element methods, boundary elements, finite differences, finite volume)
• Numerical modeling of geo materials
• Approximate computation (soft computing, artificial neural networks, generic algorithms, fuzzy logic, etc.)
• Soil dynamics
• Geotechnical and seismic zoning
• Foundation engineering
• Applications of probabilistic methods and geo statistical civil engineering
• Analysis, design, instrumentation and performance of foundations both inland and offshore
• Instability of artificial and natural slopes
• Unconventional techniques in the soil mechanics laboratory
• Mechanical properties of compacted soils
• Static and dynamic properties of clay
• Highway embankment behavior