Slope and slope related issues provide a critical challenge to civil engineering projects.
Slope and slope related issues provide a critical
challenge to civil engineering projects. Many key decisions have to be
made based on inadequate or inappropriate data, and uncertainties over slope
behaviour lead to heightened risks, escalating
costs, and usually conservative design and planning. Our research is providing new levels of understanding of
slopes, failures, and mitigation measures with high resolution, novel monitoring and modelling techniques. This offers fresh insights
into the nature and causes of slope failures and new relevant slope data
for policy and decision-making.
For more information and postgraduate opportunities, please contact Dr Mike Lim.
Climate change has the potential to affect any
transportation network that comprises embankments and cuttings built with soil
material in an unsaturated state that is exposed to the climate. One of the
major concerns with earth structures that engineers face today, is whether our
current infrastructure is resilient to current and future climate patterns.
Through laboratory testing and remote sensing we aim to advance understanding of the hydro-mechanical behaviour of unsaturated soils. We are actively developing new methodologies and techniques to help geotechnical engineers understand the impact of climate on earth slopes.
For more information and postgraduate opportunities, please contact Dr João Mendes.
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