The IIT Madras Geotechnical Engineering Division in the Civil engineering department was established in the early 1960's.

Major areas of research in the Geotechnical engineering includes physico-chemical behaviour of soils, strength and deformation behaviour of soils, soil dynamics & earthquake engineering and machine foundations, soil stabilisation, stone/sand columns, reinforced earth, geosynthetics, environmental geotechnique and waste disposal, unsaturated soil mechanics, rock mechanics, Numerical methods in geotechnical engineering.

Geotechnical Engineering Programs

The division offers a two year full time M.Tech Program and research programs (MS & Ph.D) in Geotechncial engineering specialisation.

A number of theory and laboratory courses are offered by the faculty covering the diverse areas of Geotechnical Engineering.

Depending on the academic necessity, the students are also encouraged to take courses in other Civil Engineering areas and other departments.

Some of the undergraduate and post-graduate courses offered in the division are:

Advanced Soil Mechanics

Soil Dynamics

Reinforced Soil Structures

Advanced Foundation Engineering

Elastic Analysis in Geomechanics

Applied Soil Mechanics

Ground Improvement Techniques

Geotechnics for Infrastructure

FEM and Constitutive Modelling in Geomechanics

Field Tests and Monitoring

Geotechnical Engineering

Rock Engineering

Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering

Engineering Geology

Research Areas

Behavior of Pile Walls in Liquefying Soil Layers

Analytical and Experimental Studies on Geotextile Reinforced Road Aggregates

Strengthening of Week Soil Against Liquefaction

Liquefaction Modeling Using Computer Techniques

Study And Design of Vertical Drains for Ground Improvement

Behavior of Reinforced Soil Walls Under Dynamic Loads

Finite Element Analysis of Pile Jetting

Probabilistic Settlement Analysis of Shallow Foundations

Reliability Analysis of Piled – Raft Foundation

Stochastic Ground Response Analysis

Dynamic Lateral Response of Piles in Clay

A Continuous Spring Model for Soil-Structure Interaction for the Analysis of Beams, Plates, Shells, and their Combinations on Elastic Foundations

Design of Ground Improvement Using Stone Columns

Improvement of Expansive Soil by Deep Insitu Technique

Liquefaction Resistance of Soils With Plastic and Non-Plastic Fines

Studies on Construction of Embankments on Soft Clay Soil Using Geocell layers and Stone Columns

Drag Load on Piles and Remedial Methods

Stochastic Finite Element Method for Reinforced Soil Structures

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