IIT Madras Geotechnical Engineering department was established in the early 1960's.

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Courses offered

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

Faculty/staff
Boominathan A Professor
(Ph.D., Moscow Civil Engineering Institute, Russia)
Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Dali Naidu Arnepalli Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., IIT Bombay)
Geo-environmental Engg. & Unsaturated Soil Mechanics

Gandhi SR Professor
(Ph. D., IIT Madras)
Shallow and Deep Foundations, Ground Improvement and Fly Ash Applications

Goudappa Dodagoudar Professor
(Ph. D., IIT Bombay)
Reliability and Earthquake Geo-techniques

Rajagopal K Professor
(Ph.D., University of Florida, Gainesville, USA)
Geosynthetics, Finite Element Analysis, Reinforced Soil Structures

Robinson R.G Professor
(Ph.D., IISc, Bangalore)
Tropical Soils and Soft Clay Engineering

Subhadeep Banerjee Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., NUS, Singapore)
Soil Dynamic, Centrifuge and shake table testing, Numerical simulation of dynamic soil-structure interaction


T. Thyagaraj Assistant Professor
(Ph.D. IISc, Bangalore)
Unsaturated Soil Behaviour and Ground Improvement


Vidya Bhushan Maji Assistant Professor
(Ph.D, IISc, Bangalore)
Rock Mechanics, Instrumentation and Numerical Modeling