Characterization and Monitoring

Our research aims to develop next-generation solutions to geomechanical challenges related to safeguarding and decarbonizing the built environment. We combine physics-based models, computational simulations, and data-driven methods to understand, predict, and control the responses of subsurface systems to loadings, fluid flows, temperature changes, and other phenomena.

Large deformation

  • Large deformation

  • Constitutive behavior

  • Soil–structure/machine interaction

Fractures, Discontinuities, and Damages

  • Rock fracturing

  • Discontinuities

  • Shale behavior

Fluid flow in porous media

  • Hydro-mechanics

  • Thermo-hydro-mechanics

  • Chemo-hydro-mechanics

Chemo-hydro-mechanics

  • Energy geostructures

  • Nuclear waste disposal

  • Underground energy storage

  • Geologic carbon sequestration