Geosystems Research & Facilities

RESEARCH

Geosystems engineering merges geotechnics, geomaterials, geophysics, geochemistry, geomechanics, and geology and focuses on the behavior of natural materials in engineered systems. The program at Georgia Tech encompasses both traditional and emerging topics in the field, such as:

• advanced techniques for site and material characterization
• constitutive and micromechanical modeling
• natural and man-made hazard mitigation
• engineered soils
• geoenvironmental engineering
• extraterrestial, petroleum, and mining geomechanics
• forward and inverse site response analysis and dynamic soil-foundation-structure interaction
• foundation design, slope stability, and excavation support
• pavement engineering and management
• GIS and image processing technology

FACILITIES

Geosystems instruction facilities, research groups and laboratories occupy more than 10,000 ft² of custom space within the Mason Civil Engineering Building. They include:

• Particulate Media Research Laboratory

• Geoenvironmental Engineering Group

• In-Situ Testing Research Group

• Geomaterial Surface and Structure Characterization Laboratory

• The Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Geophysics Group

• Soil Dynamics and Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Group

• Rock and Fracture Mechanics Research Group

• Center for Applied Geomaterials Research