Geotechnical engineering IIT Madras

I want to do higher studies in the field of Geotechnical engineering from IIT Madras so please tell me about the programs offered by it?

[Kiran Chandar]

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

Programs:
It offers a two year full time M.Tech Program and research programs (MS & Ph.D) in Geotechncial engineering specilisation.

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

Facilities:
Cyclic triaxial test apparatus
Apparatus to test filtration/drainage characteristics of geotextiles
Interactive computer software for analysis and design of soil slopes and retaining walls
200kN capacity UTM for testing geosynthetic products
Large testing tanks for carrying out laboratory model tests
Personal computers with printers and data acquisition cards
Personal computers with printers and data acquisition cards
Electronic data logging equipment
Light Cone Penetration Test device for field applications
Large scale testing facility for pullout testing of reinforcement elements and retaining wall facing elements
Field dynamic pile load testing
Glotzl contact pressure measuring equipment
Retaining wall test facility
Triaxial test apparatus with facility to apply repetitive loading and Field Settlement monitoring equipments
Field pore pressure monitoring equipment
Large size (300 X 300 X 100mm) direct shear test apparatus
Creep testing facilities for geosynthetics
Cross-hole and Down-hole testing facility
Mechanical exciter with accessories to carry out soil dynamic tests

Contact Details:
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Beside Adyar Cancer Institute, Opposite to C.L.R.I
Sardar Patel Rd
Adyar
Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600036