Every year, Nigeria experiences building collapses, road failures, and environmental disasters — many of which could have been prevented. The common factor? Ignoring geotechnical engineering ...

Did you know the U.S. National Earthquake Information Center logs the measurements of 20,000 earthquakes around the globe each year—approximately 55 a day? A concern that most people might not ...

The Committee on Geological and Geotechnical Engineering (COGGE), established in 2001, is the focal point within the Board on Earth Sciences and Resources for scientific, technical, and public-policy ...

National Highways Authority of India’s (NHAI) preliminary assessments suggest that the cause of the collapse of the National Highway 66 stretch at Mylakkadu, near Kottiyam, in Kollam is “a deep-seated ...

Finite element methods (FEM) have long been integral to the analysis and design of geotechnical systems, particularly when addressing issues of soil–structure interaction and extreme deformation ...

Poor sub-soil drainage is a leading cause of progressive structural failure. Sub-soil drainage – the removal of excess water from the soil beneath structures – is an often-overlooked but critical ...

Luna’s research interests lie in the dynamic response of soils and liquefaction, geographic information systems in civil engineering, and advances in foundation and earthquake engineering. Wang, S., ...