Pipes, culverts, dowel bars, wingwalls, and soil structures are several foci of geotechnical research, a central aspect of the Ohio Research Institute for Transportation and the Environment and an active area of Civil Engineerig faculty research.

The Civil Engineering department has a number of grants and research projects that address solutions to geotechnical problems in the field and in the laboratory. Students aid faculty in instrumenting and monitoring pavement performance, investigating bridges, and monitoring the performance of pipes at the Civil Engineering department's load frame facility and deep pipe field facility.

Current Geotechnical Research

	Primary Researchers	Project
	Dr. Glenn Hazen Dr. Shad Sargand	Testing and performance of pipes
	Dr. Teruhisa Masada	Flowable fill and material characterization
	Dr. Gayle Mitchell Dr. Shad Sargand	Subsurface Investigations
	Dr. Shad Sargand	Soil-structure interaction Computational Methods in soils, pavements, and pipes