Group Overview

Welcome to the homepage of the Resilient GeoMateirals Group at Oregon State University. Our group is an interdisciplinary group addressing the resilience of soil-based infrastructure materials. The group's primary focus is on developing computational models and experimental techniques to characterize soil used for infrastructure development. Specifically, we use computational geochemistry to model the change in soil’s physical properties (e.g., strength and stiffness). Our current efforts focus on optimizing chemical additives for stabilizing problematic soils. Other efforts are developing additives for modifying soil for use in 3D Construction Printing (3DCP), and developing new materials for carbon capture in soil-based materials.

Assistant Professor Pavan Akula leads the Resilient GeoMaterials Group at the School of Civil and Construction Engineering at Oregon State University.

About me

I earned my Ph.D. at Texas A&M University-College Station in May 2020. During my Ph.D., I worked in the Advanced Characterization of Infrastructure Materials Lab (ACIM) under the supervision of Prof. Dallas N. Little. I also worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station. During my Ph.D. and postdoctoral research, I developed computational geochemistry models for evaluating the formation and stability of strength-enhancing products in chemically stabilized soils.