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 experimental and computational techniques to understand the mechanisms driving the physicochemical changes in earth-based infrastructure materials. Specifically, we use computational geochemistry to determine the change in the soil’s mineralogical composition and concurrently evaluate the physical changes (e.g., strength and stiffness) in the soil. Our current efforts focus on optimizing chemical additives for stabilizing problematic soils. We apply these techniques for improving the durability of stabilized soil materials (also called ground improvement) and to develop durable earth-binder mixtures, 3D Construction Printing (3DCP). Dr. 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.