Fundamental Research Areas Granular Mechanics: Elasto-plasticity and Rheology Material Point Method (MPM) for Large Deformation and Flow of Granular Media Constitutive Modeling of Granular Materials Discrete Element Method (DEM) Elasticity of Soils Fractures, Discontinuities, and Interfaces Phase-field Modeling of Fracture Computational Contact Mechanics Constitutive Modeling of Discontinuities and Interfaces Flow, Transport, and Deformation in Geologic Fracture Multiphysics of Porous Media Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical-Chemical Modeling of Porous Media Unsaturated Geomaterials Heat Transfer in Granular Materials Reaction-induced Damage and Cracking in Porous Media Numerical Methods for Poromechanics and Multiphysics AI for Geoengineering Data-driven Modeling of Granular Mechanics and Porous Media Multiphysics Machine Learning Approach to Inverse Problems Applied Research Areas Smart City Digital Twin Simulation for Smart Construction Machine-Ground Interaction Disaster Resilience Landslides and Debris Flow Earthquakes Energy and Environmental Sustainability Energy Geostructures Nuclear Waste Disposal Hydrogen Storage
