Soil Mechanics
Research is going on in the following areas:
Methods to increase the comfort and availability of gravel roads - Mine tailing dams design and construction short and long term function - New deposition technique for finely grounded waste rock - Use of scrap tyres in earth work application - Environmental assessment of the use of industrial by products - Mechanical properties of sulphide rich soils - Environmental impact of fills of sulphide rich soils - Mechanical behaviour of pellets (LKAB) - Swedish Hydropowert Center - Inner erosion of dams - Stability of tailings dams - Mechanical properties of snow.
Research group
Soil Mechanics includes soil mechanics, soil materials engineering and foundation engineering. The subject applications in civil engineering and infrastructure construction, energy and mining.

Research
Research in Soil Mechanics

Labs for Soil Mechanics
Our research environments and laboratory.

Rock and Soil - Student Event
On the 25 of September the annual Rock and Soil Student event was organized by the division of Mining and geotechnical engineering. The event was attended by around forty students and eleven companies

Doctoral studies
Third cycle studies and research school

Publications
Our scientific publications

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