Civil Engineering - Geotechnical Engineering King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

Overview

Research in the geotechnical engineering area includes soil-structure interaction, local soil and foundation problems, mineralogy and fabric of soils, constitutive modeling of soils, nonlinear numerical analysis soil stabilization, soil dynamics and geoenvironment. King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals offers a degree in Civil Engineering - Geotechnical Engineering.

The department has the following laboratories which are all equipped with state-of-the-art equipment:

• Structural Laboratories: Concrete testing laboratory, stress analysis laboratory, structural mechanics laboratory, heavy structures laboratory, building research station, and corrosion laboratory,
• Highway Materials Laboratory,
• Graphics Laboratories,
• Water Resources/Environmental Laboratories: Open channel laboratory, hydraulics laboratory, and environmental and sanitary laboratory,
• Traffic Engineering Laboratory,
• Photogrammetry Laboratory,
• Surveying Laboratory,
• Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory.