Introduction

Due to the special geological background of formation of Taiwan, complex geological and topographical conditions, Taiwan is located in an area with extremely high crustal activity. Nature disasters continuously happen, including earthquakes, landslides, slump, debris flows, subsidence, etc. However, with the high density of population brings expansion of land usage, the geological disasters causing by land development has become a nightmare of Taiwan. Based on this reality, since the land use and the accompanying engineering process based on the living activities of the citizens cannot be banned entirely, only the high emphasis of the relationship between engineering process and geological disasters, systematic researches, development of new technologies can achieve the goal of avoiding and reduction of disasters. Because of the concept of disaster prevention is rising, the role of engineering geology is getting increasingly important day by day, such as flood control in mountain areas, management of catchment, urban disaster prevention (especially large-scale earthquake disasters), etc. All require the use of relevant knowledge of engineering geology. The critical research themes of this laboratory are to understand the mechanical and engineering characteristics of geological materials (including soil and rock) and apply them to disaster prevention. And we also continue to actively participate in related national disaster prevention research (especially hillside disaster prevention). Also, this laboratory supports applied geology research team to understand the characteristic of geomechanics as a purpose, focus on building and integrate the subjects between Earth Science system (emphasize on the training of geology) and Civil Engineering (emphasize on engineering), and take the application of practical engineering as a goal.

Chair Professor

Members

		PhD students
Pinlun Tai	XuanXinh Nguyen	Suman Panday	Qiren Chen	Fengren Wang
		Master's students
Yijia Jiang Junliang Guo	Yijun Lin Wong Cork	NgocTu Tran Zeming Xie	Shiming Hong ThanhTung Nguyen	Mengru Cai Tangwen Lin

Achievement

Seismic surveys and heavy-rain-induced landslides and hazard evaluation/assessment of the stability of the natural dam

The underground energy of the trigger mechanism and characteristic evaluation of soil and rock

Displacement speed-dependent frictional characteristic measuring the amount of the porosity of the geologic materials

Effective stress-dependent measurement of the hydro-mechanical coupling effects analysis, testing and monitoring

Research themes

1. Correlation between anisotropic groundwater pressure distribution in sloped interbedded poorly deposited sedimentary layer and slope stability
2. Classification of slope rock mass
3. Development of geological monitoring system and management value
4. Development of underground monitoring system for fault activity
5. Geology Study on the creep characteristics of the weak surface
6. Research on the correlation between geology and earth-rock flow probability
7. Disaster prevention and mitigation of slope geological hazards

Laboratory Equipment

Currently in the Rock and Soil Mechanics Laboratory of the Institute of Applied Geology, including soil and rock physical property tests (such as particle analysis, liquid-plastic limit test, specific gravity test, porosity and permeability ...), rock index properties tests (ultrasonic, point 1 step each for load, Schmitt hammer, dissipation and abrasion tester) and soil and rock mechanics test equipment (1 low-speed-high-speed rotary shear tester, 4 compactors, 1 soil each for direct shear, and triaxial tester, There are more than 20 items of rock triaxial, one rock direct shear instrument, two rock grinders, dust removal equipment ...) and related auxiliary facilities (such as ovens and incubators ...).