I. Introduction to the Institute
The Institute has 1 professor, 4 associate professors and 4 lecturers, including 1 academic leader of “Blue Project” in Jiangsu Province and 1 winner of the Six Talents Summit Project in Jiangsu Province. The institute pays attention to the "key issues in modern geotechnical engineering" and has formed three relatively stable research directions, such as "special land-based treatment and urban geotechnical engineering, soil dynamics and engineering seismic and environmental geotechnical engineering". "Consolidation theory and effective treatment of soft soil foundation" is the important basic theory and application technology development direction of the Institute. In the past five years, the Institute has published more than 50 SCI/EI search papers, including nearly 30 SCI papers. At present, there are 8 research projects under research, including 3 national natural science funds, 5 provincial and ministerial level projects, and a total research expenditure of 2.2 million yuan. Completed 8 national and provincial-level natural science fund projects and 1 first prize in the natural sciences of the Ministry of Education.

2. Introduction of the person in charge of the institute
Lu Jianfei, male, professor, PhD degree. In 1989, he graduated from the Department of Civil Engineering of Shandong University of Science and Technology. In 1992, he graduated from the Department of Mechanics of Jiangsu University. In 2000, he graduated from Shanghai Jiaotong University. The main research directions are: the interaction of foundation and superstructure, the dynamic model of periodic elevated railway, the theoretical model of porous media, continuum mechanics, non-uniform viscoelastic medium, wave field calculation in non-uniform porous media, civil engineering Vibration isolation technology in engineering, the interaction of waves, structures and seabed, static fracture mechanics, interaction of cracks and elastic waves. So far, more than 100 journal articles and conference papers have been published, including more than 60 SCI papers and 16 EI papers. More than 10 international cooperation, national, provincial and ministerial level projects have been completed and carried out. In 2008, he was named as the backbone of outstanding young academics and solid mechanics innovation team of Jiangsu University. In 2010, he was selected as the young and middle-aged academic leader of the Qinglan University in Jiangsu Province. In 2011, he was selected as the twelfth batch of the Central Organization Department. Member of the Ph.D. Service Group (as the deputy director of the Tongren City Housing and Construction Bureau of Guizhou Province). In 2014, he was awarded the first prize of the Natural Science of the Ministry of Education (the basic theory and algorithm for the analysis of the dynamic interaction between saturated soil and pile foundation, ranking second). Among the students, nearly 30 have graduated, 7 are postgraduates, and 3 are doctoral students. One of them won the National Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Nomination Award, two of them won the Jiangsu Excellent Master's Thesis Award, and three won the Jiangsu University Excellent Master's Thesis Award.

3. Backbone members of the institute
Li Chuanxun, male, doctor, associate professor, master supervisors. In 2000, he graduated from the Department of Architectural Engineering of Chang'an University. In 2003, he graduated from the Department of Geotechnical Engineering of Chang'an University. In 2012, he graduated from the Department of Geotechnical Engineering of Zhejiang University. He is mainly engaged in the teaching and research work of soft clay mechanics and foundation treatment, especially in the soft clay consolidation theory. More than 20 research papers were published by the first author, most of which were searched by SCI/EI. At present, 6 graduate students have been trained and 4 are currently studying.

Miao Yonghong, male, doctor, associate professor, master supervisors. In 1995, he graduated from Taiyuan University of Technology. In 1998, he graduated from Taiyuan University of Technology. In 2012, he graduated from Southeast University. He is mainly engaged in geotechnical engineering survey, design, monitoring and other related fields. He has presided over one natural science fund of Jiangsu Province and one provincial and ministerial level fund. He has won the third prize of China Machinery Industry Science and Technology.He published many academic papers and applied for (authorized) 2 patents. At present, 9 master students have been trained and 3 are currently studying.

Yin Jie, male, doctor, associate professor, master supervisors. In 2004, he graduated from the School of Civil Engineering of Hohai University. In 2009, he graduated from the School of Civil Engineering of Hohai University. He is mainly engaged in the basic characteristics of soil, soft soil foundation treatment and reinforcement, environmental geotechnical and other related directions. He has presided over the completion of one national-level project, one municipal-level project, and one school-level scientific research project, and participated in a number of national-level, provincial-level research projects. He has published more than 30 papers, including 23 SCI/EI searches. Mainly engaged in the teaching of undergraduate and postgraduate students (including overseas students) related courses in geotechnical direction. The English-language course "Engineering Geology and Soil Mechanics" was awarded the 2018 Jiangsu Province-level English-speaking quality training course, and was awarded the 2017 Jiangsu University Internationalization Professional English Teaching Course. He was awarded the funding for the publication of the English-language course materials for studying in China in 2017. At present, 1 master student has been trained, 4 are studying, and 3 graduate students are studying.

Yang Yang, male, doctor, associate professor. In 2007, he graduated from East China University of Science and Technology. He graduated from East China University of Science and Technology in 2010 and graduated from Bochum University in Germany in 2017.He is mainly engaged in porous media theory, heat transfer and mass transfer and other aspects of research. He published 4 journal articles, 6 conference papers, and 2 textbooks and mainly engaged in the teaching tasks of elastoplastic mechanics, elastic mechanics and finite element, structural dynamics courses.

Zhou Enquan, male, doctor, lecturer, master supervisors. In 2009, he graduated from the School of Civil Engineering of Nanjing University of Technology. In 2014, he graduated from the School of Transportation of Nanjing University of Technology. He is mainly engaged in the study of dynamic characteristics of saturated soil, dynamic interaction between piles and soils, environmental geotechnical and other directions. He is currently presiding over one national-level project, two provincial-level projects, one horizontal project, more than 20 academic papers, four patent applications (authorization), and one textbook. At present, 2 master students have been trained and 3 students are currently studying.

Jin Dandan, female, doctor, lecturer, master. In 2009, she graduated from the School of Civil Engineering of Nanjing University of Technology. In 2014, she graduated from the School of Transportation of Nanjing University of Technology. At present, she is mainly engaged in research on seismic effects of nonlinear sites. She is currently presiding over one national-level project, two provincial-level projects, and more than 20 academic papers. At present, one master student has been trained.

Qian Hai, male, doctor, lecturer. In 2009, he graduated from the School of Civil Engineering of Nanjing University of Technology. In 2015, he graduated from the School of Civil Engineering of Nanjing University of Technology. At present, he is mainly engaged in the research of temperature field distribution of composite materials and laminated structures and corresponding thermal effects. Currently, he has presided over one provincial-level project. In the past five years, he published 5 SCI search papers, 1 EI search paper, and 1 Chinese core by the first author.
   
Liu Yang, male, doctoral reading, lecturer. He graduated from Jiangsu University in 2004 and graduated from Jiangsu University in 2009. At present, he is mainly engaged in the research of dynamic models of periodic elevated railways.

4. Introduction of research directions
1. Special land foundation treatment and urban geotechnical engineering
Funded by a number of national, provincial and ministerial funds, this direction has been in meso-soil mechanics, consolidation theory and numerical simulation of soils, theoretical models of porous media, non-uniform viscoelastic media, and non-homogeneous porous media. Wave field calculation, theoretical and computational models of frozen soil, time-dependent and reliability of pipe piles have been extensively and in-depth research. Through years of hard work, we have achieved a number of more influential results, especially in terms of frozen soil and consolidation theory.

2. Soil dynamics and engineering earthquake resistance
Under the support of a number of national and provincial-level funds, this direction has studied some hot and difficult problems such as dynamics and earthquake resistance in geotechnical engineering, including: seismic calculation of structures in saturated soil, soft The aging problem of soil foundation and pile foundation interaction, the interaction between moving load and underground structure and ground building, the interaction of pile and soil, the vibration isolation technology in civil engineering, the joint action of foundation and superstructure, the earth-rock dam Seismic design, considering the seismic design model of periodic elevated railways when they work together. Especially in the study of the direction of the phononic crystal model, which interacts with the soil dynamics and the viaduct structure, it has formed certain characteristics.

3. Environmental geotechnical engineering
The direction of environmental geotechnical engineering mainly carries out research in the following directions: mathematical and mechanical model research on the diffusion of pollutants in geomaterials, system to establish various control equations for the diffusion of pollutants in saturated and unsaturated geotechnical media; waste asphalt The feasibility of recycling solid waste such as pavement, abandoned foundry sand, and waste rubber tires for geotechnical engineering lays the foundation for the re-application of these recyclable materials.

5. Introduction of scientific research achievements
1. Research awards in the past five years
The first prize of the Natural Science of the Ministry of Education, the basic theory and algorithm for the analysis of the dynamic interaction between saturated soil and pile foundation, 2014, Lu Jianfei (ranked second).