Trevor Carey
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
Lassonde Mineral Engineering program
Email: trevor.carey@utoronto.ca
Office: GB319
Geotechnical Engineering
Background
Dr. Carey’s research program focuses on improving community resiliency against extreme natural hazards by enhancing the preparedness, prevention, and sustainability of geo-structures. His research encompasses topics such as soil liquefaction and its effects during earthquake loading, non-classical challenges in earthquake engineering and seismic hazard analyses, lifetime loading conditions for civil infrastructure, natural hazard event reconnaissance, and advancing geotechnical site investigation using ML/AI tools.
Together with his research group, Dr. Carey aims to:
(a) improve understanding of soil responses to cyclic loading through multiscale experimental testing,
(b) advance numerical and analytical tools to enhance the reliability and accuracy of forward predictions, and
(c) develop knowledge and tools that are directly translatable to engineering practice.
These objectives are achieved by integrating experimental tools, including laboratory element tests, centrifuge model experiments, and case studies, while leveraging advanced constitutive models, open-source software, and the systematic insights gained from large datasets.
