Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory
Department Of Civil Engineering
Indian Institute Of Technology Kanpur
Faculty
Developed by Saurav Kumar Sah, Swaraj Chowdhury, Siddhant Singh,Rakesh Bhatt and Gowtham G

















                           
                                                                

 

 

 

Dr. Nihar Ranjan Patra (Since 2003)   
Professor


Room: FB-316, Faculty Building,
Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur                                                
E-mail: nrpatra@iitk.ac.in
Phone: +91-512-2597623 (O) Fax: +91-512-2597395
Home page: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~nrpatra/

 

Research Interest
Pile foundations
Soil structure interaction and ground engineering
Soil arching
Soil liquefaction
Recycled materials
Field instrumentation
                                               

 

 

Dr. Priyanka Ghosh (Since 2007)    
Professor


Room: FB-309, Faculty Building,
Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur.
E-mail: priyog@iitk.ac.in
Phone: +91-512-2597022 (O)  Fax:  +91-512-2597395
Home Page: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~priyog/

 

Research Interest
Bearing capacity of foundations
Method of characteristics
Upper bound limit analysis
Retaining walls and earth pressure theory
Pullout resistance of anchors
                                               

 

Dr. Prishati Raychowdhury (Since 2009)
Associate Professor


Room: FB-319, Faculty Building,
Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur.
E-mail:prishati@iitk.ac.in
Phone: +91-512-259 7667(O)
Home Page:http://home.iitk.ac.in/~prishati/
 
Research Interest
Soil dynamics
Geotechnical earthquake engineering
Seismic soil-structure interaction
                                              

 

Dr. Rajesh Sathiyamoorthy (Since 2011)
Associate Professor


Room: FB-309, Faculty Building,
Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur
E-mail:hsrajesh@iitk.ac.in
Phone: 91-512-2596054 (O)
Homepage:http://home.iitk.ac.in/~hsrajesh/index.htm

 
Research Interest
Numerical and Physical Modelling Technique
Environmental Geotechnologgy
Ground Improvement Techniques
Unsaturated and Fundamental Soil Mechanics

Remote sensing and GIS applications in Geotechnical Engineering
                                           

 

 

Dr. Arghya Das (Since 2014)
Assistant Professor


Room: FB 304, Faculty Building,
Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur
E-mail: arghya@iitk.ac.in
Phone: 91-512-2596978 (O)
Home page : http://home.iitk.ac.in/~arghya/index.htm
 
Research Interest
Constitutive modeling of geomaterials
Micromechanics of granular materials
Bifurcation & instability analysis in geomaterials
Numerical modeling in geotechnical engineering
Physical modeling in geotechnical engineering
                                           

 

Dr. Gaurav Tiwari (Since 2019)
Assistant Professor


Room: WLE-302A, Western Lab Extension
Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur
E-mail: gauravt@iitk.ac.in
Phone: 91-512-2592060 (O)
Home page:

Research Interest
Rock Mechanics
Experimental study on late dependence of rock joint strength and stability analysis of rock slopes and tunnel
                                             

 

 

 Dr. Jagdish Prasad Sahoo (Since 2019)

Associate Professor

 

Room: Room no. 3, Block 'C', Old SAC Building

Email: jpsahoo@iitk.ac.in

Tel: 0512-259-2147 (O)

Web: http://www.iitk.ac.in/new/jagdish-prasad-sahoo

Research Interest:

Foundation Engineering

Reinforced earth structures

Stability of tunnels

Underground openings and slopes

Pavement geotechnics

Strength behavior of rocks
                                                                                        



Dr. Bipin Kumar Gupta (Since 2019)
Assistant Professor
Motwani Building – Room no: MB-608
Email: bkgupta@iitk.ac.in
Tel: 0512-259-2143
Web: http://www.iitk.ac.in/new/bipin-kumar-gupta

Research Interest:
Foundations for Offshore Wind Turbines
Soil-structure interaction analysis and design Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics