IIT

Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory

Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Guwahati

FACULTY-IN-CHARGE

Ravi K.

Assistant Professor

ravi.civil@iitg.ac.in

 Research Interests:

  • Geo-environmental engineering
  • Geo-energy systems
  • Engineering behaviour of unsaturated soils
  • Research on hazardous waste management

FACULTY

Arindam Dey

Associate Professor

arindam.dey@iitg.ac.in

Research Interests:

  • Geosynthetic engineering applications in pavement and railway geotechnics
  • Optimization and soft computing in geotechnical engineering,
  • Seismic health monitoring using active and ambient vibrations,
  • Numerical modeling in geotechnical engineering, Stability of ash dykes and embankments
  • Landslides and slope stability analysis
  • Reliability and uncertainty analysis in geotechnical engineering
  • Subsurface profiling and soil investigation
  • Soil dynamics and earthquake engineering

Anil Kumar Mishra

Associate Professor

anilmishra@iitg.ac.in

Research Interests:

  • Effect of contaminants on bentonite
  • Swelling-Shrinkage behaviour of clay
  • On the use of fly ash as a liner material at waste disposal site
  • Unsaturated soil mechanic

Baleshwar Singh

Professor

baleshwar@iitg.ac.in

Research Interests:

  • Marine geotechnology
  • Soil stabilization
  • Modelling of deep foundations
  • Pavement subgrade, characterization and modification

Sreedeep S.

Professor

srees@iitg.ac.in

Research Interests:

  • Behavioral Studies on Unsaturated Porous Media Characterization of Geomaterials (soils and rocks) Thermal Characteristics of Geomaterials Contaminant Transport and Retention Studies
  • Waste Containment Studies
  • Utilization of Wastes

Tadikonda Venkata Bharat

Associate Professor

tvb@iitg.ac.in

 Research Interests:

  • Engineering behavior of clays,
  • Design of landfill liners,
  • Mechanics of unsaturated soils
  • Settlement behavior of slurried mineral wastes
  • Inverse analysis of geotechnical & geoenvironmental engineering problems

Vivek Padmanabha

Assistant Professor

vivekp@iitg.ac.in

Research Interest: Impact Geomechanics - Geomaterials (soils-rocks) under high strain rate and high-pressure loading, Rock Mechanics - Dynamic fracture and fragmentation in rocks Shock attenuation and compression phenomena in granular and porous materials Blast resistance and mitigation strategies, Protective structures against natural geohazard

Technical Officer

Samarjyoti Kalita

Technical Officer Grade II

Technical Staff

Ms. Syeda Reshima Begum

Junior Technical Superintendent

Mr. Hariram Upyadhyaya

Technical Superintendent

hariram@iitg.ac.in