1. Best Paper Award
K.
Tarenia and Nihar Ranjan Patra (2019), “Behaviour of Disconnected and Connected Piled
Raft Foundations subject to Compressive load considering time effect”, 4th
World congress of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering (CSEE’19),
Rome, Italy.
2. IGS-Prof. C. S. Desai Biannual Prize
for the best paper on Constitutive Modeling for Geologic Materials
S. Nanda and N.R. Patra (2015), “Undrained Cylindrical Cavity Expansion
in Critical State Soils Considering Soil Structure”, Indian Geotechnical
Journal, Vol. 45(2), pp.169-180, December
2016.
3. Best Paper Award, Ms. Thanikella Vijayasri, Ph.D.
Student
for
the paper on "Numerical simulation of dynamic behavior of Renusagar pond ash
embankment
in India using a fully-coupled nonlinear approach"
International
Conference on Geo-Engineering and Climate Change Technologies for
Sustainable
Environmental Management (GCCT-2015), Allahabad, October, 2015.
4. Editorial Board Member
Indian Geotechnical Journal, April 2019- Present
5. Life Fellow
Indian
Geotechnical Society, IGS, 2017
6. Research exchange with China and India
Award 2014
Royal
Academy of Engineering, UK
7. DST project entitled “Study of Liquefaction Potential of
Alluvial Soil along Indo-Gangetic Plains” evaluated as “Very good”, during
DST project work evaluation, April 8th 2013
8. Best B. Tech Project 2010
"Some
Studies on Uplift Capacity of Footings and Liquefaction Analysis of Kanpur
Soil" by Prashant Gupta, April 2010.
9. IIT Kanpur Commendation Certificates
for excellence in teaching (CE 631N, CE631A,
CE632N, CE632A, CE 638N, CE638A, CE731)
10. Invited Reviewer
a.
Journal
of Geotechnical and Geo-Environmental Engineering, ASCE
b.
Journal
of Materials in Civil Engineering, ASCE
c.
International
Journal of Geomechanics, ASCE
d.
Journal
of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste, ASCE
e.
Soil
Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Elsevier, U. K
f.
Geotechnical
and Geological Engineering, An International Journal, Netherlands
g.
International
Journal of pavement Engineering
h.
Geotechnique, London
i.
Canadian
Geotechnical Journal
j.
Soils
and Foundations, Japanese geotechnical Society
k.
Indian
Geotechnical Journal, India
l.
Current
science, Bangalore
m.
journal
of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series A
n.
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and vibration