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Professor

Department of Civil Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, INDIA


Office: Room No. 314 Faculty Building, IIT Kanpur

Email: hsrajesh@iitk.ac.in rajesh.sathiyamoorthy@gmail.com

Phone:  91-512-2596054

Research Team

Sankara Narayanan
PhD

Crack-Hydro-Deformation response of expansive soil

Kundan Kumar
PhD

Time-dependent behaviour of encased stone column

Sagarika Biswas
PhD

Chemo-Hydro-Mechanical behaviour of geostructures

Viral Choudhary
PhD

Rainfall induced soil slope failures and mitigations

Rohan Singh
PhD

Experimental and Numerical Investigation of the Dynamic Behavior of Encased Granular Column

Aaqib Javed
MTech

Cylic response of Granular Column reinforced soft ground

Shashwat
MTech

Chemical stabilisation of expansive soils

Akash Vishnu
MTech

Gas flow characteristics of unsaturated GCLS

Dhivakar Periyasamy M.Tech
MTech

Ashuthosh P
MTech

 

 

Suman Roy

A study on the effect of net confinement on hydro-mechanical behaviour of compacted soils [12 April 2019]
-received Springer Best Paper Award (2016)

Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, NIT Rourkela

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Vishwajeet Khan

Hydraulic and Gas flow characteristics of unsaturated geosynthetic clay liner under various geoenvironmental conditions [6 February 2021]
-received IGS-Bangalore Chapter YGE Award-2019 and IGS-AIMIL-HCV YGE Award-2021

Current position: Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Engineering and Management Jaipur

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Balbir Pandey

A study on the electrokinetics in stone columns encased by conductive geotextile (Jointly with Prof. Sarvesh Chandra) [5 November 2021]
received IGS-Chennai Chapter YGE-2021 and IGC-Springer Best Paper Award (2021)

Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur

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Richa Mudliar

Efficacy of traditional and non-traditional stabilisers in enhancing Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical behaviour of expansive soils [26.04.2024]
received Indian Patent [422044 dated 20.05.2022] Development of air-heat drying coupled 1D compression system

Current position: Assistant Geotechnical Engineer, AtkinsRealis, Bangalore

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Indraneel Sengupta


Time-dependent behaviour of piled raft foundations under different loading and ground conditions: Field investigations, analytical and numerical studies [May 20, 2025]

Current position:FARE fellow IIT Kanpur

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Chidanand_Jadar


A study on the Hydro-Mechanical behaviour of geostructure at varied stress state and hydraulic paths [Dec 12, 2025]

Current position:Faculty Position

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Kirti Choudhary
10103017

Modelling of time dependent response of unreinforced and reinforced railway tracks [21.06.12]. (Jointly with Prof. Sarvesh Chandra).

Deepa Jayabhadran
10103007

Parametric study on pipe - soil interaction analysis of buried PVC pipe line [01.09.12]. (Jointly with Prof. Sarvesh Chandra).

Deepak G. Thomas
10103008

Finite element study on the behaviour of buried flexible pipelines [10.01.13] (Jointly with Prof. Sarvesh Chandra).

Paras Ram Puniya
12103044

Engineering properties of Municipal Solid Waste residue: A case study on Panki landfill [02.06.14].

Mainak Majumder
120103033

Finite element analysis of vibration screening technique using Geofoam in linear and non-linear elastic soil [23.05.14]. (Jointly with Prof. P. Ghosh).

Anees Naik
13103011

Behaviour of compacted soil barriers under advective gas flow condition [14.05.15]. Received IGS-Bangalore Chapter YGE Award for the Best Paper on Environmental Geotechnologyawarded by Indian Geotechnical Society during IGC-2015, on 17 December 2015. [Certificate] [Picture]

Aniruddh Kumar Yadav
13103012

Compressibility and shear strength characteristics of fresh MSW from Panki Landfill[02.07.15].

J Sai Chand
13103031

Linear and Non-Linear analysis of closely spaced strip foundations using Pasternak model [04.08.15] (Jointly with Prof. P. Ghosh).

Madhav
13103037

Suction-water content relationship of compacted Soil Barriers [21.12.16]

Jabez Selva Raj
14103022

Stability of embankment under various seepage conditions [14.06.16]

Arshada Minna
14103013

Swelling behaviour of unsaturated bentonite amended flyash hydraulic barriers [14.06.16]

Ajil Sasindran
15103005

Variability in the performance of bentonite amended flyash hydraulic barriers in the presence of hexavalent chromium [07.08.17]

Prabu C
15103025

Stability of fly ash embankment under transient seepage conditions [29.06.17]

Rahul Singh
15103029

Finite element analysis of shear deformation in stone column [30.05.17] (Jointly with Prof. Arghya Das)

Shuvashi Maity
15103039

Numerical Analysis of high embankments reinforced with micropiles over weak foundation soils [07.08.17] (Jointly with Prof. Sarvesh Chandra).

Ayushi Jain (MS by Research)
15103402

Performance of polymer amended bentonite based Geosynthetic clay liners

MS by Research [16.10.17]

Shreya Laddha
16103100

Impact of cyclic wetting and drying on swell-shrink behaviour of bentonite amended fly ash hydraulic barrier [13.07.18]

Surya Kumar Pandey
16103095

Seismic stability of embankment with micropile using Pseudo-dynamic approach [31.05.18] (Jointly with Prof. P. Ghosh).

Abhishek Anand
17103004

Performance of unsaturated geosynthetic clay liners under various geo-environmental conditions [03.01.20] (Jointly with Prof. N.R.Patra)

Surabhi Maurya
18103076

(Jointly with Prof. Gaurav Tiwari)

Ankita Senapati
18103019

Probabilistic analysis of rock tunnels based on differernt strength criteria. [29.06.20] (Jointly with Prof. Gaurav Tiwari)

Mohd Shazeb
19103048

An overview of electrokinetic stabilisation of soft soils. [31.08.21]

Anuj Kumar
20103026

Finite element analysis of railway embankment reinforced with micropile over weak foundation soil. [8.7.22]

Pranjal Chauhan
20103080

Deformation behaviour and stability analysis of engineered landfills [8.7.22]

Sourab Jha
20103113

Consolidation characteristics of soft clay reinforced with granular column [21.7.22]

Sanu Kumar Chaudhary
21103082

Analysis of Embankment founded on liquefiable loose sand: Stone column based remedial action [18.10.23]

Akansha Srivastava
18103262
akanshas@iitk.ac.in

Modelling Advective-Diffusive transport through engineered waste containment system

MS by Research [14.06.2024]

Gishnu S
22103022

Efficacy of novel liner material for attenuation of hexavalent chromium)

Praneet Jain
Y8127350

Performance of geosynthetic encased stone column- A numerical study [15.07.13].

Mahendra
Y9227313

SWCC of compacted soil barrier-Its estimation and behavior using Filter Paper Method  [02.06.14].

Kapil Babel
Y9227272

Reliability analysis of Bioreactor landfill slope using moving least square response surface method [27.01.15].

Kundan Tripathi
10327365

Time dependant processes and settlement modeling in Municipal solid waste landfills  [22.09.15] (Jointly with Prof. S.K. Mishra).

Shashank Kumar
10327670

A study on the behavior of geosynthetic encased stone columns under embankment loading  [14.01.16]

IITK (BTP): Graduated
  1. Prithviraj Sarswah,

  2. Aditya Khanna

  3. Arpit Vyayvargeya

  4. Prateek Lodhi

Relevance of gas permeability of various hydraulic barriers of Municipal Solid Waste Landfills - Completed. (Jointly with Prof. Sarvesh Chandra)

  1. Nilesh Singh

  2. Sakshi Goyal

Stability analysis of MSW Landfill - Completed (received Best BTP award 2012-13)

  1. Saurabh Kumar Duvesh

  2. Deepak Rawat

  3. Akash Agrawal

Engineering properties of suitable landfill liners and covers - Completed

B. Tech Students (SURGE - Non IITK)
  1. Michael Koch

Investigation of geosynthetic encased stone column- A numerical study - Completed

B. Tech Students (VIT / SASTRA University):
  1. Deepa

  2. Venkatesan

Suitable ground improvement techniques for SASTRA Caompus, India - Completed

  1. Deivayanai

  2. Pradeep

Evaluation of Liquefaction Potential using Geographic Information System - Completed