Dr. Dasaka S. Murty, Ph.D. (IISc, Bangalore)

 

Assistant Professor

Department of Civil Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Powai, Mumbai - 400 076, INDIA.

Phone: +91 - 22 - 2576 7316 (office)

Fax:      +91 - 22 - 2576 7302

E-mail: dasaka@civil.iitb.ac.in, dasaka@iitb.ac.in

Areas of research interests:

Site investigation, Stability of shallow and deep foundations, Reliability based design, Ground improvement, Landfill Engineering, and modeling of soil and rock.

Teaching:

                    CE688: Risk Assessment and Management in Geotechnical Engineering (Spring 2010, 2009, 2008)

                    CE640: Foundation Engineering (Autumn 2010)

                    CE637: Rock Mechanics (Autumn 2009)

                    CE407: Foundation Engineering (Autumn 2009, 2008, 2007)

                    CE303: Soil Mechanics - I (Spring 2009)

                    CE215: Civil Engineering Drawing (Autumn 2007)

Sponsored research:

Development of Resistance Factors for Shallow Foundations Using Laboratory Load Test Data,          Rs.18 lakhs, Department of Science and Technology (DST), India.

Scale effects on the bearing capacity of shallow foundations, Rs.10 lakhs, Seed grant from IIT Bombay.

Professional experience:

Post-doctoral Research Fellow, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2006-2007)

Project Associate, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (2001)

Membership of professional bodies:

Member, Indian Geotechnical Society (LM 2468)

Member, Hong Kong Geotechnical Society

Member, International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering

Member, Institution of Engineers India (M 1420520)

Research awards:

Research productivity reward from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.                             

Indian Geotechnical Society – Shri B.N.Gupta biennial award for the best paper on “New                         approaches and techniques for analysis and design of shallow foundations”, for the years 2002-2003.

Reviewer:

Engineering Geology

Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE

Journal of Materials, ASCE

Canadian Geotechnical Journal

Georisk – An International Journal

Geosynthetics International

International Journal of Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering

International Journal of Earth Sciences and Engineering

Research publications:

     In journals                           

1. Zhang, L.M. and Dasaka, S.M.  (2010). "Uncertainties in Geologic Profiles versus Variability in Pile Founding Depth", Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol.136, No.11, pp. 1475-1488.


2. Dasaka, S.M. and Sivakumar Babu, G.L. (2010). "Effect of Spatial Correlation Structure and Transformation Model on the Design of Shallow Strip Footing", Geomechanics and Geoengineering: An International Journal, Vol.5, No.2, pp. 91-97.

3. Dasaka, S.M. and Sivakumar Babu, G.L. (2008). “Reliability analysis of allowable pressure of strip footing in cohesionless soil”, Geotechnical Engineering Journal, South East Asian Geotechnical Society, Vol.39, No.2, pp.78-85.

4. Sivakumar Babu, G.L. and Dasaka, S.M. (2008). “The effect of spatial correlation of cone tip resistance on the bearing capacity of shallow foundations”, Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, An International Journal, Springer, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 37-46.

5. Sivakumar Babu, G.L., Rao, R.S., and Dasaka, S.M. (2007). “Stabilisation of vertical cut supporting a retaining wall using soil-nailing technique – A case study”, Ground Improvement, Thomas Telford, Vol. 11, No.3, pp. 157-162.

6. Sivakumar Babu, G.L., Amit Srivastava, and Murthy, D.S.N. (2006). “Reliability analysis of bearing capacity of shallow foundation resting on cohesive soil”, Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Vol. 43, pp. 217-223.

7. Sivakumar Babu, G.L. and Murthy, D.S.N. (2005). “Reliability analysis of unsaturated soil slopes”, Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 131, No.11, pp. 1423-1428.

8. Sivakumar Babu, G.L. and Dasaka, S.M.  (2003). “Reliability Based Seismic Stability of Soil Slopes”, Indian Geotechnical Journal, Vol. 33, No.3, pp. 233-247.

     In conferences

1. Trudeep N. Dave and Dasaka, S.M. (2010). "Critical Studies on Sand Bed Preparation using Rainfall Technique", 6th International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics, New Delhi, 8-12th November, 2010, Full length paper accepted.

2. Trudeep N. Dave and Dasaka, S.M. (2011). "Universal Calibration Device for Pressure Transducer Calibration", Advances in Geotechnical Engineering (GEOFRONTIERS-2011), 13-16 March 2011, Texas, USA, Full length paper accepted.

3. Naidu, B.K.S.C. and  Dasaka, S. M. (2009). “Loading rate influence on shear strength of soils”, In Proceedings of the 2nd Indian Geotechnical Engineers’ Conference, Kakinada, India, pp. 122-125.

4. Dasaka, S.M. and Zhang, L.M. (2008). “Scale effect on bias in the estimation of spatial correlation characteristics of soil and rock”, In Proceedings of the 6th Asian Young Geotechnical Engineers’ Conference (AYGEC), pp. 192-204.

5. Trudeep N. Dave, Biyani, K.R., and Dasaka, S.M. (2008). “Effect of specimen size and shape of opening on the experimental behaviour of rock mass”, In Proceedings  of the Indian Geotechnical Conference (IGC-2008), Bangalore, India, Vol. 2, pp. 257-259.

6. Dasaka, S.M. and Sivakumar Babu, G.L. (2008). “Allowable Pressure of Strip Footing in Spatially Varying Cohesionless Soil – A Probabilistic Approach”, the 12th International Conference of International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG), Goa, India, October 1-6, CDROM proceedings.

7. Dasaka, S.M. and Zhang, L.M. (2007). "Scale effect on the estimation of spatial correlation structure of soil and rock", In Proceedings First Sri Lankan Geotechnical Society International Conference on Soil and Rock Engineering, Colombo, August 6-11, CDROM proceedings.

8. Xu, Y., Zhang, L.M., and Dasaka, S.M. (2006). “Serviceability analysis: from single pile to pile group and pile system”, In Proceedings 10th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering, University of Tokyo, Japan, CDROM proceedings.

9. Dasaka, S.M. and Zhang, L.M. (2006). “Evaluation of spatial variability of weathered rock for pile design”, In Proceedings International Symposium on New Generation Design Codes for Geotechnical Engineering Practice (TAIPEI2006), Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 1-12.

10. Dasaka, S.M., Rajaparthy, S.R. and Sivakumar Babu, G.L. (2005). “Reliability analysis of allowable pressure of strip footing in spatially varying cohesionless soil”, In Proceedings Mini-symposium on Reliability Evaluation in Geotechnics, 9th International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability (ICOSSAR), Rome, Italy, pp. 909-915, Millpress, Rotterdam.

11. Sivakumar Babu, G.L., Murthy, B.R.S., Murthy, D.S.N., and Nataraj, M.S. (2004).  “Bearing Capacity Improvement Using Micropiles”, In Proceedings Drilled Shafts, Micropiling, Deep Mixing, Remedial Methods, and Specialty Foundation Systems, GEOSUPPORT –2004, Geotechnical Special Publication No.124, pp. 692-699, Orlando, Florida.

12. Sivakumar Babu, G.L., Rajaparthy, S.R., and Dasaka, S.M. (2004). “Seismic Bearing Capacity of Shallow Foundations Resting on Cohesionless Soil”, In Proceedings Indian Geotechnical Conference, IGC-2004, NIT Warangal, pp. 235-238.

13. Dasaka, S.M., Rajaparthy, S.R., and Sumanta Haldar (2004). “Load Resistance Factored Design of Shallow Foundations”, In Proceedings International Workshop on Risk Assessment in Site Characterization and Geotechnical Design, GEORISK – 2004, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, pp. 231-240.

14. Sivakumar Babu, G.L., Dasaka, S.M., Rajaparthy, S.R., and Amit Srivastava (2004). “Load-Resistance Factored Design in Geotechnical Engineering”, In Proceedings National Symposium on Advances in Geotechnical Engineering, NSAGE – 2004, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, pp.  191-195.

15. Sivakumar Babu, G.L. and Dasaka, S.M. (2003). “Reliability Analysis of Bearing Capacity of Shallow Foundations”, In Proceedings Indian Geotechnical Conference, IGC-2003, Roorkee, pp. 73-76.

16. Dasaka, S.M., Mukesh, M.D., and Sivakumar Babu, G.L. (2002). “Spatial Interpolation Using Kriging”, In Proceedings Indian Geotechnical Conference, IGC-2002, Allahabad, pp. 90-93.

Training Programmes:

1. Conducted in-house short-term course on "Advanced Foundation Engineering" for Engineers of Engineering & Designs Division, M/s.Technimont ICB, Mumbai, during 10-12th December, 2009. 

2. Conducted CEP-QIP short-term course on "Recent trends in Geotechnical Investigations for Urban and Infrastructure Development" at IIT Bombay, during 15-19 March, 2010.

Invited lectures:

1. 26th June, 2010: on the topic "Shallow Foundations - Analysis and Design", Guest lecture presented as part of in-house technical training for engineers of M/s. FLSmidth Pvt. Ltd, at IIT Bombay. 

2. 16th April, 2010: on the topic "Reliability based design in Geotechnical Engineering", Guest lecture presented as part of CEP-QIP short-term course on Advances in Geotechnical Engineering, at IIT Bombay.

3. 29th March, 2009: on the topic “Design and Construction Aspects of Driven Piles”, Guest lecture presented as part of Workshop on Modelling Techniques in Geotechnical Engineering, at College of Engineering, Pune.

4. 9th April, 2008: on the topic “Site Investigation and Basics of Foundation Engineering”, Guest lecture presented as part of Technosearch, ’08, at MANIT, Bhopal.

5. 26th February, 2008: on the topic “Risk assessment and management in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering”, for CEP course on Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, at L.D. College of Engineering, Ahmedabad.

6. 4th December, 2007: on the topic “Field investigations in Geotechnical Engineering”, during National Workshop on Training for Field and Practicing Engineers in Geotechnical and Transportation Engineering at MANIT, Bhopal.

7. 21st August, 2007: on the topic “Dewatering techniques for construction Sites”, as part of training programme for Engineers of Nagarjuna Construction Company (NCC), at IIT Bombay.

8. 20th August, 2007: on the topic “Site investigation and design of foundations”, during training programme for Engineers of Nagarjuna Construction Company (NCC), at IIT Bombay.

9. 25th February, 2007: on the topic “Evaluation of Spatial Variability of Weathered Rock for Pile Design”, at Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay, Mumbai,

10. 19th February, 2007: on the topic “Spatial Variability of Weathered Soils”, at Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras, Chennai.

11. 28th January, 2007: on the topic “Evaluation of spatial variability and its application in risk assessment of foundations”, at Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Roorkee, Roorkee.

Participation in national and international conferences and workshops:

1. 18-20th February, 2010: Indian Geotechnical Conference - 2010, RVR & JC College of Engineering, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India.

2. 14-15th March, 2009: 2nd Indian Young Geotechnical Engineers’ Conference, JNTU Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, India.

3. 20-21st December, 2008: 6th Asian Young Geotechnical Engineers’ Conference (6th AYGEC), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

4. 17-19th December, 2008: Indian Geotechnical Conference-2008, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

5. 1-6th Ocotber, 2008:  The 12th International Conference of International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG), Goa, India.

6. 6-11th August, 2007: First Sri Lankan Geotechnical Society International Conference on Soil and Rock Engineering, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

7. 26-27th June, 2007: A workshop on Microzonation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

8. 12-13th January, 2007: International Workshop on Constitutive Modelling –Development, Implementation, Evaluation, and Application, Hong Kong, China.

9. 2-3rd November, 2006: International Symposium on New Generation Design Codes for Geotechnical Engineering Practice (TAIPEI2006), Taipei, Taiwan.

10. 4-6th August, 2006: 6th International Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics (6th ICPMG), Hong Kong.

11. 25-26th July, 2005: Case Studies in Geotechnical Engineering, Geopractice-2005, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

12. 19-23rd June, 2005: International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability (ICOSSAR), Rome, Italy.

13. 26-27th November, 2004: International Workshop on Risk Assessment in Site Characterization and Geotechnical Design, GEORISK, IISc, Bangalore.

14. 22-23rd July, 2004: National Symposium on Advances in Geotechnical Engineering, NSAGE – 2004, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

15. 17-19th December, 2004: Indian Geotechnical Conference, IGC-2004, NIT Warangal.

16.  20-22nd December, 2002: Indian Geotechnical Conference, IGC-2002, Allahabad.

Research guidance:

1. Trudeep N. Dave – Ph.D. (Ongoing)

2. Yashwant Apparao Kolekar - Ph.D. (Ongoing)  

3. Abhay Pandurang Shelke - Ph.D. (Ongoing)

4. Jain Aniruddh Pradyumn - M.Tech. (Ongoing)

5. K. S. Sumesh - M.Tech. thesis "Model Studies on the Behavior of Fibre Reinforced Soil" (Completed)

6. Boni K. S. C. Naidu – M.Tech. thesis "Effect of rate of loading on shear strength of soils" (Completed)