IITKGP

Debarghya Chakraborty

Ph.D., INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE BANGALORE

Associate Professor

Civil Engineering

+91-3222-282474

debarghya@civil.iitkgp.ac.in

Responsibilities

  • Program Officer, NSO(H&F)

Research Areas

Research Interests: 1) Computational Geomechanics 2) Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering 3) Soil Dynamics 4) Reinforced Soil Structures
  • Solving axisymmetric stability problems by using upper bound finite elements limit analysis and linear optimization Chakraborty D., Kumar J. By Journal of Engineering Mechanics, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 140 06014004-1-9 (2014)
  • Seismic bearing capacity of strip footings on an embankment by using lower bound limit analysis Chakraborty D., Mahesh Y. By International Journal of Geomechanics, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 16 06015008-1-11 (2016)
  • Use of a non-associated flow rule for determining the stability of a vertical circular excavation Chakraborty D. By Acta Geotechnica, Springer 14 247-252 (2019)
  • Lateral resistance of buried pipeline in c-phi soil Chakraborty D. By Journal of Pipeline Systems Engineering and Practice, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 9 060170061-7 (2018)
  • Stability analysis of a circular tunnel underneath a fully liquefied soil layer Banerjee S. K., Chakraborty D. By Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, Elsevier 78 84-94 (2018)
  • Probabilistic seismic passive resistance of hunchback retaining wall considering spatial variability Krishnan K., Chakraborty D. By Computers and Geotechnics, Elsevier 154 1051541-16 (2023)
  • Stability of non-vertical waterfront retaining wall supporting inclined backfill under earthquake and tsunami Chakraborty D., Choudhury D. By Ocean Engineering, Elsevier 78 1-10 (2014)
  • Effect of soil and rock interface friction on the bearing capacity of strip footing placed on soil overlying Hoek-Brown rock mass Das S., Chakraborty D. By International Journal of Geomechanics, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 22 040212571-14 (2022)
  • Seismic bearing capacity of foundations on cohesionless slopes Kumar J., Chakraborty D. By Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 139 1986-1993 (2013)
  • Seismic stability of a long unlined circular tunnel in sloping ground Banerjee S. K., Chakraborty D. By Canadian Geotechnical Journal, NRC Research Press 53 1346-1352 (2016)
  • Co-Principal Investigator

Ph. D. Students

Avneet Lahariya

Area of Research: Computational Geomechanics

Kouseya Choudhuri

Area of Research: Computational Geomechanics

Krishnan K

Area of Research: Geomechanics

Kuldeep Khichar

Area of Research: soil dynamics and earthquake engineering

Nagendra Kola

Area of Research: Geotachnical characterization of MSW landfill

Pratishtha Mishra

Area of Research: Computational Geomechanics

Rupashree Ragini Sahoo

Area of Research: Ground Improvement

Sayantan Banerjee

Area of Research: Pile foundation

Shuvankar Das

Area of Research: Geomechanics