Dr. Pradipta Chakrabortty

 
Dr. Pradipta Chakrabortty
Asst. Professor
PhD, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Phone:+91-612-302 8194 (Office)
Fax: +91-612-227 7383
pradipt[*AT]iitp.ac.in
Research Areas : Soil Dynamics and Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Soil Heterogeneity, Finite Element Analysis in Geotechnical Engineering, Ground Improvement, Probabilistic Methods in Engineering
Other Interests :
  •  Geotechnical Centrifuge Testing
  • Low Cost Housing
Courses taught at IITP :
  • ME111: Engineering Drawing
  • ME101: Engineering Mechanics
  • CE206: Introduction to Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering
  • CE210: Soil Mechanics Laboratory
  • CE214: Soil Mechanics
  • CE218: Infrastructure Drawing And Estimation
  • CE292: Soil Mechanics Laboratory
  • CE309: Building Design, Estimation & Construction
  • CE313: Transportation Engineering Laboratory
  • CE502: Application of Probabilistic Methods in Engineering
  • CE505: Advanced Engineering Mathematics
  • CE523: Soil Exploration
  • CE592: Infrastructure Engineering Lab-II
  • CE593: Seminar-I
  • CE594: Seminar-II
PhD Students :

Vishal Puri

Angshuman Das

Tirtha Sathi
Bandyopadhyay
No. of Masters Students :
  • Completed: 3
  • Ongoing: 4
No. of BTP projects :
  • Completed: -
  • Ongoing: 3
Professional Experience :
  • July 2012 – Present Indian Institute Technology Patna, India as Assistant Professor
  • October 2009 – June 2012    Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, India as Assistant Professor (Civil).
  • June 2009 – October 2009    National Buildings Construction Corporation (NBCC) Ltd., India as Sr. Project Executive (Civil).
  • 2004 - 2007    Memorial University of Newfoundland, NL, Canada as Teaching Assistant.
  • April 2002 - July 2003     Department of Earthquake Engineering, IIT Roorkee, India as Project Assistant.
Awards & Honours :
  • 2002    Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
    The Indian Service of Engineers award (Rs. 2000 + Certificate) for standing first in the class of soil dynamics in earthquake engineering department at IIT Roorkee.
  • 2001-02    Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
    Certificate for being a member of winning team in inter bhawan chess tournament at IIT Roorkee.
  • 2009    Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
    Fellow of the school of graduate studies award (Certificate) for outstanding achievement and contribution during PhD.
Member of Professional bodies :
  • Lifetime Member: Indian Society of Earthquake Technology (ISET)
Current Sponsored Projects :
Title Principal Investigator Sponsored by
Microzonation of Jaipur City Based on Shear Wave Velocity Dr. Pradipta Chakrabortty Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India
Journal Reviewer :
  • Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
  • Engineering Structures
  • Indian Geotechnical Journal
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, India Sections A: Physical Science
  • Arabian Journal of Geoscience
Editorial Board Member of Journal :
  • Journal of Advanced Research in Civil and Environmental Engineering (ISSN: 2394 -7020, eISNN: 2393-8307)
Publications :

Journal Publications:

  • V. Puri, P. Chakrabortty, S. Anand, S. Majumdar, Bamboo reinforced prefabricated wall panels for low cost housing, Journal of Building Engineering, pp. 52-59, Vol. 9, January 2017
  • A. Das, and P. Chakrabortty, One-Dimensional Seismic Energy Transmission Along Heterogeneous Layered Soil, International Journal of Student’s Research in Technology & Management, Vol. 4, No. 3, November 2016
  • P. Chakrabortty, and R. Popescu, “Numerical simulation of centrifuge tests on homogeneous and heterogeneous soil models”, Computers and Geotechnics, Vol. 41, April, 2012, pp. 95-105. Accepted on 26th November 2011 and available online.
  • P. Chakrabortty, and R. Popescu, “Spectral Amplification of Seismic Motion Travelling Through Natural Sand Deposits”, The Open Numerical Methods Journal, Bentham Open, Vol. 3, 2011, pp. 66-81. Accepted on 25th November 2011.
  • P. Chakrabortty, R. Popescu, and Ryan Phillips, “Liquefaction of heterogeneous sand: Centrifuge study”, ASTM Geotechnical Testing Journal (GTJ), vol. 34 (3), May, pp. 227-237, 2011.
  • R. Popescu, J. H. Prevost, George Deodatis, and P. Chakrabortty, “Dynamics of nonlinear porous media with applications to soil liquefaction”, Journal of Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, vol. 26(6-7), June-July, pp. 648-665, 2006.
     

Conference Publications:
  • A. Das, and P. Chakrabortty, “Numerical Determination Of The Effect Of Seismic Frequency Content In Free Field Dynamic Response”, Conference on Numerical Modeling in Geomechanics, IGS Roorkee Chapter, IIT Roorkee, March 3-4, 2017.
  • P. Chakrabortty, U. Kumar, “Zonation of Jaipur City based on shear Wave Velocity”, Indian Geotechnical Conference, IGC 2016 IIT Madras, December 15-17, 2016.
  • A. Das, and P. Chakrabortty, One-Dimensional Seismic Energy Transmission Along Heterogeneous Layered Soil, Best paper prize in SHILP, IIT (BHU), 2016
  • V Puri, P Chakrabortty, S Majumdar. A Review of Low Cost Housing Technologies in India. In Structural Engineering Convention, 9th Biennial conference, New Delhi, 2014.
  • P. Chakrabortty and R. Popescu, “Response Surface Model for Settlements of a Frame Structure Founded On Liquefiable Soil”, 15th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, December 11-13, Roorkee, 2014
  • P. Chakrabortty, “Retrofitting of old Foundations: A Review of available Techniques”, Mid-term session & seminar on “state-of-the-art Building Technology, Indian Buildings Congress, 26-28 April, 2013.
  • O. S. Power, P. Chakrabortty, S. Agnihotri, “A Review of Methods for Predicting Blast Effects on Structures”, Structural Engineering Convention, 8th Biennial conference, 19-21 December, 2012. 
  • P. Chakrabortty, R. Popescu, Ryan Phillips, and Hesham Dief, “Liquefaction of heterogeneous soil: Centrifuge study”, 12th International Conference of International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG), Goa, India, 1-6th October, 2008
  • P. Chakrabortty, L. M. Lye, and R. Popescu, “Reliability Analysis of a Tower Structure Resting on Strip Footing upon a Liquefiable Soil”, 9th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Ottawa, ON, Canada, June 26-29, 2007
  • P. Chakrabortty, and R. Popescu, “2-D Analysis of 3-D frame structure on liquefiable soil”, Sea to Sky Geotechnique 2006 - 59th Canadian Geotechnical Conference and 7th Joint CGS/IAH-CNC Groundwater Specialty Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 1-4, 2006
  • R. Popescu, and P. Chakrabortty, “Liquefaction Mechanism For Heterogeneous Soils”, Sea to Sky Geotechnique 2006 - 59th Canadian Geotechnical Conference and 7th Joint CGS/IAH-CNC Groundwater Specialty Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 1-4, 2006
  • R. Popescu, P. Chakrabortty and J.H. Prevost, “Fragility Curves for Tall Structures on Stochastically Variable Soil”, In Proceedings 9th International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability (ICOSSAR), Rome, June 2005.
  • P. Chakrabortty, R. Popescu, and J. H. Prevost,  “Tower Structures on Liquefiable Soil Excited by Random Seismic Inputs”, In proceedings 9th ASCE Specialty Conference on Probabilistic Mechanics and Structural Reliability, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2004.
  • P. Chakrabortty, A. Jafari Mehrabadi, and R. Popescu, “Effect Of Low-Permeability Soil Layers On The Stability Of Submarine Slopes”, In proceedings 57th Canadian Geotechnical Conference and 5th Joint IAH-CNC-CGS Conference, Quebec city, Canada, 2004.
  • P. Chakrabortty, S. Mukerjee, A.D. Pandey, A. Bhargava, “Liquefaction Assessment for Microzonation of Kolkata City”, In proceedings 13th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Vancouver, Canada, 2004.
  • A. Bhargava, K.P Gupta, A.D. Pandey, P.C. Jain, P. Chakrabortty,  “Dynamic Characteristics of a barrage at various stages of construction”, In proceedings 13th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Vancouver, Canada, 2004.
  • A.D Pandey, A. Bhargava, S. Tadigotla, and P. Chakrabortty, “3D FEM Analysis of a Barrage under varying sub-surface condition”, Council of Power Utilities International Conference on Water Resources Development: Flood Control, Irrigation, Drinking Waterways, Electric Power and Transmission System, February 4-6, 2004.
  • P. Chakrabortty, D.K. Gupta, A.D. Pandey, S. Mukerjee, A. Bhargava,  “Interdependence Of Different Factors Affecting Soil Liquefaction”, IGC 2003 on Geotechnical Engineering for Infrastructural Development, Roorkee, December 18-20, 2003.
  • P. Chakrabortty, S. Mukerjee, A.D. Pandey, A. Bhargava, “Microzonation for liquefaction potential of a city”, First International Seminar on Disaster Mitigation in Nepal, Tahachal, Katmandu, Nepal, November 18, 2003.
Books / Book Chapter :
  • V. Puri, P. Chakrabortty, S. Majumdar. “A Review of Low Cost Housing Technologies in India”. In: Vasant Matsagar, editor. Advances in structural Engineering, Springer, New Delhi, 2014, p.1943-1955
Important Conferences Reviewed :
  • 14th Pan-American Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering & 64th Canadian Geotechnical Conference 2011
  • Structural Engineering Convention 2014
  • Indian Geotechnical Conference 2016
  • 6th Indian Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference 2017