Ajanta Sachan

Ajanta Sachan
Associate Professor, Civil Engineering
- BE: IIT Roorkee, India,1997
- PhD: University of Tennessee at Knoxville, USA, 2005
Email: ajanta -AT- iitgn.ac.in
Office:
5/335 A
VOIP:
2416
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Work Experience
- Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (Jan 2018 to present)
- Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (Dec 2010 to Jan 2018)
- Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati (July 2009 to Dec 2010)
- Senior Scientist, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (2006 to 2009)
- Engineer, WAPCOS India Ltd, New Delhi (1997 to 1999)
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Selected Publications
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Kantesaria, N. and Sachan, A. (2020) Small strain shear modulus and yielding characteristics of compacted high plasticity clay, Géotechnique, DOI: http://doi.org/10.1680/jgeot.20.P.089, Online available 27 November 2020.
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Pandya, S. and Sachan, A. (2020) Variation of collapse potential and stiffness degradation with matric suction of compacted unsaturated cohesive soil, International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, Taylor & Francis, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 35-48.
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Thakur A., Pandya S. and Sachan A. (2020) Dynamic behavior and characteristic failure response of low plasticity cohesive soil, International Journal of Civil Engineering, Springer, Online available, 27Aug 2020.
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Hussain, M. and Sachan, A. (2019) Dynamic characteristics of natural Kutch sandy soils, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Elsevier, Online available, 06 June 2019.
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Seethalakshmi, P. and Sachan, A. (2019) Dynamic behavior of micaceous sand with varying mica content and its association with compactability, compressibility and monotonic shear response, International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, Taylor & Francis, online available, 20 March 2019.
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Hussain, M. and Sachan, A. (2019) Static liquefaction and effective stress path response of Kutch soils, Soils and Foundations, Elsevier, Online available, 23Dec 2019.
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Sachan, A., Seethalakshmi, P. and Mishra, M.C. (2019) Effect of crushing on stress-strain & pore pressure behaviour of micaceous Kutch soil under monotonic compression & repeated loading-unloading conditions, Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, Springer, Vol. 37, No. 6, pp. 5269-5283.
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