Ajanta Sachan
Department : Civil Engineering
Research Interests
● Liquefaction & cyclic instability in soils
● Stiffness degradation and pore pressure of soils under earthquake, traffic and machine vibration loading conditions
● Swelling, shrinkage and desiccation cracking in expansive soils
● Issues of micaceous soil and coal ash for road and rail construction
Professional Summary
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 (Jul 2009 to Dec 2010)
Senior Scientist, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (2006 to 2009)
Engineer, WAPCOS India Ltd, New Delhi (1997 to 1999)
Publications
1. Teli, S. and Sachan, A. (2024) Effect of bottom ash content on liquefaction resistance and cyclic degradation of pond ash under different dynamic loading conditions, Soil Dynamic and Earthquake Engineering, Elsevier, Vol. 178, 108495.
2. Agarwal, B. K. and Sachan, A. (2023) Quantification of Desiccation Cracking and Strain Localization in Lime Treated Compacted Expansive Soils using DIA and DIC, Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 36, No. 2, 04023541.
3. Shrivastava A. and Sachan, A. (2023) Effect of stress-induced anisotropy on shear modulus response of compacted coal ash under small-strain dynamic loading conditions, Soil Dynamic and Earthquake Engineering, Elsevier, Vol. 170, 107898.
4. Kantesaria, N. and Sachan, A. (2022) Small strain shear modulus and yielding characteristics of compacted high plasticity clay, Géotechnique, Vol. 72, No. 5, pp. 424–437.
5. Kantesaria, N. and Sachan, A. (2021) Cyclic degradation and pore water pressure response of high plasticity compacted clay, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 147, No. 11, 04021113.
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