Amit Prashant
Department : Civil Engineering
Research Interests
● Constitutive modeling for granular materials
● Numerical modeling of geotechnical structures
● Earthquake geotechnical engineering
● Applications of geosynthetics
Professional Summary
Officiating Director, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (Jul 2019 to Aug 2019)
Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (Nov 2015 to present)
Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (2010 to 2015)
Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (2005 to 2010)
Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Tennessee (2004 to 2005)
Assistant Engineer, Consulting Engineering Services India (pvt.) Ltd., New Delhi (1997 to 1999)
Publications
1. Bhattacharya, Debayan & Prashant, Amit. (2020). Effect of Loading Boundary Conditions in Plane Strain Mechanical Response and Local Deformations in Sand Specimens. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering. 146. 1-16.
2. Mukherjee, Mousumi & Gupta, Anurag & Prashant, Amit. (2020). A rate-dependent model for sand to predict constitutive response and instability onset. Acta Geotechnica. 10.1007/s11440-020-00988-8.
3. Bhattacharya, Debayan & Kawamoto, Reid & Karapiperis, Konstantinos & Andrade, José & Prashant, Amit. (2020). Mechanical behaviour of granular media in flexible boundary plane strain conditions: experiment and level-set discrete element modelling. Acta Geotechnica. 10.1007/s11440-020-00996-8.
4. Bhattacharya, Debayan & Mukherjee, Mousumi & Prashant, Amit. (2020). Perturbation Intensity and Mesh Convergence in Coupled Undrained Instability Analysis in Sands under Biaxial Loading. International Journal of Geomechanics. 20. 1-14. 10.1061/(ASCE)GM.1943-5622.0001694.
5. Jadhav, Prajakta & Prashant, Amit. (2019). Computation of seismic translational and rotational displacements of cantilever retaining wall with shear key. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering. 130. 10.1016/j.soildyn.2019.105966.
6. Jadhav, Prajakta & Prashant, Amit. (2019). Reply of authors to: Discussion on “Double wedge model for computing seismic sliding displacements of cantilever retaining walls” by R. Conti and N.Cusano. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering. 121. 10.1016/j.soildyn.2019.02.004.