Research Experience

Evaluation of liquefaction induced lateral spreads

Advisors: Prof. Scott J. Brandenberg & Prof. Jonathan P. Stewart | 2025 - ongoing

• Investigated lateral spread case histories from literature and compiled them into the Next Generation Liquefaction database.
• Developed Python-based tools to visualize elements from a typical lateral spread case history like displacement vectors, site investigations, surface manifestations of liquefaction, and ground motion intensity measures.
• Developing a simplified model for evaluating liquefaction induced lateral spreads using the compiled case histories.

Effect of fines on liquefaction triggering analyses

Advisors: Prof. Scott J. Brandenberg & Prof. Jonathan P. Stewart | 2024 - 2025

• Gathered multiple cyclic shear tests from the literature to study the influence of fines on the cyclic resistance of soil.
• The compiled data was processed to develop a model that can capture the transition in soil’s cyclic strength with fines content.
• Reinterpreted variable rate CPTs to propose a novel framework quantifying the influence of drainage on the measured tip resistance.
• Proposed a new fines-correction framework to assess cyclic failure of soil by integrating the effects of fines on tip resistance and cyclic strength.

Dynamic Soil Pile Interaction

Advisor: Prof. Subhadeep Banerjee | Undergraduate thesis | 2020 - 2021

• Developed MATLAB functions to simulate the dynamic lateral and kinematic response of piles in layered soil based on various BDWF models.
• Studied the BWDF results with data from full-scale vibration test of pile in conjunction with FEM-BEM based results.
• Predicted the kinematic response of a model pile in a shake table test and analyzed with experimental results.