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Curriculum Vitae:       Vikas Thakur

 

 



Address

Residence                                                                                                                                  Office

Ole Nordgaards vei 90                                                                                            Geotechnical Division

Trondheim, NO-7049                                                        Department of Civil and Transport Engineering

Norway                                                                                                                                        NTNU

                                              Høgskoleringen 7a, Gløshaugen

     Trondheim, NO-7491 Norway

Ph: 0047 480 65 439 (mobile); 0047 73 59 68 70 (office)

E-Mail: vikas.thakur@ntnu.no

 

 



 

 

Academic Details:

 

2004 onwards                         PhD (Geotechnical Engineering):  NTNU, Norway

expected to be finished by mid 2007

2001-2003                              Post graduation (M.Tech-Geotechnical Engineering):

                                                Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay

                                                            (Score 9.56 out of 10) with Honours

1998-2001                               Graduation (Civil Engineering) Pt RSS University, India        (Score: 85.37%)   with Honours

1995-1998                               Diploma (Civil Engineering) MP Technical Board, India

                                                            (Score: 86.11%) with Honours

 

Area of Exposure: (Courses)

 

PhD:                                        Continuum Mechanics, Non Linear Finite Element Technique, Soil Modelling,

                                                FEM in Geotechnical Engineering, Geo-dynamics

Other intensive international courses attended or to be attended

2005- A course on Extended Finite Element, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

2006- Localized Inelastic Deformations (LID): Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic

2006- Impact of Ice Force on Offshore Structures: UNIS, Svalbard

2006- Structural instability of Geomaterial (reservoir mechanics); ALERT school, Aussois, France

 

Masters (M Tech):                 Soil-structure interaction, Geo-synthetics and Reinforced earth, Centrifuge

                                                modelling, Rock mechanics, Remote Sensing in Geotechnical engineering,

                                                Critical state of Soil mechanics, Numerical Methods

Graduation and Diploma:       Basic soil mechanics and Foundation engineering and     

                                                            Engineering Geology

Academic Achievements:

 

  • First Rank by score in Post Graduation (IIT Bombay)
  • Awarded for Scholarship as Teaching Assistantship program during  post graduation in  Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
  • University First Rank holder by score in Graduation
  • State First Rank holder by score in Diploma
  • Gold Medallist in Matriculation (High school)
  • Within top 3% in national competition exam called GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineering)

 

Research Experiences:

 

May 2006- August 2006:   PLAXIS BV, The Netherlands

 “Introduction of Extended Finite element modelling in geotechnical practice:  Development of Double porosity model”.

  This model can be used to simulate strong discontinuity in geomaterial as well as to model fluid and gas migration from the   fractured media.

 

April 2006- May 2006: SINTEF, Trondheim, Norway

“Geotechnical Evaluation of Breakwater Construction in Arctic Region: GISSAC Project”.

  Finite element modelling and hand calculations were performed to check for a suitable design of  the reinforced Breakwater resting on   sea bed in Svea, Svalbard.

 

September 2005- February 2006: Laboratory 3S, Grenoble, France

“Experimental Investigation: Plane Strain Biaxial Testing in Norwegian Quick Clays”.

 The overall idea was to investigate the strain  localization in soft sensitive clays.

 

June 2005-August 2005: NGI, Oslo, Norway

“SIP 8: Rate dependent modelling”.

 A partial contribution in development of rate dependent model that can be used to capture localization

 

June 2004- August 2004: NGI-ICG, Oslo, Norway

“Coupled pore water and strain localization study using PLAXIS”

 

Various Presentations (apart from Conference presentations)

 

2006

Geo-Engineering, TU Delft, The Netherlands:“Shear banding in soft sensitive clays”

NGF (Norks Geoteknisk Forening) Yngres dag, Oslo: “Numerical and Experimental Investigation: Strain Localization in Soft Sensitive Clays”                 

2005

EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland: “Weak to Strong Discontinuity in Soft Geomaterial”

L3S, Grenoble, France: “The Norwegian Quick Clay”

NGI, Oslo, Norway :“PhD Progress: Strain localization and coupled flow”

2004

University of Aalborg, Denmark: “Regularization: coupled pore water flow in strain softening media”

Nordic PLAXIS users’ meeting, NTNU, Trondheim: “Failure of reinforced retaining wall: A critical review using PLAXIS”

Invited Speech

 

11th IACMAG (International conference on computer methods and advances in Geomechanics) Tunino,

            Italy: Issue paper presentation on “Pore pressure dissipation during shear banding in sensitive clays”

 

Professional Membership

Student Member of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

ASTM international

Norks Geoteknisk Forening (NGF)

Area of interest

Geomechanics in soft soil (Finite element modelling and computational  mechanics)

Laboratory experiments, un saturated soil mechanics

 

Other curricular activities:

Teaching Assistance in courses (1) FEM in Geotechnical Engineering  and Landslides and Slope Stability, at NTNU

                                                Supervising Master’s projects and pre Master’s project at NTNU

                                                Playing Chess, Cricket and Baseball, Gardening            

Involved Research

PhD:                                        Progressive failure in soft clays (Part of ICG* project 5)

                                                *CoE-NFR: ICG (International Centre of Geohazards)

M.Tech.:                                 Unsaturated soil and applications

                                                Earthquake simulation using centrifuge, application of centrifuge in  geotechnics

 

Publications

 

International Journals  (click on papers to get URL)

  1. Thakur V K S and Singh D N (July-2005) "Rapid Determination of Swelling Pressure of Clay Minerals." Journal of Testing and Evaluation, ASTM. Volume 33, issue 4 pp .239-245.
  1. Thakur V K S, Singh D N and S  Sreedeep,(2005) “Parameters Affecting Soil Water Characteristic Curves of Fine-Grained Soils.” Journal of Geotechnical and Geo-environmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 131, No. 4, pp.521-524.
  1. Thakur, V K S, Sreedeep, S and Singh, D N (2006) "Laboratory Investigations on Extremely High Suction Measurements for Fine-grained Soils." Geotechnical and Geological Engineering: An International Journal Volume 24 No. 3 pp 565-578.
  2. Thakur, V., Nordal, S. and Grimstad G. (2006) “Phenomenological issues related to strain softening in sensitive clays.” Geotechnical and Geological Engineering : International Journal (accepted- in print)

 

International Conferences

  1. Thakur V, Nordal S, Jostad H P and Svanø Geir (2006) “Shear band analyses in soft sensitive clays using inherent regularization technique”  the 17th EYGEC conference, Croatia (proceeding in print)
  1. Thakur V, Grimstad G and Nordal S (2006) “Strain Localization in Soft Sensitive Clays” ECI: Geohazards and Risk  Evaluation conference, Lillehammer, Norway. (proceeding in print)
  1. Jostad H P, Thakur V and Andresen L (2006) “Calculation of shear band thickness in sensitive clays” NUMGE, Graz, Austria (proceeding in print)
  2. Thakur V, Nordal S, Jostad H P and Andresen L, (2005) " Study on pore water pressure dissipation during shear banding in sensitive clays"  11th IACMAG, volume 4 page 289-296, Italy, Turino.
  1. Thakur V, Jostad H P, Andresen L and Nordal S,(2005) " Kinematics of shear banding in Norwegian Quick Clay" , 7th International Workshop on Bifurcation, Instabilities and Degradation in Geomechanics Chania, Greece. pp. 83. (proceeding in print)
  1. Grimstad G, Thakur V and Nordal S,(2005) " Experimental Observation on Formation and propagation of shear zone in Norwegian Quick clay". Landslides and avalanches: 11th ICFL, page 137-141,Trondheim, Norway.
  1. Thakur V and Singh D N (2005) "Swelling and Suction in clays" Experus 2005, Trento, Italy.
  2. Thakur V K S, Nordal S and Watn A (2004) “Failure of Geo-grid Reinforced Structures: A Critical Review Using PLAXIS.” International conference on Geosynthetics and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ICGGE, Bombay, India pp 464-468.
  1. Thakur V and Singh D N(2004) "Experimental Investigation For Studying Influence of Various Parameters on Soil Water Characteristics Curve." GeoQuebec 2004, 57th Canadian Geotechnical Conference, Quebec, Canada, session 5E, pp. 7-11.
  1. Thakur V K S and Singh D N (2004) "Evaluation of Different methods Used for Development of Soil Water Characteristics Curve."7th International Symposium on Environmental Geotechnology and Global Sustainable Development. Helsinki and Espoo, Finland, June 8-10.
  1. Sreedeep S, Thakur V K S and Singh D N (2003) " Fabrication of Solution Extractor for Assessing soil Contamination” International e- conference IIT Madras, India.