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Ravi Jakka

Dr. Ravi Sankar Jakka has contributions in various fields of Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering. He was involved in the preparation of national level technical document, “Geotechnical/geophysical investigations for seismic microzonation studies of urban centres in India” for NDMA. He had carried out extensive investigations on dynamic soil properties and liquefaction resistance of pond ash and come up with guidelines on use of pond ash as geotechnical earth material in high seismic regions. He has guided a PhD student on uncertainties in surface wave methods on geotechnical site characterization. Studies have been conducted on uncertainties arising from the field measurements and inversion, and the results are published in reputed international journals. He is currently guiding a PhD and few M.Techo dissertations on local site effects. Few are on the effect of bedrock depth and type on site response and classification. Others are on deep soil effects on site amplifications particularly on Indo-Gangetic basin. Outcomes of these dissertations, are presented at international conferences and published in reputed journals. He is also guiding PhD and M.Tech dissertations on various other important aspects of geotechnical earthquake engg. such as earthquake resistant design of foundations on sloping grounds, post-liquefaction behavior of silty sands, geotechnical hazard assessment of hill slopes, development of earthquake early warning for Northern India, etc. He had also developed a new formulation in isochrone back projection during his post-doctoral research at Univ. of California, Riverside to quickly arrive at the source characterization (slip distribution as well as their magnitudes) using nearsource ground motions.
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