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Arghya Das

Arghya Das

PhD (University of Sydney)

Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering

Research Interest

Constitutive modeling of geomaterials.
Micromechanics of granular materials.
Flow through porous media
Bifurcation & instability analysis in geomaterials.
Numerical & physical modeling in geotechnical engineering.

[email protected]

0512-259-6978 (O)

https://sites.google.com/view/arghyadas

Office

Faculty Building - #304
IIT Kanpur,
Kanpur 208016

Specialization

Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering

 

Education

PhD, University of Sydney, Australia, 2013. 

M.Tech, IIT Bombay, India, 2009. 

B.E., Jadavpur University, India, 2006. 

Teaching Area

Constitutive Modeling of Frictional Materials (CE637A)

Advanced Geotechnical Engineering (CE631A)

Rock Mechanics (CE630A)

Computational Methods in Engineering (ESO208A)

Soil Mechanics (CE351A)

Professional Affiliations

Member - Indian Geotechnical Society 
Corresponding Member of the International Technical Committee TC-105  on "Geo-Mechanics from Micro to Macro" of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering  (ISSMGE) for the term 2018-2021 

Selected Publications

Mufti, S., & Das, A. (2022). Modeling unsaturated hydraulic conductivity of granular soils using a combined discrete element and pore-network approach.Acta Geotechnica, 1-22.  
Alam, M., Parol, V., & Das, A. (2022). A DEM study on microstructural behaviour of soluble granular materials subjected to chemo-mechanical loading.Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment, 100390. 
Bisht, M. S., & Das, A. (2021). DEM Study on Particle Shape Evolution during Crushing of Granular Materials.International Journal of Geomechanics,21(7), 04021101.
Nanda, K., Vaishakh, T. K., Das, A., & Misra, S. (2020). Hydro-mechanical response in porous rocks during localized deformation: finite element analysis.Journal of structural geology,130, 103909.
Das, S. K., & Das, A. (2019). Influence of quasi-static loading rates on crushable granular materials: A DEM analysis.Powder Technology,344, 393-403. 
Sisodiya, M., & Das, A. (2018). Influence of Lode angle‐dependent failure criteria on shear localization analysis in sand.International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics,42(8), 979-998.  
Tengattini, A., Das, A., & Einav, I. (2016). A constitutive modelling framework predicting critical state in sand undergoing crushing and dilation.Géotechnique,66(9), 695-710.  
Das, A., & Buscarnera, G. (2014). Simulation of localized compaction in high-porosity calcarenite subjected to boundary constraints.International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences,71, 91-104.  
Das, A., Tengattini, A., Nguyen, G. D., Viggiani, G., Hall, S. A., & Einav, I. (2014). A thermomechanical constitutive model for cemented granular materials with quantifiable internal variables. Part II–validation and localization analysis.Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 70, 382-405.  
Please refer to the GoogleScholar page or ResearchGate profile for detailed publication.

Awards & Fellowships

PK Kelkar Fellowship - IIT Kanpur (2022 - 2025)  
FEIT University of Melbourne Visiting Researcher Fellowship (2022 - 2023)  
YGE Award for Best Paper on Computational Geomechanics. Indian Geotechnical Society (2018)  
SERB - Early Career Research Award (2016-2019) 

Professional Experience

Associate Professor: Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur, INDIA (Dec 2020 – till date) 

Assistant Professor: Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur, INDIA (July 2014 – Nov 2020) 

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA (April 2013 – June 2014). 

Research Associate: School of Civil Engineering, The University of Sydney, Australia (December 2012- March 2013) 

Graduate Trainee Engineer in the planning division of Shapoorji Pallonji & Company Ltd (July 2006 - June 2007)