Dr. B. Munwar Basha
Professor & Associate Dean Planning
Department of Civil Engineering
Email: basha[at]ce.iith.ac.in
Phone: +91 (040) 2301 6311
Professor & Associate Dean Planning
Department of Civil Engineering
Email: basha[at]ce.iith.ac.in
Phone: +91 (040) 2301 6311
INVITED LECTURES
Invited talk on “Variability Characterization of SWCC for Clay and Silt and its Application to Finite Slope Reliability” in Pre-Conference Workshop of Indian Geotechnical Conference, IGC 2021, International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) TC-106 Workshop on Relevance of Unsaturated Soil Mechanics in Practise 15 Dec 2021 (Mode: Virtual)
Invited talk on “Seismic Design of Mechanically Stabilized Earth Walls using Reliability Based Approach” in Two-Day National Workshop on “Geotechnical Practices and Challenges” 10-11, January 2020 at Civil Engineering Department, CVR College of Engineering, Hyderabad.
Invited talk by IGS Kakinada student chapter on “Case Studies on Failure of Reinforced Soil Retaining Walls” as part of one day workshop, on 03rd Sep 2016 Conducted by Department of Civil Engineering, JNTU College of Engineering, Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Invited talk by IGS Ludhiana chapter on “Design of Narrow Backfill Width Retaining Structures under Static & Seismic Loading” as part of Indian Geotechnical Society TC-8 Workshop on Numerical and Physical Modelling, on 03rd Oct 2015 Conducted by Department of Civil Engineering, Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College Ludhiana, Punjab, India.
Invited by Prof. Arif Masud to deliver a Presentation on Reliability Analysis of Nanoiron Particle Transport through Porous Media on 27th June 2014 at Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC), Illinois, United States.
Computation of Reliability based LRF for external seismic stability of reinforced soil walls. GeoApps 2014 held on Apr 04, 2014 at JNTU Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Invited by Prof. D. N. Singh to participate and deliver a presentation on "ASD to LRFD to Reliability based LRFD" in the brain storming session on Emerging Trends in Geotechnical Engineering under the aegis of Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) of Department of Science and Technology (DST), India on Mar 26 2014, at VMCC building, IIT Bombay.
Invited by Prof. Krishna R Reddy to deliver a Presentation on "Load Resistance Factor Design of Mechanically Stabilized Earth Walls" on Feb 28, 2014 at Department of Civil and Materials Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago UIC), Chicago, Illinois 60607, USA.
Keynote Lectures
Krishna R Reddy and B. Munwar Basha (2014). Slope Stability of Landfills: State-of-the-Art and Future Challenges. Indian Geotechnical Conference 2014, Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, India on Dec 18 to 20, 2014.
Subtheme Lectures
B. Munwar Basha and A.S.S. Raghuram (2021). First and Second Order Reliability Analysis of Rainfall Induced Kotropi Slope Failure. Eighth Indian Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference 2021, IIT Madras, Chennai, India, September 17-18, 2021.
A. A. B. Moghal, B. Munwar Basha, M. Ashfaq. (2018). Probabilistic Study on the Geotechnical Behavior of Fiber Reinforced Soil. Indian Geotechnical Conference 2018. Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India, December 2018.
B. Munwar Basha and K. V. N. S. Raviteja (2017). Meethothamulla landfill failure analysis: A probabilistic approach. Indian Geotechnical Conference. Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati), 14-16 December 2017.