Funding Agency: Commonwealth Scholarship Commission through Split-Site Fellowship to Ms. Sumaja
Team: Ms. Sumaja Kolli, Dr. Pradeep Kumar Dammala, Dr. Hassan Hemida (University of Birmingham, UK)
Status: Ongoing
Funding Agency: IIT Jodhpur SEED Grant
Team: Dr. Pradeep Kumar Dammala
Status: Ongoing
Our aim is to understand the migration of aeolian-led sand dune migration in Thar Desert through state-of-the-art experimentation and advanced computational fluid dynamics models.
Funding Agency: SERB through OVDF
Team: Dr. Pradeep Kumar Dammala and Prof. Rodrigo Salgado (Purdue University, USA)
Status: Ongoing
Funding Agency: IIFS
Team: Ms. Sumaja Kolli, Dr. Pradeep Kumar Dammala, Dr. Hassan Hemida (University of Birmingham, UK)
Status: Finished in Oct 2023
Funding Agency: Commonwealth Scholarship Commission (CSC), United Kingdom
Team: Dr. Pradeep Kumar Dammala
Status: Finished on February 4, 2023
Funding Agency: ISSMGE Travel Grant
Team: Ms. Sumaja Kolli
Status: June 2023
Funding Agency: SERB through SIRE Fellowship
Team: Dr. Pradeep Kumar Dammala, Prof. Krishna R Reddy (University of Illinois, Chicago)
Status: Finished in March 2023
Funding Agency: SERB through ITS
Team: Dr. Pradeep Kumar Dammala
Status: Finished in July 2018
Funding Agency: Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, UK
Team: Dr. Pradeep Kumar Dammala
Status: Finished in 2017
13. Dammala, P. K., Kolli, S., Garaga, R., Redy, K. R., Kumar, P., (2025). Aeolian sand dune fixation – critical review of measures, challenges and future perspectives with a case study on Thar Desert. CATENA, 250 (2025) 108786 .
12. Adari, S. K., Dammala, P. K., & Adapa, M. K. (2023). Comprehensive dynamic characterization of two cohesive soils of northeastern India for effective stress–based seismic ground response analysis. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 16(10), 577.
11. Kolli, S., Dammala, P. K., Ul Haq, A., & Reddy, K. R. (2023). Valorization of Scrapped Marble Slurry Powder as Potential Sand Dune Stabilizer: Pilot Studies on Thar Desert Soils. Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste, 27(4), 04023025.
10. Kolli, S., Dammala, P. K., Bhattacharya, S., Fan, C., Wang, T., & Cui, L. (2023). Offshore wind farms as additional coolant power sources to enhance seismic resilience of nuclear power plants–A case study. Nuclear Engineering and Design, 405, 112204.
9. Dammala, P. K., & Krishna, A. M. (2022). Nonlinear Seismic Ground Response Analysis in Northeastern India Considering the Comprehensive Dynamic Soil Behavior. Indian Geotechnical Journal, 52(3), 650-674.
8. Kumar, S. S., Acharya, P., Dammala, P. K., & Adapa, M. K. (2020). Characterization of Ground Response and Liquefaction for Kathmandu City Based on 2015 Earthquake Using Total Stress and Effective Stress Approach. International Journal of Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering (IJGEE), 11(2), 1-25.
7. Puri, N., Jain, A., Nikitas, G., Dammala, P. K., & Bhattacharya, S. (2020). Dynamic soil properties and seismic ground response analysis for North Indian seismic belt subjected to the great Himalayan earthquakes. Natural Hazards, 103(1).
6. Dammala, P. K., Kumar, S. S., Krishna, A. M., & Bhattacharya, S. (2019). Dynamic soil properties and liquefaction potential of northeast Indian soil for non-linear effective stress analysis. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 17(6), 2899-2933
5. Rele R, Dammala PK, Bhattacharya S, Balmukund R, Mitoulis S (2019) Seismic Behaviour of Rocking Bridge Pier supported by Novel Elastomeric Pads on Pile Foundation. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 124, 98-120.
4. Dammala, P. K., Jalbi, S., Krishna, A. M., Bhattacharya, S., & Bouzid, D. A. (2018). Impedance Functions for Double-D-Shaped Caisson Foundations. Civil Engineering, 2, 8939-918X.
3. Dammala, P. K., Krishna, A. M., Bhattacharya, S., Nikitas, G., & Rouholamin, M. (2017). Dynamic soil properties for seismic ground response studies in Northeastern India. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 100, 357-370.
2. Dammala, P. K., Bhattacharya, S., Krishna, A. M., Kumar, S. S., & Dasgupta, K. (2017). Scenario based seismic re-qualification of caisson supported major bridges–a case study of Saraighat Bridge. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 100, 270-275.
1. Bali Reddy, S., Dammala, P. K., & Murali Krishna, A. (2016). Evaluation of the optimum mixing ratio of a sand-tire chips mixture for geoengineering applications. Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, 28(2), 06015007
2. Dammala PK, Rouholamin M, Nikitas G, Bhattacharya S, Krishna AM (2018) Lateral Behaviour of Pile Foundations during Partial Liquefaction. In: IFCEE 2018. ASCE, Orlando, pp 301–311.
1. Dammala PK, Sodom BR, Krishna AM (2015) Experimental investigation of applicability of sand tire chip mixtures as retaining wall backfill. In: Geotechnical Special Publication, IFCEE 2015. ASCE, Texas, 1420-1429
2. Dammala PK, Rouholamin M, Nikitas G, Bhattacharya S, Krishna AM (2018) Lateral Behaviour of Pile Foundations during Partial Liquefaction. In: IFCEE 2018. ASCE, Orlando, pp 301–311.
1. Dammala PK, Sodom BR, Krishna AM (2015) Experimental investigation of applicability of sand tire chip mixtures as retaining wall backfill. In: Geotechnical Special Publication, IFCEE 2015. ASCE, Texas, 1420-1429
14. S. Kolli, A. Bind, H. Hemida, P.K. Dammala: Influence of dune-dune interaction on sand dune migration and evolution: Wind tunnel experiment. International Conference of the Italian Association for Wind Engineering (IN-VENTO 2024). Pisa, Italy.
13. S. Kolli, AU Haq, PK Dammala, JK Janga, KR Reddy (2023). Sustainable Use of Marble Byproduct for Stabilizing Migrating Sand Dunes in Thar Desert, India. Proceedings of the 9th ICEG. Chania, Greece.
12. Adari SK, Dammala PK, Krishna AM (2023). Comprehensive Dynamic Characterization of Cohesive Soils from North east India, GeoCongress 2023 (Full paper accepted)
11. Sumaja, K., Ahsan Ul, H., & Dammala, P. K. (2022). Sustainable Utilization of Limestone Scrap Slurry for Stabilizing Migrating Sand Dunes in Thar Desert. In AGU Fall Meeting 2022. AGU.
10. Sumaja, K., Dammala, P. K., & Bhattacharya, S. (2022). Simplified Seismic Analysis of Monopile Foundations Incorporating SSI Effects in Homogeneous Cohesive Soils. Proceedings of the Indian Symposium on Offshore Geotechnics -2022.
9. Sumaja K, Dammala PK, & Bhattacharya S (2021). Offshore Wind Power as a Backup Source for Nuclear Power Plants against Cascading Impacts: A Case Study. In AGU Fall Meeting 2021. AGU.
8. Dammala PK, Krishna AM (2018) Seismic Requalification of a Pile supported structure – Pseudo static approach. In Proc. of Indian Geotechnical Conference 2018, IISc Bangalore, India
7. Dammala PK, Rouholamin M, Nikitas G, Bhattacharya S, Krishna AM, (2017) Bending response of pile foundations during partial liquefaction. In: Proceedings of Indian Geotechnical Conference 2017, IIT Guwahati, India.
6. Rele R, Dammala PK, Mitoulois S, Bhattacharya S (2017) Seismic Response of Resilient Pier on Pile Foundation. In: Proceedings of Indian Geotechnical Conference 2017, IIT Guwahati, India.
5. Dammala PK, Krishna AM, Bhattacharya S, Aingaran S (2016) Cyclic Response of Cohesionless Soil using Cyclic Simple Shear Testing. In: 6th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering. ICRAGEE, pp 1–10
4. Dammala PK, Krishna AM, Bhattacharya S, A (2015) Cyclic Threshold shear strains in cohesionless soils based on stiffness degradation. In: Proceedings of Indian Geotechnical Conference 2015, CoE Pune, India
3. Dammala PK, Krishna AM (2015) Geotechnical concerns in seismic analysis of structures for disaster mitigation, In Proc of National Seminar on role of Geotechnology in Disaster Mitigation, IIT Bhubaneswar, India
2. Dammala PK, Balireddy S, Krishna AM (2014) Evaluation of optimum mixing ratio of sand tire chip mixtures for geotechnical applications. In: Proceedings of Indian Geotechnical Conference 2014, JNTU Kakinada, India Balireddy S,
1. Dammala PK, Krishna AM (2014) Evaluation of sand-tire chip mixture properties for sustainable geotechnical applications. In: Proceedings of ICSCI 2014 (ASCE), India
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