Brief description of my credentials and academic and research accomplishments

1. Dr. H B NAGARAJDr. H B NAGARAJ
"Pranava", #147, 5th Main, Royal Lake Front Residency
Phase -1, JP Nagar 8th Phase, Bangalore - 560076
Contact: +91 9880507537
E-mail: drhbn.civ@bmsce.ac.in hbnraj@gmail.com
Public profile: http://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=lb9Lz0YAAAAJ
PROFESSOR
PROFILEPROFILE
§ Result oriented, proactive and technically astute academician with 18+ years of experience in field of Geotechnical
Engineering/Soil Mechanics and Engineering Survey. Currently associated as a faculty in BMS College of
Engineering, Bangalore, INDIA
§ Having keen research interests in “Engineering Behavior of Fine-Grained Soils”, “Fundamentals of Soil
Mechanics” and “Alternate Building Materials”. Reviewer for internationally acclaimed journals for research.
§ Well versed in Foundation Engineering, Geotechnical Investigation, Slope Stability, Pile Testing and Laboratory
Testing of soils as per BIS, BS and ASTM Standards.
§ Techno savvy with exposure in geotechnical software like gINT, Grapher, Slope / W, PLAXIS.
EDUCATIONALEDUCATIONAL CREDENTIALSCREDENTIALS
PhD in Soil Mechanics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. 2000
§ PhD Thesis Title: “Prediction of Engineering Properties of Fine Grained Soils through their Index properties”.
§ Course work - CGPA : 7/8
M.Tech (Geotechnical Engineering), Karnataka Regional Engineering College, Suratkal 1989-91
§ M.Tech Thesis Title: “The Role of Iron hydroxide in the Physical and Engineering Behaviour of Tropical soils”.
§ Overall aggregate: 79.0 %
B. E. (Civil Engineering), Sri Jayachamaraja College of Engineering, Mysore 1982-86
§ Overall aggregate: 74.5%
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCEPROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
BMS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, BANGALORE Oct 1997- Present
Designation: Professor
§ Lead Faculty for Geotechnical Engineering, Geodesy, Ground Improvement techniques, Advanced Foundation
Design, Earth and Earth Retaining Structures, Reinforced Earth Structures.
§ Research supervisor for PhD and M.Sc [Engg] Students.
§ Course instructor and Project Supervisor for postgraduate and undergraduate students.
§ Organizer international and national level technical conferences.
§ Delivered lectures for university online educational portal.
§ Presenting papers in International Technical conferences.
Working on:
§ Conducting courses related to Foundation engineering
§ Successfully guided, 1 PhD, 1 M.Sc [Engg.], 29 M Tech students and 16 BE projects.
§ Currently guiding 2 PhD, 2 M.Tech and 3 M.Sc [Engg] students.
§ Involved in an DST funded interdisciplinary research project worth Rs. 19.91 Lakh
§ Involved in College funded research project worth Rs. 1 Lakh
§ Involved in TEQIP Phase -II funded research project worth Rs. 4.5 Lakh
§ Involved in AICTE funded interdisciplinary research worth Rs. 7.3 Lakh
§ Providing consultancy relating to Soil Investigations, Forensic Geotechnical Engineering and Geotechnical
Designs.

2. Accomplishments:
§ Have successfully handled 20 technical courses for under-graduate students, and 3 courses for post-graduate
students.
§ Have applied for three national patents in field of alternative building materials and instrumentation development
for agriculture related application.
§ Delivered 20 Invited lectures for VTU Edusat, e-learning programmes Nos. 10 and 11 in 2009.
§ Delivered 9 lectures in NPEEE mid-term training program on Earthquake resistant design of structures, Indian
Institute of Technology Kanpur, 2003
§ Organized one-week duration Engineering Faculty Development Programme on Teaching, Research and
Consultancy in Civil Engineering in Feb 2007.
§ Organized three national conferences namely, GEOAGE, National Conference on role of Civil Engineers in
Disaster Management and Mitigation and National Symposium on Advances in Geotechnical Engineering.
§ Have successfully guided 1 PhD student, 1 MSc., Engg., student and 25 M.Tech project works.
§ Have handled about 13 major consultancy projects in field of Geotechnical Investigation and Forensic Geotechnics.
Major Clients include STUP consultants, NCCCL, Airport Authority of India, SEW Infrastructures Ltd., Reliance
InfraTel Ltd., KRDCL, Bangalore Development Authority, Land Army Corporation, Southern Railways, and
others.
JMIT, CHITRADURGA
Dec 1987- Jul 1989
Designation: Lecturer
§ Under-graduate course instructor for Surveying, Transportation Engineering and Building Construction.
§ Involved in Geotechnical Consultancy
VIJAYANAGAR ENGINEERING COLLEGE, BELLARY
June 1987- Sep 1987
Designation: Lecturer
§ Under-graduate Course instructor for Surveying and Geotechnical Lab.
RESEARCHRESEARCH CREDENTIALSCREDENTIALS
§ Technical Reviewer for many international journals and have successfully Reviewed more than Fifty technical
papers for NINE International Journals of repute
o Journal of Cleaner Production, Elsevier journal.
o Applied Clay Science, Elsevier journal.
o Energy and Buildings, Elsevier journal.
o Geosynthetics International, ICE London.
o Geotechnical and Geological Engineering Journal, Springer.
o Neural Computations and Applications, Springer
o Geomechanics and Engineering, Techno Press
o Indian Geotechnical journal, Springer
o Walailak Journal of Science and Technology
§ Have 15 peer reviewed International Journal publications, 4 publications in International Conferences and 4 in
National Conferences. One of the paper based on innovative method developed by me, namely “Rapid method of
Consolidation” has appeared in an International book on “soft clay behaviour-Analysis and assessment”, A. A.
Balkema Publishers, Netherlands, 2002.
§ Reviewed BIS Code: Review of Geotechnical Provisions in Indian Seismic Code IS 1893(Part 1): 2002.
§ Applied for THREE patents and SIX are in the process of filing.

3. Research Publications
Refereed International Journal Papers:
J15 Nagaraj. H. B. Rajesh, A., and Sravan, M. V., “Influence of soil gradation, proportion and combination of admixtures
on the properties and durability of CSEBs”, Construction and Building materials. Vol. 110, No.1, pp. 135-144.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2016.02.023 Elsevier Jl.- Impact factor-2.296. 2016.
J14 Nagaraj. H. B. Reesha B., Suresh. M.R and Sravan. M.V., “Correlation of compaction characteristics of natural
soils with modified plastic limit”, Transportaion Geotechnics. Vol. 3, No.1, pp. 54-61. (Elsevier Jl).
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trgeo.2014.09.002 [Citation 05]
J13 Nagaraj H.B., Sravan M.V., Arun T.G., and Jagadish. K.S., (2014), “Role of Lime with Cement in long-term strength
of Compressed Stabilized Earth Blocks”, International Journal of Sustainable Built Environment. Vol. 3, No.1, pp.
54-61. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsbe.2014.03.001 [Citation 12] (Elsevier Jl)
J12 Nagaraj, H.B. Sridharan, A. and Mallikarjuna H M., (2012), " Re-examination of Undrained Strength at Atterberg
limits water contents", Geotechnical and Geological Engineering Jl. Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 727–736.
DOI: 10.1007/s10706-011-9489-7 [Citation 14] (Springer Jl)
J11 Nagaraj, H.B. and Sridharan, A., (2010), "An Improved k0-Stress Method of Determining Liquid limit of soils",
International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering Vol. 4, No.4, pp. 549-555.
DOI: 10.3328/IJGE.2010.04.04.557-563 [Citation 04]
J10 Nagaraj, H.B. Munnas M. and Sridharan, A., (2010)," Swelling Behaviour of Expansive soils", International Journal
of Geotechnical Engineering Vol. 4, No.1, pp. 99-110. DOI: 10.3328/IJGE.2010.04.11.99-111
J9 Nagaraj, H.B. Munnas M. and Sridharan, A., (2009), "Critical Evaluation of determining Swelling pressure by Swell-
Load Method and Constant Volume Method", ASTM Geotechnical Testing Journal, Vol. 32, No.4, pp. 1-10.
Paper ID GTJ102051 [Citation 19]
J8 Sridharan, A. and Nagaraj, H.B., (2005), "Correlation of hydraulic conductivity of remoulded, fine-grained soils versus
index properties", Jl. of Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, Vol. 23, pp.43-60. [Citation 19] (Springer Jl)
J7 Sridharan, A. and Nagaraj, H.B., (2005), "Plastic limit and compaction characteristics of fine-grained soils", Ground
Improvement Journal., ICE London, Vol. 9 (1), pp. 17-22. GI 3173 [Citation 63]
J6 Sridharan, A. and Nagaraj, H.B., (2004), " Coefficient of consolidation and its correlation with index properties ",
ASTM Geotechnical Testing Journal, Vol. 27, No.5, pp. 1-6. [Citation 27]
J5 Sridharan, A., Nagaraj, H.B. and Prasad, P.S, (2000), " Liquid limit of soils from equilibrium water content in one-
dimensional normal compression", Geotechnical Engineering, ICE London, 143, pp. 165-169.
Paper 12022 [Citation 08]
J4 Sridharan, A., and Nagaraj, H.B., (2000), "Compressibility behaviour of remoulded, fine-grained soils and correlation
with index properties", Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 37 (2), pp. 712-722. [Citation 84]
J3 Sridharan, A., Nagaraj, H.B. and Srinivas, N, (1999), "Rapid method of consolidation testing", Canadian
Geotechnical Journal, 36 (4), pp. 392-400.[Citation 08]
J2 Sridharan, A., Nagaraj, H.B. and Prakash, K. (1999), "Determination of plasticity index from flow index", ASTM
Geotechnical Testing Journal, GTJODJ, 22(2), pp. 175 – 181. [Citation 13]
J1 Sridharan, A. and Nagaraj, H.B. (1999), "Absorption water content and liquid limit of soils", ASTM Geotechnical
Testing Journal, GTJODJ, 22(2), pp. 127 – 133. [Citation 20]
International Conferences:
IC4 Sravan, M.V., and Nagaraj, H.B (2015) “Preliminary study on use of Terrazyme as a bio stabilizer along with cement
and lime in compressed stabilized earth blocks”, 1st International Conference on Bio-based Building Materials
(ICBBM-2015), Clermont Ferrand, Paris.
IC3 Nagaraj, H.B., Sridharan, A and Madhu, B.V., (2012), "Comparative study of determination of liquid limit by
Percussion cup method, Cone Penetration method and ko-Stress method”, International Symposium on Lowland
Technology, Bali, Indonesia.
IC2 Sridharan, A. and Nagaraj, H.B. (1998),“Effect of pore medium chemistry on hydraulic conductivity of fine – grained
soils ", Proc. 3rd Int. Congress on Environmental Geotechnics, Portugal.
IC1 Sridharan, A. S.M. Rao, Ramanath, K.P. and Nagaraj. H.B, (1991), “The Role of iron hydroxide in the engineering
behaviour of tropical soils", The 3rd Int. Conf. On Tropical & Residual soils, Maseru, Africa. [Citation 05]

4. National Conferences:
NC4 Sravan.M.V., Nagaraj.H.B., (2013) “Effectiveness of Lime as a Stabilizer along with Cement in CSEBs”, 4th Indian
Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference, 2013. pp. 51-55
NC3 Nagaraj. H.B. and Parthasarathy. C.R, (2005), “Restorative Measures of “The Heritage” a Century Old Building in
Distress", Geopractice-2005 – National Conference on Case Studies in Geotechnical Engineering, I.I.Sc.,
Bangalore, India.
NC2 Nagaraj, H.B. and Sridharan, A., (2005), “Prediction of Coefficient of Volume change from Index Properties",
Geopredict 2005 – National Symposium on Prediction Methods in Geotechnical Engineering, IIT Madras,
India.
NC1 Sridharan, A. and Nagaraj, H.B., (1996), “Factors controlling swell/collapse behaviour of fine-grained soils upon
wetting", Proc. National Seminar on Partially saturated soils and expansive soils, Kakinada, India.
Review of Indian Code:
§ Nagaraj, H.B. C.V.R.Murthy and S.K.Jain.,(2006) “Review of Geotechnical Provisions in Indian Seismic Code IS:1893
(Part 1): 2002”, Document No. : IITK-GSDMA-EQ13-V1.0, IITK-GSDMA Project on Building Codes
Papers Unpublished/ Communicated
§ Nagaraj. H. B. Sravan, M. V., and Sridharan A., “Factors Influencing Undrained strength of Fine -grained soils at Liquid
limit water content”, Communicated to Springer Plus.
§ Sravan, M. V., and Nagaraj. H. B., “Potential Use of Terrazyme in the preparation of Compressed Stabilized Earth Blocks”,
Communicated to Materials and Structures.
§ Kavitha Nagaraj, H.B. Sharad Achar, Varaprasad, G and Chandra Babu, C.K., “Needle and Syringe Technique to
extract sterile coconut water for its use as nutrient medium in laboratory studies”, Communicated to Cocos Jl.
§ Sharad Achar Nagaraj, H.B. Kavitha, Varaprasad, G and Chandra Babu, C.K., “A study on variation in bio-chemical
properties of coconut water with time in preserved tender coconuts”, Communicated to Applied microbiology and
Biotechnology.
§ Nagaraj, H.B. Kavitha, Sharad Achar, Varaprasad, G and Chandra Babu, C.K., “Instrumentation and field studies for
useful extraction of tender coconut water in-situ from coconut tree itself and allow for maturity of coconut/further growth of
coconut”, Communicated to Fruits.
§ Sravan, M. V., and Nagaraj. H. B., “Stabilization effect of TerraZyme on natural kaolinitic soil”, Communicated to
Geomechanics and Engineering, Techno Press.
§ Nagaraj. H.B. and Shreyasvi C. “Exploratory study on use of iron mine spoil waste in the preparation of compressed
stabilized earth blocks”, International High- Performance Built Environment Conference – A Sustainable Built
Environment Conference 2016 Series (SBE16), iHBE 2016, Uni of New South Wales, Sydney.
§ Nagaraj. H. B. “Preliminary study on use of crumb rubber tyre waste in the preparation of compressed stabilized earth
blocks”, Abstract submitted to 2nd International conference on Bio based Building Materials- Clermont Ferrand,
France.
§ Nagaraj. H.B. “Influence of gradation and proportion of sand on stress-strain behavior of clay-sand mixtures”,
Communicated to International Journal of Geoengineering.
§ Nagaraj. H. B. “Utilization of sludge from Granite Cutting in Development of Durable paver blocks”, Communicated to Jl
of Cleaner Production
§ Nagaraj. H. B. Suresh, M.R., “Absorption limit of kaolinitic and montmorillonitic soils ”, To be communicated to Proc.
of ICE-Geotechnical Engineering .
§ Nagaraj. H. B. “Undrained Strength of Clays at their Plastic limit water content”, To be Communicated.
§ Nagaraj. H. B. and Sridharan A., “Importance of Shrinkage Index in the Prediction of Engineering Properties of fine-
grained soils”, To be Communicated.
ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIESILITIES
§ B.O.E member for Bangalore University -2009 and 2011
§ B.O.S. and B.O.E. member, B.M.S. College of Engineering -2009-2013
§ Department Academic Committee member, B.M.S. College of Engineering - from 2013 to present

5. § Co-ordinated National Accreditation and Assessment Council (NAAC) visit of B.M.S. College of Engineering-2012
§ Presently Academic Council member, University of Engineering and Management, Jaipur
§ Delivered many invited lectures on Geotechnical Investigations and its importance for Civil Engineering Practice
§ Recently was invited as member for a panel discussion on Geotechnical – Structural Engineer interface at IIT
Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
PROFESSIONALPROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPMEMBERSHIP
§ Life member for Indian Geotechnical Society since 1995.
§ Life member for Indian Society for Technical Education since 1999
§ Life member for Institution of Engineers since 1988
AWARDS &AWARDS & OTHER CREDENTIALSOTHER CREDENTIALS
§ Qualified in GATE (GRADUATE APTITUDE TEST IN ENGINEERING) thrice in 1987, 1988 and 1989
§ CSIR Senior Research Fellowship & Research Associate, 1995 to 1997
§ Registered Gem and Color therapist
§ Practicing Alternative system of medicine and cured medically challenging cases.
§ Presently working on applying alternative system of medicines for agriculture to improve yield and increase pest
resistance.
IT Skills
§ Technical Software knowledge: Microsoft Office, AutoCAD, Grapher, Slope/W, Plaxis, gINT.
AREAS OF CURRENTAREAS OF CURRENT RESEARCHRESEARCH
§ Engineering Behaviour of Fine-grained soils
§ Ground Improvement
§ Experimental Geotechnical Engineering
§ Alternate Building Products
§ Sustainability