1. Dr. H B NAGARAJDr. H B NAGARAJ
"ʺPranava"ʺ, #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.
EDUCATIONAL EDUCATIONAL 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.
§ Delivering lectures for university online educational portal.
§ Representing institute in international technical conferences.
Working on:
§ Conducting courses related to Foundation engineering
§ Successfully guided, 1 PhD, 1 M.Sc [Engg.], 25 M Tech students and 15 BE projects.
§ Currently guiding 2 PhD, 4 M.Tech and 3 M.Sc [Engg] research programmes.
§ 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.
§ Accomplishments:

2. Accomplishments:
§ Have successfully undertaken 20 technical courses, 3 courses for post-­‐‑graduation students.
§ Have applied for two 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.
§ 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.
§ Organizer for 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 51 major consultancy projects in field of Geotechnical Investigation and Forensic Geotechnics.
Major Clients include STUP consultants, NCCCL, Airport Authority of India, KRDCL, BDA, 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 Twenty Five technical papers
for Five International Jls of repute
o International 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 Geomechanics and Engineering
§ Have 14 peer reviewed International Journal publications, 3 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 TWO patents and SIX are in the process of filing.
Research Publications
International Journals:
§ 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.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trgeo.2014.09.002
§ 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.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsbe.2014.03.001 [Citation 02]
§ Nagaraj, H.B. Sridharan, A. and Mallikarjuna H M., (2012), "ʺ Re-­‐‑examination of Undrained Strength at Atterberg limits
water contents"ʺ, Geotechnical and Geological Engineering Jl. Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 727–736.
DOI: 10.1007/s10706-­‐‑011-­‐‑9489-­‐‑7 [Citation 08]

3. § Nagaraj, H.B. and Sridharan, A., (2010), "ʺAn Improved k0-­‐‑Stress Method of Determining Liquid limit of soils"ʺ,
International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering Vol. 4, No.4, pp. 549-­‐‑555. DOI: 10.3328/IJGE.2010.04.04.557-­‐‑563
[Citation 04]
§ Nagaraj, H.B. Munnas M. and Sridharan, A., (2010),"ʺ Swelling Behaviour of Expansive soils"ʺ, International Journal of
Geotechnical Engineering Vol. 4, No.1, pp. 99-­‐‑110. DOI: 10.3328/IJGE.2010.04.11.99-­‐‑111
§ Nagaraj, H.B. Munnas M. and Sridharan, A., (2009), "ʺCritical Evaluation of determining Swelling pressure by Swell-­‐‑
Load Method and Constant Volume Method"ʺ, ASTM Geotechnical Testing Journal, Vol. 32, No.4, pp. 1-­‐‑10. Paper ID
GTJ102051 [Citation 08]
§ Sridharan, A. and Nagaraj, H.B., (2005), "ʺCorrelation of hydraulic conductivity of remoulded, fine-­‐‑grained soils versus
index properties"ʺ, Jl. of Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, Vol. 23, pp.43-­‐‑60 [Citation 16]
§ Sridharan, A. and Nagaraj, H.B., (2005), "ʺPlastic limit and compaction characteristics of fine-­‐‑grained soils"ʺ, Ground
Improvement Journal., Vol. 9 (1), pp. 17-­‐‑22. GI 3173 [Citation 49]
§ Sridharan, A. and Nagaraj, H.B., (2004), "ʺ Coefficient of consolidation and its correlation with index properties "ʺ, ASTM
Geotechnical Testing Journal, Vol. 27, No.5, pp. 1-­‐‑6. [Citation 17]
§ Sridharan, A., Nagaraj, H.B. and Prasad, P.S, (2000), "ʺ Liquid limit of soils from equilibrium water content in one-­‐‑
dimensional normal compression"ʺ, Geotechnical Engineering, London, 143, pp. 165-­‐‑169. Paper 12022 [Citation 07]
§ Sridharan, A., and Nagaraj, H.B., (2000), "ʺCompressibility behaviour of remoulded, fine-­‐‑grained soils and correlation with
index properties"ʺ, Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 37 (2), pp. 712-­‐‑722. [Citation 67]
§ Sridharan, A., Nagaraj, H.B. and Srinivas, N, (1999), "ʺRapid method of consolidation testing"ʺ, Canadian Geotechnical
Journal, 36 (4), pp. 392-­‐‑400. [Citation 06]
§ Sridharan, A., Nagaraj, H.B. and Prakash, K. (1999), "ʺDetermination of plasticity index from flow index"ʺ, Geotechnical
Testing Journal, GTJODJ, 22(2), pp. 175 – 181. [Citation 11]
§ Sridharan, A. and Nagaraj, H.B. (1999), "ʺAbsorption water content and liquid limit of soils"ʺ, Geotechnical Testing
Journal, GTJODJ, 22(2), pp. 127 – 133. [Citation 16]
International Conferences:
§ Nagaraj, H.B., Sridharan, A and Madhu, B.V., (2012), "ʺComparative study of determination of liquid limit by Percussion
cup method, Cone Penetration method and ko-­‐‑Stress method”, International Symposium on Lowland Technology, Bali,
Indonesia.
§ Sridharan, A. and Nagaraj, H.B. (1998),“Effect of pore medium chemistry on hydraulic conductivity of fine – grained soils
"ʺ, Proc. 3rd Int. Congress on Environmental Geotechnics, Portugal.
§ 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"ʺ, The 3rd Int. Conf. On Tropical & Residual soils, Maseru, Africa. [Citation 04]
National Conferences:
§ 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
§ Nagaraj. H.B. and Parthasarathy. C.R, (2005), “Restorative Measures of “The Heritage” a Century Old Building in
Distress"ʺ, Geopractice-­‐‑2005 – National Conference on Case Studies in Geotechnical Engineering, I.I.Sc., Bangalore,
India.
§ Nagaraj, H.B. and Sridharan, A., (2005), “Prediction of Coefficient of Volume change from Index Properties"ʺ, Geopredict
2005 – National Symposium on Prediction Methods in Geotechnical Engineering, IIT Madras, India.
§ Sridharan, A. and Nagaraj, H.B., (1996), “Factors controlling swell/collapse behaviour of fine-­‐‑grained soils upon wetting"ʺ,
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
Paper Accepted for Publication:
§ Nagaraj. H. B. and Deepa., “Effect of gradation of sand on stress-­‐‑strain behavior of sand-­‐‑clay mixtures ”, International
Conference on Geotechnical Engineering-­‐‑2015, Colombo, Srilanka.
§ Sravan, M.V., and Nagaraj. H. B. “Use of Terrazyme with conventional stabilizers in improving soil sub-­‐‑grade”,
International Conference on Biobased materials-­‐‑2015, France.

4.
Papers Unpublished/ Communicated
§ Nagaraj. H. B. Sravan M.V. and Sridharan A., “Undrained Strength of Clays at their Plastic limit Water content”,
Communicated to GTJ ASTM.
§ Nagaraj. H. B. and Sridharan A., “Importance of Shrinkage Index in the Prediction of Engineering Properties of fine-­‐‑
grained soils”, Communicated to Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Jl. ASCE.
§ Nagaraj. H. B. “Utilization of sludge from Granite Cutting in Development of Durable Compressed Stabilized Earth
Blocks”, Communicated to Jl of Cleaner Production.
§ 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 ”, Communicated to
Environmental Geotechnics Jl.
§ Nagaraj. H. B. Sravan, M. V., and Sridharan A., “Factors Influencing Undrained strength of Fine -­‐‑grained soils at Liquid
limit water content”, Communicated to Applied clay Science.
§ Sravan, M. V., and Nagaraj. H. B., “Potential Use of Terrazyme in the preparation of Compressed Stabilized Earth Blocks”,
Communicated to Engineering Geology.
§ Sravan, M. V., and Nagaraj. H. B., “Effect of Terrazyme on the plasticity and strength properties of kaolinitic soil”,
Communicated to Applied Clay Science.
ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIESADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
§ B.O.E member for Bangalore University -­‐‑2009 and 2011
§ B.O.S member B.M.S. College of Engineering -­‐‑2009-­‐‑2013
§ B.O.E member B.M.S. College of Engineering -­‐‑2009-­‐‑2013
§ Co-­‐‑ordinated National Accreditation and Assessment Council (NAAC) visit of B.M.S. College of Engineering-­‐‑2012
§ Presently B.O.S and B.O.E member, M.S. Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences
§ 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.
PROFESSIONAL PROFESSIONAL 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: Microsoft Office, AutoCAD, Grapher, Slope/W, Plaxis, gINT.
RESEARCH INTERESTSRESEARCH INTERESTS
§ Fundamental Soil Mechanics
§ Shallow and Pile Foundation
§ Offshore Geotechnics
§ Ground Improvement
§ Experimental Geotechnical Engineering
§ Alternate Building Products