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Dr. Saloni Pandya

Assistant Professor, SET

Research interests

Unsaturated soil mechanics, Liquefaction susceptibility and cyclic instability of soils, Soil Dynamics, Cyclic/ Dynamic behaviour of soils, Soil and water chemistry, Variation in mechanical response of clay due to physical and chemical weathering, Mechanical characterization of soils.

Education

  • PhD (Geotechnical Engineering, Civil Engineering) – Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gandhinagar, India.
  • B. E. (Civil Engineering) – L.D College of Engineering, Ahmedabad, India.

Academic and Research Interest

  • Postdoctoral Experience at Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany (September 2018 to November 2018)
  • Senior Research Fellow at IIT Gandhinagar (May 2018-July 2018)
  • Laboratory Class and grading assistant for postgraduate students for 5 years (July 2013- December 2017)
  • Excellent Presenter award in 5th Tongji-UBC Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, May 4-8 2015, Tongji University, Shanghai, China 2015.
  • Best paper award-First prize (sponsored by Springer) in International Geotechnical Engineering Conference on Sustainability in Geotechnical Engineering Practices and Related Urban Issues
  • CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research) Travel Grant for GeoShanghai International Conference 2018, Shanghai, China. 2018

Journal Papers:

  1. Pandya, S. and Sachan, A. (2017). Effect of matric suction and initial static loading on dynamic behaviour of unsaturated cohesive soil, International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, Taylor and Francis, 12(5), 438-448.
  2. Pandya, S. and Sachan, A. (2017). Variation of collapse potential and stiffness degradation with matric suction of compacted unsaturated cohesive soil, International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, Taylor and Francis, online available, 07 Nov 2017.
  3. Pandya, S. and Sachan, A. (2018). Matric suction, swelling and collapsible characteristics of unsaturated expansive soils, Journal of Geotechnical and Transportation Engineering, 4(1) 1-9.
  4. Pandya, S. and Sachan, A. (2019).Dynamic Response and energy dissipation of saturated Ahmedabad cohesive soil under cyclic loading conditions, International Journal of Civil Engineering, Springer, online available, 30 Jan 2019.
  5. Pandya, S. and Sachan, A. (2018). Effect of frequency and amplitude on dynamic behaviour, stiffness degradation and energy dissipation of saturated cohesive soil, Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, Springer, In Review.

Conference Papers:

  1. Pandya, S. and Sachan, A. (2015). Dynamic behaviour of unsaturated CH soil under cyclic loading in unconsolidated undrained conditions, 5th Tongji-UBC Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, Tongji University Shanghai, China, 4-8 May, 2015.
  2. Pandya, S. and Sachan, A. (2016). Stiffness degradation and cyclic response of naturally available combination soil, International Geotechnical Engineering Conference on Sustainability in Geotechnical Engineering Practices and Related Urban Issues, Mumbai, IN, Sep. 23-24, 2016.
  3. Pandya, S. and Sachan, A. (2016). Effect of microfabric on shear modulus and damping ratio of Kaolin clay, EMI International Conference 2016, Université de Lorraine, Metz, France, Oct. 25-27, 2016.
  4. Pandya, S., Sakkari, A. and Sachan, A. (2017). Unsaturated shear strength of CH combination soil using matric suction and conventional shear strength testing, Indian Geotechnical Conference 2017 GeoNEst, IIT Guwahati, India, 14-16 December 2017.
  5. Pandya, S., Sharma, N. and Sachan, A. (2018) Role of matric suction in mechanics behind swelling characteristics of expansive soils, 20th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Paris, France, February 19-20, 2018.
  6. Pandya, S., Sarswat, N & Sachan, A. (2018). Relationship of collapse potential and swell pressure with suction of unsaturated expansive soil, In Proceedings of GeoShanghai 2018 International Conference: Multi-physics Processes in Soil Mechanics and Advances in Geotechnical Testing, GSIC 2018, Shanghai, China, May 27-30, 2018, 2(1), 147-155.
  7. Pandya, S. and Sachan, A. (2019). Energy dissipation response of unsaturated cohesive soil under dynamic loading conditions, IACMAG Symposium, IIT Gandhinagar, Gandhinagar, India, March 5-7, 2019.