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Vishwas A Sawant Abhimanyu

 
   
 

Vishwas A Sawant

 
 
Associate Professor
sawntfce@iitr.ernet.in
Ph No: +91-1332-285892
  
   

Areas of Interest

  • Pile Foundation, Laterally Loaded Pile in Horizontal and Sloping ground
  • Pavement, Dynamic Analysis of Rigid pavement
  • Liquefaction, Numerical Modelling of Liquefaction

Professional Background

FromToDesignationOrganisation
20012003Senior Structural EngineerZentech India Marine and Offshore Engg

Honors and Awards

AwardInstituteYear
Best Paper Award for year 1998-1999Indian Geotechnical Journal2000
Best Paper AwardNational Conference on "Innovations and Applications of Mathematical Modeling Techniques in Engineer2008
Best Paper AwardNational Conference 4th Uttarakhand State Science and Technology Congress, USSTC-20092009
Endevour Postdoctoral Research Fellowship AwardDEEWR, Australian Government2011

Educational Details

DegreeSubjectUniversityYear
B. E.Civil EngineeringMumbai1990
M. TechOffshore EngineeringIndian Institute of Technology Bombay1993
Ph. D.Geotechnical EngineeringIndian Institute of Technology Bombay1998

Memberships

  • Indian Society for Hydraulics, Life Member
  • Indian Geotechnical Society, Life Member

Teaching Engagements

TitleCourse CodeClass NameSemester
CAD of FoundationsCE 612P.G.(including Pre Phd Course)Spring
Soil Dynamics & Machine FoundationCE 533P.G.(including Pre Phd Course)Autumn
Advanced Numerical MethodsCE 512P.G.(including Pre Phd Course)Autumn
Seepage in Foundations & Earth StructuresCE 534P.G.(including Pre Phd Course)Autumn

PHDs Supervised

TopicScholar NameStatus of PHDRegistration Year
Dynamic Analysis of Rigid Pavements Considering Vehicle-Pavement InteractionVikram Annasaheb PatilA1
Dynamic Response of Pile GroupMr Kiran LadhaneO1
Performance prediction model for bituminous mixesHaider Habeeb AodahO1
Numerical Modelling of LiquefactionSunita KumariO1

Visits to outside institutions

Institute VisitedPurpose of VisitDate
Edith Cowan University, AustraliaPost Doctoral Fellowship30-05-2011
University of Malaysia SarawakTeaching25/6/2003

Courses or Conferences Organised

Conference NameSponsored ByDate
Two day Workshop I-SCAAD 2005University Malaysia Sarawak, a joint venture with AIT Bangkok25-05-2005
Two day Workshop on Structural Steel Design and ApplicationUniversity Malaysia Sarawak and Malaysian Structural Steel Association07-09-2005
Recent Advances in Ground Improvement Techniques, RAGIT-2011IGS Roorkee Chapter24-02-2011

Special Lectures Delivered

TitlePlaceDate
Analysis Of Building Frames With Soil-Structure InteractionKuching, Malaysia28/5/2005
Pile FoundationInstitution of Engineers Roorkee Local Centre 5/7/2007

Refreed Journal Papers

Analysis of Pile Subjected to Cyclic Lateral Loading
By: V A Sawant, D M Dewaikar
Published in: Geotechnical Engineering Journal, South-East Asian Geotechnical Society Vol: 01 (Pg 25-40) Date: 1/4/1999
Response of a Pile to Cyclic Lateral Loads Using Moment Area Method
By: V. A. Sawant, N. B. Amin and D. M. Dewaikar
Published in: Indian Geotechnical Journal Vol: 26 (Pg 353-363) Date: 1/10/1996
Analysis of Pile Groups subjected to Cyclic Lateral Loading
By: V. A. Sawant and D. M. Dewaikar
Published in: Indian Geotechnical Journal Vol: 29 (Pg 199-220) Date: 1/7/1999
Computation of Nγ for a Smooth Footing - Hill Mechanism
By: D. M. Dewaikar, B. G. Mohapatro,V. A. Sawant, and H. S. Chore
Published in: Indian Geotechnical Journal Vol: 37 (Pg 132-142) Date: 1/4/2007
Non-linear 3-D FEA of Laterally Loaded Piles Incorporating No-tension Behaviour of Soil
By: D.M. Dewaikar, S.P. Varghese, V. A. Sawant, and H. S. Chore
Published in: Indian Geotechnical Journal Vol: 37 (Pg 174-189) Date: 1/7/2007
Flexural Stress Analysis of Rigid Pavements Using Axi-symmetric and Plane Strain FEM
By: V. A. Sawant, Norazzlina M Sa’don
Published in: Asean Journal of Science and Technology for Development Vol: 24(4) (Pg 443-451) Date: 01/12/2007
Computation Of Bearing Capacity Factor Nq – Terzaghi And Prandtl Mechanism
By: D.M. Dewaikar, B. G. Mohapatro, V. A. Sawant, H. S. Chore
Published in: Asean Journal of Science and Technology for Development Vol: 25(2) (Pg 227-336) Date: 01/06/2008
Dynamic Analysis Of Building Frame Supported On Pile Foundation
By: V A Sawant, H S Chore
Published in: Journal of Structural Engineering, Chennai, Vol: 35(4) (Pg 255-263) Date: 1/10/2008
Parametric Study of Raft Foundation using FEM
By: G S Kame, V A Sawant
Published in: Journal of Structural Engineering, Chennai Vol: 35(2) (Pg 383-389) Date: 1/12/2008
Stochastic Finite Element Analysis of Pile Using FOSM
By: V A Sawant
Published in: Australian Geomechanics Vol: 44 (Pg 81-90) Date: 1/3/2009
Active Thrust on Bracing System of Open Cuts in Soil
By: D.M. Dewaikar, V. A. Sawant, H. S. Chore, S. A. Halkude
Published in: Indian Geotechnical Journal Vol: 39 (Pg 201-215) Date: 1/4/2009
Study of Piled Raft Foundation using FEM
By: V. A. Sawant, G. S. Kame
Published in: ICFAI University Journal of Structural Engineering Vol: 2 (Pg 35-48) Date: 1/4/2009
Dynamic Analysis of Rigid Pavement with Vehicle-Pavement Interaction
By: V A Sawant
Published in: International Journal of Pavement Engineering Vol: 10(1) (Pg 63-72) Date: 1/2/2009