Education
- B.S in Mining Engineering, Mining Engineering , Nagpur University
- M.S in Mining Engineering, Department of Mining Engineering , Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-ISM)
- PhD in Mining Engineering, Department of Mining Engineering, West Virginia University
Research Summary
My research interests are in rock mechanics, geomechanics, strata control in coal mines, ground behavior in hard rock mechanics, creep of coal measures rocks etc. My research philosophy is to use analytical, experimental and numerical techniques to understand the complex behavior of rock
Biography
After my PhD, I joined RESPEC as a geomechanical engineer and consulted on various projects related to time-dependent behavior of salt. With a brief stint as an assistant professor at South Dakota School of Mines, I joined West Virginia University in 2009 as a tenure track assistant professor. I received my tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2015. I was also appointed to the Syd and Peng Endowed Professor in 2018. I joined the University of Utah as an Associate Professor in 2022.
My research interests are in rock mechanics, geomechanics, strata control in coal mines, ground behavior in hard rock mechanics, creep of coal measures rocks etc. I have worked on varied research projects that have encompassed some of the fundamental rock mechanics problems to applied rock mechanics such as pillar recovery in deep coal mines. I have also been involved in high pressure and high temperature behavior of deep petroleum reserves. With support of my graduate students in the past, we developed time-dependent relaxation constitutive models, micromechanical behavior of shale, stochastic models to predict erratic roof failure in coal mines. My research philosophy is to use analytical, experimental and numerical techniques to understand the complex rock mechanics issues.