Civil Engineering Department

High speed Rail Rracks and Highways
Tailing Dam, Ash Dyke Raising, Deep foundation, Foundation on Geosynthetics, Soil Nailing
Ground Improvement, Soil Dynamics, Foundation Designs, Underground Constructions

High speed Rail Rracks and Highways

Tailing Dam, Ash Dyke Raising, Deep foundation, Foundation on Geosynthetics, Soil Nailing

Ground Improvement, Soil Dynamics, Foundation Designs, Underground Constructions

Award	Awarding Organisation	Year
Best Paper Award	(ICCSTE 2023) in Ottawa, Canada	2023
Appointed as 'Expert Consultant'	Govt. of Odisha for their Kalinga-Ghat project in Odisha State	2023
Springer Nature Best Paper Award	IGC, IIT Roorkee	2023
Award for Teachers with highest potential (2022)	Dubai University	2022
International Academic Achiever Award – 2020-22	International Award Committee	2022
Appointed as 'Associate Editor'	International Journal of Geosynthetics and Ground Engineering (published by Springer Nature)0 for 3 years (2022-2025)	2022
"Eminent Author Award" for book on 'Ground Improvement Engineering'	The Institute of Engineers, India	2021
IEI BLC-FCRIT Excellence Award	The Institute of Engineers (India), Belapur Local Centre and Fr. C. Rodrigues Institute of Technology, Vashi	2021
Dedicated Teaching Profession National Award 2020	Kamarajar Institute of Education and Research (KIER)	2020
Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Samman (Award) for special contribution in technical field	National Union of Journalism, Haridwar, India	2019
Best Citizens of India Award	International Publishing House, New Delhi	2019
Outstanding Engineer Award for Research & Field Applications	The Institution of Engineers, Roorkee	2018
Uttarakhand Govt. Best Engineer Award	The Institution of Engineers, Dehradun	2015
IGS -Resham Singh Award	Indian Geotechnical Society, New Delhi	2013
IGS Indra Joshi Best Technical paper Award	Indian Geotechnical Society, New Delhi	2012
ISTE National Award	ISTE	2004
ISCMS Tata Steel Award	ISCMS	2002

From	To	Designation	Organisation
2018	2020	Coordinator	Geotechnical Engineering Group, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
2000	2001	Warden	Jawahar Bhawan, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
1998	2001	Staff Adviser	Cultural Society, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
1996	2000	Dy. Officer-In-charge	Dairy, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

Degree	Subject	University	Year
Ph.D.	Civil Engineering (Geotechnical Engineering)	University of Roorkee, Roorkee	1998
M.E.	Earthquake Engineering	University of Roorkee, Roorkee	1986
B.E.	Civil Engineering	University of Allahabad, Allahabad	1980

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1.

Mittal, S. and Xialei, C. (1996). Improvisation of plant load factor of small hydro power stations. Journal on Water & Energy International.

2.

Mittal, S. (2005). Housing construction on inclined cuts. Asian Journal of Civil Engineering.

3.

Mittal, S. (2006). Soil nailing application in erosion control- an experimental study. Journal of Geotechnical and Geological Engineering. DOI: 10.1007/s10706-005-2577-9

4.

Mittal, S., Garg, K.G. and Saran, S. (2006). Analysis and design of retaining wall having reinforced frictional backfill. Journal of Geotechnical and Geological Engineering. DOI: 10.1007/s10706-004-5153-9

5.

Mittal, S. and Biswas, A.K. (2006). River Bank Erosion Control by Soil nailing. Journal of Geotechnical and Geological Engineering. DOI: 10.1007/s10706-006-7127-6

6.

Chauhan, M.S., Mittal, S. and Mohanty, B. (2008). Performance Evaluation of Silty Sand Subgrade Reinforced with Fly ash and Fibre. Geotextiles and Geomembranes . DOI: 10.1016/j.geotexmem.2008.02.001

7.

Kumari, S., Israil, M., Mittal, S. and Rai, J. (2009). Soil Characterization using electrical resistivity tomography and geotechnical investigations. Journal of Applied Geophysics. DOI: 10.1016/j.jappgeo.2008.09.012

8.

Mittal, S., Singh, K. and Mathur, S. (2009). Behaviour of vertical cuts using soil nailing techniques in saturated conditions. South Asian Geotechnical Engineering Journal.

9.

Mittal S, Shah, M.Y. and Verma, N. (2009). Experimental study on footing on reinforced earth slopes. International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering. DOI: 10.3328/IJGE.2009.03.02.251-260

10.

Gosavi, M., Saran, S. and Mittal, S. (2009). Pseudostatic analysis of soil nailed excavations. Journal of Geotechnical & Geological Engineering. DOI: 10.1007/s10706-009-9258-z

11.

Mittal, S, Ganjoo, B. and Shekhar, S. (2010). Static equilibrium of screw anchor pile under lateral load in sands. Journal of Geotechnical & Geological Engineering. DOI: 10.1007/s10706-010-9342-4

12.

Bhattacharjee, A., Mittal, S. and Krishna, M. A. (2011). Bearing capacity improvement of square footing by micropiles. International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering. DOI: 10.3328/IJGE.2011.05.01.113-118

13.

Mittal, S. and Meyase, K. (2012). Study for improvement of grounds subjected to cyclic loads. Geomechanics & Engineering. DOI: 10.12989/gae.2012.4.3.191

14.

Mittal, Satyendra and Chauhan, R. (2013). Liquefaction Behavior of Reinforced Saturated Sand under Dynamic conditions. International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering. DOI: 10.1179/1938636212Z.0000000008

15.

Mittal, Satyendra, Mukherjee, Sanjeev (2015). Behaviour of Group of Helical Screw Anchors under Compressive Loads . Geotechnical and Geological Engineering. DOI: 10.1007/s10706-015-9841-4

16.

Biswas, S. and Mittal, S. (2017). Square footing on Geocell reinforced Cohesionless soils. Geomechincs and Engg., Technopress Korea. DOI: 10.12989/gae.2017.13.4.641

17.

Singh, A. K. and Mittal, S. (2017). Analysis of Reinforced Unpaved Roads by Modified Structural Number Method. International Journal of Geosynthetics and Ground Engineering, Springer. DOI: 10.1007/s40891-017-0115-5

18.

Singh, K., Mittal, S. and Kumar, K. (2018). Reduction in Lateral Displacement of Cohesionless Soil at Box Tunnel Face Using Nails in Overburden. International Journal of Geosynthetics and Ground Engineering, Springer. DOI: 10.1007/s40891-018-0138-6

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Singh, P. and Mittal, S. (2018). Finite Element Slope Stability Analyses of A SDA Anchored Stabilized Slope in the Himalayian Region of India. Indian Sociaty of Earthquake Technology (ISET).

20.

Mittal, R. K., Mittal, S., and Saran S. (2019). Pressure Settlement Characteristics of Strip Footing Resting on Fiber Reinforced Soil Using Constitutive Law. International Journal of Geosynthetics and Ground Engineering. DOI: 10.1007/s40891-019-0165-y

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Pandey, N. and Mittal, S. (2019). A Study on the effect of Micropiles on load capacity of pile foundation in a cohesionless soil. Indian Journal of Geosynthetics and ground improvement. Volume: 8 Number: 1 Pages: 9-Jan

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1. Title:- Stability Studies of Reinforced Earth Retaining wall using geoynthetics on micro hydel project
Sponsor: Council of Science & Technology UP	Sanctioned Year: 1996-97	Amount: ₹ 4.78 Lakhs	Role: PI

2. Title:- Optimum Designs of SHP structures for sub zero temperature areas by Model Studies
Sponsor: U.G.C., New Delhi	Sanctioned Year: 2001-02	Amount: ₹ 3.85 Lakhs	Role: PI

3. Title:- Landslide Control Through Soil Nailing
Sponsor: The Institute of Engineers (India), Kolkata	Sanctioned Year: 2006-07	Amount: ₹ 2.95 Lakhs	Role: PI

4. Title:- Design of Formation for speed Higher than 160 Kmph and Up to 250 Kmph.
Sponsor: RDSO, Lucknow	Sanctioned Year: 2016-17	Amount: ₹ 20.20 Lakhs	Role: PI

Designation	Organisation	From Period	To Period
Dy. Officer-In-charge	IIT Dairy	1996	2000
Staff Adviser	Cultural Society, IIT Roorkee	1998	2001
Warden	Jawahar Bhawan, IIT Roorkee	2000	2001
Coordinator	Geotechnical Engineering Group, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Roorkee	2018	2020

S. No.	Membership
1.	Indian Geotechnical Society, National Executive Committee Member
2.	The Institution of Engineers, Life Member
3.	Indian Society of Earthquake Technology, Life Member - Editor ISET Journal of Earthquake Technology
4.	Indian Water Resources Society, Life Member
5.	Indian Society of Technical Education, Life Member
6.	International Society of Soil Mechanics & Geotechnical Engineering , Life Member
7.	Building Construction Committee, Uttarakhand Sanskrit University, Haridwar (2022)

1.

Mittal, S. and Shukla, J. P. (2013). Soil Testing for Engineers . 9788174090652 Khanna Publishers

2.

Mittal, S. (2013). An Introduction to Ground Improvement Engineering. 9789381714362 Medtech

3.

Mittal, S. (2016). Biography of Sir M. Visvesarayya.

4.

Mittal, S. (2017). Pile Foundation Design and Construction. 9789386478375 CBS Publishers & DIstributors Pvt Ltd

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S. No.	Project Title	Student Name	Degree	Year
1.	Optimum Design of Small Hydro Power Stations for Hilly Areas with Particular Reference to Manipur State	N. D. Singh	PG	1998
2.	Software for SHP Management	H. Goyal	PG	1999
3.	Integrated energy approach for making SHP economically viable	C. P. Singh	PG	1999
4.	New materials for SHP	P. K. Bhaskar	PG	1999
5.	Water Power studies and hydrological investigations	Brijesh Kumar	PG	2000
6.	Socio economic and electrical load survey of Sat-Ti mini hydro Project	Sarsing Gao	PG	2000
7.	Global Energy Scenario with respect to SHP development	Nidhi Soti	PG	2000
8.	Optimum Design of Penstock for A High Head Scheme	Tarun Singh	PG	2000
9.	Use of Reinforced Earth Techniques in River Valley Projects	Sima Ghosh	PG	2001
10.	Design of Machine Foundation for Turbo Generating Unit for Bansagar Tons Hydel Project	N. P. Mehta	PG	2001
11.	Innovative Techniques for Planning & Management of a SHP Project	Bhavesh Agarwal	PG	2001
12.	Computer Aided Design of Civil Structures of Small Hydro Power Project	Amol Verma	PG	2001
13.	Behaviour of Reinforced Earth Embankments	B. Seetha Ram	PG	2001
14.	Pullout capacity of straight shafted piles	A. K. Verma	PG	2002
15.	Behaviour of Reinforced Earth Embankments	B. Seetha Ram	PG	2002
16.	Improvement in behaviour of black cotton soil by jute reinforcement	Binod Kumar	PG	2004
17.	Study of river bank Erosion control by soil nailing and geosynthetics	A. K. Biswas	PG	2004
18.	Design aspects of shallow foundations in layered soils	G. V. Kishore Kumar	PG	2005
19.	Behaviour of natural vertical cuts by soil nailing techniques	Kanwar Singh	PG	2006
20.	Application of fibers in road pavements	B. N. Mohanty	PG	2006
21.	Behaviour of soil with micro piles	Arup Bhattacharya	PG	2006
22.	Behaviour of composite soil made of waste material and cement	N. Muni Kumar	PG	2006
23.	Analysis of an inclined nailed cut with inclined surcharge, work in progress	M. Sai Sasidhar	PG	2007
24.	Performance study of anchor piles in load tests (Pull out and lateral) work in progress	Rohit Malik	PG	2007
25.	Behaviour of shallow footings on reinforced earth slopes	Naveen K. Verma	PG	2007
26.	Response to Pile-raft-geogrid foundation	P. Sateesh Kumar	PG	2008
27.	Behavour of Granular piles with and without confinement	Abhishek Gupta	PG	2009
28.	Ground anchor pile system for resisting uplift forces	Kenisevi Meyase	PG	2010
29.	Behaviour of Geocell Reinforced slopes under Dynamic conditions	Mayank Vyas	PG	2012
30.	Study of Behaviour of Geocell in Ground Improvement	Sefali Biswas	PG	2012
31.	Study of Improvement of Subgrades by Geosynthetics and Soil Stabilizers	Kannan V	PG	2012
32.	Study of Behaviour of Footing on soil slopes with internal and external reinforcement	T. Sannith Kumar	PG	2012
33.	Hybrid reinforced earth walls	Major Chetan Tiwari	PG	2014
34.	Behaviour of axially loaded square footing with inclined micropiles	Rohit Verma	PG	2014
35.	Development of ash dykes with respect to ill effects of leachate problems due to fly ash	Ashwini Ahari	PG	2014
36.	Behaviour of Geotextile Filter in Earth Embankment	Anamika	PG	2015
37.	Mechanical Behaviour of Gabion Walls under Shear and Compressive Loads	Ankit Kachal	PG	2015
38.	Stability Study of Ash Dykes Through Stone Column	Sadashiv Chouhan	PG	2015
39.	Soil Stabilization Through Additives For Quick Road Construction	Sunil Kumar	PG	2015
40.	A Study For Raising of Ash Dykes by Ground Improvement and Passive Supports	Disha Joshi	PG	2016
41.	Application of Geosynthetics in Design of Road Cross Sections Over Cohesionless Subgrades	Avinash Kumar Singh	PG	2017
42.	Behaviour of Clayey Soils With Admixtures	Matiyas Yenew	PG	2017
43.	Elastic Settlement in Sand For Various Structures of Nuclear Power Plant	Naman Gupta	PG	2018
44.	Rail Track Formations For Higher Axle Loads And Speeds	Pankaj Singhal	PG	2018
45.	Analysis Of Instrumented Piles	Anshul Gautam	PG	2018
46.	Effect of Micropiles On Bearing Capacity of Pile Foundation in (2018) Cohesionless Soils	Nitesh Pandey	PG	2018

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S. No.	Topic	Scholar Name	Registration Year	Co-Supervisor
1.	Soft computing Techniques for Reinforced earth beds	Sonam Ladol	2020
2.	Behavior of well foundations in liquefiable soils under dynamic loads.	Ragini Vishwakarma	2021	Prof. Viswas A. Sawant,
3.	Flexible pavements with Geosynthetics on Problematic soils	Rashi Singh	2021	Prof. Nikhil Saboo,
4.	Geotechnical Properties of Fine Fraction of mined legacy waste	Pradyumna Konar	2021	Prof. Absar Ahmad Kazmi,

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S. No.	Topic	Scholar Name	Status	Awarded Year
1.	Behaviour of Nailed Vertical Cuts	Mrs. Meenal Gosavi	Awarded	2006
2.	Behaviour of Randomly distributed fiber-reinforced sand in shallow foundations	Ravikant Mittal	Awarded	2007
3.	Behaviour of shallow footings on reinforced earth slopes	Mohd. Yusuf Shah	Awarded	2009
4.	Liquefaction behavior of reinforced earth soils	Rajeev Chauhan	Awarded	2012
5.	Behavior of Anchors In Soils	Sanjeev Mukherjee	Awarded	2015
6.	Behavior of Anchors Under Different Loading Conditions in Soils	Pratibha Singh	Awarded	2019
7.	Stabilization Of Soil By Nailing For Underpass Construction Under Live Loads	Kanwar Singh	Awarded	2019
8.	Study of formations for high-speed trains	Anoop Bhardwaj	Awarded	2022
9.	Analytical and Numerical Modeling of Backfill Soil to Estimate Static and Seismic Earth Pressures.	Godas Srikar	Awarded	2022
10.	Stabilisation of Problematic clay soil with admixtures.	Bisrat Gissila Gidday	Awarded	2022
11.	Experimental And Numerical Investigations Of Liquefication Based Failure Of Stratified Soil	Arpit Jain	Awarded	2023
12.	Pseudo dynamic Analysis of reinforced Soil walls	Ashutosh Verma	Awarded	2024

S. No.	Course Name	Course Code	Class Name	Semester & Year
1.	Ground Improvement Engineering	CE-625	M.Tech	Spring
2.	Introduction to Civil Engineering	CEN-101	B. Tech.	Autumn Semester 2020-21
3.	Soil Mechanics	CEN-303	B. Tech.	Autumn Semester 2020-21
4.	Soil Mechanics	CEN-303	B. Tech.	Autumn Semester 2023-24
5.	Soil Dynamics and Machine Foundations	CEN-524	M. Tech.	Autumn Semester 2023-24

S. No.	Visiting Institute	Purpose of Visit	Start Date	End Date
1.	University of Carleton Ottawa, Canada	Attended 8th International conference on Civil, Structural and Transportation Engineering (ICCSTE'23)	04/Jun/2023	06/Jun/2023

S. No.	Title	Organisation	Date
1.	Hill Slope Erosion due to River Meandering and its Retrofitting - A Case Study	8th International conference on Civil, Structural and Transportation Engineering (ICCSTE'23) in University of Carleton Ottawa, Canada	04-Jun-2023
2.	SOIL CAN BE DICTATED	12th Prafulla Kumar Annual Lecture, IGS Kochi Chapter	14-Oct-2023
3.	Eco-Friendly and Sustainable Approaches for Landslide and Land Subsidence Management in Hilly Regions	37th National Convention of Environmental Engineers, Shimla	26-Oct-2023

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1.

Mittal, S., Jain, A., Das, S. and Chakraborty, A. (2019). Cyclic Triaxial Test to Measure Strain-Dependent Dynamic Properties- A Comprehensive Study. IGC Surat. Place: Surat, India

2.

Gissila, G. B. and Mittal, S. (2020). Modeling the Response of Wrap-faced Reinforced Lime Treated Soil Retaining Walls under Static Condition. International Conference on Geotechnical Engineering. Place: Iraq

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Kaushik, B., Saptarshi, N., Abhipriya, H., Mittal, S. and Sivakumar, G. L. B. (2020). Prediction of settlement of high court building, kolkata using flat dilatometer- a case study. 6th International Conference on Geotechnical and Geophysical Site Characterization. Place: Hungary, Budapest

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