UK, October 8, 2004
NRI Press
NRI, Radhey S. Sharma, Professor of
Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental
Engineering at Iowa State University has been awarded
the top British award for civil engineering “Telford
Medal”.
He has won the honour for his paper “Coupling
of hydraulic hysteresis and stress-strain behavior
in unsaturated soils”, which presents a new theoretical
framework for understanding and modeling the mechanical
and hydraulic behavior of unsaturated soils.
The new framework is able to explain and model a
number of aspects of the mechanical behavior of unsaturated
soils that could not be represented by existing theoretical
models. This could have important implications for
the analysis and design of a wide variety of geotechnical
works involving unsaturated natural soils or compacted
fills. The authors of the paper are Simon J. Wheeler,
Radhey S. Sharma, and Marc Buisson. The paper was
published in the prestigious journal “Geotechnique”.
Telford Medal:
The Telford Medal was instituted following a bequest
made to the Institution of Civil Engineers, London
by Thomas Telford (1757-1834), first President to
be expanded in the provision of medals and premiums
awarded annually in connection with papers presented
to the Institution in any area of Civil Engineering.
The Telford Medal is the highest award of the Institution.
It may also be awarded to an Author who has contributed
an outstanding series of papers, irrespective of any
previous recognition by the Institution in connection
therewith. It may be withheld in any year if a paper
of sufficient merit is not available.
Experience
2002 to 2003, Visiting Professor, Bucknell University
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
1998 to 2003, University Lecturer (~U.S. Associate
Professor, tenured in 2001), University of Bradford
Bradford, England
1994 to 1998, Research Assistant, University of Oxford
Oxford, England
1988 to 1994, Environmental Engineer, Central Pollution
Control Board
Delhi, India
1984 to 1988, Civil Engineer, UP JAL Nigam
India
Education
Ph.D., 1998, Geotechnical Engineering, University
of Oxford, Oxford, England
M.S., 1994, Soil Mechanics and Environmental Geotechnics,
Imperial College--London, London, England
D.I.C., 1994, Soil Mechanics and Environmental Geotechnics,
Imperial College--London, London, England
M Tech, 1984, Rock Mechanics, Indian Institiute of
Technology, New Delhi, India
B.S., 1983, Civil Engineering, AMU, Aligarh, India
Research Interests:
Unsaturated soils, including compacted soils: fundamental
studies and field applications
Applications of unsaturated soils to geo-infrastructure
including pavements, foundations, embankments, and
slopes.
Problematic soils such as expansive and collapsible
soils.
Laboratory, in situ, and field testing of saturated/unsaturated
soils.
Ground improvement techniques.
Liquefaction of soils and tailings.
Buried systems, especially influence of soil-pipe
interaction on the performance of such systems.
Geoenvironmental engineering involving containment
systems such landfill liners, covers, and vertical
barriers.
Fate and transport of contaminants in saturated and
unsaturated soils.
Applications of numerical techniques in Geotechnical
and Geoenvironmental Engineering.
