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.