Prof. Sumanta Haldar Professor, HoS
School of Infrastructure

Research Interests

Offshore Geotechnics; Soil-Structure Interaction; Railway Geotechnics; Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering; Dynamics of Soil and Foundation

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Contact Details

  • 101, School of Infrastructure, IIT Bhubaneswar
  • 674-713-6636
  • sumanta@iitbbs.ac.in, sumanta.haldar@gmail.com

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Education

 Degree Discipline Year School
  Ph.D. Civil Engineering (Geotechnical Engg.) 2008 Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
  B.E. Civil Engineering 2000 Jadavpur University
 

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Teaching

Soil Mechanics; Soil Mechanics Laboratory; Dynamics of Soil and Foundation; Computer Aided Design Laboratory, Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Foundation Engineering

 

Author(s) Recent Publication (International Journals)
S Bisoi, S Haldar (2017)
S Bisoi, S Haldar (2017)
S Bisoi, S Haldar (2017)
B. Das, R. Saha, and S. Haldar (2016)
S. Haldar, D. Basu (2016)
S. Bisoi, S. Haldar (2015)
R. Saha, S. Haldar, S.C. Dutta (2015)
R. Saha, S.C. Dutta, S. Haldar (2015)
R. Saha, S.C. Dutta, S. Haldar (2015)
S. Bisoi, S. Haldar (2014)
S.C. Dutta, R. Saha, S. Haldar (2014)
S. Haldar, D. Basu (2013)
Haldar, S. and G.L.S., Babu (2012).
Haldar, S. and G.L.S., Babu (2010).
Srivastava, A. G.L.S., Babu and Haldar, S. (2010).
Haldar, S. and G.L.S., Babu (2009).
Haldar, S. and G.L.S., Babu (2009).
Haldar, S. and G.L.S., Babu (2009).
Haldar, S. and G.L.S., Babu (2008).
Haldar, S. and G.L.S., Babu (2008).
Haldar, S., G.L.S., Babu and Bhattacharya, S. (2008).
G.L.S., Babu, Vasudevan, A. K. and Haldar, S. (2008).
Haldar, S. and G.L.S., Babu (2008).
Haldar, S. and G.L.S., Babu (2007).
Recent Publication (International Conferences) Author(s)/Speaker(s)
Effect of Climate Change on the Reliability of Offshore Wind Turbine Foundations. Geotechnical Special Publication (ASCE). Proceedings of Geo-Chicago 2016, Chicago, 407-417.
Haldar, S. and Basu, D. (2016).
Appraisal of the In Situ Variability and Modeling Uncertainty of Dynamic Soil-Piled Raft-Structure Interaction on Seismic Response: A Probabilistic Approach. Geotechnical Special Publications (ASCE). Proceedings of Geo-Chicago 2016, Chicago, 621-630.
Saha, R., Pal, A., and Haldar, S. (2016).
Behavior of Monopile Supported Offshore Wind Turbines in Clay due to Long term Dynamic Loads. In Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Forensic Geotechnical Engineering, Dec 8 to 10, 2016, IISc Bangalore, Pg. 256 – 263.
Bisoi, S and Haldar, S. (2016).
Reliability Based Design of Pile Foundations. In Proceedings of Indian Geotechnical Conference IGC2016 15-17 December 2016, IIT Madras, Chennai, India
Haldar, S. (2016).
Probabilistic Seismic Design of Soil-Pile Foundation-Structure System. In Proceedings of Indian Geotechnical Conference IGC2016 15-17 December 2016, IIT Madras, Chennai, India.
Chanda, D., Saha, R., and Haldar, S. (2016)
Effect of climate change on dynamic behavior of monopile supported offshore wind turbine structure. Japanese Geotechnical Society Special Publication Vol. 2, No. 33 p. 1189-1193
S. Bisoi and S. Haldar (2015)
"Beam on spatially random elastic foundation." Proceedings of Georisk 2011: Risk assessment and management, Geotechnical Special Publication (GSP224), ASCE, Atlanta, Georgia, 1157-1164.
Haldar, S., and Basu, D. (2011).
"Response of Strip Foundation on Spatially Random Elastic Foundation under Variable Column Loads." Proceedings of Geo-Congress 2012: State of the Art and Practice in Geotechnical Engineering, Geotechnical Special Publication (GSP225), ASCE, Oakland, California, 2806-2815.
Haldar, S., and Basu, D. (2012).
"Analysis of Failure Mechanisms of Piles in Liquefied Soil." In joint Proc. of the International Symposium on Forensic Approach to Analysis of Geohazard Problems, Bombay, India (CD ROM).
Haldar, S. and G.L.S., Babu (2010).
"Seismic Response of Soil-Pile Foundation-Structure System." In Proc. of Indian Geotechnical Conference, Geotrendz, Bombay, India, 143-146 (CD ROM)
Saha, R., Haldar, S. and Dutta, S.C. (2010)
"Reliability Based Design of Slopes under Seismic Load: Load Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) Approach." In Proc. of Indian Geotechnical Conference, Geotrendz, Bombay, India, 1049-1052 (CD ROM).
Haldar, S. (2010).
"Response characteristics and failure mechanisms of pile foundations in liquefiable soil." In joint Proc. of the 7th International Conference on Urban Earthquake Engineering (7CUEE) & 5th International Conference on Earthquake Engineering (5ICEE), Tokyo, Japan, 499-506 (CD ROM).
Haldar, S. and G.L.S., Babu (2010).
"Reliability based design of laterally loaded pile: load resistance factor design (LRFD) approach." In Proc. of the Indian Geotechnical Conference (GEOAGE), Bangalore, India, 538-542.
Haldar, S. and G.L.S., Babu (2008).
"Probabilistic Approach of Design of Pile Foundations in Non-Liquefiable Soils under Seismic Loading," In Proc. of 12th International Conference of International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG), Goa, India (CD ROM).
Haldar, S., G.L.S., Babu and Bhattacharya, S. (2008).
"Simulation of randomly oriented coir fiber reinforced soil with FLAC3D" In Proc. of the 1st Intl. FLAC/DEM Symposium on Numerical Modeling, Minneapolis, MN USA (CD ROM).
Haldar, S., Vasudevan, A. K. and G.L.S., Babu (2008).
 

Academic Honors & Awards

  • IGS–ONGC Biennial Award received from the Indian Geotechnical Society for the paper "Effect of climate change on dynamic behavior of monopile supported offshore wind turbine structure" by S. Bisoi and S. Haldar published in the Proceedings of 15th ARC-2015, Japan.
  • Excellent Paper Award received from the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG) for the paper "Failure mechanisms of pile foundations in liquefiable soil: A parametric study." by Haldar, S. and G. L. S. Babu published in International Journal of Geomechanics, ASCE, 2010.
  • Prof. Leonard’s best Ph.D. thesis award for 2008 & 2009 among all institutes in India from Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS), New Delhi, India.
  • Government of India scholarship for pursuing doctoral program at IISc. Bangalore.
  • National Merit Scholarship in (10+2) Standard Examination by Government of India..
 

Research Scholar

Rajib Saha (Completed), Swagata Bisoi (Completed), Sangeet Patra, Pavan Kumar, Pawan K. Chamling, Dipanjan Dutta
 

Book Chapters

1. Bisoi, S. and Haldar, S. (2017). Sustainable design of monopile-supported offshore wind turbine considering climate change. Geoenvironmental practices and sustainability: linkages and directions. Edited by Babu, G.L.S., Reddy, K.R., De, A. and Datta, M. Springer Nature Singapore, pp. 129-139.
 
2. Haldar, S. and Basu, D. (2017). Importance of Non-stationarity in Sustainability and Resilience of Geo-Infrastructure. Geoenvironmental practices and sustainability: linkages and directions. Edited by Babu, G.L.S., Reddy, K.R., De, A. and Datta, M. Springer Nature Singapore, pp. 151-157.
 
3. Saha, R., Diptesh C., and Haldar, S. (2017). Reliability-Based Sustainable Design of Piled Raft-Supported Structure. Geoenvironmental practices and sustainability: linkages and directions. Edited by Babu, G.L.S., Reddy, K.R., De, A. and Datta, M. Springer Nature Singapore, pp. 159-166.
 
4. Haldar, S., Babu, G.L.S., and Bhattacharya, S. (2007). Buckling and bending of slender piles in liquefiable soils during earthquakes: A probabilistic analysis. National Information Centre of Earthquake Engineering (NICEE).
 

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