Faculty
CIVIL ENGINEERING
Dr. Akhila M
Associate Professor
Specialisation:Geotechnical Engineering
Room:AC II – Room No: 304
Educational Qualifications
- B.Tech (Civil Engineering) – Govt. Engineering College, Thrissur
- M.Tech (Environmental Geotechnology) – NIT Calicut
- PhD (Geotechnical Engineering) – NIT Calicut
Employment History
- Joined SCMS School of Engineering and Technology on 01-08-2019
- 4.5 years of research experience in NIT Calicut (Oct 2014 – May 2019)
- 1.5 years of teaching experience in Thejus Engineering College, Thrissur (June 2013 – Oct 2014)
Key Responsibilities Held
Responsibilities Held
- Chairman to KTU Centralised Valuation Camp (C-17) for subjects Basics of Civil Engineering and Introduction to Civil Engineering during 2015-16 academic year.
- A member of Question paper panel of KTU for the first semester B Tech Degree Examination (January 2016)
- A member of Organising committee 3rd (19/10/2015) and 2nd (06/10/2014) Indian-German Water Partnership Day
- Class Co-ordinator for different batches from 2005-2006 academic year
- Currently Class Advisor for Batch 15 (2015 Admission) from July 2015.
- In Charge of M Tech Environmental Engineering during 2013-2014 (Batch 1)
- A member of Syllabus Revision Committee for M G University M Tech (2013 Revision)
- Joint Organising Secretary: International Conference on Innovations in Civil Engineering (ICICE’14, ICICE’13) [Conferences organised by Department of Civil Engineering, SSET]
- A member of the team visited Germany under MOU signed between SCMS & University of Applied Sciences, Weingarten, German University (2013)
- Joint Organising Secretary: National Conference on Innovations in Civil Engineering (NCICE’12) [Conference organised by Department of Civil Engineering,SSET]
Present Responsibilities
- Faculty Advisor of Batch 15 (2015 – 2019)
- Faculty In – charge of Environmental Engineering Lab from June 2005
- A member of SCMS Water Institute, Cochin
- A member of Student’s Grievances and Retrocel committee of SSET.
- A Chairperson of Student’s Grievances and Redressal committee of SSET.
- Organizing committee member PPTIA’16
Teaching Interests
- Geotechnical Engineering
- Ground Improvement
- Environmental Engineering
- Computational Methods
- Engineering Mechanics
- Surveying
Research Interests
- Soil dynamics
- Seismic microzonation
- Ground improvement
- Modelling of soil behaviour
Publications
- Akhila M, Rangaswamy K and Sankar N: Pertinent approach to cyclic triaxial testing, Electronic Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, Vol 23(4), 2018, pp 757-766.
- Akhila M, Rangaswamy K and Sankar N: Undrained response and liquefaction susceptibility of silty sands, International Journal of Geotechnical and Geological Engineering – Springer, 2018, DOI: 10.1007/s10706-018-00790-0 [Scopus and ESCI Indexed].
- Akhila M, Rangaswamy K and Sankar N: Effect of non-plastic fines on undrained response of fine sand. International Journal of Geomate, Vol 16, Issue 54, 2019, pp 170-175 [Scopus and ESCI Indexed].
- Akhila M, Rangaswamy K and Sankar N: Liquefaction susceptibility of silty sands based on steady state line concept. Journal of Geotechnical Studies, Vol 4, Issue 1, 2019, pp 32-50.
- Akhila M, Rangaswamy K and Sankar N: Liquefaction susceptibility of Central Kerala. Springer Nature Applied Science Journal, 2019, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-019-0576-3 [ESCI Indexed].
- Akhila M, Rangaswamy K and Sankar N: Liquefaction susceptibility of non-plastic silty sands using hypoplastic model simulations. International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, Taylor and Francis, DOI: 10.1080/19386362.2019.1655996 [Scopus and ESCI Indexed].
- Akhila M, Rangaswamy K and Sankar N: Liquefaction susceptibility of silty sand and low-plastic clayey soils. International Journal of Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Vol 10, Issue 2 and Article 1, 2019 [Scopus and ESCI indexed].
International Conferences
- Akhila M, Rangaswamy K and Sankar N: Liquefaction Susceptibility of Silty Sands based on Critical State Line Concept. International Geotechnical Engineering Conference on Sustainability in Geotechnical Engineering Practices and Related Urban Issues, September 23-24, 2016, Mumbai, India
- Akhila M, Rangaswamy K and Sankar N: Effect of Non-plastic Fines on Liquefaction Susceptibility of Fine Sands. 7th International Conference on Deep Foundation Technologies for Infrastructure Development in India, IIT Madras, 2017.
- Akhila M, Rangaswamy K and Sankar N: Liquefaction susceptibility of dam foundation soil’, International Dam safety conference, Thiruvananthapuram, 2018.
- Akhila M, Rangaswamy K and Sankar N: Development of critical state line from hypoplastic model simulations on triaxial strength of silty sand, Proceedings of Emerging Trends in Engineering, Science and Technology for Society, Energy and Environment, Publisher – Taylor and Francis, 2018, ISBN 978-0-8153-5760-5 (Scopus indexed proceedings)
- Akhila M, Rangaswamy K and Sankar N: Undrained response of silty sands under static and cyclic loading, Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference – Geomate 2018 Geotechnique, Construction Materials And Environment, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 20-22 November 2018, Publisher – The Geomate International Society, ISBN 978-4-909106001 C3051 (Scopus indexed proceedings)
- Akhila M, Rangaswamy K and Sankar N: Numerical study on the undrained response of silty sands under static triaxial loading, Proceedings of IACMAG Symposium, IIT Gandhinagar, 2019, Publisher – Springer (Accepted, scopus indexed proceedings).
- Akhila M, Rangaswamy K and Sankar N: Liquefaction case histories: A review, Proceedings of International conference on High speed corridors, Trivandrum, 2019.
National Conferences
- Akhila M and Rangaswamy K: Study on behavior of piled raft foundation under seismic loads, Proceedings of 4IYGEC, IIT Madras, 2013
- Akhila M and Rangaswamy K: Piled raft foundation under seismic loads, Proceedings of TISI, NIT Calicut, 2015
- Jithesh P C, Akhila M, Rangaswamy K and Sankar N: Numerical study on cyclic loading effects on the undrained response of silty sand, Proceedings of Indian Geotechnical Conference, IISc Banglore, 2018, Publisher – Springer(accepted)
- Akhila M, Rangaswamy K and Sankar N: Liquefaction mitigation by preloading – an experimental study. Proceedings of 16th Symposium on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, Roorkee, 2018.
- Akhila M, Rangaswamy K and Sankar N: Liquefaction criteria for silts and low-plastic clays: A review, Proceedings of Conference of the Kerala state Technological Congress, Government Engineering College Thrissur, 2019.
Professional Activities
Professional and Consulting Activities
- Chaired a session in the Eighth International Conference – Geomate 2018 Geotechnique, Construction Materials and Environment, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 20-22 November 2018
- Reviewer of International Journal of Civil Engineering (Springer) and European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering (Taylor and Francis)
Membership in Professional Societies
- Life member of ISTE (LM 97038)
- Life member of Indian Geotechnical Society (LM 4269)
- Associate Member of Institution of Engineers – India (AM 1775610)
Technical programs attended
- Coir Geotextiles and their uses in Rural Roads, NIT Calicut, 27-02-2012
- Design Aspects and Soil Exploration of High Rise Structures, Govt. Engineering College, Thrissur, 25-09-2013 to 27-09-2013
- Research Writing (Technical and Language aspects), NIT Calicut, 28-02-2016
- Finite Element Method and its applications in Structural Engineering and Hydraulics, NIT Calicut, 04-07-2016 to 10-07-2016
- Research Writing (Technical and Language aspects), NIT Calicut, 11-02-2017
- Workshop on Repair and Rehabilitation of RCC Structures, NIT Calicut, 23-08-2017
- Rural roads – Material testing & quality control, NIT Calicut, 10-01-2018 to 12-01-2018
- National Information system for Climate and Environmental studies Data Products, NIT Calicut, 26-02-2018
- Intellectual Property Rights and Patents, NIT Calicut, 16-03-2018 to 17-03-2018
- Design Geogrids and Geocells, NIT Calicut, 18-07-2018 to 19-07-2018
- Mathematics and its Engineering Applications, NIT Calicut, 26-10-2018
- Ground Properties Characterization using In Situ Testing, IISc Bengaluru, 26-04-2019 to 27-04-2019
Online participation
- Risk: A Rational Discussion – DFI – 25-10-2017
- Risk: A Rational Discussion (Part II) – DFI – 08-03-2018
- Effective Engineering Teaching in Practise (4 weeks) – NPTEL – Feb – April 2018
- Geotechnical, Contractual and Communication Risk – DFI – 06-06-2018
- How induced Earthquakes are making us rethink the challenges of Earthquake Engineering? – EERI – 17-09-2018
- Introduction to Research (8 weeks) – NPTEL – Aug – Oct 2018
- Performance based design – Panel discussion – DFI – 26-10-2018
- Outcome-based pedagogic principles for effective teaching (4 weeks) – NPTEL – Aug – Oct 2018
- Case Studies of Financial Decision Making Using Near Real-time Post-Earthquake Information – EERI – 30-01-2019
- Anchorage, Alaska Earthquake Reconnaissance Briefing – EERI – 14-02-2019
- Introduction to remote sensing (4 weeks) – NPETL – Jan– April 2019
- SuperPile ’19 – Osterberg Lecture and Industry-Owner Panel Discussion Webinar – DFI – 02-05-2019
