PUBLICATIONS
List of Publications (Email me if you require any of my publication)
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In Refereed International Journal
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20. Ashutosh Kumar, Arash Azizi and David Toll (2024) “Deterioration of a compacted soil due to suction loss and desiccation cracking” Canadian Geotechnical Journal, (ISSN: 0008-3674, Impact Factor: 3.6/2022) NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Canada. (Under revision).
19. Eedy Sana, Ashutosh Kumar*, Ellen Robson, Prasanna R., Uday Kala and David Toll (2024) "Preliminary assessment of series of landslides and related damage by heavy rainfall in Himachal Pradesh, India during July 2023“, Landslides, ISSN: 1612-5118, Impact Factor: 7.0/2022) Springer, Netherlands. Doi: 10.1007/s10346-023-02209-1.
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18. Arash Azizi, Ashutosh Kumar and David Toll (2023) “Coupling cyclic and water retention response of a clayey sand subjected to traffic and environmental cycles” Geotechnique, (ISSN: 0016-8505, Impact Factor: 6.3/2022) ICE, UK. Vol. 73, No. 5, pp. 401-417, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1680/jgeot.21.00063.
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17. Arash Azizi, Ashutosh Kumar and David Toll (2023) “The bounding effect of the water retention curve on the cyclic response of an unsaturated soil” Acta Geotechnica, (ISSN: 1861-1133, Impact Factor:6/2022), Springer, The Netherlands. Vol. 18, pp. 1901–1917Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11440-022-01724-0
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16. Ashutosh Kumar* and Sonu Kumar (2023) “Settlement based load-bearing in a combined pile-raft foundation” Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, An International Journal, (ISSN: 0960-3182, Impact Factor: 1.9/2022) Springer, USA. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10706-023-02625-z
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15. Ashwani Kumar Sharma, Ashutosh Kumar* and Vasilis Sarhosis (2023) "Kath-Kuni structure: Field investigations and Material characterization" Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers-Structures and Buildings, (ISSN: 0965-0911, Impact Factor: 1.533/2022), ICE, London, U.K., Doi: https://doi.org/10.1680/jstbu.22.00080
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14. Sonu Kumar and Ashutosh Kumar* (2023) "Effect of infiltration on single pile and mono pile-raft foundation embedded in unsaturated sand" International Journal of Geomechanics, ASCE, (ISSN: 1532-3641, Impact Factor: 3.819/2020), USA. Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 04022288: 1-17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1061/IJGNAI.GMENG-7908
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13. Ashutosh Kumar*, Arash Azizi and David Toll (2022) “The application of suction monitoring for cyclic triaxial testing of compacted soils” ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, USA (ISSN: 10900241, Impact Factor: 4.236/2020) USA, Vol. 148, No. 4, pp. 04022009: 1-17. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0002766.
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12. Jashod Roy, Ashutosh Kumar* and Deepankar Choudhury (2020) "Pseudostatic approach to analyze combined pile–raft foundation" International Journal of Geomechanics, ASCE, (ISSN: 1532-3641, Impact Factor: 2.589/2019) USA. Vol. 20, No. 10, pp. 06020028: 1-9, DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)GM.1943-5622.0001806
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11. Ashutosh Kumar*, Paul Hughes, Vasilis Sarhosis, David Toll, Sean Wilkinson, et al. (2020). “Experimental, numerical and field study investigating a heritage structure collapse after the 2015 Gorkha earthquake” Natural Hazards, (ISSN: 0921-030X , Impact Factor: 2.319), Springer, Netherlands, Vol. 101, No. 1, pp. 231-253 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-020-03871-7.
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10. Christopher Davis, Robin Coningham, Kosh Prasad Acharya, Ram Bahadur Kunwar, Paolo Forlin, Kai Weise, Prem Nath Maskey, Anie Joshi, Ian Simpson, David Toll, Sean Wilkinson, Paul Hughes, Vasilis Sarhosis, Ashutosh Kumar and Armin Schmidt (2020) “Identifying archaeological evidence of past ko earthquakes in a contemporary disaster scenario: Case-studies of damage, resilience and risk reduction from the 2015 Gorkha Earthquake and past seismic events within the Kathmandu Valley UNESCO World Heritage Property (Nepal)” Journal of Seismology, (ISSN: 1573-157X, Impact Factor: 1.643/2018) Springer, Netherlands, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 729-751.
9. Robin Coningham, Kosh Acharya, C Barclay, R Barclay, Christopher Davis, C Graham, Paul Hughes, Annie Joshi, L Kelly, S Khanal, A Kilic, T Kinnaird, Rambadhur Kunwar, Ashutosh Kumar and et al. (2019) “Reducing disaster risk to life and livelihoods by evaluating the seismic safety of Kathmandu’s historic urban infrastructure: enabling an interdisciplinary pilot.” Journal of the British Academy, UK, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 45-82. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/007s2.045
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8. Jashod Roy, Ashutosh Kumar and Deepankar Choudhury (2018). “Natural frequencies of piled raft foundation including superstructure effect” Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, (ISSN: 0267-7261, Impact Factor: 2.077/2017), Elsevier, U.K., Vol. 112, pp. 69-75.
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7. Ashutosh Kumar and Deepankar Choudhury (2018). “Development of new prediction model for capacity of combined pile-raft foundations”, Computers and Geotechnics, (ISSN: 0266-352X, Impact Factor: 3.138/2017), Elsevier, UK, Vol. 97, pp. 62-68.
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6. Ashutosh Kumar, Milind Patil and Deepankar Choudhury (2017). “Soil-structure interaction in a combined pile-raft foundation-A case study”, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers-Geotechnical Engineering, (ISSN: 1353-2618, Impact Factor: 0.906/2017), ICE, London, U.K., Vol. 170, No. 2, pp. 117-128.
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5. Ashutosh Kumar and Deepankar Choudhury (2017). “Load sharing mechanism of Combined Pile-Raft Foundation (CPRF) under seismic loads”, Geotechnical Engineering, (ISSN: 0046-5828) Journal of the Southeast Asian Geotechnical Society (SEAGS) and Association of Geotechnical Societies in Southeast Asia (AGSSEA), AIT, Thailand, Vol. 48, No. 3, pp. 95-101.
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4. Ashutosh Kumar, Deepankar Choudhury and Rolf Katzenbach (2016). “Effect of earthquake on combined pile-raft foundation”, International Journal of Geomechanics, ASCE, (ISSN: 1532-3641, Impact Factor: 2.136/2016) USA, Vol. 16, No. 5, pp. 04016013: 1-16.
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3. Ashutosh Kumar and Deepankar Choudhury (2016). “DSSI analysis of pile foundations for an oil tank in Iraq”, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers-Geotechnical Engineering, (ISSN: 1353-2618, Impact Factor: 0.933/2015) ICE, London, U.K, Vol. 169, No. 2, pp. 129-138.
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2. Ashutosh Kumar, Deepankar Choudhury and Eun Chul Shin (2017). “State-of-the-art practices on sustainable foundation solutions for high-rise structures using combined pile-raft foundation” Journal of Urban Science, (ISSN: 2287-9153), Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 1-14.
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1. Deepankar Choudhury, Ashutosh Kumar and Kaustav Chatterjee (2016). “Coupled behavior of pile foundations in liquefied and non-liquefied soils during earthquakes including case study” Japanese Geotechnical Society Special Publication, The Second Japan-India Workshop in Geotechnical Engineering, (ISSN: 2188-8027), Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 11-15.
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In Refereed National Journal
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1. Ashutosh Kumar, Deepankar Choudhury, Jaykumar Shukla and D. L. Shah (2015). “Seismic design of pile foundation for oil tank by using PLAXIS3D”, Disaster Advances, (ISSN: 0974-262X, Impact Factor: 2.272/2012) India, Vol. 8, No. 6, pp. 33-42.
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In Geotechnical Special Publication (GSP), ASCE, USA
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3. Aditi Rana, Ashwani Kumar Sharma, Ashutosh Kumar, Arash Azizi, Sravan Mugunda, Ashraf Osman and David G. Toll (2023) "An Apparatus to Monitor Suction Evolution and Water Migration within a Soil Mass for Climate-Adaptive Infrastructure" Geo-Risk 2023, Arlington, Virginia, USA. pp. 117-126. (https://ascelibrary.org/doi/10.1061/9780784484968.013).
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2. Sonu Kumar and Ashutosh Kumar (2023) "Behaviour of Single Pile and Mono-Piled Raft Foundation under Hydraulic Loading Considering Hysteresis in Unsaturated Soils" Geo-Congress 2023, Los Angeles, California, USA, pp. 228-239. (https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784484685.024).
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1. Ashutosh Kumar*, Arash Azizi, David Toll (2022) “The influence of cyclic loading frequency on the response of an unsaturated railway formation soil” Geo-Congress 2022, North Carolina, USA. pp. 274-283 https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784484050.029
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In International/National Conference/Workshop/Seminar Proceedings
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16. Ellen Robson, Ashutosh Kumar, Ashraf Osman and David Toll (2023) "A review of landslide and cut slope guidelines" 6th World Landslide Forum, Florence, Italy. (Accepted)
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15. Sonu Kumar and Ashutosh Kumar* (2023) "Load transfer mechanism of single pile and mono-pile raft foundation in unsaturated sand" Geo-Resilience 2023, Cardiff, United Kingdom, March 28-29, 2023.
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14. Ashutosh Kumar*, Arash Azizi and David Toll (2023) "Insight into soil cyclic triaxial testing using a high capacity tensiometer" Geo-Resilience 2023, Cardiff, United Kingdom, March 28-29, 2023.
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13. Ashutosh Kumar* (2022) “An Investigation of the effect of 2015 Gorkha Earthquake within the World Heritage monument zones of Kathmandu Valley” Proc. of the 7th International Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference, Sydney, Australia. ISBN- 978-0-994-6261-5-8. pp. 149-154. Link to access (Click here)
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12. Arash Azizi, Ashutosh Kumar, Mwajuma Lingwanda and David Toll (2020) "The influence of rates of drying and wetting on measurements of soil water retention curves" Proc.4th European Conference on Unsaturated Soils, Lisbon, Portugal, 19-21 October 2020. https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202019503005
11. Deepankar Choudhury, Ashutosh Kumar, Milind Patil, Vansittee Dilli Rao, Aniruddha Bhaduri, Pradnya Singbal and Jaykumar Shukla (2019) “Sustainable Foundation Solutions for Industrial Structures under Earthquake Conditions-Theory to Practice” 16th Asian Regional Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Taipei, Taiwan, October 14-18, 2019.
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10. Ashutosh Kumar, Paul Hughes, David Toll, Robin Coningham, et al. (2019). “Damage assessment at World Heritage Monument zone in Kathmandu valley after 2015 Gorkha Earthquake” The XVII European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, September 1-6, 2019, Iceland. ISBN 978-9935-9436-1-3. DOI: 10.32075/17ECSMGE-2019-1018.
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9. Ashutosh Kumar, Paul Hughes, David Toll, et al. (2018). “Geotechnical and ancient structural investigation at Pashupati heritage site in Kathmandu” Researcher Link Workshop on Geohazard Risk Reduction in Unplanned Urban Areas, Caldas Novas, Brazil, September 2018.
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8. Ashutosh Kumar, Jashod Roy and Deepankar Choudhury (2016). “Combined Pile-Raft Foundation (CPRF) response under Earthquake Conditions” International Geotechnical Engineering Conference on Sustainability in Geotechnical Engineering Practices and Related Urban Issues, September 23-24, 2016, Mumbai, India, pp. 1-2. (First author received best paper award “First Prize” by Springer India Pvt. Limited for this work)
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7. Deepankar Choudhury, Ashutosh Kumar (2016). “Recent advances in design of Combined Pile-Raft Foundation System under earthquake conditions” 1st International Symposium on Soil Dynamic and Geotechnical Sustainability, August 7-9, 2016, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, pp. 37-39, ISBN- 978-988-14032-4-7.
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6. Ashutosh Kumar, Deepankar Choudhury and Rolf Katzenbach (2015). “Behaviour of combined pile-raft foundation (CPRF) under static and pseudo-static conditions using PLAXIS3D”, 6th International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering (6ICEGE) (www.6icege.com), November 1-4, 2015, Christchurch, New Zealand, pp. 1-8.
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5. Deepankar Choudhury, Ashutosh Kumar and Milind Patil (2015). “Theory to reality of failures of soil slopes including forensic analysis of an Indian landslide disaster”, Proceedings of SLOPE 2015, International Conference on Landslides and Slope Stability, September 27-30, 2015, Bali, Indonesia, Eds. P. P. Rahardjo and A. Tohari (ISBN: 978-602-71964-5-2), published by Parahyangan Catholic University, Bandung, Indonesia, pp. 6-1 to 6-7.
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4. Deepankar Choudhury, Ashutosh Kumar, Kaustav Chatterjee and Milind S. Patil (2015). “Landslide disasters due to earthquake, blast and seepage – Theory and case study”, Proceedings of Sixth International Geotechnical Symposium (6IGS) on Disaster Mitigation in Special Geoenvironmental Conditions (6IGS Chennai 2015), January 21-23, 2015, IIT Madras, Chennai, India, published by Indian Geotechnical Society, Chennai Chapter, India; supported by, Asian Technical Committee on Geotechnology for Natural Hazards (ATC-3) of ISSMGE, Tokyo, Japan; Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), New Delhi, India; IIT Madras, India; IGS Chennai Chapter, India; Deep Foundations Institute (DFI), India; IGS Bangalore and Kochi Chapters, India, pp. 87-90.
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3. Ashutosh Kumar, Deepankar Choudhury (2015). “Combined Pile-Raft Foundation (CPRF): Cost-optimized solutions for high rise buildings” Proc. of 5th Indian Young Geotechnical Engineer Conference (IYGEC-2015), Baroda, India, pp. 19-20, ISBN No. 978-1-4276-5527-1.
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2. Deepankar Choudhury, Kaustav Chatterjee, Ashutosh Kumar and Reshma Raskar Phule (2014). “Pile foundations during earthquakes in liquefiable soils – theory to practice”, Proc. of 15th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering (15SEE–2014), Editors M.L. Sharma and Manish Shrikhande, December 11-13, 2014, IIT Roorkee, Roorkee, India, pp. 327-342, Paper No. K-001 in CD, Elite Publishing, ISBN No. 978-81-88901-59-3.
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1. Deepankar Choudhury, Kaustav Chatterjee, V. S. Phanikanth and Ashutosh Kumar (2013). “Behaviour of piles in liquefied soil under seismic conditions”, Proceedings of the International Conference on “State of the Art of Pile Foundation and Pile Case Histories” PILE – 2013, Editors Paulus P. Rahardjo, Deepankar Choudhury and Budijanto Widjaja, June 2-4, 2013, Bandung, Indonesia, Vol. 1, pp. A5-1 to A5-18.
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In Book Chapter
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3. Ayush Kumar, Sonu Kumar and Ashutosh Kumar* (2022) "Behaviour of laterally loaded mono-piled raft foundation in sloping ground." In: Reddy K.R., Pancharathi R.K., Reddy N.G., Arukala S.R. (eds) Advances in Sustainable Materials and Resilient Infrastructure. Springer Transactions in Civil and Environmental Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9744-9_24
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2. Ashwani Kumar Sharma, Ashutosh Kumar and Vasilis Sarhosis (2021) “Evaluating the seismic performance of domestic and historical masonry structures in Himachal Pradesh region of India.” In: Kolathayar S., Chian S.C. (eds) Recent Advances in Earthquake Engineering. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, (ISSN 978-981-16-4616-4), Springer, Singapore, Vol. 175, pp 477-490. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4617-1_38.
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1. Deepankar Choudhry and Ashutosh Kumar (2017). “Seismic response of Combined Pile-Raft Foundation - the state of the art review” In Edited book entitled ‘Design and Analysis of Piled Raft Foundations-2017’ by Chang et al. (eds.), published by Tamkang University Press, Chapter 4, ISBN: 978-986-5608-73-6, pp. 47-63.
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