Civil and Environmental Engineering

Dr. Amit Kumar Verma

 
Dr. Amit Kumar Verma
Associate Professor
Ph.D, IIT Bombay
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Research Areas :
  1. Rock Mechanics and Ground Control
  2. Coupled Numerical Modeling
  3. CO2 Sequestration, Nuclear waste disposal and slurry fracture injection
  4. Underground space technology
  5. Intelligent System for Rock Engineering
  6. Slope Stability, landslide and Tunneling
 No. of PhD students :

LIST OF PhD STUDENTS

Sl.No. Name Title Status
1 Sachin Maheswar Near-Field Evolution of Thermo-hydro-mechanical-Damage processes in Indian Deep Geological Repositories for Nuclear Wastes. Completed
2 Pradeep Gautam Experimental design of coupled THM Analysis in rock during underground radioactive waste disposal Completed
3 Nikhil Kumar Stability Analysis of Road cut Slopes in Himalayan

Regions of India

 Completed
4 Ashok Kr. Singh Landslide Risk Analysis around Rampur Area, Himachal Pradesh, India Completed
5 Prasant Behera Dump slope stability analysis of open cast mines in Talcher coal field, Angul District, Odisha Completed
6 Manish Jha Thermomechanical Behavior Of Indian Shale And Bentonite For Safe Disposal Of Nuclear Waste Completed
7 Anil Kumar Mathematical modelling of rock slope stability in permafrost environment Completed
8 Jagdish Kundu Stability analysis along engineered slopes in Jhakri region, Himachal Pradesh, India Completed
9 Jay Raj Singh Design of meta-heuristic based methodologies to locate critical failure surface for slope stability analysis Completed
10 Sahil Sardana Geomechanical Investigations and Stability Assessment of Rock Slopes under Normal and Freeze-Thaw Environment in Indian HImalayan Region Completed
11 Srinivas Mantrala ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF SLOPE STABILIZATION MEASURES IN JOINTED ROCK MASS Completed
12 Nilesh Pratap Singh (16151007) Impact of Surface Miner on Production and Productivity with special reference to Opencast Coal Mining Completed
13 Vikram Servi Dragline productivity in an opencast mine Completed
14 Anand Kumar Development of Dump Slope Rating System for Opencast Coal Mine Ongoing
15 Sandeep Prajapati Three Dimensional Discontinuum Analysis of Underground PowerHouse Cavern Ongoing
16 Amit Jaiswal Landslide hazard Zonation in North-East, India Ongoing
Professional Experience
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RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Sl. No. Position Institute Date of Joining Date of Leaving
1 Associate Professor IIT(BHU) Varanasi 15.10.2020 10.05.2023
2 Assistant Professor IIT(BHU) Varanasi 01.05.2018 14.10.2020
3 Assistant Professor IIT(ISM) Dhanbad 18.03.2013 30.04.2018
4 Endeavour Executive Fellow Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University, Australia 10/05/2016 10/06/2016
5 Visiting Faculty Rock Mechanics Division, TU Clausthal, Germany 10/06/2015 10/07/2015
6 INSPIRE Faculty Indian School of Mines-Dhanbad 05/02/2013 18/03/2013
7 Scientist C National Geotechnical Facility-Dehradun 23/09/12 30/01/2013
8 Research Associate The Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi 21/12/09 21/09/12
9 Senior Research Fellow IIT Bombay 01/11/2008 20/12/09
10 Technical Marketing Executive Zeus Numerix Pvt. Ltd. 01/06/2008 25/10/2008
11 Graduate Research Fellow University of California-Davis, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, USA 01/06/06 01/12/07
12 EGIDE Fellow Ecole Polytechnique de University de Grenoble, Department of Civil Engineering, France 01/05/05 20/07/05
13 Summer Trainee Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 01/05/04 30/07/04
Awards & Honours
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  1. Ranked 3708 in India in AD Scientific Index 2021
  2. Editor-in-Chief,International Conference on "Geotechnical Challenges in Mining, Tunneling and Underground structures (ICGMTU)" from 20-21 December 2021
  3. Co-Chaired a session in Indorock-2016 at Conference, Mumbai
  4. Co-Chaired a session in Indian Landslide Congress-2017, Mumbai
  5. Sukumar Rikshit Award - 2016-17 by The Mining, Geological & Metallurgical Institute of India at 7th Asian Mining Congress, Kolkata.
  6. Best Paper Award - 2017 at 7th Indian Rock Conference (IndoRock-2017), New Delhi, India
  7. The John C Gammon Prize-2017 by The Institution of Engineers (India), presented at 32nd Indian Engineering Congress, Chennai, India
  8. Endeavour Executive Fellowship – 2016 by Australian Government
  9. Inder Mohan Thapar Foundation research award 2017 for best publications at IIT(ISM) Dhanbad
  10. Institute of Engineers Young Engineers Award 2014-15" in the discipline of Mining Engineering
  11. Start – Up Research Grant under Faculty Research Promotion Scheme by University Grant Commission, GOI, 2014
  12. Faculty research grant of Rs 7.5 lakhs awarded by ISM for 2013-15
  13. Fast Track Young Scientist Award by the Department of Science and Technology, GOI, 2013
  14. Inspire Faculty Fellowship – 2012 by DST and INSA
  15. Dr. K.S. Krishnan Research Associateship-24 in 2012 by Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences.
  16. Included in Who’s Who list in Science and Engineering, 11th Edition (2011-2012).
  17. Best paper Award by Indian Society of Rock Mechanics and Mining Technology (ISRMTT), India (2011 at IIT-Roorkee) for paper entitled “Singh, T.N., Verma, M.K., Verma, A.K. and Kripamoy Sarkar (2009), “Predictions of shear displacement in fully grouted rock bolt”, Int. Jol. of Rock Mechanics and Tunneling Technology, 15(2), pp 117-130.” under category Rock Testing and Monitoring of Rock Structures
  18. CCS Summer School Fellowship, IEAGHG, University of Illinois - Advanced Energy Technology Initiative and the Sequestration Training and Education Program (STEP), from the 18th – 22nd of July, 2011.
  19. Student Mentoring Fellowship Program at GreenHouse Gas Technologies -10, organized by the International Energy Agency and Global CCS Institute at Amsterdam in 2010.
  20. Best paper Award by the Institute of Engineers, India for paper entitled “Singh, T.N., Kanchan, R., Saigal,K. and Verma,A.K.. (2007), “Prediction of Drill Performance by Physico Mechanical Properties – an Intelligent Approach”, Institute of Engineers, India, Vol. 87, pp-49-55, November”.
  21. Graduate research fellowship, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California-Davis, USA, 2006
  22. Cleared GRE examination (1220/1500) organized by Educational Testing Services (ETS) with distinction held on 12/23/2005.
  23. Cleared TOEFL examination (260) with distinction held on 12/23/2005.
  24. Received EGIDE fellowship by Ecole Polytechnique de University de Grenoble 1, France in 2005 for summer research programme.
  25. First prize in Prastuti-IEE(UK)-2004, All Indian Engineering Students Paper Presentation Contest , ‘Prediction of dynamic constant of rock mass using systematically optimized ANN model’.
  26. Designed “A Environmental Friendly Coal Cutting Machine”, based on Suction effect, presented in TECHNEX 2003-All India Technical Festival and Model Exhibition, Varanasi, India.(third prize).
  27. Certificate of participation in Techkriti -2003, the All India Inter-Collegiate Technology Festival held from 27th Feb. to 2nd March, 2003 at IIT-Kanpur.
  28. Certificate of participation in Divisional level Science and Technology Exhibition and Fair organized by Regional Science and Technology Center, Varanasi, U.P., Lucknow on 25th to 26th Februray, 2003 at C.M.Anglo Bengali Inter Colleage, Bhelpur, Varanasi.
  29. Ranked among the top 0.5 % among 0.2 million students in 2002 in the IIT-JEE.
Member of Professional Bodies
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MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARD OF REFERRED JOURNALS

  • International Journal of Geology and Geography
  • Scientific Journal International
  • International Journal of Earth Science and Engineering

PEER REVIEWER OF REFERRED JOURNALS

  • Geoscience Frontier(Springer)
  • Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering(Springer)
  • International Journal of Geology and Geography(Springer)
  • International Journal of Earth Science and Engineering
  • Arabian Journal of Geosciences (Springer)
  • The Arabian Journal of Science and Engineering(Spriner)
  • International Journal of Engineering Science and Technology (IJEST)
  • Neural Computing and Application (Springer)
  • Earth and Environmental Sciences (Springer)
  • Engineering Geology (Springer)
  • American Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture
  • International Journal of Earth Science and Engineering

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

  • Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA)
  • International Society of Rock Mechanics
  • The Mining, Geological & Metallurgical Institute of India
Books : CHAPTERS CONTRIBUTED IN BOOKS
  1. Srinivas Mantrala, A.K.Verma and T.G.Sitharam (2019)Analysis and Design of the Highly Jointed Slopes on the Abutments of the World's Highest Railway Bridge Across the Chenab River in Jammu and Kashmir State, India, R Sundrem et al.(eds) Geotechnics for Transportation Infrastructure, lecture notes in Civil Engineering 29, Chapter 2, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.,ISBN: 978-981-13-6712-0, Page: 1-18
  2. Jayraj Singh, A.K.Verma, Haider Banka. (2019) “A comparative study for locating critical failure surface in slope stability analysis via meta-heuristic approach”, Handbook of Research on Predictive Modeling and Optimization Methods in Science and Engineering, pp. 1-18, IGI Global
  3. A.K.Verma, T.N. Singh and Sachin Maheshwar (2015) Artificial Intelligent Approaches for Prediction of Longitudinal Wave Velocity in Rocks, Handbook of Research on Advanced Computational Techniques for Simulation-Based Engineering, published by IGI Global
  4. Verma A.K., Singh T.N. (2013) Influence of Young’s Modulus and Poisson’s Ratio on the Displacement Around a Circular Tunnel. In: Sinha R., Ravindra R. (eds) Earth System Processes and Disaster Management. Society of Earth Scientists Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 181-201
  5. A. K. Verma , K. Sarkar and T. N. Singh (2011) Numerical modeling for Landslides, Slope Stability- Natural and Man made slope, chap.- 24(edited by T N Singh and Y C Sharma), Yavu education of India, New Delhi, ISBN NO.978-93-8071-84-0, 387-405
  6. K. Sarkar , A. K Verma and T. N. Singh (2011) Jointed rock mass behavior along road cut slope in Luhri area, Himachal Pradesh, India, Slope Stability- Natural and Man made slope, chapt.- 10 ( edited by T N Singh and Y C Sharma), Yavu education of India, New Delhi, ISBN NO.978-93-8071-84-0, 155-165.
  7. T. N. Singh. and A.K.Verma (2009), “Predicting Shear Wave Velocity Of Rock -Mass By Fracture Parameters”, Earth System Sciences, Inagural Ceremony of Indian Science Congress (Vol.-1) Pages: 89 – 105. ISBN No. 13:978 - 81 - 8069 -613 – 8
  8. C.F.Leung & Y.X.Zhou (2007), “Rock Mechanics in Underground Construction” Published 2007 by World Scientific, ISBN: 981270437X
  9. T.N. Singh, M. Khandelwal and A.K.Verma (2005) A study on the strength and deformational characteristics of jointed rockmass, Edited G Balra and M.Balra, Torino, Italy, 191-198.
 Publications : PAPER PUBLISHED
International Journals

IF: Impact Factor

  1. S Sardana, RK Sinha, AK Verma, M Jaswal, TN Singh (2022) A Semi-Empirical Approach for Rockfall Prediction Along the Lengpui-Aizawl Highway Mizoram, India,, Geotechnical and Geological Engineering 40 (11), 5507-5525
  2. S Sardana, RK Sinha, AK Verma, TN Singh (2022) Investigations into the freeze–thaw-induced alteration in microstructure and deteriorative responses of physico-mechanical properties of Himalayan rock, Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment 81 (7), 1-16
  3. S Mantrala, H Kumar, AK Verma, TG Sitharam (2022) Wedge Failure Analysis of Slopes in Highly Jointed Rock Masses in the Zones of High Seismicity, Indian Geotechnical Journal, 1-24
  4. J Kundu, K Sarkar, AK Verma, TN Singh (2022) Novel methods for quantitative analysis of kinematic stability and slope mass rating in jointed rock slopes with the aid of a new computer application, Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment 81 (1), 1-19
  5. AK Verma, MK Jha, PK Gautam, AK Mishra, H Vardhan, SK Singh (2021)Prediction of thermal conductivity and damage in Indian Jalore granite for design of underground research laboratory, Neural Computing and Applications, 1-10
  6. P Sharma, A Kumar, N Shams, AK Verma, D Kumar, AK Singh, S Ram(2021)Parametric study to design competent irregular-shaped remnants in mechanised depillaring, Arabian Journal of Geosciences 14 (4), 1-12
  7. PK Gautam, R Dwivedi, A Kumar, A Kumar, AK Verma, KH Singh (2021) Damage characteristics of jalore granitic rocks after thermal cycling effect for nuclear waste repository, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering 54 (1), 235-254
  8. J Singh, H Banka, AK Verma (2019) A BBO-based algorithm for slope stability analysis by locating critical failure surface Neural Computing and Applications 31 (10), 6401-6418
  9. S Sardana, AK Verma, R Verma, TN Singh (2019) Rock slope stability along road cut of Kulikawn to Saikhamakawn of Aizawl, Mizoram, India, Natural Hazards 99 (2), 753-767
  10. PK Gautam, AK Verma, TN Singh, W Hu, KH Singh (2019)Experimental investigations on the thermal properties of Jalore granitic rocks for nuclear waste repository, Thermochimica Acta 681, 178381
  11. S Sardana, AK Verma, A Singh (2019) Comparative analysis of rockmass characterization techniques for the stability prediction of road cut slopes along NH-44A, Mizoram, India
  12. PK Gautam, MK Jha, AK Verma, TN Singh (2020) Experimental study of thermal damage under compression and tension of Makrana marble, Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry 139 (1), 609-627
  13. P Sharma, AK Verma, P Gautam (2020) Stability analysis of underground pillar in the presence of overlying dump: a case study, Arabian Journal of Geosciences 13 (5), 1-13
  14. PK Gautam, R Dwivedi, A Kumar, A Kumar, AK Verma, KH Singh (2021) Damage characteristics of jalore granitic rocks after thermal cycling effect for nuclear waste repository, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering 54 (1), 235-254
  15. AK Verma, MK Jha, PK Gautam, AK Mishra, H Vardhan, SK Singh (2021) Prediction of thermal conductivity and damage in Indian Jalore granite for design of underground research laboratory, Neural Computing and Applications, 1-10
  16. PK Gautam, MK Jha, AK Verma, TN Singh(2019)Evolution of absorption energy per unit thickness of damaged sandstone, Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry,vol. 136, pp. 2305-2318. (I.F. 2.471, SCI,Q2)
  17. Jayraj Singh, Haider Banka, AK Verma (2019) Locating critical failure surface using meta-heuristic approaches: a comparative assessment, Arabian Journal of Geosciences, vol. 12(9), Pages 307 (I.F. 1.141, SCI,Q2)
  18. Sahil Sardana, AK Verma, Anand Singh (2019) Comparative analysis of rockmass characterization techniques for the stability prediction of road cut slopes along NH-44A, Mizoram, India, Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, Pages 1-13 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10064-019-01493-3. (I.F. 2.138, SCI, Q1)
  19. Sahil Sardana, A.K. Verma, Laldinpuia, T.N. Singh (2019) Investigation of Rockfall Prone Road Cut Slope near Lengpui Airport, Mizoram, India, Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, vol.11, pp. 146-158 (SNIP:2.256; Scopus, SCIE) (I.F. 2.111, SCI,Q1)
  20. Nikhil Kumar, AK Verma, Sahil Sardana, K Sarkar, TN Singh (2018) Comparative analysis of limit equilibrium and numerical methods for prediction of a landslide, Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, vol. 77(2), Pages 595-608(I.F. 2.138, SCI, Q1)
  21. Pushpendra Sharma,Amit Kumar Verma,Anil Negi, Manish Kumar Jha and Pradeep Gautam (2018) Stability assessment of jointed rock slope with different crack infillings under various thermomechanical loadings, Arabian Journal of Geosciences 11:431, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-018-3772-3 (I.F. 1.141, SCI)
  22. AK Verma, S Sardana, TN Singh, N Kumar (2018) Rockfall analysis and optimized design of rockfall barrier along a strategic road near Solang Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India, Indian Geotechnical Journal 48 (4), 686-699 (I.F. 0.5, ESCI, Scopus)
  23. AK Mishra, SV Ramteke, P Sen, AK Verma (2018) Random Forest Tree Based Approach for Blast Design in Surface Mine, Geotechnical and Geological Engineering 36 (3), 1647-1664 (Scopus, ESCI)
  24. S Mantrala, AK Verma, TG Sitharam (2018) A systematic approach for the analyses and design of jointed rock mass slopes against wedge and toppling failures: a case study of the stability of the abutments of the bridge, International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering,DOI: 10.1080/19386362.2018.1480151(Scopus)
  25. PK Gautam, AK Verma, P Sharma, TN Singh (2018) Evolution of Thermal Damage Threshold of Jalore Granite, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, vol.51(9), pp.2949–2956 (I.F. 4.100, SCI)
  26. Jayraj Singh, Haider Banka, Amit Kumar Verma (2018) A BBO-based algorithm for slope stability analysis by locating critical failure surface, Neural Computing & Applications, doi https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-018-3418-0 (I.F. 4.664, SCI)
  27. P.K. Gautam, A.K. Verma, M.K. Jha, S. Maheshwar, T.N. Singh (2018) Effect of high temperature on physical and mechanical properties of granite, Jol. of Applied Geophysics,vol. 159, Pages 460-474 (I.F. 1.357, SCI)
  28. Manish Kumar Jha, A. K. Verma, Pradeep Kumar Gautam, Anil Negi (2018) Study of Mechanical Properties of Vindhayan Shaly Rocks at Elevated temperature, Journal Geological Society Of India, vol.90(3), pp 267–272 (Scopus, SCIE, I.F.: 0.994)
  29. Ritesh D Lokhande, V M S R Murthy,K B Singh, C P Verma, A K Verma (2018) Numerical Modeling Of Pot-Hole Subsidence Due To Shallow Underground Coal Mining In Structurally Disturbed Ground, Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series D,Volume 99, Issue 1, pp 93–101 (I.F. 0.61, Scopus)
  30. Abhishek Kumar Singh, Anil Negi, Amit Kumar Verma and Santan Kumar (2017) Analysis of Stresses Induced due to a Moving Load on Irregular Initially Stressed Heterogeneous Viscoelastic Rock Medium, J. Eng. Mech., 2017, 143(9): 04017096 (I.F. 1.66, Scopus)
  31. PK Behera, K Sarkar, AK Singh, AK Verma, TN Singh (2016) Erratum to: Dump Slope stability analysis–a case study, Journal of the Geological Society of India 89 (2), 226-226 (I.F.: 0.994
  32. Kripamoy Sarkar, Ashok Kumar Singh, Anurag Niyogi, Prasanta Kumar Behera, A. K. Verma and T. N. Singh (2016) The assessment of slope stability along NH-22 in Rampur-Jhakri Area, Himachal Pradesh, Journal of the Geological Society of India, vol. 88 (3), pp 387–393 (I.F.: 0.994, Scopus, SCIE)
  33. Prasanta Kumar Behera, Kripamoy Sarkar, Ashok Kumar Singh, A. K. Verma and T. N. Singh (2016) Dump slope stability analysis – A case study, Journal of the Geological Society of India, vol. 88(6) , pp 725–735 (I.F.: 0.994, Scopus, SCIE)
  34. AK Verma, TN Singh, Nikhil Kumar Chauhan, K Sarkar (2016) A Hybrid FEM–ANN Approach for Slope Instability Prediction, Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series A, vol. 97(3), pp. 171-180 (I.F. 0.34, Scopus)
  35. Jayraj Singh, AK Verma, Haider Banka, TN Singh, Sachin Maheshwar (2016) A study of soft computing models for prediction of longitudinal wave velocity, Arabian Journal of Geosciences, vol. 9(3), pp. 1-11 (I.F. 1.141, SCI)
  36. AK Verma, Abhinav Sirvaiya (2016) Intelligent prediction of Langmuir isotherms of Gondwana coals in India, Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology vol. 6 (1), pp. 135-143 (I.F. 1.38, ESCI)
  37. Verma, A.K., Jha, M.K., Maheshwar, S., Singh, T.N and Bajpai, R.K. (2016) Temperature-dependent thermophysical properties of Ganurgarh shales from Bhander group, India Environ Earth Sci, vol. 75: 300. doi:10.1007/s12665-015-4992-4 (I.F. 1.871, SCI)
  38. Manish Kumar Jha A. K. Verma, Sachin Maheshwar, Ankur Chauhan (2015) Study of temperature effect on thermal conductivity of Jhiri shale from Upper Vindhyan, India, Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment doi:10.1007/s10064-015-0829-3 (I.F. 2.138, SCI)
  39. AK Verma and Abhinav Sirvaiya (2016) Comparative analysis of intelligent models for prediction of Langmuir constants for CO2 adsorption of Gondwana coals in India, Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources, vol.2(2), pp 1-13
  40. PK Gautam, AK Verma, MK Jha, K Sarkar, TN Singh,RK Bajpai (2016) Study of Strain Rate and Thermal Damage of Dholpur Sandstone at Elevated Temperature, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, vol. 49(9), pp 1-11 (I.F. 4.100, SCI)
  41. P. K. Gautam, A. K. Verma, S. Maheshwar, T. N. Singh (2016) Thermomechanical Analysis of Different Types of Sandstone at Elevated Temperature, Rock Mech Rock Eng, vol.49(5), pp. 1985-1993 (I.F. 4.100, SCI)
  42. S. Maheshwar, A. K. Verma, T. N. Singh, Bajpai, R.K. (2016) A Numerical Study of THM Interference between Two Nuclear Waste Canisters of a Deep Geological Repository, Int. Jol. of Earth Sciences and Engineering, vol 8(3), pp. 21-30 (I.F. 0.15)
  43. S. Maheshwar, A. K. Verma, T. N. Singh, Bajpai, R.K. (2016) Study of thermo-hydro-mechanical processes at a potential site of an Indian nuclear waste repository, Int. Jol. of Earth Sys. Sci, Volume 124, Issue 8, pp 1693–1708 (I.F. 1.104, SCIE, Scopus)
  44. A.K. Verma, Abhinav Sirvaiya (2016) Intelligent prediction of Langmuir isotherms of Gondwana coals in India, J Petrol Explor Prod Technol.,vol.6(1):135-143
  45. Verma A.K., Pradeep Gautam, Singh T. N., Bajpai R. K.(2015) Discrete element modelling of conceptual deep geological repository for high-level nuclear waste disposal, Arab J Geosci, vol.8(10):8027–8038 (I.F. 1.141, SCI)
  46. A.K.Verma (2014) A Comparative Study of Various Empirical Methods to Estimate the Factor of Safety of Coal Pillars, American Journal of Mining and Metallurgy, 2(1):17-22
  47. A.K. Verma, T. N Singh, Sachin Maheshwar (2014) Comparative Study of Intelligent Prediction Models for Pressure Wave Velocity, Journal of Geosciences and Geomatics, 2(3):130-138
  48. A.K.Verma, S. Roy and P.K.Gautam (2013) Estimation of groundwater seepage rate into Maneri-Uttarkashi power tunnel: an Analytical Approach, International Journal of Earth Sciences and Engineering Vol. (6) (I.F. 0.042)
  49. A.K. Verma and T. N. Singh (2013) Prediction of water quality from simple field parameters, Environmental Earth Sciences, Volume 69, Issue 3, pp 821–829 (I.F. 1.871, SCI
  50. Singh, T.N. and Verma A. K. (2013) Soft Computing and GIS for landslide susceptibility assessment in Tawaghat area, Kumaon Himalaya, Natural Hazards, vol. 65(1), pp 315-330 (IF:2.319,SCI)
  51. A. Jain, A.K. Verma, V. Vishal and T.N. Singh, 2012, Numerical Simulation of Fault Reactivation Phenomenon, Arabian Journal of Geosciences, vol.6(9): 3293–3302 (IF: 1.141,SCI)
  52. Kripamoy Sarkar, Singh, T.N. and Verma, A.K. (2012), “A numerical simulation of landslide-prone slope in Himalayan region—a case study”, Arabian Jol. of Geosciences, vol 5 (1), pp 73-81 (IF: 1.141,SCI)
  53. Verma A. K. and Singh, T.N. (2013), “Comparative study of Cognitive Systems for Ground Vibration Measurements”, Neural Computing and Applications, 22(1): 341-350 (IF: 4.664,SCI)
  54. Verma, A. K., Saini, M. S. , Singh, T. N., Avi Dutt and Bajpai, R. K. (2013) Effect of excavation stages on stress and pore pressure changes for an Underground Nuclear repository. Arabian Jol of Geosciences, 6(3): 635-645 (IF: 1.141, SCI)
  55. Verma A. K. and Singh, T.N. (2013), “A Neuro-Fuzzy Approach for Prediction of Longitudinal Wave Velocity”, Neural Computing and Applications, 22(7), pp 1685-1693 (IF: 4.664, SCI)
  56. Avi Dutt, Saini, M. S., Singh, T. N., Verma, A. K. and Bajpai, R. K. (2011), “Analysis of thermo-hydrologic-mechanical impact of repository for high-level radioactive waste in clay host formation: an Indian reference disposal system”, Environ. Earth Sci., 66:2327–2341 (IF: 1.871, SCI)
  57. Verma, A. K., Singh, T.N. and Bajpai, R.K. (2011), “Effect of excavation stages on stress and pore pressure changes for an Underground nuclear repository”, Arabian Jol. of Geosciences, vol.6(3), pp.635-645 (IF: 1.141, SCI
  58. Singh, T.N. and Verma A. K. (2011), “Comparative analysis of intelligent algorithms to correlate strength and petrographic properties of some schistose rocks”, Engineering with Computers, 28:1–12. (IF: 3.551, SCI)
  59. Singh, T.N.,Verma, A. K., Kumar, T. and Avi Dutt (2011), “Influence of shear velocity on frictional characteristics of rock surface”, Jol. of Earth Syst. Sci., Indian Academy of Sciences, vol. 120(1), pp 1–9.(IF:1.104,SCI)
  60. Singh, T.N. and Verma, A. K. (2010), Static and dynamic analysis of a landslide”, Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk, vol. 1(4), pp 323-338. (IF: 2.332)
  61. Verma, A. K. and Singh, T.N. (2010), Intelligent systems for ground vibration measurement: a comparative study”, Engineering with Computers, vol. 27(3):225-233 (IF: 3.551,SCI)
  62. Verma, A.K. and Singh, T.N. (2010), Assessment of tunnel instability—a numerical approach”, Arabian Jol. of Geosciences, 3(2), pp 181-192. (IF: 1.141,SCI)
  63. Singh, T.N. and Verma, A. K., (2010), Sensitivity of total charge and maximum charge per delay on ground vibration, Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk, vol.1 (3), pp 259 – 272. (IF: 2.332)
  64. Verma, A.K., Singh, T.N. and Monzeji, M. (2010), Intelligent prediction of heating value of coal, Iranian Jol. of Earth Sciences, vol.1(2), pp 132-138.
  65. Verma, A.K. and Singh, T.N. (2010), “Modeling of a Jointed Rock Mass under Triaxial Conditions”, Arabian Jol. of Geosciences, vol.3(1), pp 91-103. (IF: 1.141,SCI)
  66. Sinha, S., Singh, T. N., Singh, V. K. and Verma, A. K. (2010), “Epoch determination for neural network by self-organized map (SOM), Computational Geosciences, 14(1), pp 199-206. (IF: 2.108, SCI)
  67. Verma, A.K., Bajpai, R. K., Singh, T. N., Narayan, P. K. and Avi Dutt (2010), “3D instability analysis of an underground geological repository-an Indian case study”, Arabian Jol. of Geosciences, vol.4(7-8):1173-1188 (IF: 1.141,SCI
  68. Singh. T.N., Kanchan, R., Verma, A.K. and Saigal, K. (2008), “Reply to the comments by Tarkan Erdik and Zekai Sen on: A Comparative Study of ANN and Neuro-fuzzy for the prediction of Dynamic constant of rock mass”, Jol. of Earth Syst. Sci., 117(6), pp 975-977. (IF: 1.104, SCI)
  69. Singh, T.N., Verma, A.K, and Sharma, P.K. (2007), “A Neuro-Genetic approach for prediction of time dependent deformational characteristic of rock and its sensitivity analysis", Int. Jol. of Geotechnical and Geological Engg., vol.25, pp 395-407.
  70. Sitharam, T.G., Maji, V.B. and Verma, A.K. (2006), "Practical Equivalent Continuum Model for Simulation of Jointed Rock Mass using FLAC-3D”, Int. Jol. Geomech., 7(5), pp 389-395.
  71. Singh, T.N. and Verma, A.K. (2005), “Prediction of creep characteristic of rock under varying environment” Int. Jol. of Environmental Geology, vol.48(4-5), pp 559-568.( IF: 1.078)
  72. Singh, T.N., Verma, A.K., Singh, V. and Sahu, A. (2005), “A neurofuzzy approach for the prediction of Slake Durability Index of some coal measure rocks”, Int. Jol. of Environmental Geology, vol.47(2), pp 246-253.(IF: 1.078)
  73. Singh, T.N., Kanchan, R. and Verma, A.K. (2005), “A Comparative Study of ANN and Neuro-fuzzy for the prediction of Dynamic constant of rock mass”, Proceeding of Ind. Academy of Sciences: Earth and Planetary Sci., 114 (1), pp 75-86. (IF: 0.941)
  74. Singh, T. N., Kanchan, R., Saigal, K. and Verma, A. K. (2004), “Prediction of P-wave velocity and Anisotropic property of rock using Artificial Neural Network technique”, Jol. of scientific and industrial research, vol. 63(1), pp 32 – 38. (IF: 0.735)
  75. Singh, T.N., Kanchan, R., and Verma, A.K. (2004), “Prediction of blast induced ground vibration and frequency using an artificial intelligence technique”, Noise and Vibration Worldwide, 35 (11), pp.7-15.

National Journals

  1. Jayraj Singh, A.K.Verma, Haider Banka.(2018) “A comparative analysis using firefly algorithm to locate critical failure surface in slope stability analysis”, Indian landslide, 11(1,2), 2018.
  2. Verma, A.K. (2011), “Shale gas in India: Developmental, Technological and Policy issues”, Energy Security Insights, 2(1), pp. 32 -43
  3. Singh, T.N., Verma, A.K., Singh, S., Jadhav, V.B. and Thote, N.R. (2009), “Ground Vibration Assessment using Genetic Algorithm technique”, Visfotak, vol.4, pp 17-24.
  4. Singh, T.N. and Verma, A.K. (2009), “Stress response around fracture surface under uniaxial loading”, e-Journal Earth Science India, 2(3), pp 148-159.
  5. Singh, T.N., Kanchan, R. and Verma, A.K. (2009), “Strain analysis of rocks of Kishangarh area, Rajasthan, India, The Icfai University Journal of Earth Sciences, 3(2), pp 29-40.
  6. Verma, A.K. and Singh, T.N. (2009), “A Neuro-Genetic approach for prediction of compressional wave velocity of rock and its sensitivity analysis”, Jol. of Earth Sci. and Engg., 2(2), pp 81-94.
  7. Verma, A.K., Singh, T.N, Verma, M.K. and Kripamoy Sarkar (2009), “Predictions of shear displacement in fully grouted rock bolt”, Jol. of Rock Mechanics and Tunneling Technology, 15(2), pp 117-130.
  8. Verma, A.K. and Kanchan, R. (2007), “Prediction of Drill Performance by Physico Mechanical Properties – an Intelligent Approach”, Institute of Engineers, India, vol. 87, pp 49-55.
  9. Singh, T.N., Pandey, A.C. and Verma, A.K. (2006), “Prediction of Elastic Constants of Rock by Dynamic Waves”, Mining Engineers Jol., 8 (2), pp 19-27.
  10. Singh,T.N. and Verma, A.K. (2005), “Prediction of rock strength using simple field parameters by fuzzy and multivariate regression analysis”, Mining Engineers Journal, 7 (5), pp 15-22.
  11. Singh, T.N., Kanchan, R., Verma, A.K. and Singh,S. (2003), “An Intelligent approach for prediction of Triaxial properties using unconfined uniaxial strength”, Mining Engineering Journal, vol. 5(4), pp 12-16.
Presentations : CONFERENCES/SYMPOSIUM PUBLISHED
International
  1. Guru Raju and A.K.Verma (2019) Use of silane & polymer to improve properties of black cotton soil, 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics (ICRAGEE 2020) (Abstract Accepted)
  2. Srinivas Mantrala, A.K.Verma and T.G.Sitharam (2019) Stabilization of highly jointed rock mass slopes of the world’s highest railway bridge across:the deep gorges of chenab river, Int. conference on Landslide and Slope, Slope 2019 (Abstract accepted)
  3. Srinivas Mantrala, A.K.Verma and T.G.Sitharam (2019) Design and Analysis of CHENAB bridge foundations and Abuttment Slope stabilisation measures: World’s highest elevated Rail bridge,Int. Symposium of Geotechnics and transportation, IIT Delhi
  4. Jayraj Singh, Haider Banka, A.K.Verma. “Analysis of slope stability and detection of critical failure surface using gravitational search algorithm”, Recent Advances in Information Technology (RAIT), 2018, 4th International Conference on. IEEE, 2018, pages 1-6.
  5. Jayraj Singh, A.K.Verma, Haider Banka. “Application of Biogeography based optimization to locate critical slip surface in slope stability evaluation”, Recent Advances in Information Technology (RAIT), 2018, 4rth International Conference on. IEEE, 2018, pages 1-7.
  6. Sardana, S., Jha, M. K., & Verma, A. K. (2017). Assessment of Rockfall Activity along the Road Cut Slope in Himalayan Region-A Case Study. In Proceedings of the Indian geotechnical conference 2017. Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati.
  7. Pushpendra Sharma, Sahil Sardana, Manish Kumar Jha, A K Verma (2017), Stability of Rock Slopes Under Varying Thermo-Mechanical Condition In Fire Prone Area. In 7th Asian Mining Congress & Exhibition; Mining, Geological & Metallurgical Institute of India.
  8. Sardana, S., & Verma, A. K. (2017). Qualitative assessment of road cut slope in the northeast region of India-a case study. In Proceedings of the 7th Indian rock conference (pp. 284-289).
  9. Pushpendra Sharma, Sahil Sardana, Manish Kumar Jha, A K Verma.(2017). Stability of Rock Slopes Under Varying Thermo-Mechanical Condition In Fire Prone Area. In 7th Asian Mining Congress & Exhibition; Mining, Geological & Metallurgical Institute of India.
  10. Verma A.K., Pradeep Gautam, Singh T. N.,Bajpai R. K.(2015)Numerical Simulation of High Level Radioactive Waste for Disposal in Deep Underground Tunnel, Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - 1:499-504, ISBN 978-3-319-09300-0,Springer International Publishing.
  11. Sarkar, K., and Verma, A.K., 2013, Static and Dynamic analysis of soil slope-A case study, International Conference on Future Challenges in Earth Sciences for Energy & Mineral Resources, ISM Dhanbad, pp.236.
  12. Verma. A.K., Singh, T.N. and Bajpai, R.K. (2013) Study of thermo-hydro-mehchanical processes at the potential site of an Indian nuclear waste repository, Rock Mechanics for Resources, Energy and Environment – Kwasniewski & lydzba (eds) (EUROCK-2013), pp. 531-536, ISBN: 978-1-138-00080-3.
  13. Verma, A.K. and Singh, T. N. (2012) A Neuro-Fuzzy Approach for Prediction of Longitudinal Wave Velocity-An Intelligent Approach, National Workshop on Wavelets, Multiresolution and Multifractal Analyses in Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences-Current Trends,Feb.29-Mar.02,2012,Mumbai, pp.-34.
  14. Verma, A.K and Singh, T.N. (2012), Changes in hydro-mechanical monitoring parameters during construction of a deep geological repository, RockEng 2012 - Rock Engineering for Natural Resources, 21st Canadian Rock Mechanics Symposium, be held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, to be held from May 5 to 9, 2012. (Abstract Accepted).
  15. Verma, A. K., Singh, T. N. and Monjezi, M. (2010), “Intelligent Prediction of Heating Value of coal and its sensitivity analysis”, 1st Int. Applied Geological Congress, 27th April, Oral-A, Iran.
  16. Singh, T. N. and Verma, A.K. (2009), “Effect of Earthquake on Rock Structure Interaction -A Slope Stability Analysis” Fifth International Conference On Recent Advances In Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering And Soil Dynamics and Symposium in honor of professor I. M. Idriss”, SAN diego, CA - may 24-29, 2010 (Abstract Accepted)
  17. Singh, T. N. and Verma, A.K. (2008), “Fire study in long tunnel using numerical simulation”, Proc. Nat. Sem. Rock Machine-Interaction in Excavations, pp 223-229.
  18. Singh, T.N. and Verma, A.K. (2007), “Evaluating the slope instability of the Amiya Slide”, Rock Mechanics, Meeting society Challenges and demand (Edited by Eberhardt, Stead & Morrison, Taylor & Francis Pub. London), pp 993-998.
  19. Yudan, J., Ranjith, P.G, Verma, A.K., Choi, S.K. and Haque, A. (2006), “A Parametric Study on Flow of Groundwater in Fractured-Porous Media”: 3D Simulation, Session 91-ARMS-A0513, 4th Asian Rock Mechanics Symposium (ARMS 2006)
  20. Singh, T.N., Khandelwal, M. and Verma, A.K. (2005), “A Study of the Strength and Deformational Characteristics of Jointed Rockmass”, IACMAG-2005, Italy, pp 191-198.
  21. Sitharam, T.G., Maji, V.B. and Verma, A.K. (2005), “Equivalent Continuum Analyses of Jointed Rockmass”, 40th U.S. Symposium on Rock Mechanics (USRMS): Rock Mechanics for Energy, Mineral and Infrastructure Development in the Northern Regions, held in Anchorage, Alaska, June 25-29.
  22. Singh, T.N., Kanchan, R., Verma, A.K. and Singh, S. (2004), “Adaptive Neuro-fuzzy model based prediction of fracture toughness of rock, Int. Fuzzy Conf., Talbiate Modrassass Technical University, Tehran, Iran, pp 57-63.
  23. Singh, T .N., Saigal, K., Kanchan, R. and Verma, A.K. (2004), “Prediction of p-wave by simple field observations”. In W. Schubert : Rock Engineering - Theory and Practice; Proceedings of the ISRM Regional Symposium EUROCK 2004 & 53rd Geomechanics Colloquy,Austria; pp. 499-502. Verlag Glückauf Essen, Essen, Germany.
  24. Singh, T.N., and Verma, A.K. (2004), “Instability evaluation of rock slope”, ITALIA-2004, 32nd Int. Geological Congress, Florence, Italy,(accepted in session G-02.30:The interplay between soil and rock mechanics and engineering geology related to stability assessment for slopes and underground works sponsored by IAEG).

National
  1. Jayraj Singh, A.K.Verma, Haider Banka. “A comparative analysis using firefly algorithm to locate critical failure surface in slope stability analysis”, Indian Landslide Congress 2017, 4rth Indian landslide Congress, IIT Bombay, 2017. (Accepted)
  2. RK Bajpai, AK Verma, Sachin Maheshwar (2016) Modeling of thermal evolution of near field area around single pit mode nuclear waste canister disposal in soft rocks, Proceedings of the twentieth DAE-BRNS symposium on thermal analysis,Indian Thermal Analysis Society.
  3. Nikhil Kumar, A.K. Verma. T.N. Singh, and K. Sarkar, 2014,Comparative Analysis of methods for prediction of a Landslide, INDOROCK-2014, New Delhi, pp 567-576.
  4. A.K. Verma, P. K. Gautam , T. N. Singh and R.K. Bajpai (2014)Discrete element modelling of deep geological repository for high level nuclear waste disposal, Technical Session – 5, Design and Modelling of Excavations, National Seminar on Innovative Practices in Rock Mechanics (IPRM-2014), NIRM
  5. Verma A.K. and Singh, T.N. (2013) Hybrid Intelligent models for prediction of compressional wave velocity of rocks, National Seminar on ‘Explosives & Blasting Techniques for Mining, Quarrying & Infrastructure Industry’ (EBTMQI), NIT Karnataka, Sept. 27-28, 2013
  6. Sarkar, K., and Verma, A.K., 2013, Static and Dynamic analysis of soil slope-A case study, International Conference on Future Challenges in Earth Sciences for Energy & Mineral Resources, pp.236.
  7. Singh, T. N. and Verma, A.K. (2009), “Predicting Shear Wave Velocity of Rock -Mass By Fracture Parameters”, Earth System Sciences, Inagural Ceremony of Indian Science Congress, vol.1, pp 89 – 105. ISBN No. 13:978 - 81 - 8069 -613 – 8
  8. 8. Verma, A.K. and Singh, T.N. (2009), “Numerical Prediction of Storage Capacity of CO2 in an Abandoned Jharia Coalfield”, Int. Conference on Climate Change and sustainable management of Natural Resources, IASCA, Gwalior, 2009 (Abstract Accepted)
  9. . Verma, A.K., Singh, T.N. and Sarkar, K. (2009) , “Static and Dynamic analysis of a landslide- A Case Study”, Proc. Nat. sem. on Geodynamics, sedimentation and biotic response in the context of India-Asia collision" Aizwal, Mizoram, pp 49-65.
  10. Pellet, F. and Verma, A.K. (2006), “The effect of excavation rate on tunnel stability”, Technical session 3H, A168, 2nd Int. Congress on computational Mechanics and Simulation (ICCMS 06).
  11. Singh, T.N., Verma, A.K. and Sahu, A. (2005), “Slake Durability of Shaly Rock and it’s prediction”,TECMAC-2005,Conference on Technological Advancements and Environmental Challenges in Mining and Allied Industries in the 21st Century, 215-232 ,Department of Mining Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela.
  12. . Verma A.K. (2004), “Prediction of dynamic constant of rock mass using systematically optimized ANN model”, Prastuti-IEE(UK), pp 29.
  13. Singh, T.N., Kanchan, R. and Verma, A.K. (2004), “Application of Knowledge Based System (KBS) in Geomechanics”, Geomintech Symp., Bhubaneswar, pp 61–66.

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