Dr. Dipankana Bhattacherjee has graduated in Civil Engineering from Jadavpur University and completed M.Tech. and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Dr. Bhattacherjee served as a Research Associate in the Department of Civil Engg., IIT Bombay, before joining as Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur (Formerly, Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur). Her primary research interests include Geotechnical Engineering, Experimental Geotechnics, Geotechnical Centrifuge Modelling and Application of Geosynthetics in Geotechnics.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay) [
M.Tech. (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay) [
B.C.E (Jadavpur University) [
Higher Secondary (Nava Nalanda High School) [Percentage of marks - 96%]
Madhyamik Pariksha (Gokhale Memorial Girls' School)[Percentage of marks - 90.38%]
RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS
Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology, Civil and Structural Engineering, Building and Construction, General Environmental Science
Physical model study on failure mechanism of strip footing on reinforced granular deposit Puspendu Ray, Quamar Tabish, Ambarish Ghosh, Saptarshi Kundu, Dipankana Bhattacherjee European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering, 2024 This study proposes guidelines for predicting the failure mechanism of a shallow strip footing resting on geosynthetic-reinforced granular deposit at different stages of footing settlement. Physical model tests are performed on footings resting on unreinforced and geosynthetic-reinforced soil. The reinforcement parameters varied include the depth between consecutive reinforcements, number of layers and the depth of the reinforced zone. Additionally, contours of deformation and maximum shear strain of soil and mobilised tensile strain in reinforcement with increasing footing settlement are studied. The improvement of bearing capacity ratio and the peak tensile strain in the reinforcement was monitored for three normalised settlement ratios of 5% (low), 10% (medium) and 25% (high). The reinforced soil models were found to depict primarily a punching shear failure limited solely within the reinforced zone at s/B of 5%. This was supplemented with a well-formed triangular wedge in the underlying unreinforced soil at s/B of 10%. In addition to above mechanisms, the radial shear zones were prominent at s/B of 25%. Failure mechanisms have been proposed eventually for each s/B value investigated, including guidelines on the upper and lower bounds of the load dispersion angle in the reinforced soil and wedge angle of the underlying unreinforced soil.
Subjected to Surcharge Loading A Mondal, S Saha, S Kundu, D Bhattacherjee Proceedings of the Indian Geotechnical Conference (IGC 2024), Volume 6 … , 2025 2025
Reinforced Soil Slope Subjected A Pal, D Bhattacherjee Proceedings of the Indian Geotechnical Conference (IGC 2024), Volume 3 … , 2025 2025
A Guideline of Bearing Capacity of Strip Footing Resting on Reinforced Granular P Ray, A Ghosh, D Bhattacherjee Analytical, Physical, and Numerical Modeling in Geotechnical Engineering … , 2025 2025
Behaviour of strip footing resting on encapsulated soil mass: a numerical study P Ray, A Ghosh, D Bhattacherjee Modeling Earth Systems and Environment 11 (1), 37 , 2025 2025 Citations: 1
Theoretical and numerical studies on strip footing resting on encapsulated soil mass P Ray, A Ghosh, D Bhattacherjee Transportation Infrastructure Geotechnology 12 (1), 21 , 2025 2025 Citations: 3
Studies on the Performance of Geogrid Reinforced Marginal Soil Slopes Subjected to Surcharge Loading A Mondal, S Saha, S Kundu, D Bhattacherjee Indian Geotechnical Conference, 319-332 , 2024 2024
Seepage Analysis of Conventional Levee and Fly Ash Levee Subjected to Flooding Using Different Filter Media R Mondal, S Ghosh, D Bhattacherjee Indian Geotechnical Conference, 453-464 , 2024 2024
Numerical Studies on Vetiver Root Reinforced Soil Slope Subjected to Rainfall in the North-Eastern Terrain of India A Pal, D Bhattacherjee Indian Geotechnical Conference, 449-465 , 2024 2024
Physical model study on failure mechanism of strip footing on reinforced granular deposit P Ray, Q Tabish, A Ghosh, S Kundu, D Bhattacherjee European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering 28 (16), 3709-3733 , 2024 2024 Citations: 7
Centrifuge Model Studies on the Use of Hybrid-Geosynthetic Inclusions in Slopes Subjected to Infiltration D Bhattacherjee, BVS Viswanadham Indian Geotechnical Journal 54 (5), 1897-1911 , 2024 2024
Applicability of geobags as a sustainable riverbank protection measure S Guin, D Bhattacherjee Indian Geotechnical Journal 54 (3), 800-813 , 2024 2024 Citations: 5
A Guideline of Bearing Capacity of Strip Footing Resting on Reinforced Granular Soil Deposit P Ray, A Ghosh, D Bhattacherjee Indian Geotechnical Conference, 235-245 , 2023 2023
Numerical Analysis on the stability of Upstream Tailings Dam under seismic loading M Rehman, S Kundu, D Bhattacherjee Lecture notes in Civil Engineering, In press , 2023 2023
Numerical Analysis on the Stability of Upstream Mine Tailings Dam Under Seismic Loading MU Rehman, S Kundu, D Bhattacherjee Indian Geotechnical Conference, 335-348 , 2022 2022 Citations: 1
Studies on Centrifuge Modelling of Rainfall-Induced Landslides D Bhattacherjee, BVS Viswanadham Dynamics of Soil and Modelling of Geotechnical Problems: Proceedings of … , 2022 2022
Simplified Plane Strain Consolidation Modelling of Stone Column P Ray, A Ghosh, D Bhattacherjee Indian Geotechnical Conference, 109-118 , 2021 2021
Centrifuge model studies on geogrid and hybrid geosynthetic reinforced slopes subjected to rainfall D Bhattacherjee, BVS Viswanadham 4th European Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics (ECPMG) 2020 … , 2020 2020
Centrifuge Modelling of Marginal Soil Slopes under Rainfall with Hybrid Geosynthetic Inclusions D Bhattacherjee, BVS Viswanadham Ground Improvement Techniques (ISBN: 978-981-15-9987-3). Lecture notes in … , 2020 2020 Citations: 1
Prediction of threshold curves for mitigating rainfall induced landslides in low permeable soil slopes D Bhattacherjee, BVS Viswanadham Second ASCE India Conference (CRSIDE 2020), Kolkata 1, 77 , 2020 2020
Centrifuge model studies on geogrid and hybrid geosynthetic reinforced slopes subjected torainfall D Bhattacherjee, BVS Viswanadham 4th European Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics (ECPMG) 2020 … , 2020 2020
MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
Numerical studies on the performance of hybrid-geosynthetic-reinforced soil slopes subjected to rainfall D Bhattacherjee, BVS Viswanadham Geosynthetics International 22 (6), 411-427 , 2015 2015 Citations: 78
Centrifuge Model Studies on Performance of Hybrid Geosynthetic–Reinforced Slopes with Poorly Draining Soil Subjected to Rainfall D Bhattacherjee, BVS Viswanadham Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering 145 (12), 04019108 , 2019 2019 Citations: 49
Design and performance of an in-flight rainfall simulator in a geotechnical centrifuge D Bhattacherjee, BVS Viswanadham Geotechnical Testing Journal 41 (1), 72-91 , 2017 2017 Citations: 30
Effect of Geocomposite Layers on Slope Stability Under Rainfall Condition D Bhattacherjee, BVS Viswanadham Indian Geotechnical Journal 48 (2), 316-326 , 2018 2018 Citations: 25
Effect of hybrid geosynthetic layers on soil walls with marginal backfill subjected to rainfall D Bhattacherjee, BVS Viswanadham Geo-Chicago 2016, 362-371 , 2016 2016 Citations: 10
Physical model study on failure mechanism of strip footing on reinforced granular deposit P Ray, Q Tabish, A Ghosh, S Kundu, D Bhattacherjee European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering 28 (16), 3709-3733 , 2024 2024 Citations: 7
Applicability of geobags as a sustainable riverbank protection measure S Guin, D Bhattacherjee Indian Geotechnical Journal 54 (3), 800-813 , 2024 2024 Citations: 5
Studies on the performance of geocomposite reinforced low-permeable slopes subjected to rainfall V BVS, D Bhattacherjee Japanese Geotechnical Society Special Publication 2 (69), 2362-2367 , 2016 2016 Citations: 5
Theoretical and numerical studies on strip footing resting on encapsulated soil mass P Ray, A Ghosh, D Bhattacherjee Transportation Infrastructure Geotechnology 12 (1), 21 , 2025 2025 Citations: 3
Development of a rainfall simulator in centrifuge using Modified Mariotte’s principle D Bhattacherjee, BVS Viswanadham Physical Modelling in Geotechnics, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 9th … , 2018 2018 Citations: 3
Some studies on the performance of geocomposite reinforced slopes subjected to rainfall D Bhattacherjee, V BVS Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Physical Modelling in … , 2014 2014 Citations: 3
Use of hybrid geosynthetics in mitigating rainfall induced slope instability D Bhattacherjee, V BVS Geotechnics for Transportation Infrastructure: Lecture notes in Civil … , 2019 2019 Citations: 2
Use of Hybrid Geosynthetics in Mitigating Rainfall Induced Slope Instability D Bhattacherjee, BVS Viswanadham International Symposium on Geotechnics of Transportation Infrastructure, 342-348 , 2018 2018 Citations: 2
Centrifuge model tests on the measurement of impact energy on bridge pier foundations embedded in sand BVS Viswanadham, A Guha, BV Sudarshan, S Kundu, D Bhattacherjee Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Physical Modelling in … , 2014 2014 Citations: 2
Behaviour of strip footing resting on encapsulated soil mass: a numerical study P Ray, A Ghosh, D Bhattacherjee Modeling Earth Systems and Environment 11 (1), 37 , 2025 2025 Citations: 1
Numerical Analysis on the Stability of Upstream Mine Tailings Dam Under Seismic Loading MU Rehman, S Kundu, D Bhattacherjee Indian Geotechnical Conference, 335-348 , 2022 2022 Citations: 1
Centrifuge Modelling of Marginal Soil Slopes under Rainfall with Hybrid Geosynthetic Inclusions D Bhattacherjee, BVS Viswanadham Ground Improvement Techniques (ISBN: 978-981-15-9987-3). Lecture notes in … , 2020 2020 Citations: 1
Subjected to Surcharge Loading A Mondal, S Saha, S Kundu, D Bhattacherjee Proceedings of the Indian Geotechnical Conference (IGC 2024), Volume 6 … , 2025 2025
Reinforced Soil Slope Subjected A Pal, D Bhattacherjee Proceedings of the Indian Geotechnical Conference (IGC 2024), Volume 3 … , 2025 2025
A Guideline of Bearing Capacity of Strip Footing Resting on Reinforced Granular P Ray, A Ghosh, D Bhattacherjee Analytical, Physical, and Numerical Modeling in Geotechnical Engineering … , 2025 2025