Ph.D [Geotechnical Engineering] 2004 – 2009 Indian Institute of Science(IISc), Bangalore, Karnataka, India. (Prof. N. S. Govinda Rao Gold Medal for the Best Ph.D Thesis in the department of Civil Engineering at IISc Bangalore for the year 2008 – 2009. )
M.Tech. [Geotechnical Engineering] 2002 – 2004 Indian Institute of Technology (IITK), Kanpur, India.
B.Tech. [Civil Engineering] 1997 – 2001 J.N. T. U. College of Engineering, Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, India. (Vellanki Rama Rao Memorial Gold Medal Award for bagging University First Rank in the Civil Engineering Department of all constituent colleges of Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University for the batch 1997-2001 )
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Areas of Interest
Municipal Solid Waste Landfills.
Computational Geomechanics.
Unsaturated Soil Mechanics.
Reliability-Based Designs in Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental Engineering.
Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Resistant Design of Retaining Structures.
Reliability Analysis of Unsaturated Soil Slopes using Advanced Surrogate Models: A Comparative Study of PCE-MCS, K-MCS, and Gradient-Based Methods KA Waris, BM Basha Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE , 2026 2026
Reliability Analysis with Correlated Non-Gaussian Inputs of Unsaturated Soil Slopes for Surrogate-Enhanced MCS using Parallelized Morgenstern-Price Framework, FORM and SORM KA Waris, BM Basha International Journal of Geoemchanics ASCE , 2026 2026
Probabilistic Stability Assessment of Ash Dykes Using Surrogate Models and Multi-Slip Surface Analysis K Abhinai, KA Waris, BM Basha Geotechnical and Geological Engineering: An International Journal , 2026 2026
Active Earth Pressure on Retaining Walls with Narrow Backfill Adjacent to Rock Faces SD Bashir, MR Khan, BM Basha Geotechnical and Geological Engineering: An International Journal , 2026 2026 Citations: 1
Probabilistic Design of Unsaturated Clay Slopes with Spatial Variability of Shear Strength and SWRC Parameters ASS Raghuram, BM Basha Geotechnical and Geological Engineering: An International Journal , 2025 2025 Citations: 2
Experimental investigations of narrow backfill retaining walls under translation mode SD Bashir, BM Basha, MR Khan International Journal of Geomechanics 25 (10), 06025013 , 2025 2025 Citations: 4
Experimental study of active earth pressure on narrow backfill retaining walls under rotation SD Bashir, BM Basha Geotechnical and Geological Engineering 43 (5), 232 , 2025 2025 Citations: 6
Influence of Plastic Deformation and Soil Arching on Stability Soil Slopes Reinforced with Piles P Chaudhary, BM Basha, ASS Raghuram Thyagaraj, T., Ravichandran, P.T., Janardhanan, G., Bhuvaneshwari, S … , 2025 2025
Arching on Stability Soil Slopes P Chaudhary, BM Basha, ASS Raghuram Analysis, Design, and Construction Aspects of Geotechnical Structures … , 2025 2025
Detection and Prediction of Slope Stability in Unsaturated Finite Slopes using Interpretable Machine Learning KA Waris, MA Rahaman, BM Basha Modeling Earth Systems and Environment , 2025 2025 Citations: 9
Effect of Rainfall and Seismic Loading on Reinforcement Force Coefficient of Reinforced Soil Slopes J Yamini, BM Basha Soil Dynamics and Computational Geomechanics. IYGEC 2021. Lecture Notes in … , 2025 2025
Prediction of Active Earth Pressure in Constrained Backfill Retaining Walls using Non-Linear Regression and SVR SB Danish, KA Waris, BM Basha Proceedings of the 10th World Congress on Civil, Structural, and … , 2025 2025
Characteristics on Slope Stability: A Case Study of Idukki Slope Failure ASS Raghuram, BM Basha Characterization and Behaviour of Natural and Engineered Geomaterials … , 2025 2025
Veneer Cover Seismic Stability Against Direct-Slip Failure by Pseudo-Static D Soujanya, BM Basha Characterization and Behaviour of Natural and Engineered Geomaterials … , 2025 2025
Effect of Chitosan and Casein on the CBR behavior of silty clay for low volume roads: Reliability-based design optimization approach RM Rasheed, AAB Moghal, BM Basha, A Almajed Construction and Building Materials 473, 141014 , 2025 2025 Citations: 10
Reliability-Based Design Optimization of Mine Waste Slopes Using Monte Carlo Simulations KA Waris, BM Basha Proceedings of Geo-EnvironMeet 2025, 324-334 , 2025 2025 Citations: 2
Seismic Design of Mechanically Stabilized Earth Walls Built in Confined Spaces Considering Strain Localization and Bilinear Failure Surfaces SM Ahmed, SD Bashir, BM Basha International Journal of Geomechanics , 2025 2025 Citations: 1
Seismic stability evaluation of landfill veneer cover systems using modified pseudo-dynamic method S Dabbiru, BM Basha Journal of Earthquake Engineering 29 (1), 75-102 , 2025 2025 Citations: 4
Optimization of Factors of Safety and Displacements of Unsaturated Soil Slopes by Bio-Inspired Meta-Heuristic Method KA Waris, BM Basha International Journal of Geoemchanics ASCE , 2024 2024 Citations: 3
Reliability-Based Design Analysis of Cohesive Soil as an Embankment Material Amended Using Hydrophobic Biopolymers AAB Moghal, RM Rasheed, MB Basha, A Almajed Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering , 2024 2024 Citations: 8
MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
Optimum design of cantilever retaining walls using target reliability approach GL Sivakumar Babu, BM Basha International journal of geomechanics 8 (4), 240-252 , 2008 2008 Citations: 150
Effect of Fiber Reinforcement on CBR Behavior of Lime Blended Expansive Soils: Reliability Approach AAB Moghal, B Chittoori, BM Basha Road Materials and Pavement Design, Taylor and Francis , 2017 2017 Citations: 110
Optimum design of cantilever sheet pile walls in sandy soils using inverse reliability approach GLS Babu, BM Basha Computers and Geotechnics 35 (2), 134-143 , 2008 2008 Citations: 102
Optimum design for external seismic stability of geosynthetic reinforced soil walls: reliability based approach BM Basha, GLS Babu Journal of geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering 136 (6), 797-812 , 2010 2010 Citations: 89
Reliability assessment of internal stability of reinforced soil structures: A pseudo-dynamic approach BM Basha, GLS Babu Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering 30 (5), 336-353 , 2010 2010 Citations: 84
Seismic rotational displacements of gravity walls by pseudodynamic method with curved rupture surface BM Basha, GLS Babu International Journal of Geomechanics 10 (3), 93-105 , 2010 2010 Citations: 79
Target reliability approach to study the effect of fiber reinforcement on UCS behavior of lime treated semiarid soil AAB Moghal, BCS Chittoori, BM Basha, MA Al-Shamrani Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering 29 (6), 04017014 , 2017 2017 Citations: 78
Computation of sliding displacements of bridge abutments by pseudo-dynamic method BM Basha, GLS Babu Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering 29 (1), 103-120 , 2009 2009 Citations: 78
Target reliability based design optimization of anchored cantilever sheet pile walls BM Basha, GLS Babu Canadian Geotechnical Journal 45 (4), 535-548 , 2008 2008 Citations: 72
Effect of polypropylene fibre reinforcement on the consolidation, swell and shrinkage behaviour of lime-blended expansive soil AAB Moghal, BCS Chittoori, BM Basha, AM Al-Mahbashi International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering 12 (5), 462-471 , 2018 2018 Citations: 68
Seismic reliability assessment of internal stability of reinforced soil walls using the pseudo-dynamic method BM Basha, GLS Babu Geosynthetics International 18 (5), 221-241 , 2011 2011 Citations: 63
Seismic reliability assessment of external stability of reinforced soil walls using pseudo-dynamic method BM Basha, GLS Babu Geosynthetics International 16 (3), 197-215 , 2009 2009 Citations: 60
The sustainable utilization of coal gangue in geotechnical and geoenvironmental applications M Ashfaq, AAB Moghal, BM Basha Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste 26 (3), 03122003 , 2022 2022 Citations: 47
Effect of Fines Content on the Hysteretic Behavior of Water Retention Characteristic Curves of Reconstituted Soils ASS Raghuram, BM Basha, AAB Moghal Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering ASCE, 10.1061/(ASCE)MT.1943-5533 … , 2020 2020 Citations: 38
Experimental and statistical evaluation of compressibility of fresh and landfilled municipal solid waste under elevated moisture contents BM Basha, N Parakalla, KR Reddy International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering 10 (1), 86-98 , 2016 2016 Citations: 38
Reliability-based Design Optimization of Biopolymer-Amended Soil as an Alternative Landfill Liner Material KV Vydehi, AAB Moghal, BM Basha Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste, ASCE , 2022 2022 Citations: 37
Reliability perspective on optimum design of flexible pavements for fatigue and rutting performance S Saride, PRT Peddinti, MB Basha Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part B: Pavements 145 (2), 04019008 , 2019 2019 Citations: 36
