PROF. ACHINTYA
@dce-darbhanga.org
Principal and Professor of Civil Engineering
DARBHANGA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, DARBHANGA, BIHAR
37 years of experience in Teaching, Research, Consultancy and Administration of Academic arena.
Area of specialization is Structural Engineering and Concrete Technology.
Professor Achintya is the Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India), Member of Indian Society for Technical Education, Indian Society of Earthquake Technology, Indian Science Congress Association and Indian Roads Congress and the Chartered Engineer of the Institution of Engineers (India)
EDUCATION
PH. D. (ENGG),
M TECH (CIVIL ENGINEERING)
B E (HONS)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Civil Engineering, Concrete Technology, Building Materials, Earthquake Engineering, Engineering Education Technology
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K. N. Prasad and Achintya
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Before designing a foundation for a particular soil condition, the interest of a foundation engineer is to determine the total settlement of the structure and to select such contact pressure on soil that would not cause excessive settlement. Geotechnical engineers are, therefore, more interested in coefficient of consolidation (Cv), coefficient of volume compressibility (mv) and compression index (Cc) for design of foundations. The compression index (Cc) is determined through a time consuming and extensive consolidation tests. Attempts have been made to develop the empirical relations which can be used to determine the compression index (Cc) of silt–clay matrices without resorting to conventional geotechnical tests that may save costs as well as time of laboratory tests.