BIOGRAPHY
Dr Soukat Kumar Das joined NIT Rourkela in June 2023 as a faculty member in the Dept of Civil Engg. He has more than 8 years of research experience in the field of granular mechanics, Discrete Element Method (DEM), ground improvement techniques, Machine Learning and constitutive modelling of geomaterials. His current research area includes understanding the potential of carbon sequestration in the Indian peninsula and developing closed-loop geothermal systems. Before joining NIT Rourkela, he worked as a postdoc at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST, KSA) where he worked on understanding the effect of drill string vibrations on wellbore stabilities. He completed his PhD from IIT Kanpur in 2021, and the major focus of his doctoral work was to decipher the effect of crushing on the rate-dependent response of granular media. He got his Masters from IIT Roorkee in 2015. His Under graduation is from Jadavpur University in Civil Engg (2013).
EXPERTISE INFORMATION
Research Group
- Geotechnical Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Smart Granular Mechanics and DEM
- Computational Geomechanics and FEM
- Constitutive modelling and Machine Learning-Artificial Intelligence
- Rock Mechanics, Geothermal energy and Carbon sequestration
Soukat Kumar Das
সৌকত কুমার দাশ
Assistant Professor Grade-II
Civil Engineering
dassoukat@nitrkl.ac.in
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PUBLICATIONS1
CONTINUING EDUCATIONPERSONAL INFORMATION
Soukat Kumar Das
Assistant Professor Grade-II
Civil Engineering
Room Number: CE-207
Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Sundargarh, Odisha, India - 769008
2021
Ph.D.
Geotechnical EngineeringIIT Kanpur
2015
M.Tech
Geotechnical EngineeringIIT Roorkee
2013
B.E
Civil EngineeringJadavpur University
Teaching Experience
- Computational methods for Civil Engg, IIT Kanpur (Tutor), 29 Jul 2019 - 29 Nov 2019
- Design of Foundation, IIT Kanpur (Tutor), 08 Jan 2018 - 27 Apr 2018
Post Doctoral Research Experience
- Wellbore instabilities due to drillstring vibrations, KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (KAUST), 30 Jan 2022 - 11 Jun 2023
Total Publications: 6
S. K. Das and H. Abuel-Naga,"Effect of rate-dependent breakage on strength and deformation of granular sample—a DEM study", Minerals, vol.14, no.11, pp.1-21, MDPI 2024, 10.3390/min14111102 Article
S. Chowdhury, S. K. Das, and S. Ghosh,"Numerical study on microscopic behaviour of non-crushable cemented granular media subjected to direct shear test", International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, vol.18, no.1, pp.101-117, Taylor and Francis, May 2024, 10.1080/19386362.2024.2353420 Article
S. K. Das, S. Verma, and A. Das,"Numerical assessment of effects of strain rate on the critical state of crushable sand", Géotechnique Letters, vol.12, no.1, pp.8-13, ICE Publishing 2022, 10.1680/jgele.21.00097 Article
S. K. Das and A. Das,"A critical state based viscoplastic model for crushable granular materials", Soils and Foundations, vol.62, no.1, Elsevier 2022, 10.1016/j.sandf.2021.101093 Article
S. K. Das and A. Das,"Strain-rate-dependent energy redistribution during isotropic confined comminution", Géotechnique Letters, vol.10, no.4, pp.542-549, ICE publishing 2020, 10.1680/jgele.20.00039 Article
Computer Applications in Geotechnical Engineering (CAGE-2024) Civil Engineering (Short-term Course)
- Co-Coordinator
- 09 Jul 2024 - 13 Jul 2024
- Brochure
- CE2102 : Mechanics of Soil {Theory}
- CH1400 : Environment and Safety Engineering {Theory}
- CE1010 : Computer Aided Drawing and Graphics {Practical}
Memberships / Fellowships
- Indian Geotechnical Society, 2023
- Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2023