IIEST, Shibpur

Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur

(Formerly Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur)

Empowering the nation since 1856

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Prof. Ambarish Ghosh , Department of Civil Engineering

Dr. Ambarish Ghosh

Professor

Civil Engineering

Date of Birth: 7th January, 1968

Academic Qualification

  • B. E. (Civil Engg.) First Class First, North Bengal University, 1990
  • M. Tech. (SMFE), IIT Kharagpur, 1992
  • Ph. D. (Environmental Geotechnics), IIT Kharagpur, 1996

Awards

  • University Medal from North Bengal University, University Topper among the students of all the discipline in the year 1990.

Area of Specialization

  • Geotechnical Engineering

Contact

Phone

  1. Residence:  098312 86527
  2. Fax: 2668 5186

Address

  1. EMail: ambarish@civil.iiests.ac.in, ghosh1968@yahoo.co.in

Present Positions

  • Professor Department of Civil Engineering

Membership of Professional Bodies

  • Life Member of Indian Geotechnical Society
  • Fellow of Institute of Engineers (India)

Courses Undertaken

Under-Graduate

  • (CE – 70X) Disaster Mitigation
  • (CE – 804/7) Environmental Geotechnics
  • (CE 703) Foundation Engineering
  • (CE 708) Foundation Engineering Sessional
  • (CE 803/2) Geotechnical Investigation and Practices (Elective I)
  • (CE 401) Surveying - II
  • (CE 503) Surveying - III
  • (CE 403) Planning Drawing & Estimation
  • (CE 603) Soil Mechanics – II
  • (CE 608) Soil Mechanics Laboratory
  • (CE 405) Planning Drawing & Estimation (Sessional)
  • (CE 808) Structural Engineering Laboratory
  • (CE 404) Concrete Technology Laboratory
  • (CE 201) Introduction to Computing
  • (CE X) Transportation Engineering Laboratory

Post-Graduate

  • (CE/P/GT/501) Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
  • (CE/P/GT/502) Environmental Geotechnics
  • (CE/N/G-101) Advanced Soil Mechanics –I
  • (CE/N/G-205) Advanced Soil Mechanics –II
  • (CE 1033) Ground Improvement Techniques
  • (CE/N/G-403) Ground Improvement Techniques

Research Interest

  1. Utilization of Solid Waste in Civil Engineering Applications
    • Environmental Aspects of Fly Ash Utilization
    • Geotechnical Aspects of Fly Ash Utilization
    • Design and Construction of roads with soil/solid waste
    • Modelling for Utilization of Stabilized Fly Ash in Waste Containment Liner Application
    • Use of Geocomposites for Liner Application
    • Stabilization of Sludges Containing Toxic Metals
  2. (b) Ground Improvement Techniques
    • Remediation for Contaminated Soil
    • Use of Geotextiles to Solve Geotechnical Engineering Problems
    • Ground Improvement for Liquefaction Hazard Mitigation
    • Use of Geotubes in Civil Engineering Applications
  3. Numerical Modelling for Geotechnica Engineering Problems
  4. Study on Dynamic Properties of different Materials and liquefaction Hazard mitigation

Recent Publications 

            

  1. Supia Khatun, Ambarish Ghosh & Dhrubajyoti Sen (2018). “An experimental investigation on effect of drawdown rate and drawdown ratios on stability of cohesionless river bank and evaluation of factor of safety by total strength reduction method”. International Journal of River Basin Management. Taylor & Francis, https://doi.org/10.1080/15715124.2018.1498856.
  2. Sankar Kumar Nath & Nishtha Srivastava & Chitralekha Ghatak & Manik Das Adhikari & Ambarish Ghosh & S. P. Sinha Ray (2017). “Earthquake induced liquefaction hazard, probability and risk assessment in the city of Kolkata, India: its historical perspective and deterministic scenario”. Journal of Seismology, Springer, DOI 10.1007/s10950-017-9691-z.
  3. Chowdhury, Indrajit., Tarafdar, Ronkoyel., Ghosh, Ambarish., Dasgupta, Shambhu Pada (2017), Dynamic Soil Structure Interaction of Bridge Piers Supported on Well Foundation, Journal of Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Volume 97, June 2017, Pages 251-265.
  4. Chowdhury, Indrajit., Tarafdar, Ronkoyel., Ghosh, Ambarish., Dasgupta, Shambhu Pada (2017) “Seismic response of rectangular liquid retaining structures resting on ground considering coupled soil-structure interaction”. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, Springer, DOI 10.1007/s10518-017-0097-7 , Volume 15, issue 9, Pages 3695-3726.
  5. Chowdhury, Indrajit., Tarafdar, Ronkoyel., Ghosh, Ambarish., Dasgupta, Shambhu Pada (2016) “Dynamic response of cylindrical structures considering coupled soil-structure interaction under seismic loading. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering” Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, Springer, DOI 10.1007/s10518-016-9909-4). ISSN 1570-761X. Volume 14, issue 8, Pages 2329-2360.
  6. Chakraborty, Ritwik, Ghosh, Ambarish, Ghosh, Sudipta and Mukherjee, Somnath. (2015). Evaluation of contaminant transport parameters for hexavalent chromium migration through soil media. J. Environmental Earth Sciences, Springer (DOI 10.1007/s12665-015-4586-1). Vol. 74(7), pp. 5687- 5697.
  7. Pal, Sujit and Ghosh, Ambarish. (2014). Volume Change Behavior of Fly Ash–Montmorillonite Clay Mixtures, ASCE, International Journal of Geomechanics, Vol. 14 (1), pp 59-68.
  8. Chakraborty, Ritwik and Ghosh, Ambarish. (2013). Three- Dimensional Analysis of Contaminant Migration through saturated Homogeneous Soil Media using FDM, ASCE, International Journal of Geomechanics, Vol. 13 (6), pp 699-712.
  9. Chakraborty, R., and Ghosh Ambarish (2011), Finite Difference for Computation of 1 – D Pollutant Migration Through Saturated Homogeneous Soil Media, ASCE, International Journal of Geomechanics, 11(1), 12-22.
  10. Ambarish Ghosh (2010), Compaction Characteristics and Bearing Ratio of Pond Ash Stabilized with Lime and Phosphogypsum, ASCE, Materials in Civil Engineering Division, 22(4), 343-351.
  11. Ashis Kumar Bera, Ambarish Ghosh and Amalendu Ghosh (2009), Shear Strength Response of Reinforced Pond Ash, Construction and Building Material, Elsevier, Vol.(23), No. 6, pp. 2386-2393.
  12. Ambarish Ghosh and Utpal Dey (2009), Bearing Ratio of Reinforced Fly Ash Overlying Soft Soil And Deformation Modulus of Fly Ash, Journal of Geotextiles and Geomembranes, Elsevier, Vol. 27, No. 4, 313-320.
  13. Ashis Kumar Bera, Soumendra Nath Chanda, Amalendu Ghosh and Ambarish Ghosh (2009), Unconfined compressive strength of fly ash reinforced with Jute Geotextiles, Journal of Geotextiles and Geomembranes, Elsevier, 27 (5), 391-398.
  14. Ambarish Ghosh and Chillara Subbarao (2007). Strength Characteristics of Class F Fly Ash Modified with Lime and Gypsum, ASCE, Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Division, Vol.133, No. 7, 757-766.
  15. Ashis Kumar Bera, Ambarish Ghosh and Amalendu Ghosh, (2007) Compaction Characteristics of Pond Ash, ASCE, Materials in Civil Engineering Division, Vol.19, No. 4, 349-357.
  16. Ambarish Ghosh and Chillara Subbarao (2006). Leacing of Lime from Fly ash Stabilized with Lime and Gypsum, ASCE, Materials in Civil Engineering Division, Vol.18, No. 1, 106-115.
  17. Ambarish Ghosh and Chillara Subbarao (2006). Tensile Strength Bearing Ratio and Slake Durability of Class F Fly ash Stabilized with Lime and Gypsum, ASCE, Materials in Civil Engineering Division, Vol.18, No. 1, 18-27.
  18. Amalendu Ghosh, Ambarish Ghosh and Ashis Kumar Bera (2005). Bearing Capacity of Square Footing on Pond Ash Reinforced with Jute – Geotextile, Journal of Geotextiles and Geomembranes, Elsevier, Vol. 23 No. 2, 144-173
  19. Ashis Kumar Bera, Ambarish Ghosh and Amalendu Ghosh (2005). Regression Model for Bearing Capacity of a Square Footing on Reinforced Pond Ash, Journal of Geotextiles and Geomembranes, Elsevier, Vol (23), No. 3, 261-285.
  20. Ambarish Ghosh and Chillara Subbarao (2001). Microstructural Development of Fly ash Modified with Lime and Gypsum, ASCE, Materials in Civil Engineering Division, Vol.13, No. 1, pp. 65-70.
  21. Ambarish Ghosh and Chillara Subbarao (1998). Hydraulic Conductivity and Leachate Characteristics of Stabilized Fly ash, ASCE, Environmental Engineering Division, Vol. 124, No. 9, pp. 812-820.

SCOPUS

  1. R. P. Dubey, Ambarish Ghosh, Tanumaya Mitra, Bikas Choudhuri, S. N. Ghosh & Supia Khatun (2017). Stability Analysis of River Dyke in Estuarine Environment, Indian Geotechnical Journal, Springer. Vol. 47(3), pp 349–363
  2. Chowdhury Indrajit, Ghosh Ambarish, and Dasgupta Sambhu Pada (2015), Stiffness Degradation and Damping Augmentation of Soil Under Earthquake Loading, EJGE, Vol. 20(9), pp. 3851-3874.
  3. Chowdhury Indrajit, Ghosh Ambarish, and Dasgupta Sambhu Pada (2016), Dynamic Soil Structure Interaction of Structures Resting on Soil, Springer, Indian Geotechnical Journal, Vol. 46 (1), pp 85-103.
  4. Pal S. K. and Ghosh A. (2013). Hydraulic Conductivity of Fly Ash- Montmorillonite Clay Mixtures, Springer, Indian Geotechnical Journal. Vol. 43(1)pp 47–6

Other than SCI   International Journals     

  1. Sengupta, A., Mukherjee, A. and Ghosh, A. (2017). “Improvement of Bearing Ratio of Clayey Subgrade Using Compacted Flyash Layer”. Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, Springer, DOI 10.1007/s10706-017-0179-y, 35(4), 1885-1894.
  2. Chakraborty, Ritwik and Ghosh, Ambarish. (2012). “Analysis of 1D contaminant migration through saturated soil media underlying aquifer using FDM.” Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste Mgmt., ASCE, 16(3), 229-242.
  3. Ambarish Ghosh and Chillara Subbarao (2011). Deformation Modulus of Fly Ash Modified with Lime and Gypsum, Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, Springer Netherland, Online First, 8 November 2011.
  4. S. Ghosh, S. P. Mukherjee, R. B. Sahu, A. Ghosh, N. Som (2008), A study on Ground improvement by Micropiles by Laboratory and field tests, ICE, UK, Ground Improvement. Vol.161, No. 2, 89-102.  
  1. Ashis Kumar Bera, Ambarish Ghosh and Amalendu Ghosh (2008), Bearing Capacity of Square Footing on Reinforced Pond Ash, Ground Improvement, ICE, UK, Vol.161, No. 1, 17-22.
  1. Ashis Kumar Bera, Ambarish Ghosh and Amalendu Ghosh (2007), Behaviour of Model Footing on Pond Ash, Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, Springer, Netherland, Vol. 25, No. 3, 315-325.
  2. Ambarish Ghosh and Chillara Subbarao (2001). Discussion on Micro-structural Development of Stabilized Fly Ash as Pavement Base Material, ASCE, Materials in Civil Engineering Division, Vol.13, No. 4, pp. 316-317
  3. Ambarish Ghosh and Chillara Subbarao (1997). Fly ash Management by Stabilization, Journal of Solid Waste Technology and Management, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 126-130.

 

National Journals 

  1. Swapan Kumar Bagui and Ambarish Ghosh (2011). Development of Model for Optimum Debt Capacity Ratio for a Road Project, Indian Highways of Indian Road Congress, August, pp. 27-31.
  2. Swapan Kumar Bagui and Ambarish Ghosh (2011), Modification of Stopping Sight Distance and Length of Crest Vertical Curve Using Air Resistance and Drag Force Parameters, Indian Highways, January, pp. 21-29.
  3. Swapan Kumar Bagui and Ambarish Ghosh (2010), Economic Analysis for Selection of some Important Engineering Parameters in Highway Engineering, Indian Highways, July, pp. 59- 69.
  4. Bagui, S.K.and Ghosh,A.(2010b). “Technical and Financial Parameters Effect Concession Period: A Case.” Indian Journal of Finance.4 (8), 24-30.
  5. Bagui, S.K.and Ghosh,A.(2009). “Visual System and Glare.” Journal of Indian Highways, 37(8), 13-21.
  6. Swapan Kumar Bagui and Ambarish Ghosh (2009). Development of Guidelines for Median Barrier, Anti-Glare Screen and Anti-Glare Screen Height for Unsymmetrical Curve, Indian Highways, April, pp. 33-50.
  7. Bagui, S.K., Ghosh, A., and Jha, S. R. (2004). “Highway Design Considering Glare.” Journal of Indian Highways, 32(12), 19-28.

Book/ Proceedings Published

  1. Proceedings of the Short Term Course on Soft Soil Engineering edited by B C Chattopadhyay, K K Chattopadhyay and A Ghosh, held in May 2008.
  2. Proceedings of the National Workshop on Damage Assessment Retrofitting and Strengthening of Buildings edited by A L Guha, K K Bhar, A Ghosh, held in January 2005, Kolkata.

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