Vijay Puri
Professor
puri@engr.siu.edu
618-453-7838
Engineering B, Room 28
Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering
Research Interests:
Soil dynamics
Machine foundations
Design of foundations to resist seismic loads
Liquefaction of soils
Determination of dynamic soil properties
Waste disposal
Utilization of coal preparation and combustion wastes
Clay liners
Soil improvement using geogrids
Classes
- CE 320 – Soil Mechanics
- CE421 -Foundation Design
- CE 422—Environmnetal Geotechnology
- CE 520—Advanced Soil Mechanics
- CE523—Soil Dynamics
- CE 525—Foundations for Dynamic Loads
Education
- B. Sc., Panjab University, Chandigarh, India, 1962
- B.Sc., Civil Engineering (Honors), Panjabi University, Patiala, India, 1966
- Master of Engineering (Civil), Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, University of Roorkee, India, 1969
- Ph. D., Civil Engineering with specialization in geotechnical engineering, University of Missouri-Rolla, 1984.
Chapter in Book
- “Developments in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering in recent years” by Shamsher Prakash and Vijay K Puri, JK Commemorative Volume, 2013
Peer-Reviewed Conferences
- Prakash, S., Puri, V.K. and Kumar, S. (2012),”Displacement Based Seismic Design of Retaining Walls”, Second International Conference on Performance-Based Design in Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, Taormina,Italy, May 28-30.
- Kolay, P.K., Kumar, S., Puri, V.K., and Tiwari, D. (2012),”Improvement of Bearing Capacity of Shallow Foundations by using Geo-grid Reinforced Double Layered Soil”, Indian Geotechnical Conference, Delhi, Dec. 13-15.
- Pravin, j., Kumar, S., Puri, V.K., Kolay, P.K. and Prakash, S. (2012), “Influence of Heavily Loaded Mat Foundations on Adjacent Drilled Shafts” , Indian Geotechnical Conference, Delhi, Dec. 13-15.