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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.