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Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar
Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar

Dr. Chaidul Haque Chaudhuri Assistant Professor
School of Infrastructure

Research Interests

Soil-Structure Interaction; Buried Pipeline; Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering; Permanent Ground Deformation; Underground Structures; Piled raft foundation

Contact Details

  • 227, School of Infrastructure, IIT Bhubaneswar
  • chaudhurich@iitbbs.ac.in, chaidul.kdl@gmail.com

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Education

 Degree Discipline Year School
  Ph.D. Civil Engineering (Geotechnical Engg.) 2023 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
  M.Tech. Civil Engineering (Geotechnical Engg.) 2018 National Institute of Technology Agartala
  B.Tech. Civil Engineering 2016 National Institute of Technology Agartala
 

Biosketch

Dr. Chaudhuri is currently working as a faculty member at the School of Infrastructure, IIT Bhubaneswar. He did his B.Tech. and M.Tech. from National Institute of Technology Agartala (NIT Agartala). He completed his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay). His Ph.D. dissertation focused on the “Onshore Buried Pipelines”. His research interests include Underground Space Technology, Buried Pipelines, Tunneling, Soil-Structure Interaction, Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Piled Raft Foundation. Dr. Chaudhuri has also worked as a postdoc fellow at IIT Bombay. He is associated with various industrial projects of national importance. He was selected for the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Post-Doctoral Fellowship (commonly known as the Marie-Curie Fellowship, MSCA) from the European Union. He was Institute Gold Medalist in M.Tech. and Institute 2nd rank holder in B.Tech. He received Young Geotechnical Engineer Best Paper Biennial Award from Indian Geotechnical Society in 2022, 2023 and 2024. He also received best PhD Thesis Award (Naik and Rastogi Excellenece in PhD Research) in IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India for the years 2023-2025 in 2025

Motivated Ph.D. candidates interested in pursuing research in these areas are encouraged to reach out via the provided email address.

 

Teaching

  1. Rock Mechanics, UG & PG (CE6L206)             [Spring 2025]    
  2. Engineering Drawing & Graphics (CE1P001)    [Autumn 2024; Spring 2025]
  3. Seminar I, M.Tech. (CE6S201)                          [Autumn 2024]
  4.  Project Seminar, B.Tech. (CE2S001)                [Autumn 2024]
 

Projects

Sponsored Research Projects:
 
Project sponsored by Duration Role
Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF),  Prime Minister Early Career Research Grant Scheme 2025-2028 As PI
IIT Bhubaneswar (Seed Grant), India 2025-2027 As PI
  
 
Consultancy/Industrial Projects:
 
Project offered by Role
 G-CUBE Engineering Pvt. Ltd., Nagpur, India on 'Review of Design and Drawing of Single Section Gabion Fascia RS Wall for the Work - Design of North East OB Dump at Ostapal Chromite Mine at Sukinda, Jajpur District, Odisha' As PI
 KMV Projects Ltd., Hyderabad, India on 'Review of geotechnical investigation report for the work CPWD-GST Building-Khajaguda. As PI
Review of Design and Drawing of  Load Bearing Boundary Wall Pillar and Footing at Rastrapati Nilayam, Hyderabad. As PI
DILIP BUILDCON LIMITED (DBL), Chhattisgarh, India on "Proof Checking of Highway Embankment Designs - Urga  Pathalgoan Project, NH-130A (from Bhaisma village to Taruma village) in Chhattisgarh" As PI
 
 
 
 

Recent Publications (International Journals)

1Chaidul Haque Chaudhuri, Vansittee Dilli Rao and Deepankar Choudhury (2025); "Stability assessment of pile foundations for an elevated viaduct: Case study of the Indore metro railway in India", International Journal of Geomechanics, ASCE, (ISSN: 1532-3641, Impact Factor: 3.30/2023) USA, Vol. 25, No. 7, pp. 0402513_1-17, doi: 10.1061/IJGNAI.GMENG-10596. (Print Media Coverage in National News Paper ‘Times of India’ on June 6, 2025) (Also Print Media Coverage in Bartaman Patrika Regional News Paper on June 30, 2025)
2Arindam Das, Tanmoy Das, Chaidul Haque Chaudhuri and Deepankar Choudhury (2024); "Integrated study on buried pipelines, co-seismic landslides, and magnitude conversion for 2023 Turkiye earthquake", Engineering Geology, (ISSN: 0013-7952, Impact Factor: 6.9/2023) Elsevier, Netherlands, Vol. 337, August 2024, pp. 107599_1-14, doi: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2024.107599.
3Deepankar Choudhury and Chaidul Haque Chaudhuri (2023) “.A critical review on performance of buried pipeline subjected to pipe bursting and earthquake induced permanent ground deformation” Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Elsevier, U.K., Vol. 173, pp. 108152_1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soildyn.2023.108152
4Chaidul Haque Chaudhuri and Deepankar Choudhury (2023); "Protection of pipeline below pavement subjected to traffic induced dynamic response", Scientific Reports, Nature, Springer (ISSN 2045-2322; Impact Factor: 4.6/2022) UK, Vol.13, pp. 4995, doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-31615-7.
5 Chaidul Haque Chaudhuri and Deepankar Choudhury (2023); "Dynamic analysis of buried pipeline with and without barrier system subjected to underground detonation", Defence Technology, (ISSN 2214-9147(O); 2096-3459(P), Impact Factor: 5.1/2022) Elsevier, China, Vol. 29, pp. 95-105, doi: 10.1016/j.dt.2023.02.017.
6 Chaidul Haque Chaudhuri and Deepankar Choudhury (2022); "Buried pipeline subjected to static pipe bursting underneath: a closed-form analytical solution", Geotechnique, (ISSN: 0016-8505, Impact Factor: 5.8/2022) ICE, London, U.K., Vol. 72, No. 11, pp. 974-983, doi: 10.1680/jgeot.20.P.167. (This paper received IGS-Kakinada Chapter YGE Award – 2023 for Best the Paper on ‘Deep Excavations and Underground Structures’, given by Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS), New Delhi, India).
7Chaidul Haque Chaudhuri and Deepankar Choudhury (2022); “Buried pipeline subjected to underground blast load: Closed-form analytical solution", International Journal of Geomechanics, ASCE, (ISSN: 1532-3641, Impact Factor: 3.918/2021) USA, Vol. 22, No. 9, pp. 06022024_1-7, doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)GM.1943-5622.0002460. (This paper is one of the TOP downloaded articles in geotechnical engineering, September 2022 in ASCE)
8Chaidul Haque Chaudhuri and Deepankar Choudhury (2021); "Semianalytical solution for buried pipeline subjected to horizontal transverse ground deformation", Journal of Pipeline Systems Engineering and Practice, ASCE, (ISSN: 1949-1190, Impact Factor: 1.952/2020) USA, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 04021038_1-15, doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)PS.1949-1204.0000541. (This paper is one of the TOP November 2021 papers by India authors with Editor’s Choice as mentioned in ASCE)
9 Chaidul Haque Chaudhuri and Deepankar Choudhury (2020); "Buried pipeline subjected to seismic landslide: A simplified analytical solution", Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, (ISSN: 0267-7261, Impact Factor: 3.718/2020) Elsevier, U.K., Vol. 134, pp. 106155_1-6, doi: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2020.106155. (This paper received IGS-HEICO YGE Award – 2022 for Best the Paper on ‘Slope Stability and Landslides’, given by Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS), New Delhi, India).
10Chaidul Haque Chaudhuri, Diptesh Chanda, Rajib Saha, and Sumanta Haldar, (2020); “Three-dimensional numerical analysis on seismic behavior of soil-piled raft-structure system.” In Structures, Elsevier, Vol. 28, pp. 905-922. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.istruc.2020.09.024
11Bashir, K., Ahad, A., Sachithanantham, P., and Chaudhuri, C. H. (2020) “Assessment of axial load carrying capacity of GFRP funicular shells with steel mesh.” In Structures, Elsevier, Vol. 24, pp. 974-983. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.istruc.2019.12.013

Conferences (International)

1Chaudhuri, C. H., Gangopadhyay, S., Saha, R. and Ponnala, K (2017) “Failure Analysis of Railway Embankment Constructed on Soft Soil at Tripura-A Case Study.” Sixth Indian Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference 6IYGEC2017, NIT Trichy, India.
2Chaidul Haque Chaudhuri, Rana Acharyya, Milind Patil and Deepankar Choudhury (2022); “Overall Static and Seismic Stability of Oil Tank Resting on Shallow Foundation: A Case Study”, In Edited Book entitled ‘Geotechnical Engineering and Sustainable Construction’, Editors, M. O. Karkush and D. Choudhury, Springer Nature, (ISBN 978-981-16-6276-8, Online ISBN: 978-981-16-6277-5), Singapore, pp. 269-289, doi: 10.1007/978-981-16-6277-5_22.
3Deepankar Choudhury and Chaidul H. Chaudhuri (2022); “Buried Pipeline Subjected to Ground Deformation and Seismic Landslide: A State-of-the-Art Review”, In Edited Book: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Performance Based Design in Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering (Beijing 2022), PBD-IV 2022, Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering, vol 52, Wang, L., Zhang, JM., Wang, R. (eds), Springer, Cham, (ISBN 978-3-031-11897-5, Online ISBN: 978-3-031-11898-2), pp. 363-375, doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-11898-2_20.
4Chaidul Haque Chaudhuri and Deepankar Choudhury (2021) “Simplified analytical solution of buried pipeline subjected to pipe bursting underneath.” Procds. of the 17th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (17WCEE), September 27-October 2, 2021, Sendai, Japan, Paper ID 4f-0014, pp. 1-11.
5Chaidul Haque Chaudhuri and Deepankar Choudhury (2020); “Effect of earthquake induced transverse permanent ground deformation on buried continuous pipeline using Winkler approach”. In Geo-Congress 2020: Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Special Topics, Geotechnical Special Publication No. GSP 318, ASCE, Edited by James P. Hambleton, Roman Makhnenko and Aaron S. Budge (ISBN 978-0-7844-8281-0), Reston, VA, USA, pp. 274-283. doi: 10.1061/9780784482810.030.

Conferences (National)

1Chaudhuri, C. H., Chakraborty, A., Saha, A., Saha, B., Bhowmik, A. and Pal, J. (2018) “A Comparison Study on Effect of Bacteria on Cement Composites.” In Advance in Concrete, structural & Geotechnical Engineering, Bloomsbury Publishing page no 161-165, ISBN:978-93-87471-69-6.
2Chaudhuri, C. H., and Saha, R. (2021) “3D Finite Element Analysis of Seismic Behavior of Soil-Piled Raft-Structural System.” In Geohazards, pp. 591-599, Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6233-4_42
3Chanda, D., Chaudhuri, C. H., Saha, R. and Haldar, S. (2017) “Interaction of Piled Raft Foundation Under Combined Vertical, Lateral and Moment Loads.” Indian geotechnical Conference 2017, IIT Guwahati, India.
4Chaudhuri, C. H. and Choudhury, D. (2019) “Behaviour of buried pipelines subjected to seismic excitations: a state-of-the-art review.” Proceedings of 7th Indian Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference (7IYGEC-2019), 15-16 March 2019, NIT Silchar, Assam, India
 

Academic Honors & Awards

  • Best PhD Thesis Award (Naik and Rastogi Excellenece in PhD Research) in IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India for the years 2023-2025 in 2025
  • Received the IGS-Guwahati Chapter YGE Award for the best paper on "Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering" for the year 2024, by Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS), New Delhi, India.
  • Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (commonly known as the Marie-Curie Fellowship) from the European Union in 2023
  • Received the IGS-Kakinada Chapter YGE Award - 2023 for the best paper on "Deep Excavations and Underground Structures" for the years 2022-2023, by Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS), New Delhi, India.
  • Best Paper award at PhD Connect Conclave 2023 from Springer Nature, organized by IIT Bombay, on March 11, 2023.
  • Received the IGS-HEICO Young Geotechnical Engineers Best Paper Biennial Award – 2022 for the best paper on "Slope Stability and Landslides" for the years 2021-2022, by Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS), New Delhi, India.
  • Received Travel Grant from ISSMGE (International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering) Foundation Awards Committee to attend the 17th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (17WCEE) at Sendai, Japan on September 27-October 2, 2021.
  • Received Institute Post Graduate Gold Medal for academic excellence (1st rank among all PG Departments in the Institute-2018) in Master of Technology from National Institute of Technology, Agartala, India.
  • Secured 2nd rank among all UG Departments in the Institute in Bachelor of Technology from National Institute of Technology, Agartala, India in 2016.
  • Year of Mathematics-2012, Kanai Kanungo Memorial Reward for standing 1st position in mathematics in all zones conducted by Dharmanagar Ganit Parisad – 2012, Tripura, India.
 

Research Scholar

Supervision of Students at IIT Bhubaneswar, India 
 
For Ph.D.:
 

1.  Itha Jaya Krishna Prasad (S25CE09003)  [Jan 2025,  On-going]

 
 
For M.Tech.:
 

1. Vipul Sanjay Satpute (24GE06013)

 
 

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