Athma Ram Bhandari, Ph. D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Bureau of Economic Geology
The University of Texas at Austin University Station, Box X Austin, Texas 78713-8924 E-mail: athma.bhandari@beg.utexas.edu Telephone: 512-471-0462 Fax: 512-471-0140
Research Interests
• Microstructure characterization of geomaterials
• Geotechnical laboratory testing • Digital-image-based deformation measurements • Constitutive modeling of geomaterials • Finite element analysis in Geomechanics
Education
• Ph.D., University of Southampton, UK, 2009
• M. E. Civil Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan, 2004 • B. E. Civil Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2000
Professional History
• Present Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin (2012 – Present).
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Geomechanics, Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton, UK (2010 – 2012). • Knowledge Transfer Secondments (KTS) Fellow in Geomechanics, Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton, UK (2009 – 2010). • PhD Researcher for the EPSRC project “Micro-Mechanical Behaviour of Locked Sands”, Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton, UK (2005 –2009). • Civil Engineer, Nepal Electricity Authority, Kathmandu, Nepal (2001 – 2002). • Lecturer, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal (2000 – 2001, 2004 – 2005).
Selected Publications
• Bhandari, A. R., Powrie, W. and Harkness, R. M., 2012, A digital image-based soil deformation measurement system for triaxial tests: Geotechnical Testing Journal, v. 35, no. 2, p.1-18 doi:10.1520/GTJ103821.
• Bhandari, A. R., and Inoue, J., 2005, Strain localization in soft rock – a typical rate dependent solid: experimental and numerical studies: International Journal of Analytical and Numerical Methods in Geomechanics, Vol. 29, p. 1087-1107 • Bhandari, A. R., and Inoue, J., 2005, Experimental study of strain rate effects in strain localization characteristics of soft rocks: Soils and Foundations, Vol. 45, No. 1, p. 125-140, Japanese Geotechnical Society, Japan.
Awards
• Knowledge Transfer Secondments (KTS) Fellowship, EPSRC, 2009 – 2010
• Overseas Research Students Award Scheme (ORSAS) Award, 2006 – 2009 • Research Scholarship at the University of Southampton, 2005 – 2009 • ADB–Japan Scholarship Program Scholarship, 2002 – 2004 |
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