Ashutosh Kumar

Reddy, N. S. C., Sana, E., Kumar, A., & Senetakis, K. (2026). Influence of geological attributes and structural elements on the behavior of a metamorphic colluvium granules from Himachal Pradesh India. Engineering Geology, 108983.

Mishra, P. N., Tiwari, S., Olaya, S. Q., Srikanth, C. S. S. U., Ramaiah, B. J., Kumar, A., Chavda, J. T., Das, P., Bharat, T. V., Bag, R., Divya, P. V., Rajesh, B. G., Airey, D., Thanayamwatte, P., To, P., Shannon, B., Kodikara, J., & Das, S. K. (2026). A round robin study for benchmarking the measurement of soil shrinkage curve (SSC). Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 63, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1139/cgj-2025-0876

Kumar, S., Kumar, A., Gaspar, T. A. V., & Osman, A. S. (2026). Impact of Suction and Swell-Induced Softening on Pile Behavior in an Unsaturated Expansive Clay. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 152(1), 04025171. https://doi.org/10.1061/jggefk.gteng-13906

Mani, V. P., Kumar, A., & Geng, X. (2026). Settlement Prediction of Subgrade Layer for Two-Way Track under Moving Train Loads. International Journal of Geomechanics, 26(8), 04026147. https://doi.org/10.1061/ijgnai.gmeng-13327

Tariq, H., Kumar, D., Kumar, A., & Sarhosis, V. (2026). A finite element investigation into the in-plane load bearing behaviour of traditional timber-dry stone (Kath-Kuni) Masonry Walls. Engineering Structures, 353, 122249. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2026.122249

Sana, E., Kritika, & Kumar, A. (2026). Preliminary investigation of rainfall-induced landslides and related damages by the 2025 extreme monsoon in the Northwestern Himalayan region. Landslides, 23(5), 1463–1472. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-026-02703-2

Kumar, A., Azizi, A., & Toll, D. G. (2025). Deterioration of a compacted soil due to suction loss and desiccation cracking. Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 62, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1139/cgj-2023-0453

Kumar, A., Hughes, P. N., Sarhosis, V., Toll, D. G., Wilkinson, S., Coningham, R., Weise, K., Acharya, K. P., Joshi, A., Davis, C., Kunwar, R. B., & Maskey, P. N. (2025). Investigations within World Heritage Monument Zones of Kathmandu after the 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha Earthquake. Natural Hazards Review, 26(4), 05025012. https://doi.org/10.1061/nhrefo.nheng-2145

Robson, E. B., McGowran, P., Ruszczyk, H. A., Malamud, B. D., Simpson, E., Densmore, A. L., Denton, N., Chapplow, N., Gurung, P., Hall, T. E., Harries, R., Jenkins, J., KC, A., Kotter, R., Kumar, A., Limbu, B., Milledge, D., Porter, G., Rosser, N. ... Woldearegay, K. (2025). Interdisciplinary perspectives on the intersections of roads, sustainable development, and disaster resilience. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 128, 105691. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105691

Rana, A., Kumar, A., Azizi, A., Osman, A. S., & Toll, D. G. (2025). Assessment of an amended soil as a climate adaptive barrier: Element testing and physical modelling. Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment, 43, 100693. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gete.2025.100693

Kulariya, M., Thakur, V., Saha, S. K., & Kumar, A. (2025). Effect of Uncertainty in Geotechnical and Flow Parameters on Landslide-induced Force for Building Response Analysis Under Flow-type Landslides Using Uncoupled Approach. Indian Geotechnical Journal, 55(5), 2715–2737. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40098-024-01074-6

Sana, E., Kritika, Kumar, A., Robson, E., Prasanna, R., Kala, U., & Toll, D. G. (2025). Investigation of landslides triggered by unprecedented rainfall events during 2023 monsoon in Himachal Pradesh, India. Landslides, 22(5), 1529–1550. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-025-02471-5

Tiwari, A. K., Sana, E., Kumar, A., & Uday, K. V. (2025). Field, experimental and numerical study for landslide mitigation in Himachal Pradesh, India: Case study. Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, 84(4), 186. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10064-025-04207-0

Kumar, A., & Kumar, S. (2024). Settlement Based Load-Bearing in a Combined Pile–Raft Foundation. Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, 42(2), 1405–1421. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10706-023-02625-z

Sana, E., Kumar, A., Robson, E., Prasanna, R., Kala, U., & Toll, D. G. (2024). Preliminary assessment of series of landslides and related damage by heavy rainfall in Himachal Pradesh, India, during July 2023. Landslides, 21(4), 919–931. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-023-02209-1

Azizi, A., Kumar, A., & Toll, D. G. (2023). Coupling cyclic and water retention response of a clayey sand subjected to traffic and environmental cycles. Géotechnique, 73(5), 401–417. https://doi.org/10.1680/jgeot.21.00063

Kumar, A., Azizi, A., & Toll, D. G. (2022). Application of Suction Monitoring for Cyclic Triaxial Testing of Compacted Soils. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 148(4), 04022009. https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)gt.1943-5606.0002766

Kumar, S., & Kumar, A. (2022). Effect of Infiltration on Single-Pile and Monopile–Raft Foundation Embedded in Unsaturated Sand. International Journal of Geomechanics, 23(2), 04022288. https://doi.org/10.1061/ijgnai.gmeng-7908

Azizi, A., Kumar, A., & Toll, D. G. (2022). The bounding effect of the water retention curve on the cyclic response of an unsaturated soil. Acta Geotechnica, 18(4), 1901–1917. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11440-022-01724-0

Roy, J., Kumar, A., & Choudhury, D. (2020). Pseudostatic Approach to Analyze Combined Pile–Raft Foundation. International Journal of Geomechanics, 20(10), 06020028. https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)gm.1943-5622.0001806

Hughes, P., Wilkinson, S., Simpson, I., Joshi, A., Nath Maskey, P., Weise, K., Forlin, P., Kunwar, R. B., Acharya, K. P., Coningham, R., Sarhosis, V., Toll, D. G., & Kumar, A. (2020). Identifying archaeological evidence of past earthquakes in a contemporary disaster scenario: case studies of damage, resilience and risk reduction from the 2015 Gorkha …. Journal of Seismology, 1, 729–751. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10950-019-09890-7

Kumar, A., Hughes, P. N., Sarhosis, V., Toll, D., Wilkinson, S., Coningham, R., Acharya, K. P., Weise, K., Joshi, A., Davis, C., Kunwar, R. B., & Maskey, P. N. (2020). Experimental, numerical and field study investigating a heritage structure collapse after the 2015 Gorkha earthquake. Natural Hazards, 101(1), 231–253. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-020-03871-7

Kumar, A., & Choudhury, D. (2018). Development of new prediction model for capacity of combined pile-raft foundations. Computers and Geotechnics, 97, 62–68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compgeo.2017.12.008

Roy, J., Kumar, A., & Choudhury, D. (2018). Natural frequencies of piled raft foundation including superstructure effect. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 112, 69–75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soildyn.2018.04.048

Kumar, A., Choudhury, D., & Katzenbach, R. (2016). Effect of Earthquake on Combined Pile–Raft Foundation. International journal of geomechanics, 16(5), 04016013. https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)gm.1943-5622.0000637

Kumar, A., & Choudhury, D. (2016). Load Sharing Mechanism of Combined Pile-Raft Foundation (CPRF) under Seismic Loads. Geotechnical Engineering, 48(3), 95–101. https://www.academia.edu/36547368

Kumar, A., Choudhury, D., & Katzenbach, R. (2015). Behaviour of combined pile-raft foundation (CPRF) under static and pseudo-static conditions using PLAXIS3D. Proceedings of 6th international conference on earthquake geotechnical engineering (6ICEGE). https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=avUzGtgAAAAJ&cstart=20&pagesize=80&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=avUzGtgAAAAJ:9yKSN-GCB0IC

Ashutosh Kumar, D. L., Choudhury, D., Shukla, J., & Shah (2015). Seismic design of pile foundation for oil tank by using PLAXIS3D. Disaster Advances, 8(6), 33–42. https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:111002940

Choudhury, D., Kumar, A., & Chatterjee, K. (2015). Coupled behavior of pile foundations in liquefied and non-liquefied soils during earthquakes including case study. Japanese Geotechnical Society Special Publication, 3(2), 11–15. https://doi.org/10.3208/jgssp.v03.i02

Tyagi, N., Kumar, A., Chaudhry, S., Ray, S., & Varma, G. D. (2009). Synthesis of 1-D Nanostructures of ZnFe 2 O 4 and ZnO by a Low Cost Self-Catalyzed CVD Method. Advanced Materials Research, 67, 265–270. https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.67.265

Thakur, V., & Kumar, A. (2026). Behaviour of Single Pile in Unsaturated Clay. In Geo-Congress 2026 (pp. 7–17). https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784486726.002

Sana, E., & Kumar, A. (2025). Mechanical and Hydraulic Characteristics of Residual Soils in the Indian Himalayas under Repeated Hydraulic Cycles. In Geo-Extreme 2025 (pp. 383–392). https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784486511.037

Ashutosh KUMAR, Arash AZIZI, & David G TOLL (2024). Insight Into Soil Cyclic Triaxial Testing Using a High Capacity Tensiometer. In Geo-Resilience 2023 (pp. 1–8). https://doi.org/10.53243/geo-resilience-2023-3-5

Sonu Kumar, A. K. (2024). Load Transfer Mechanism of Single Pile and Monopile-Raft Foundation in Unsaturated Sand. In Geo-Resilience 2023, Cardiff, Wales, 1-7.

Sharma, A. K., Kumar, A., & Sarhosis, V. (2023). Kath-Kuni architecture: field investigations and material characterisation. In Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers (pp. 712–727). https://doi.org/10.1680/jstbu.22.00080

Kumar, S., & Kumar, A. (2023). Behavior of Single Pile and Mono Pile-Raft Foundation under Hydraulic Loading Considering Hysteresis in Unsaturated Soils. In Geo-Congress 2023 (pp. 228–239). https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784484685.024

Rana, A., Kumar Sharma, A., Kumar, A., Azizi, A., Muguda, S., Osman, A., & Toll, D. G. (2023). An Apparatus to Monitor Suction Evolution and Water Migration within a Soil Mass for Climate-Adaptive Infrastructure. In Geo-Risk 2023, USA (pp. 117–126). https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784484968.013

Kumar, A., Azizi, A., & Toll, D. (2022). The Influence of Cyclic Loading Frequency on the Response of an Unsaturated Railway Formation Soil. In Geo-Congress 2023 (pp. 274–283). https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784484050.029

Kumar, A. (2022). An investigation of effect of 2015 Gorkha earthquake within world heritage monument zone. In Proceedings of 7th International Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference (pp. 149–154). https://www.issmge.org/uploads/publications/48/118/7iYGEC_Ashutosh_Kumar.pdf

Sharma, A. K., Kumar, A., & Sarhosis, V. (2021). Evaluating the Seismic Performance of Domestic and Historical Masonry Structures in Himachal Pradesh Region of India. In Recent Advances in Earthquake Engineering: Select Proceedings of VCDRR 2021 (pp. 477–490). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4617-1_38

Azizi, A., Kumar, A., Lingwanda, M. I., & Toll, D. G. (2020). The influence of rates of drying and wetting on measurements of soil water retention curves. In E3S Web of Conferences (pp. 03005). https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202019503005

Choudhury, D., Kumar, A., Patil, M., & Rao, V. D. (2019). Sustainable foundation solutions for industrial structures under earthquake conditions—Theory to practice. In 16th Asian Regional Conf. on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336665399_Sustainable_foundation_solutions_for_industrial_structures_under_earthquake_conditions_-theory_to_practice

Kumar, A., Hughes, P. N., Toll, D. G., Coningham, R. A. E., Davis, C., Sarhosis, V., Wilkinson, S., Joshi, A., Weise, K., Maskey, P. N., Acharya, K. P., & Kunwar, R. B. (2019). Damage assessment within the Kathmandu valley’s World Heritage Monument Zones after 2015 Gorkha Earthquake. In XVII European conference ECSMGE-2019 on soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering. https://doi.org/10.32075/17ecsmge-2019-1018

Kumar, A., Patil, M., & Choudhury, D. (2017). Soil–structure interaction in a combined pile–raft foundation – a case study. In Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers-Geotechnical Engineering (pp. 117–128). https://doi.org/10.1680/jgeen.16.00075

Kumar, A., & Choudhury, D. (2016). DSSI analysis of pile foundations for an oil tank in Iraq. In Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers-Geotechnical Engineering (pp. 129–138). https://doi.org/10.1680/jgeen.15.00025

Deepankar Choudhury, Kaustav Chatterjee, Kumar, A., & Phule, R. R. (2014). Pile Foundations during Earthquakes in Liquefiable Soils – Theory to Practice. In 15th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering (pp. 372–374). https://doi.org/10.13140/2.1.3796.3847

Jayasri, N., Kumar, A., & Gade, M. (2026). Response of a Sloped Ground Subjected to Sequence of Seismic Events. In Proceedings of The 17th International Conference of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (pp. 726–731). Springer Nature Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-95-5969-5_103

Mani, V. P., & Kumar, A. (2026). Rainfall-Induced Deformation in Unsaturated Railway Embankment Considering Fully-Coupled Flow Deformation Analysis. In Proceedings of The 17th International Conference of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (pp. 835–841). Springer Nature Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-95-5969-5_118

Verma, P., Kumar, A., & Azizi, A. (2026). Understanding the Efficacy of a Climate Adaptive Barrier Layer Through Physical and Numerical Modelling. In Proceedings of The 17th International Conference of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (pp. 323–329). Springer Nature Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-95-5969-5_43

Kumar, A., Azizi, A., & Toll, D. G. (2025). The Use of High-Capacity Tensiometer for Cyclic Triaxial Testing of Railway Formation Material. In Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering (pp. 307–315). Springer Nature Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-8213-0_33

Rana, A., Azizi, A., Kumar, A., Lloret-Cabot, M., & Toll, D. G. (2024). Prediction of resilient modulus of unsaturated soils considering inter-particle suction bonding. In Geotechnical Engineering Challenges to Meet Current and Emerging Needs of Society (pp. 761–764). https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003431749-126

Kumar, A., Kumar, S., & Kumar, A. (2022). Behavior of laterally loaded mono-piled raft foundation in sloping ground. In Springer Transactions in Civil and Environmental Engineering (pp. 357–372). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9744-9_24

Saurkar, A., Kumar, A., Singh, B., & Mukherjee, M. (2021). Influence of Load Inclination on Bearing Capacity of Footing Resting on Slope. In Challenges and Innovations in Geomechanics. IACMAG 2021. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 126. Springer, Cham (pp. 85–93). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64518-2_11

Choudhury, D., & Kumar, A. (2017). Seismic response of combined pile-raft foundation-the state of the art review. In Design and Analysis of Piled Raft Foundations (pp. 47). https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319851715