• On the changes in groundwater storage variability in Western India using GRACE and well observations 

  Meghwal, Rakesh; Shah, Deep; Mishra, Vimal (Springer Nature, 2019-11)

  Groundwater is a vital resource to support food and freshwater security in India. Changes in climate and anthropogenic activities affect groundwater storage. Here, we examine the role of precipitation and policy changes ...
• Computation of seismic translational and rotational displacements of cantilever retaining wall with shear key 

  Jadhav, Prajakta R.; Prashant, Amit (Elsevier, 2020-03)

  This study proposes a displacement based design methodology for cantilever retaining walls with shear key to enhance its performance under seismic loading. Two-dimensional, plane strain finite element dynamic analyses of ...
• Roles of irrigation and reservoir operations in modulating terrestrial water and energy budgets in the Indian sub?continental river basins 

  Shah, Harsh L.; Zhou, Tian; Huang, Maoyi; Mishra, Vimal (American Geophysical Union, 2019-11)

  Water management activities affect the terrestrial water cycle by increasing water supply and redistributing the water and energy budgets over irrigated agricultural land. However, the dynamics of how water management ...
• Observational evidence of irrigation influence on vegetation health and land surface temperature in India 

  Ambika, Anukesh Krishnankutty; Mishra, Vimal (Wiley, 2019-10)

  Irrigated area in India has significantly increased after the green revolution. However, quantification of irrigation influence on vegetation health and land surface temperature (LST) remains limited. Here, we develop a ...
• Long-term (1870�2018) drought reconstruction in context of surface water security in India 

  Mishra, Vimal (Elsevier, 2020-01)

  Droughts in India affect food production, gross domestic product (GDP), livelihood, and socio-economic condition of a large population associated with agriculture. Recent drought (2015�2018) caused groundwater depletion ...
• Effect of frequency and amplitude on dynamic behaviour, stiffness degradation and energy dissipation of saturated cohesive soil 

  Pandya, Saloni; Sachan, Ajanta (Taylor & Francis, 2019-10)

  Cohesive soil undergoes cyclic softening when experiences the dynamic loading conditions. Evaluation of strength loss under such loading conditions is essential for soil stability analysis. The present study investigates ...
• Effect of crushing on stress�strain and pore pressure behavior of micaceous Kutch soil under monotonic compression and repeated loading�unloading conditions 

  Sachan, Ajanta; Seethalakshmi, P.; Mishra, Manas C. (Springer Verlag, 2019-12)

  Mica particles are flaky and layered in nature with relatively low hardness as compared to quartz particles. Micaceous soil with more than 10% mica is generally not recommended for pavements due to low compactability and ...
• A substantial rise in the area and population affected by dryness in South Asia under 1.5, 2.0 and 2.5C warmer worlds 

  Aadhar, Saran; Mishra, Vimal (IOP Publishing, 2019-09)

  Millions of people in South Asia face water scarcity every year. Previous studies based on the multi-model ensemble mean reported a decline in dryness (the ratio of potential evapotranspiration and precipitation) in South ...
• A synthesis of hourly and daily precipitation extremes in different climatic regions 

  Barbero, Renaud; Fowler, Hayley J.; Blenkinsop, Stephen; Westra, Seth; Mishra, Vimal (Elsevier, 2019-12)

  Climatological features of observed annual maximum hourly precipitation have not been documented systematically compared to those on daily timescales due to observational limitations. Drawing from a quality-controlled ...
• Does ERA‐5 outperform other reanalysis products for hydrologic applications in India? 

  Mahto, Shanti Shwarup; Mishra, Vimal (American Geophysical Union, 2019-08)

  Global reanalysis products are extensively used for hydrologic applications in sparse data regions. ERA?5, among the new?era reanalysis products, has been significantly improved for horizontal and vertical resolutions and ...
• Effect of loading conditions and stress history on cyclic behavior of Kutch soil 

  Hussain, Majid; Sachan, Ajanta (Taylor & Francis, 2019-06)

  Cyclic behavior of cohesionless soils at cyclic strains and frequencies resembling strong ground motion is highly non-linear. Recent developments in numerical analysis tools for the non-linear dynamic response of soils ...
• Effect of microstructure on stress�strain and pore-pressure response of sabarmati sand under the influence of mica 

  Seethalakshmi, P.; Sachan, Ajanta (Taylor & Francis, 2019-06)

  Micaceous soil is believed to be detrimental for civil engineering constructions due to the effect of high compressibility, low compacted density and low shear strength. Individual mica particle has numerous intact mica ...
• Effect of crushing on stress�strain and pore pressure behavior of micaceous Kutch soil under monotonic compression and repeated loading�unloading conditions 

  Sachan, Ajanta; Seethalakshmi, P.; Mishra, Manas C. (Springer, 2019-05)

  Mica particles are flaky and layered in nature with relatively low hardness as compared to quartz particles. Micaceous soil with more than 10% mica is generally not recommended for pavements due to low compactability and ...
• Increased flood risk in Indian sub-continent under the warming climate 

  Ali, Haider; Modi, Parth; Mishra, Vimal (Elsevier, 2019-09)

  Millions of people in Indian sub-continent are affected by floods, which have increased during the past decades and likely to increase further in response to warming climate. However, changes in the frequency of floods and ...
• Dynamic characteristics of natural kutch sandy soils 

  Hussain, Majid; Sachan, Ajanta (Elsevier, 2019-10)

  Kutch region has experienced widespread liquefaction and related damage during a series of past earthquakes; however, cyclic behavior of sandy soils of the region is yet to be explored. The current study is focused on the ...
• Potential limits of capacitive deionization and membrane capacitive deionization for water electrolysis 

  Sharma, Ketki (Taylor and Francis, 2019-05)

  Water electrolysis can hinder the operation of capacitive deionization (CDI) and membrane CDI (MCDI). This study is aimed at investigating the overpotential limits of CDI and MCDI (OP-MCDI) for water electrolysis and ...
• Experimental studies on effect of load repetition on dynamic characteristics of saturated Ahmedabad cohesive soil 

  Pandya, Saloni; Sachan, Ajanta (Springer, 2019-06)

  The present study investigates the hysteresis response, stiffness degradation/cyclic softening and energy dissipation features of Ahmedabad cohesive soil. Saturated specimens of Ahmedabad cohesive soil were reconstituted ...
• Dynamic behaviour of Kutch soils under cyclic triaxial and cyclic simple shear testing conditions 

  Hussain, Majid; Sachan, Ajanta (Taylor and Francis, 2019-04)

  The dynamic behaviour of soils from Kutch (seismically active region of Gujarat, India) was explored under cyclic triaxial (CTX) and cyclic simple shear (CSS) testing conditions. Under both the CTX and CSS conditions, the ...
• A cyclic backbone curve for shear-critical reinforced concrete walls 

  Epackachi, Siamak; Sharma, Nikhil; Whittaker, Andrew; Hamburger, Ronald O.; Hortacsu, Ayse (ASCE, 2019-04)

  Backbone curves are used in seismic design standards as the basis for developing component models for nonlinear static and dynamic analysis. Herein, data from 240 tests of rectangular, barbell, and flanged shear-critical ...
• Decline in surface urban heat island intensity in India during heatwaves 

  Kumar, Rahul; Mishra, Vimal (OPI Science, 2019-04)

  Heatwaves cause human mortality around the world and are projected to rise in the future. Despite the influence of urban heat island (UHI) on heatwaves, the role of UHI on heatwave intensification in urban areas in India ...

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