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K.G. Sharma
Krishan Gopal Sharma is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India and has served departmental Head. He received his B.E (Hons) Civil and Masters degrees from [|Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences, Pilani] and Ph.D. degree from the University of Wales, Swansea, UK. From 1977 to till date, he has been teaching at IIT Delhi. He has also been Associate Visiting Professor at University of Arizona (USA) from 1988 to 1989. He has 31 international and 20 national technical papers. He has guided 23 Ph.D. and 84 M.Tech. Projects.

Since 2007 he is a Geotechnical Group Incharge. He is also associated with more than 100 projects in "The Field and Laboratory Testing of Soils and Recommendation of Suitable Foundation". The structures included: residential buildings, office buildings, school/college buildings, bridges, swimming pool, stadium, water tanks, and others. The organizations for which the projects were completed are: DDA, [|MCD], NDMC, NHPC, EIL, P&T, MES, Howe India, DEC, [|NTPC], HZL, and others.

HONOURS/AWARDS
1. Central Board of Irrigation and Power (CBIP) Award of "Distinction in Engineering Technology" for the year 1983 84  for the paper entitled, "Foundation Analysis of Karjan Dam by  Finite element Method", co authored by Prof.A. Varadarajan,  Shri K.Madhavan, and Dr. C. Chinna Swamy, and published in  Proceedings of Fifty first R&D Annual Session, January, 1984.

2. Ph.D. Thesis entitled, "Elasto plastic Finite Element Analysis of Interaction Problems with Dense Sand Considering  the Effect of Stress Path", submitted under my guidance, has been awarded IGS Prof. Leonard's Annual Prize for the Best Doctoral Dissertation in Geotechnical Engineering for 1985.

3. IGS HEICO Award for the best paper on Rock Mechanics published in Indian Geotechnical Journal: Srivastava, R.K.,  Sharma, K.G. and Varadarajan, A., "Elasto plastic finite element analysis of horse shoe tunnels", Indian Geotechnical Journal, Vol.17, No.2, pp.159 182, 1987.

4. IGS Smt.Indra Joshi Award for the best paper published in Conferences/Symposia: Chinnaswamy, C., Varadarajan, A., and  Sharma, K.G., "A new model for flow through joint", Indian Geotechnical Conference (IGC 87), Bangalore, Vol.I, pp.291  294, December, 1987.

5. International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics Award in the Category CONSTITUTIVE LAWS & APPLICATIONS for Significant Paper : "Multi laminate Model of Clays A Numerical Evaluation of the Influence of Rotation of the Principal Stress Axes", by G.N. Pande and K.G. Sharma, Int. J. Num. & Analyt. Methods in Geomech., Vol. 7, No. 4 (1983). Award given in May, 1994.

6. International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics Award in the Category CONSTITUTIVE LAWS for Significant Paper by C.S. Desai, K.G. Sharma, G.W. Wathugala and D.B. Rigby, Int. J. Num. & Analyt. Methods in Geomech., Vol. 15, pp. 649-680 (1991). Award given in November, 1997.

7. Indian Society for Rock Mechanics & Tunnelling Technology Award in the Category CAD/Software Packages for Best Paper: “Improved Finite Element Simulation of Excavation in Elastic and Elasto-Plastic Geologic Media”, by K.G. Sharma, A. Varadarajan and C.S. Desai, Journal of Rock Mech. & Tunnelling Technology, Vol. 7, pp. 11-28 (2001). Award given in December, 2002.

8. International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics IJOG Excellent Paper Award for the Paper : "Constitutive Model for Rockfill Materials and Determination of Material Constants", by A. Varadarajan, K.G. Sharma, S.M. Abbas and A.K. Dhawan, Int. Journal of Geomechanics, ASCE, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 226-237 (2006). Award given in October, 2008.

9. IGS Lecture Award: Delivered 30th IGS Annual Lecture on Numerical Analysis of Underground Structures in IGC-2008 at Bangalore.

PARTICIPATION IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
=== 1.	Vice chairman, Delhi Chapter of Indian Geotechnical Society, 1990 1991.

2.	Co Editor, Indian Geotechnical Journal, 1982 1985.

3.	Honorary Secretary cum Treasurer, Indian Society of Technical Education: IIT Delhi Chapter, 1985 1986.

4.	Honorary Secretary cum Treasurer, Delhi Chapter of Indian Geotechnical Society, 1986 1987.

5.	Member, National Executive Committee of Indian Geotechnical Society, 1986 1987.

6.	Member, Task Force on Journal Marketing and Exchange Relations for Indian Geotechnical Journal, 1986 87

7.	Member (alternate), ISI, BDC 23:7  Instrumentation and Field Monitoring of Landslides Subcommittee.

8.	Member (alternate), ISI, BDC 73:4  Rock Slope Engineering  and Foundation on Rock and Rockmass Subcommittee.

9.	Member of Editorial Board: Computers and Geotechnics, International Journal Published by Elsevier Applied Science.

10.	Member of Editorial Board: Engineering & Computational Mechanics (ICE), International Journal Published by Thomas Telford.

11.	Member of Editorial Board, International Journal of Geomechanics (ASCE)

12.	Member of Editorial Board : Journal of Rock Mechanics and Tunnelling Technology.

13.	Member, Academic Council, Kamla Nehru Institute of Technology, Sultanpur, May 1998-2000.

14.	Member, Board of Consultants of Multipurpose and Hydroelectric Projects, Irrigation Department, Uttar Pradesh.

15.	Member, Governing Council of CSMRS, New Delhi.

16.	Member, Standing Technical Advisory Committee of CSMRS, New Delhi.

17.	Member, Works Committee, IGNOU, New Delhi.

18.	President, The Committee of the International Society for Rock Mechanics (India), 2005-2011.

19.	Member of Sectoral Committee of NBA, All India Council for Technical Education, 2005-2009.

20.	Member, Indian National Committee on Geotechnical Engineering, Ministry of Water Resources, 2005-2008.

21.	Member, Programme Advisory Committee (PAC) of Mechanical Engineering, Robotics & Civil Engineering, Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, 2006-2012.

22.	Member, Expert Committee for Fast Track Scheme for Young Scientists- Engineering Science, Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, 2007-2012.

23.	Member, Advisory Board, The Institution of Civil Engineers (India).

24.	Chairman, Program Advisory Committee of National Geotechnical Facility, Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, 2008-2012.

25.	Member, Technical Advisory Group for Construction of Tunnels in Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link Project, Konkan Railway Corporation Ltd., March 2010-

26.	Member, Committee to examine the implications of discontinuing the Loharinag Pala Hydro Power Project on Bhagirathi river, constituted by Ministry of Environment & Forest, Government of India, April-May, 2010.

27.	Member, Steering Committee for Natural Resources Data Management System (NRDMS) Programme, Department of Science & Technology, New Delhi, April 2010 – March 2012.

28.	Member, Board of Studies for Civil Engineering Department, Delhi Technological University, Delhi, November 2009- October 2012.

29.	Member, Highway Training Institute Society, Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, New Delhi, June 2010 – May 2012.

30.	Member, Technical Advisory Group for Construction of Dharma-Qazigund Section in Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link Project, IRCON International Ltd., October 2011-

31.	Member, Committee for suggesting/devising Permanent Safety Measures in respect of the Loharinag Pala Hydro Electric Power Project (600 MW), constituted by Ministry of Power, Government of India, November, 2011 – April, 2012. ===

Chapters in Books
1.	Sharma, K.G. and Varadarajan, A. (2007). Basic Equations from Solid Mechanics, in Engineering in Rocks for Slopes, Foundations and Tunnels, Editor: T. Ramamurthy, Prentice-Hall of India, ISBN 978-81-203-3275-1, pp. 36-46.

2.	Varadarajan A. and Sharma, K.G. (2007). Numerical Methods and Applications, in Engineering in Rocks for Slopes, Foundations and Tunnels, Editor: T. Ramamurthy, Prentice-Hall of India, ISBN 978-81-203-3275-1, pp. 481-517.