Puneet Bhaskar

Postdoctoral Associate

Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Texas at Arlington, July 2020
Master of Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, July 2015
Bachelor of Engineering, PEC University of Technology Chandigarh, May 2013

Puneet Bhaskar is currently working as a Postdoctoral Associate with Texas A&M Transportation Institute in Bryan, Texas. He obtained his doctoral degree in civil engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2020. His research was primarily focused on unsaturated soil testing and seepage analysis in dams. He did his master’s at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, where he worked on numerical modeling of offshore footings. He has previously worked as a staff engineer with a geotechnical consultant firm, Intertek, in Houston. His role was to design and evaluate mechanically stabilized earth walls and diaphragm walls in Texas. His current research interests include unsaturated soil mechanics, ground improvement, seepage, and stability analysis of dams and levees.

Staff Engineer, Intertek-PSI
Post-Doctoral Associate, The University of Texas at Arlington

Member, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

• Bhaskar, P., Puppala, A. J., & Boluk, B. (2022). Influence of unsaturated hydraulic properties on transient seepage and stability analysis of an earthen dam. International Journal of Geomechanics 22(7), 04022105.
• Bhaskar, P., Boluk, B., Mosadegh, L., Banerjee, A., & Puppala, A. J. (2020, February). Effect of Fines on Hysteretic Hydraulic Conductivity of Unsaturated Soil. In Geo-Congress 2020: Geo- Systems, Sustainability, Geoenvironmental Engineering, and Unsaturated Soil Mechanics (pp. 330-339). Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers.
• Bhaskar, P., Boluk, B., Banerjee, A., Shafikhani, A., & Puppala, A. (2019, March). Effect of Lime Stabilization on the Unsaturated Hydraulic Conductivity of Clayey Soil in Texas. In Geo-Congress 2019: Geotechnical Materials, Modeling, and Testing (pp. 773-783). Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers.
• Boluk, B., Puppala, A. J., Chakraborty, S., & Bhaskar, P. (2021). Forensic Analyses and Rehabilitation of a Failed Highway Embankment Slope in Texas. Transportation Research Record, 0361198121996359.
• Mosadegh, L., Chakraborty, S., Biswas, N., Bhaskar, P., & Puppala, A. J. (2020, February). Comparison of earthquake-induced pore water pressure and deformations in earthen dams using non-linear and equivalent linear analyses. In Geo-Congress 2020: Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Special Topics (pp. 151-160). Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers.
• Banerjee, A., Puppala, A. J., Patil, U. D., Hoyos, L. R., & Bhaskar, P. (2018). A simplified approach to determine the response of unsaturated soils using multistage triaxial test. In IFCEE 2018 (pp. 332-342).

Effect of Lime Stabilization on the Unsaturated Hydraulic Conductivity of Clayey Soil in Texas in Geo-Congress 2019

• Dissertation Fellowship, The University of Texas at Arlington
• Outstanding Civil Engineering Ph.D. Student award, The University of Texas at Arlington
• DAAD scholarship, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
• MHRD scholarship for qualification in GATE, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

E-mail ID: p-bhaskar@tti.tamu.edu