Dr. Nitish Jauhari

Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering

ABOUT Dr. Nitish Jauhari

Dr. Nitish Jauhari is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Bharat Ratna Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Bharat Ratna Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Rajkiya Engineering College, Pratapgarh. Currently, he is serving as the Co-ordinator of Institution’s Innovation Council at Bharat Ratna Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Bharat Ratna Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Rajkiya Engineering College, Pratapgarh. His research interest includes, Geotechnical Engineering, Ground Improvement and Computational Geotechnics. He has obtained his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Patna in 2025. Before Ph.D, he has worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Rajshree Institute of Management and Technology, Bareilly for three years. He has completed his M. Tech from Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar and B. Tech from Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow. Dr. Nitish has published more than 20 research papers in reputed International/national journals and conferences. He is a life member of Indian Geotechnical Society. He is also a recipient of Young Geotechnical Engineer Award-2024, presented by Indian Geotechnical Society.

Educational Qualifications

• PhD in Geotechnical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Patna (2025)
• M. Tech. in Geotechnical Engineering, Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar (2017)
• B. Tech. in Civil Engineering, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow (2015)

Experience

• Bharat Ratna Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Bharat Ratna Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Rajkiya Engineering College, Pratapgarh, U.P. (June 2025 to till now) Position: Assistant Professor (Guest), Department of Civil Engineering
• Rajshree Institute of Management and Technology, Bareilly, U.P. (Aug 2017 to Aug 2020) Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering

Research Interests

• Geotechnical Engineering
• Geosynthetics and Ground Improvements
• Soil Dynamics and Vibration Isolation
• Computational Geotechnics
• Railway Geotechnics

Research Publications

• Jauhari, N., Hegde, A. and Chakrabortty, P. (2025). Dynamic compaction-induced ground vibration screening using dual open and infilled barriers in layered soil media: physical field experiments and numerical simulations. Acta Geotechnica (SCIE; Impact Factor: 5.6; Publisher: Springer)
• Jauhari, N., Hegde, A. and Chakrabortty, P. (2025). Mitigation of impact load induced ground vibrations using open and geofoam infilled dual barriers: Full scale field studies. International Journal of Geomechanics (Accepted, In Press) (SCIE; Impact Factor: 3.3; Publisher: ASCE)
• Jauhari, N., Hegde, A. and Chakrabortty, P. (2024). Vibration mitigation using dual-open and infilled trenches in layered soil media: Field tests and numerical simulations. Computers and Geotechnics, 170. 106283. (SCIE; Impact Factor: 6.2; Publisher: Elsevier)
• Jauhari, N., Hegde, A. and Chakrabortty, P. (2023). Full scale field studies for assessing the vibration isolation performance of single and dual trenches. Transportation Geotechnics, 39, 100932. (SCIE; Impact Factor: 5.5; Publisher: Elsevier)
• Jauhari, N., Hegde, A. and Chakrabortty, P. (2025). Geosynthetic-based barrier system for mitigating ground vibrations. Indian Geotechnical Journal. (ESCI; Impact Factor: 1.4; Publisher: Springer)
• Jauhari, N., Raj, A. and Hegde, A. (2024). Efficacy of dual barrier systems in mitigating ground-borne vibrations induced by impact loading. In Geo-Congress 2024: Geotechnics of Natural Hazards (349 ed., pp. 202-211). American Society of Civil Engineers.
• Raj, A., Jauhari, N. and Hegde, A. (2025). Barrier systems to protect critical transportation infrastructure from impact-induced ground vibrations. In: Rujikiatkamjorn, C., Xue, J., Indraratna, B. (eds) Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics (ICTG) 2024. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 407. Springer, Singapore.
• Chakrabortty, P., Jauhari, N., Kumar, R. and Barbieri, D.M. (2025). Sustainable vibration screening with dual trenches infilled with geofoam and aggregate: full-scale field experiments. In: Kioumarsi, M., Shafei, B. (eds) The 1st International Conference on Net-Zero Built Environment. NTZR 2024. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 237. Springer, Cham.
• Jauhari, N. and Hegde, A. (2023). Performance evaluation of single and multiple trenches in screening ground vibrations. In K. Muthukkumaran, R. Ayothiraman, & S. Kolathayar, Soil Dynamics, Earthquake and Computational Geotechnical Engineering, Singapore.
• Jauhari, N., Hegde, A. and Chakrabortty, P. (2025). Screening of continuous vibrations using geofoam-infilled dual shallow barriers: insights from numerical simulations. International Conference on Advances in Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, 6-8 February 2025, Patna, India.
• Jauhari, N., Hegde, A. and Chakrabortty, P. (2023). Numerical investigation of vibration screening using single and dual open trenches in layered soil media. 10th European Conference on Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering, 26-28 June 2023, Imperial College London, UK.
• Jauhari, N., Singh, P. and Hegde, A. (2023). Effect of infill materials on dynamic properties of geocell reinforced machine foundation beds. Proceedings of Indian Geotechnical Conference-2023, IIT Roorkee.
• Jauhari, N. and Hegde, A. (2021). Performance evaluation of single and multiple trenches in screening ground vibrations. Proceedings of Indian Geotechnical Conference-2021, NIT Tiruchirappalli.
• Jauhari, N. and Kumar, A. (2017). Influence of waste marble dust as a chemical stabilizer in expansive soils. Proceedings of Indian Geotechnical Conference-2017, IIT Guwahati.

Responsibilities

• Co-ordinator, Institution’s Innovation Cell
• Member, Purchase Verification Committee

COUNTRIES VISITED

• United Kingdom