Siva Sivathayalan

Associate Professor in Geotechnical Engineering

Teaching Assignment 2011-2012

  • ECOR1101 Mechanics I
  • CIVE4301 Foundation Engineering
  • CIVE5505 Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering

Research Interests

Static and dynamic behaviour of soils, liquefaction, laboratory testing, constitutive relations, and geosynthetics

Honours and Awards

  • 2010 Stermac Award, Canadian Geotechnical Society
  • 2001 ASTM Award for Outstanding Article on the Practice of Geotechnical Testing.

Graduate Students

Names withheld are done so at the student’s request

Fahad Alshawmar
M.A.Sc. (In Prog.)
Krystal Aubry
M.Eng. (Project) (In Prog.)
Farzad Daliri
Ph.D. (In Prog.) The influence of desiccation and over-consolidation on monotonic and cyclic shear response of thickened gold tailings.
Kourosh Khosravi Faraman
M.A.Sc. (In Prog.)
Sinthujan Navaratnavel
M.A.Sc. (In Prog.)
Mohammad Shahsavari Goughari
M.A.Sc. (In Prog.)
Name Withdrawn
M.Eng. (Project)(In Prog.)
Kandasamy Vishnukanthan
M.A.Sc. (In Prog.)
Hyunseung Kim
M.Eng. (Project) (2011) Effect of Over-consolidation and Desiccation on the Response of a Gold Mine Tailings under Simple Shear Loading
Evan Stranks
M.Eng. (Coursework) (2011)
Manmatharajan Vipulanantham
M.A.Sc. (2011) Initial Stress State and Stress History Effects on Liquefaction Susceptibility of Sands
Kunjan Ghimire
M.Eng. (Coursework) (2010)
Naresh Gurpersaud
M.A.Sc. (2010) The Influence of matric suction on the pullout capacity of grouted soil nails
Kasgin Khaheshi Banab
Ph.D. (2010) Microzonation of the City of Ottawa: site response analysis and seismic surveying of high contrast soil profiles
Paramaguru Logeswaran
Ph.D. (2010) Behaviour of Soils under Generalized Loading and Drainage Conditions
Elton Xhetani
M.Eng. (Coursework) (2010)
Mahmud Amer Al Tarhouni
M.A.Sc. (2008) Liquefaction and Post-liquefaction Behaviour of Gold Mine Tailings under Simple Shear Loading
Jie Lao
M.Eng. (Project) (2008) Modeling of Liquefaction Behaviour in Heterogeneous Soils Using FLAC
Yuri Mendez-Zarate
M.Eng. (Coursework) (2008)
Mohammed Mahabubuzzaman
M.Eng. (Coursework) (2007)
Liang Zou
(Academic) M.A.Sc. (2007) Arsenic Removal from Industrial Wastewater by Photo-oxidation
Ganga Dhar Tripathi
M.Eng. (2006) Pore Pressure Generation under Generalized Loading Conditions
Paramaguru Logeswaran
M.A.Sc. (2005) Behaviour of Sands Under Simultaneous Changes in Volume and Pore Pressure
Da Ha
M.A.Sc. (2004) Effect of Initial Stress State on the Undrained Cyclic Behaviour of Sands.
Ardalan Mehrabi Yazdi
M.A.Sc. (2004) Post Liquefaction Deformation of Initially Strain Softening Sand
Nader Nabhani
M.Eng. (2004) Cyclic simple shear response of Fraser Delta sands with initial static shear

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