Dr. Partha Narayan Mishra obtained his PhD in Geotechnical Engineering from the University of Queensland, Australia in 2020 with the Dean’s Award for Outstanding HDR theses. He was conferred with the Institute Gold and Institute Silver Medals from National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India during his graduation with a dual degree (B.Tech. Hons. In Civil Engineering and M.Tech. in Geotechnical Engineering) in 2015.
Research
Partha is a Geotechnical Engineer and researcher with research interests in the arenas of improvement of soft soils, behaviour of unsaturated soils, electromagnetic characterisation and monitoring of soil processes, biomediated geotechnical engineering and clay barrier systems in hazardous waste disposal facilities. Outcomes of his research have been summarised in 30+ technical articles in top tier international journals, conferences, and book chapters. In academic and research space, Partha has worked as a summer research fellow at IIT Guwahati, India (2013) and at IIT Madras, India (2014), research scholar at IIT Madras, India (2015-2016), casual academic/research assistant in Civil Engineering at UQ, Australia (2016-2020), adjunct lecturer in Civil Engineering at UQ, Australia (2020-cont.) and at UCSI university, Malaysia (2020-2021).
Industry
As a practicing engineer, he has worked on several projects pertaining to tailings storage facilities (TSFs) in Australia and overseas. His industry experience comprises of working as a consulting geotechnical engineer with Klohn Crippen Berger (KCB Australia) (2020- 2021) and as an owner’s engineer with Rio Tinto Aluminium (2021-2022). Through these roles he has developed an intimate understanding of the challenges encountered in engineering, operation, and management of TSFs, some of which he aims to address through his research.
Teaching
Partha has co-supervised 1 masters, 2 bachelors and 3 summer research thesis to completion at UQ. He currently co-supervises 2 PhD students. He has co-delivered Advanced Soil Mechanics (CIVL4230) at UQ in 2021. He has also tutored Fundamentals of Soil Mechanics (CIVL2210) and Geotechnical Engineering (CIVL3210) at UQ from 2016 - 2020. In 2020, Partha initiated the ‘Lecture Series on Advancements in Geotechnical Engineering: from Research to Practice’ (AGERP) in collaboration with Professor Sarat Das. The AGERP lecture series is a pro-bono attempt towards disseminating the coupled learnings from academia and industry on several key topics in Geotechnical Engineering. The AGERP lecture series has reached to participants (academics, practicing engineers and students) from over 125 countries. More on the AGERP initiative is here: https://www.age-rp.com/. Partha was conferred with fellowship (2021) and associate fellowship (2019) from the Higher Education Academy, UK for his teaching portfolio benchmarked against UK Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF) for teaching and supporting learning in higher education.
Service
Partha is a member of the Australian Geomechanics Society (AGS), the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE), the Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS) and an associate member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He regularly reviews technical articles (50+ so far) for top tier international journals in the discipline such as Geotechnical Testing Journal, Acta Geotechnica, Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering etc. Partha was the President of UQU association of postgraduate students (2016-2017) and chair of the annual conference of the EAIT faculty of UQ (2017-2018). He has also sat in the UQ library advisory committee (2018) and student experience committee of UQ academic board (2017).
Journal Article: Suppressive effects of geotextiles on soil water evaporation
Zhang, Yuan, Mishra, Partha Narayan, Tiwari, Satyam, Scheuermann, Alexander and Li, Ling (2023). Suppressive effects of geotextiles on soil water evaporation. Acta Geotechnica. doi: 10.1007/s11440-023-02042-9
Journal Article: Ventilated Well Method for Efficient Dewatering of Soft Soils: Dimensional Analysis and Validation through Numerical Modeling
Mishra, Partha Narayan, Zhang, Yuan and Scheuermann, Alexander (2023). Ventilated Well Method for Efficient Dewatering of Soft Soils: Dimensional Analysis and Validation through Numerical Modeling. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 149 (9) 04023070. doi: 10.1061/jggefk.gteng-10728
Conference Publication: The ventilated well method as an alternative solution for dewatering of soft soils
Scheuermann, Alexander, Mishra, Partha Narayan, Zhang, Yuan, Tehrani, Kathy and Bore, Thierry (2022). The ventilated well method as an alternative solution for dewatering of soft soils. 20th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 1-5 May 2022. St Ives, NSW Australia: Australian Geomechanics Society.
Geoenvironmental characterisation of mine waste material, Red Chris Mine, Canada (304-NCRCTAIL)
(2021–2022) NewCrest Mining Limited
Soft Soil Evaporation and its Application for Efficient Dewatering
(2022) Doctor Philosophy
Utilisation of Mining Wastes as Backfill Material for Mechanically Stabilized Earth (MSE) Walls
Doctor Philosophy
Quantification of soil state variables using electromagnetic methods
Scheuermann, Alexander, Borem, Thierry, Mishra, Partha Narayan, Bhuyan, Habibullah, Yan, Guanxi, Bittner, Tilman and Becker, Rolf (2018). Quantification of soil state variables using electromagnetic methods. Geotechnics for Natural and Engineered Sustainable Technologies: GeoNEst. (pp. 447-456) edited by A. Murali Krishna, Arindam Dey and S. Sreedeep. Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-7721-0_28
Suppressive effects of geotextiles on soil water evaporation
Zhang, Yuan, Mishra, Partha Narayan, Tiwari, Satyam, Scheuermann, Alexander and Li, Ling (2023). Suppressive effects of geotextiles on soil water evaporation. Acta Geotechnica. doi: 10.1007/s11440-023-02042-9
Mishra, Partha Narayan, Zhang, Yuan and Scheuermann, Alexander (2023). Ventilated Well Method for Efficient Dewatering of Soft Soils: Dimensional Analysis and Validation through Numerical Modeling. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 149 (9) 04023070. doi: 10.1061/jggefk.gteng-10728
Bore, Thierry, Coperey, Antoine, Wagner, Norman, Narayan Mishra, Partha, Scheuermann, Alexander and Revil, André (2022). Experimental determination of frequency- and temperature-dependent electrical properties of water-saturated clays using spectral induced polarization and network analyzer technique. Measurement, 190 110653, 110653. doi: 10.1016/j.measurement.2021.110653
Coupled hydraulic, mechanical and dielectric investigations on kaolin
Bore, Thierry, Mishra, Partha Narayan, Wagner, Norman, Schwing, Moritz, Honorio, Tulio, Revil, Andre and Scheuermann, Alexander (2021). Coupled hydraulic, mechanical and dielectric investigations on kaolin. Engineering Geology, 294 106352, 1-14. doi: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2021.106352
Ventilated well method for efficient dewatering of soft soils: experimental investigations
Mishra, Partha Narayan and Scheuermann, Alexander (2021). Ventilated well method for efficient dewatering of soft soils: experimental investigations. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 147 (11) 04021112, 1-17. doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0002643
A unified approach for establishing soil water retention and volume change behavior of soft soils
Mishra, Partha Narayan, Scheuermann, Alexander and Bhuyan, M. Habibullah (2021). A unified approach for establishing soil water retention and volume change behavior of soft soils. Geotechnical Testing Journal, 44 (5), 1-21. doi: 10.1520/gtj20200009
Monitoring surcharge loading-induced densification of soft soils through time-domain reflectometry
Bhuyan, Md Habibullah, Mishra, Partha Narayan, Tehrani, Kathy, Huang, Longbin and Scheuermann, Alexander (2021). Monitoring surcharge loading-induced densification of soft soils through time-domain reflectometry. International Journal of Geomechanics, 21 (9) 04021159, 1-9. doi: 10.1061/(asce)gm.1943-5622.0002043
Zhang, Yuan, Mishra, Partha Narayan and Scheuermann, Alexander (2021). An improved evaporation quantification method: accounting for soil deformability and side evaporation effect. Journal of Hydrology, 598 126486, 126486. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126486
Bore, Thierry, Mishra, Partha Narayan, Bialkowski, Konstanty, Grieve, Sam, Wagner, Norman and Scheuermann, Alexander (2021). Multiple open ended probe for spatio-temporal dielectric spectroscopy: application to evaporative dewatering. Measurement: Journal of the International Measurement Confederation, 173 108521, 1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.measurement.2020.108521
Anisotropy in volume change behaviour of soils during shrinkage
Mishra, Partha Narayan, Zhang, Yuan, Bhuyan, Md Habibullah and Scheuermann, Alexander (2020). Anisotropy in volume change behaviour of soils during shrinkage. Acta Geotechnica, 15 (12), 3399-3414. doi: 10.1007/s11440-020-01015-6
Evaluation of hydraulic conductivity functions of saturated soft soils
Mishra, Partha Narayan, Scheuermann, Alexander and Li, Ling (2020). Evaluation of hydraulic conductivity functions of saturated soft soils. International Journal of Geomechanics, 20 (11). doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)GM.1943-5622.0001847
Mishra, Partha Narayan, Bore, Thierry, Scheuermann, Alexander and Li, Ling (2020). Characterisation of pore fluid salinity dependent evaporative dewatering of kaolin using dielectric spectroscopy. Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, 12 (1), 112-125. doi: 10.1016/j.jrmge.2019.08.002
Strength development in fine-grained paddy field soil by lime addition
Islam, Shriful, Hoque, N.M. Robiul, Hoque, M. Aminul, Mishra, Partha N., Mamun, M. M.H. and Dey, Susmita (2019). Strength development in fine-grained paddy field soil by lime addition. Journal of Building Engineering, 26 100857, 100857. doi: 10.1016/j.jobe.2019.100857
Salinity effects on soil shrinkage characteristic curves of fine-grained geomaterials
Mishra, Partha Narayan, Scheuermann, Alexander, Bore, Thierry and Li, Ling (2018). Salinity effects on soil shrinkage characteristic curves of fine-grained geomaterials. Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, 11 (1), 181-191. doi: 10.1016/j.jrmge.2018.06.008
Significance of Corrections and Impact of Saline Pore Fluid on Kaolin
Mishra, Partha Narayan , Scheuermann, Alexander and Li, Ling (2018). Significance of Corrections and Impact of Saline Pore Fluid on Kaolin. Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, 30 (11) 06018016. doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)MT.1943-5533.0002458
Dielectric spectroscopy measurements on kaolin suspensions for sediment concentration monitoring
Mishra, Partha Narayan, Bore, Thierry, Jiang, Yucheng, Scheuermann, Alexander and Li, Ling (2018). Dielectric spectroscopy measurements on kaolin suspensions for sediment concentration monitoring. Measurement: Journal of the International Measurement Confederation, 121, 160-169. doi: 10.1016/j.measurement.2018.02.034
Bhuyan, Md. Habibullah, Scheuermann, Alexander, Mishra, Partha Narayan, Bodin, Didier and Becker, Rolf (2018). Flat ribbon cable sensors for measurement of soil electrical conductivity using time domain reflectometry. International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, 15 (5), 1-9. doi: 10.1080/19386362.2018.1429703
Electrical conductivity of microbially treated geomaterials and industrial wastes
Mishra, Partha Narayan, Das, Sarat Kumar and Mohanty, Ranajeet (2017). Electrical conductivity of microbially treated geomaterials and industrial wastes. Journal of Hazardous Toxic and Radioactive Waste, 21 (4) 04017009, 04017009. doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)HZ.2153-5515.0000358
Generalized approach for determination of thermal conductivity of buffer materials
Mishra, Partha Narayan, Surendran, Surya, Gadi, Vinay Kumar, Joseph, Ros Ann and Arnepalli, Dali Naidu (2017). Generalized approach for determination of thermal conductivity of buffer materials. Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste, 21 (4) 04017005, 172-178. doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)HZ.2153-5515.0000357
Mishra, Partha Narayan, Suman, Shakti and Das, Sarat Kumar (2016). Experimental investigation and prediction models for thermal conductivity of biomodified buffer materials for hazardous waste disposal. Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste, 21 (2) 04016011, 1-13. doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)HZ.2153-5515.0000327
The ventilated well method as an alternative solution for dewatering of soft soils
Scheuermann, Alexander, Mishra, Partha Narayan, Zhang, Yuan, Tehrani, Kathy and Bore, Thierry (2022). The ventilated well method as an alternative solution for dewatering of soft soils. 20th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 1-5 May 2022. St Ives, NSW Australia: Australian Geomechanics Society.
On reconstructing the soil shrinkage characteristic curve by dielectric spectroscopy
Bore, Thierry, Mishra, Partha Narayan, Schwing, Moritz, Ribeiro, Madalena, Wagner, Norman and Scheuermann, Alexander (2019). On reconstructing the soil shrinkage characteristic curve by dielectric spectroscopy. IGARSS 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Yokohama, Japan, 28 July-2 August 2019. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/IGARSS.2019.8899153
Some laboratory scale tests on an Australian coal tailings sample
Liao, Sihe, Mishra, Partha Narayan and Scheuermann, Alexander (2019). Some laboratory scale tests on an Australian coal tailings sample. 7th Asia-Pacific Conference on Unsaturated Soils, AP-UNSAT 2019, Nagoya, Japan, 23 – 25 August 2019. Tokyo, Japan: Japanese Geotechnical Society. doi: 10.3208/jgssp.v07.071
Mishra, Partha Narayan, Bore, Thierry, Scheuermann, Alexander and Ling, Li (2018). An integrated approach for capturing dielectric response and volume change behaviour of dredged material from Port of Brisbane. 7th International Conference on Unsaturated Soils (UNSAT:2018), Hong Kong, 3-5 August 2018.
Impact of pore fluid salinity on progressive volume change behavior of kaolin
Mishra, Partha Narayan, Liu, Annabel, Bore, Thierry, Scheuermann, Alexander and Li, Ling (2018). Impact of pore fluid salinity on progressive volume change behavior of kaolin. 7th International Conference on Unsaturated Soils (UNSAT:2018), Hong Kong, 3-5 August 2018.
Unsaturated soil water retention curve of road material using evaporation method
Bhuyan. H., Yan, G., Mishra, P.N. , Scheuermann, A. , Bodin, D. and Becker, R. (2018). Unsaturated soil water retention curve of road material using evaporation method. 7th International Conference on Unsaturated Soils (UNSAT:2018), Hong Kong, 3-5 August 2018.
Open ended coaxial probe for electromagnetic characterization of soft soil during dewatering
Bore, T., Mishra, P.N. and Scheuermann, A. (2018). Open ended coaxial probe for electromagnetic characterization of soft soil during dewatering. 3rd Australian Microwave Symposium (AMS:2018), Brisbane, Australia, 6-7 February 2018.
Measurement of dielectric properties of Kaolin with saline pore fluid during dewatering
Mishra, Partha Narayan, Bore, Thierry, Scheuermann, Alexander and Li, Ling (2017). Measurement of dielectric properties of Kaolin with saline pore fluid during dewatering. 19th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Seoul, South Korea, 17 - 22 September 2017. London, United Kingdom: International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering.
Prediction of seismic attenuation in rocks using artificial intelligence techniques
Suman, Shakti, Mishra, Partha Narayan and Das, Sarat Kumar (2015). Prediction of seismic attenuation in rocks using artificial intelligence techniques. 50th Indian Geotechnical Conference (IGC:2015), Pune, India, 17-19 December 2015.
An experimental investigation on strength characteristics of alkali activated fly ash
Singh, S. P., Chowdhury, Swaraj and Mishra, Partha Narayan (2015). An experimental investigation on strength characteristics of alkali activated fly ash. Global Challenges, Policy Framework and Sustainable Development for Mining of Mineral and Fossil Energy Resources (GCPF), Mangalore, India, 17-18 April 2015. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.proeps.2015.06.039
Estimation of Thermal Migration around Buried Coolant Ducts with Engineered Backfill Material
Mahamaya, Mahasakti, Mishra, Partha Narayana, Suman, Shakti and Das, Sarat Kumar (2015). Estimation of Thermal Migration around Buried Coolant Ducts with Engineered Backfill Material. Global Challenges, Policy Framework & Sustainable Development for Mining of Mineral and Fossil Energy Resources (GCPF), Mangalore, India, 17-18 April 2015. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.proeps.2015.06.040
Appraisal of safe placement distance between canisters in a typical deep geological repository
Mishra, P.N., Gadi, V.K., Surya, S.S. and Arnepalli, D.N. (2014). Appraisal of safe placement distance between canisters in a typical deep geological repository. National Conference on Geoenvironmental issues and Sustainable Urban Development (GEN:2014), Allahabad, India, 11-12 October 2014.
Soft Soil Characterisation and Improvement for Reclaimed Land Application
Mishra, Partha Narayan (2020). Soft Soil Characterisation and Improvement for Reclaimed Land Application. PhD Thesis, School of Civil Engineering, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2020.696
Geoenvironmental characterisation of mine waste material, Red Chris Mine, Canada (304-NCRCTAIL)
(2021–2022) NewCrest Mining Limited
Utilisation of Mining Wastes as Backfill Material for Mechanically Stabilized Earth (MSE) Walls
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
Soft Soil Evaporation and its Application for Efficient Dewatering
(2022) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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