Dr. Dinesh Katti, P.E.
Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
Office: CIE 201C
Telephone: (701) 231-7245
Fax: (701) 231-6185
Email: Dinesh.Katti@ndsu.edu
Web: www.ndsu.edu/pubweb~dkatti
Education
- Ph.D., University of Arizona at Tucson, 1991
- Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 1986
- Indian Institute of Technology, Srinagar, India, 1983
Courses
- CE 316 Soil Mechnaics
- CE 461/661 Foundation Engineering
- CE 462/662 Designing with Geosynthetics
- CE 417 Slope Stability and Retaining Walls
- Graduate Seminar
Research Interests
- Geotechnical Engineering
- Constitutive Modeling of Materials
- Expansive Soils
- Multiscale Modeling of Material Response
- Bio-Nanocomposites
- Finite Element Method
- Geosynthetics
Selected Publications
Journals
Katti, Dinesh R., Pradhan, Shashindra M., and Katti, Kalpana S., (2010) Directional Dependence of Hydroxyapatite-Collagen Interactions on Mechanics of Collagen, Journal Of Biomechanics, 43, 1723-1730.
Khanna, Rohit, Katti, Kalpana S., and Katti, Dinesh R., (2010), In Situ Degradation of Chitosan-Polygalacturonic Acid/Hydroxyapatite Nanocomposites in Cell Culture Media, International Journal of Polymer Science, vol. 2010, Article ID 175264, 12 pages, 2010. doi:10.1155/2010/175264
K. S. Katti, A. Ambre, N. Peterka and D. R. Katti (2010) Use of unnatural amino acids for design of novel organomodified clays as components of nanocomposite biomaterials, in press in Philosophical Trasactions A.
D. Verma, K. S. Katti, D. R. Katti Osteoblast Adhesion, (2010) Proliferation and Growth on Polyelectrolyte-Complex-Hydroxyapatite Nanocomposites in press in Philosophical Trasactions A.
D. Verma, K. S. Katti and D. R. Katti, (2009), Polyelectrolyte-Complex Nanostructured Fibrous Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering C. 29, 2079–2084
Amarasinghe, Priyanthi, M., Katti, Kalpana S., and Katti, Dinesh R., (2009), Nature of Organic Fluid-Montmorillonite Interactions: An FTIR Spectroscopic Study, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science,337, 97-105.
Katti, Dinesh R., Matar, Mohamed I., Katti, Kalpana S., Amarasinghe, Priyanthi, M., (2009), Multiscale Modeling of Swelling Clays: A Computational and Experimental Approach, KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, 13(4), 243-255.