KATTI, Dinesh
Professor and Chair
Department of Civil Engineering
Associate Dean of Research
| Campus | Civil and Industrial Engineering 201C |
| Phone: | 701.231.7245 |
| Fax: | 701.231.6185 |
| dinesh.katti@ndsu.edu | |
| Web site | http:// www.ce.ndsu.nodak.edu |
| PhD | University of Arizona, Tucson, 1991 |
| MS | Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, 1986 |
| BS | Regional Engineering College, Srinagar, India, 1983 |
Dr. Katti is affiliated with the American Society of Civil Engineers, International Society for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Materials Research Society, American Society for Engineering Education, Sigma Xi -Scientific Research Society
Dr. Katti has academic training in the area of Civil Engineering with specialization in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Mechanics. He has strong experimental, analytical, computational and field experience. He has designed and built large-scale experimental facilities to study the behavior of expansive clays and instrumented model caissons. He has developed mathematical models to predict the mechanical response of soils and other materials. He has been involved in development of methods for counteracting swelling and swelling pressures in expansive soils. He has developed multiscale techniques to model bio-materials and bio-nanocomposites.
Dr. Katti has worked for about 5 years in the geotechnical consulting industry in the United States as a staff and project engineer. He has worked on a variety of projects including flood control dams, bridges, port facilities, land slide mitigation, shallow and deep foundations for a variety of structures, soil nailing and shoring of deep excavations, reinforced earth slopes and walls using geosynthetics etc.
Research Interests include:
Geotechnical engineering, constitutive modeling of materials, computational mechanics, computational molecular mechanics, molecular chemistry, multiscale modeling, swelling clay-fluid interactions and deep foundations.
Current Research Areas:
Multiscale modeling of biomimetic nanocomposites (NSF funded), quantitative modeling of molecular interactions and their effect on microstructual and macro response (NSF funded) and modeling rate-dependent behavior of soils.