Address:
Box 19308
Arlington, TX 76019-0308
Phone: (817) 272-5821
Email: anand@uta.edu
Education:
Ph.D., 1993, Louisiana State University
M.S., 1987, The Indian Institute of Technology at Madras
B.S., 1985, Andhra University
Area of Expertise:
In Situ and Laboratory Soil Testing & Interpretation, Soil Stabilization, Soil Reinforcement, Pavement Materials Characterization, Instrumentation and Data Acquisition, Waste Management Study (Recyclable Materials), Constitutive Soil Modeling, Environmental Geotechnics.
Background:
Dr Puppala received his bachelor's degree from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India in 1985 and master's degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, in 1987. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1993 from Louisiana State University (LSU). He worked as a research engineer/research associate at Louisiana Transportation Research Center, a joint organization of Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development and LSU, during 1993-1996. Dr. Puppala joined as Assistant Professor in Geotechnical Engineering area of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department of University of Texas at Arlington in July, 1996.
His research areas of interest are advanced soil testing and interpretation, soil stabilization, soil reinforcement, pavement materials characterization, and waste management studies. He has published several articles in ASCE Geotechnical Journal, ASTM Soil Testing Journal, ASTM Special Technical Publications, Transportation Research Board Records, International Conferences on Soil Mechanic Related Topics, In Situ Testing Proceedings, ASCE conferences. He is a member of ASCE bituminous materials committee, TRB Bridges and Foundation's committee, and TRB Soils and Rock Instrumentation committee. He is a licensed civil engineer in the state of Louisiana and a member of Phi Kappa Phi honor society.
Professional experience:
Professor, September 2005 - current
The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas.
Associate Professor, September 2001 – September 2005
The University of Texas at Arlington.
Assistant Professor, August 1996-August 2001
Louisiana Transportation Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Materials Research Engineer, 1993-1996
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Graduate Research Assistant and Graduate Teaching Assistant, 1988-1992
Research Highlights:
Texas Department of Transportation and Development (TxDOT), “Four Geotechnical Tasks.” $428,060, Interagency Contract, January 2006 to August 2007, PI: Anand Puppala, and Co-PIs: Syed Qasim, Laureano R. Hoyos, Sahadat Hossain (Just Funded).
Texas Department of Transportation and Development (TxDOT), “Realistic Guidelines for Low Classification Roads on High PI Clays.” $312,386 (UTA Share - $145,174), January 2006 to December 2007, PI: Anand Puppala, and Co-PI: Laureano R. Hoyos (On-going).
City of Arlington, Arlington, Texas. “Comprehensive Studies to Address Combined Lime-Cement Stabilization for Better Support of Arlington Roads.” $114,830, January 15, 2006 to December 2007, PI: Anand Puppala (On-going).
City of Arlington, Arlington, Texas. “Evaluation of Treatment Methods to Stabilize Soft Subgrade Soils of Southeast Arlington: Field Investigations.” $104,000, October 2005 to September 2007, PI: Anand Puppala, Co-PI: Ali Abolmaali (On-going).
Texas Industries Inc. (TXI), “Experimental Investigations on Aggregate Bases.” $102,500, June 2005 to August 2006, PI: Laureano R. Hoyos and Co-PIs: Anand Puppala and Sahadat Hossain (On-going).
Texas Department of Transportation and Development (TxDOT), “Deep Mixing Technology for Mitigation of Pavement Roughness.” $266,433, September 2004 to August 2006, PI: Anand Puppala, and Co-PI: Laureano R. Hoyos (On-going).
Texas Department of Transportation and Development (TxDOT), “Correlation of Texas Cone Penetrometer Test Values and Shear Strength of Texas Soils.” $175,000 (UTA Share $45,000; UH, UTA and Lamar Consortium), September 2004 to August 2006, PI: Anand Puppala (On-going).
United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Fort Worth, Texas. “Investigations to Develop Field Stabilization Methods to Mitigate Desiccation Cracks in order to Reduce Slope and Embankment Failures.” $128,192, Feb 2004 - Jan 2007, PI: Anand Puppala (On-going).
National Science Foundation, “MRI: Development of a Strain/Temperature/Suction-Controlled True Triaxial Testing Device for Modeling Unsaturated Soil Behavior Under Multi-axial Stress States,” $272,178, Aug 1, 2002 - July 31, 2006, PI: Laureano R. Hoyos, Co-PI: Anand Puppala (On-going).
Courses Taught
Undergraduate Courses Taught:
CE 3143 Soil Mechanics Laboratory (Sp97, F97, F98, F99, F01, F03, F04 F06)
CE 3343 Soil Mechanics (F97, F98, F99, F01, F03, F04)
CE 4322 Applications with Geosynthetics (Sp97, Sp99, Sp01, Sp02, Sp03, Sp04)
(also offered with CE5372)
CE 4321 Foundation Design (Sp98, Sp00) (also offered with CE 5364)
Graduate Courses Taught:
CE 5365 Theoretical Soil Mechanics (F96, F98, F00, F01, F02, F03)
CE 5364 Foundation Analysis and Design (Sp98, Sp00) (offered with CE 4321)
CE 5370 Experimental Soil Mechanics (Su99 F05)
CE 5371 Soil Behavior (Su98, Sp00, Sp01, Sp02, Sp03) (also offered as CE5300)
CE 5372 Geosynthetics (Sp97, Sp98, Sp99, Sp01, Sp02, Sp03, Sp04)
(also offered with CE4300/4322)
CE 5373 Environmental Geotechnology (F97, F99) (also offered as CE5300)
CE 6312 In Situ Testing and Interpretation (Su97, Sp99, F00, F02, F05)
CE 6311 Advanced Foundation Design (F03, Sp05)
