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Varghese, R. M., & Madhavi Latha, G. (2013). Effect of overburden stress and surcharge pressure on the liquefaction response of sands. International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, 7(4), 402-410.

Varghese, R. M., & Latha, G. M. (2014). Shaking table tests to investigate the influence of various factors on the liquefaction resistance of sands. Natural hazards, 73(3), 1337-1351.

Varghese, R. M., & Latha, G. M. (2014). Shaking Table Studies on the Conditions of Sand Liquefaction. In Geo-Congress 2014: Geo-characterization and Modeling for Sustainability (pp. 1244-1253).

Muzammil, S. P., Varghese, R. M., & Joseph, J. (2018). Numerical Simulation of the Response of Geosynthetic Encased Stone Columns Under Oil Storage Tank. International Journal of Geosynthetics and Ground Engineering, 4(1), 4.

Shireen, K., Varghese, R. M., & Sankar, N. (2023). Shear Strength Characteristics of Bottom Ash–Rubber Mixture Reinforced with Geogrids. International Journal of Geosynthetics and Ground Engineering, 9(1), 7.

 Varghese, R.M., Jayalekshmi, B.R. and Shivashankar, R. (2010) “Stress-Strain characteristics of reinforced soil” Proc. of Fourth National conference in Recent Advances in Civil Engineering, CUSAT, 16-18 September.

Varghese, R.M. and Latha, G.M. (2011) "Free-field liquefaction studies through shaking table tests", Indian Geotechnical Conference, Dec 15-17, 2011, Kochi, Vol. 1, 533-536.

Varghese, R.M. and Latha, G.M. (2012)"Liquefaction studies on sand using shaking table", Proc. of Indian Geotechnical Conference -2012, Delhi, Vol. 2, pp. 1021-1024.

Varghese, R.M. and Latha, G.M. (2013)" Initiation of liquefaction in sand under different surcharge and overburden stresses", Proc. of Indian Geotechnical Conference -2013, Roorkee.

Varghese, R.M. and Latha, G.M. (2013)" Factors governing the initiation of liquefaction in sand under dynamic loading” 4IYGEC, IIT Madras, 17-18 May.

Varghese, R.M. and Latha, G.M. (2014) “Shaking Table Studies on the Conditions of Sand Liquefaction” Geo-Congress 2014  Technical Papers, DOI: 10.1061/9780784413272.121, pp. 1244-1253.

Johnson, R.J, Varghese, R.M and Joseph, J (2016) “Parametric study on the behavior of combined pile raft foundation founded on multi-layered soil using Plaxis-3D” IGC 2016,15-17 December 2016, IIT Madras, Chennai,India.

Muzammil, S.P, Varghese, R.M and Joseph, J (2017) “Numerical analysis of geosynthetic encased stone column under storage tanks” accepted for 6IYGEC, 10-11 March 2017, NIT Trichy, India.

 Muzammil, S.P, Varghese, R.M and Joseph (2017) , J “Performance of Stone Column Under Circular Storage Tanks” accepted for NCTACME-2017, 17-18 March 2017, KMEA Engineering college, Kerala, India

Varghese, R.M. and Latha, G.M. (2019) “Model studies on the influence of gradation of sand in free field liquefaction” 7th International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering Technical Papers, AGI, Roma, Italy.

Tony, N.T, Devadas, G., Raj, S.G., Varghese, R.M. (2019) “Compaction characteristics of red earth quarry dust combinations”, Proc. of Indian Geotechnical Conference -2019, Surat, India.

Varghese, R.M. and Alex A.B. (2020) “Numerical analysis on the effect of compaction induced stresses on the performance of MSE walls” 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics (7ICRAGEE), IISc Bangalore, India.

Diamond, R., Varghese, R.M. (2020) “Desiccation cracking behavior and strength characteristics of areca fiber reinforced fine-grained soils” Indian Geotechnical Conference-2020, Visakhapatanam, India.

Shireen, K., Varghese, R.M., and N. Sankar (2021). "Sustainable Utilization of Lightweight Waste Materials as Structural fill for Geotechnical Applications." In IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, vol. 1114, no. 1, p. 012034. IOP Publishing, 2021.

Divyasree, S. L., Jithin, K. M., & Varghese, R. M. (2023, June). Geotechnical Seismic Base Isolation Using Rubber Sand Mixtures-Review. In Proceedings of 17th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering (Vol. 4) (Vol. 332, p. 285). Springer Nature.

Suyal, T., & Varghese, R. M. (2023, August). Investigations on Rubber-Sand Mixture Reinforced with Geogrid as a Low-Cost Geotechnical Seismic Base Isolation. In Proceedings of 17th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering (Vol. 3) (Vol. 331, p. 257). Springer Nature.

Financial assistance from International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) to attend the international conference “Geo-Congress 2014” conducted by American Society of Civil Engineers, held at Atlanta, USA, on 23rd -26th February 2014.

 B-Tech project group has received the third prize in Pro-comp 2016, which selects the best B-Tech thesis work done under M.G University, Kerala.

GATE scholarship for M-Tech and PhD studies.

Geotechnology

Ground Improvement

Engineering Mechanics

Environmental Studies

Disaster Management

Life member of Indian Geotechnical Society

PhD Students

1. Shireen K

2. Abhijith L 

3. Noushad K

4. Jithin K M

PG Students

1. VISHNU T (M170087CE)

2. SAREER SATHAR (M170164CE)

3. PRASHANT B. MALI (M180415CE)

4. A RAVI DIAMOND (M180119CE)

5. AKHIL B ALEX (M180354CE)

6. PRASHANT B. MALI (M180415CE)

7. HUDHA M K (M190201CE)

8. FATHIMA K (M190329CE)

9. K P ANJALI (M190418CE)

10. TAPAN SUYAL (M200070CE)

11. BOOPALRAJ N (M200102CE)

12. VANKUDOTH VANITHA (M200224CE)

13. GOWRI PRIYA L (M210123CE)

14. ANJITHA A R (M210126CE)

15. MANUBOTHULA SHIVANI (M210350CE)

16. PROJHOTIP MISRA (M210348CE)