1   Rangaswamy K, Boominathan A. and Rajagopal K. (2010). Influence of Initial conditions on Liquefaction Resistance of Silty Sands. Intenational Journal of Geomechanics and Geoengineering, Vol.5, No. 3, pp. 199-211.

2   Boominathan A, Rangaswamy K. and Rajagopal K. (2010). Effect of Non-plastic fines on Liquefaction Resistance of poorly graded Gujarat sand. International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, Vol.4, Issue2/April 2010, pp. 241-253.

3   Ranga Swamy K (2016). Influence of burnt ash additives on stabilization of soft clay soils. Int. Journal of Innovative Infrastructure Solutions, Issue No. 25, pp. 1-6.

4   Rangaswamy K, and Shabna Alungal (2016). Numerical simulations on triaxial strength of silty sand in drained conditions. Int. Journal of Computational Engineering Research (IJCER), Issue 08, Volume 06, pp. 21-26.

5   Meeravali K., and Rangaswamy K (2018). Compressibility and permeability characteristics of nano-chemical treated kuttanad soft clay. J. of emerging technologies and innovative research, Issue 3, Volume 5, pp. 615-620.

6   Ranga Swamy K (2016). Influence of burnt ash additives on stabilization of soft clay soils. Int. Journal of Innovative Infrastructure Solutions, Issue No. 25, pp. 1-6.

7   Rangaswamy K, and Shabna Alungal (2016). Numerical simulations on triaxial strength of silty sand in drained conditions. Int. Journal of Computational Engineering Research (IJCER), Issue 08, Volume 06, pp. 21-26.

8   Meeravali K., and Rangaswamy K (2018). Compressibility and permeability characteristics of nano-chemical treated kuttanad soft clay. J. of emerging technologies and innovative research, Issue 3, Volume 5, pp. 615-620.

9   M Akhila, K Ranga Swamy and N Sankar (2018): Undrained response and Liquefaction susceptibility of Silty sands. International Journal of Geotechnical and Geological Engineering (Springer), 2018 DOI - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10706-018-00790-0

10    M Akhila, K Ranga Swamy and N Sankar (2019): Effect of non-plastic fines on undrained response of fine sand’, International Journal of Geomate, Vol.16(54), 2019, pp.170 – 175, DOI: https://doi.org/10.21660/2019.54.8325

11    M Akhila, K Ranga Swamy and N Sankar (2019): Liquefaction susceptibility of silty sands based on steady state line concept’, Journal of Geotechnical Studies, Vol 4(1), 2019, pp. 32-50, DOI:  http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2613366

12    M Akhila, K Ranga Swamy and N Sankar (2019): Liquefaction susceptibility of silty sand and low-plastic clayey soils. International Journal of Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Volume 10, Issue 2, Article 1, 2019.

13    M Akhila, K Ranga Swamy and N Sankar (2018): Pertinent approach to cycic traixail testing. Electronic Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, Vol.23 [2018]/Bund. 04, 2018, pp 757-766.

14    M Akhila, K Ranga Swamy and N Sankar (2019): Liquefaction susceptibility central Kerala. J. of Springer Nature Applied Sciences, published online, 17.5.19, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-019-0576-3

15    Rinku Varghese S, Chandrakaran S. and Rangaswamy K. (2019). Influence of type of organic substances on the strength and consolidation behavior of inorganic clay soil. International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, published online 22.3.19: https://doi.org/10.1080/19386362.2019.1591739

16    Geethu Thomas, Rangaswamy K. (2019). Strength Behavior of Enzymatic Cement Treated Clay. International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, published online 02.6.19: https://doi.org/10.1080/19386362.2019.1622854

17    M Akhila, Rangaswamy K. and Sankar N (2019). Liquefaction susceptibility of nonplastic silty sands using hypoplastic model simulations. International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1080/19386362.2019.1655996

18    Smitha S, Rangaswamy K and Keerthi D S (2019). Triaxial test behaviour of silty sands treated with agar biopolymer. Int. Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, published online 16.10.19: https://doi.org/10.1080/19386362.2019.1679441

19     Rinku Varghese S, Chandrakaran S. and Rangaswamy K. (2019). Geotechnical behaviour of different organic matter on clayey soils. Geomechanics and Geoengineering: An Int. Journal, published online 04.10.19: https://doi.org/10.1080/17486025.2019.1670874

20    Smitha S, and Rangaswamy K (2020). Effect of biopolymer treatment on pore pressure response and dynamic properties of silty sands. Journal of materials in Civil Engineering, ASCE, DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)MT.1943-5533.0003285

21    Meeravali K, Ruben N and Rangaswamy K. (2020). Stabilisation of Soft clay using nanomaterial: Terrasil. Journal of Materials today: Proceedings 27 (2020):1030-1037, ScienceDirect Elsevier publications, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2020.01.384

22    Geethu Thomas, Rangaswamy K. (2020). Strengthening of cement blended soft clay with nano-silica particles. Geomechanics & Engineering, an international journal, SCI, Vol. 20, No. 6 (2020) 505-516 DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/gae.2020.20.6.505

23    Geethu Thomas, Rangaswamy K. (2020). Dynamic soil properties of nano particles and bio enzyme treated soft clay, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, international journal, SCI (Accepted)

24    Rangaswamy K, Akhila M, and Sankar N. (2020). Effects of fines content and plasticity on liquefaction resistance of sands. Proceedings of the Institute of Civil Engineers-Geotechnical Engineering J, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1680/jgeen.19.00270

25. Smitha S, and Rangaswamy K (2021). Experimental study on unconfined compressive and cyclic triaxial test behaviour of agar biopolymer treated silty sand. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 14:590, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-021-06955-1  

International conferences

1       Rangaswamy K. and Narasimha Rao AV. (2004). “Influence of Water content on flexural behavior of Reinforced soil beams”, Proceedings of International Conference on Geosynthetics and Geoenvironmental Engineering, December 8-10,2004, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India, pp.165-170.

2       Rangaswamy K., Boominathan A. and Rajagopal K. (2007). “Grain and specimen size Effects on Liquefaction of Fine Sands to undrained Cyclic Triaxial Testing” International Workshop on Earthquake Hazard and Mitigations (EHAM 2007), IIT Guwahati, Dec.5-8, 2007, pp. 423-430.

3       Rangaswamy K., Boominathan A. and Rajagopal K. (2010). “Undrained Response and Liquefaction Behaviour of Non-Plastic Silty Sands under Cyclic Loading” 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics, San Diego, CA – May 24-29, 2010, paper No. 4.21a, pp. 1-10.

4       Rangaswamy K., Boominathan A. and Rajagopal K. (2011). “Liquefaction Strength of Silty Sands” 2nd International Conference on Performance-based Design in Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, Taormina (Italy),, May 28-30, 2012. (Paper No. 2.09).

5       Rangaswamy K., Boominathan A. and Rajagopal K. (2014). “Liquefaction resistance of Gujarat Silty Sands” International German-Indian Workshop on “All aspects related to Liquefaction” 15th to 16th of May, 20-14, TU Darmstadt, Germany. Published in series of Darmstadt Geotechnics 2014.

6       Rangaswamy K., Shashank M., and VinayKumar K. (2015). “Geotechnical Properties of Recycled Mangalore tiles as a Road sub-base” The 6th International Geotechnical Symposium on Disaster Mitigation in Special Geoenvironmental conditions, Chennai, India, January 21-23, 2015, pp. 245- 248.

7       Rangaswamy K. and Seetha P. (2015). “Liquefaction Susceptibility of Ernakulam silty sand deposits” The 6th International Geotechnical Symposium on Disaster Mitigation in Special Geoenvironmental conditions, Chennai, India, January 21-23, 2015, pp. 200- 204.

8       Dipty Sarin Issac, Rangaswamy K and Chandrakaran S. (2015). “Effect of confining stress and density on undrained response of soft clays” 2nd int. conference on emerging trends in Technology and applied sciences, Kottayam, April 30 to May 2, 2015

9       Shiji P, K. Ranga Swamy, and Arun C (2015). “Defining Probability Distribution functions for Material Utilization in Highway Projects” 3rd Int. Conference on Modelling and Simulation in Civil Engineering (ICMSC 2015), Kollam, July 5-7th 2015, pp. 321-327

10    Akhila M, Ranga Swamy K and Sankar N. (2015). “Earthquake analysis on liquefiable soil with building load” International workshop on Deep Foundation technologies for infrastructure development in India, IISC Bangalore, India, 28-30 September 2015

11    Shiji P, K. Ranga Swamy, and Arun C (2016). “Optimization of equipment using ARENA: A case study of highway construction project” Int. Conference on recent trends in Engineering and Material Sciences (ICEMS 2016), JNU Rajasthan, March 17-19, Paper Id: 1-Ic-3601, pp. 105

12    Ranga Swamy K (2016). “Geotechnical characterization of soft clay treated with a bottom and fly ash mixture” The 4th Int. Conference on Sustainable Civil Infrastructure (Geo-China 2016), ASCE Geotechnical Special Publication 258, Shandong, China, July 25-27, 2016, pp. 118-125.

13    Varghese, R., Chandrakaran. S, and Rangaswamy, K, (2016) “Effect of organic content and curing period on Atterberg limits of expansive clay”, International geotechnical conference on Sustainability in Geotechnical Engineering and Related Urban Issues, ISSMGE and IGS Mumbai Chapter, September 23-24.

14    Akhila M, Ranga Swamy K and Sankar N. (2018). “Liquefaction susceptibility of dam foundation soil” International dam safety conference, Thiruvanthapuram, sponsored by Ministry of water resources, Govt. of India, 23-24 January 2018, Doc. No. CDSO_IDSC2018_COMP, pp. 185-196.  

15    M Akhila, K Rangaswamy and N Sankar: Development of critical state line from hypoplastic model simulations on triaxial strength of silty sand. Proceedings of Emerging Trends in Engineering, Science and Technology for Society, Energy and Environment, Publisher – Taylor and Francis, 2018, ISBN 978-0-8153-5760-5 (Hardback)

16    M Akhila, K Rangaswamy and N Sankar: Undrained response of silty sands under static and cyclic loading. Proceedings Of The Eighth International Conference – Geomate 2018 Geotechnique, Malasia, Construction Materials And Environment, Kuala Lumpur, Publisher – The Geomate International Society, ISBN 978-4-909106001 C3051

17    M Akhila, K Rangaswamy and N Sankar: Numerical study on the undrained response of silty sands under static triaxial loading. Proceedings of IACMAG Symposium, IIT Gandhinagar, March 5-7, 2019, Publisher – Springer (Accepted)

18    S Smitha and K. Rangasway (2019). “The Potential use of Biopolymers as a Sustainable Alternative for Liquefaction Mitigation- a Review” Proceedings of International Conference ARICE‟19, Kerala, 2019

19. V P Devipriya, S. Chandrakaran, & K Rangaswamy (2019). " Seepage Behavior of Fiber Reinforced Embankment Fill: a Review " Proceedings of International Conference ARICE'19, Muthoot Institute of Technology and Science, Kerala.2019.

National conferences

1       Boominathan A., Rangaswamy K. and Rajagopal K. (2006). “Effect of Fines on Pore Water Pressure Build up and Liquefaction of Sands under Low Confining Pressure” Proceedings of 13th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering (13 SEE), Roorkee, Dec 18-20, pp.501 to 510.

2       Boominathan A., Rangaswamy K. and Rajagopal K. (2006). “Effect of Method of Sample Preparation on Liquefaction Resistance of Sands in Cyclic Triaxial Testing” Proceedings of Indian Geotechnical Conference (IGC-2006), IIT Madras, Chennai, Dec 14-16, pp.833 to 836.

3       Rangaswamy K., Boominathan A. and Rajagopal K. (2009). “Comparative study on liquefaction resistance of sand and silty soils” Proceedings of Indian Geotechnical Conference IGC-2009, Guntur, Dec. 17-19, pp. 536-540.

4       Rangaswamy K., and Sekhar J. (2011). “Undrained response and Liquefaction of Beach Soil Under Triaxial Loading” Proceedings of Indian Geotechnical Conference IGC-2011, Kochi, Dec. 15-17, Paper No. 139, Vol-II, pp: 863-866.

5       K. Vineetha and Rangaswamy K. (2011). “Dynamic Analyses of Soil-Pile-Supetrstructure Interaction” Proceedings of Indian Geotechnical Conference IGC-2011, Kochi, Dec. 15-17, Paper No. 135, Vol-II, pp: 855 – 858.

6       Deepak P.S. and Rangaswamy K. (2012). “Strength and deformation characteristics of soil bags” Proceedings of Indian Geotechnical Conference IGC-2012, IIT Delhi, Dec. 13-15, Paper No. E553.

7       Deepak P.S. and Rangaswamy K. (2012). “Load deformation characteristics of soilbag reinforced earth” Proceedings of Innovations and challenges in Geotechnical Engineering ICGE-2012, IES college of Engineering Trichur , Dec. 3-4, Paper No. B008.

8       Reethi V.P. and Rangaswamy K. (2012). “Geotechnical properties of soft clay stabilized with fly ash and lime stone dust” Proceedings of Innovations and challenges in Geotechnical Engineering ICGE-2012, IES college of Engg., Dec. 3-4, Paper No. B009.

9       Akhila M. and Rangaswamy K. (2013). “Study on the behaviour of piled raft foundation under seismic load” Proceedings of Fourth Indian Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference- 4IYGEC-2013, IIT Madras, May 17-18, PID: T7P3.

10    Femi J. and Rangaswamy K. (2013). “Influence of soil parameters on ground motion characteristics” Proceedings of Fourth Indian Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference- 4IYGEC-2013, IIT Madras, May 17-18, PID: T7P8.

11    Wajeeh Mohamed T.P. and Rangaswamy K. (2013). “Effect of natural fibre on the strength characteristics of silts soil” Proceedings of Fourth Indian Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference- 4IYGEC-2013, IIT Madras, May 17-18, PID: T3P1.

12    Rangaswamy K, and Shabna alungal (2014). “Hypoplastic modeling on drained response of silty sand” Proceedings of National Conference on Recent advancements in geotechnical engineering, Coimbatore, April 22, 2014, pg. 78-82.

13    Neema Mohan, and Rangaswamy K. (2015). “Undrained load response of soft clays reinforced with sand columns” Proceedings of National Conference on Technological Innovations for sustainable Infrastructure, NIT Calicut, 13-14 March, 2015. Paper No. T0082. pg. 177-184. 

14    Akhila M, and Rangaswamy K. (2015). “Piled Raft Foundation under Seismic Load” Proceedings of National Conference on Technological Innovations for sustainable Infrastructure, NIT Calicut, 13-14 March, 2015. Paper No. T0096. pg. 185-188.

15    Manicka Priya and Rangaswamy K. (2015). “Compressibility and strength characteristics of soft clay treated with bottom ash” Proceedings of Indian Geotechnical Conference IGC-2015, Pune, Dec. 17-19, Paper No. 357, pp: 441 – 448.

16    Rintoo Johnson and Rangaswamy K. (2015). “Improvement of soil properties as a road base material using Nano-chemical solution” Proceedings of Indian Geotechnical Conference IGC-2015, Pune, Dec. 17-19, Paper Id. 379, pp: 363– 371.

17    Dipty Sarin Issac, Rangaswamy K and Chandrakaran S. (2016). “Influence of initial conditions on undrained response of softclays” Proceedings of Indian Geotechnical Conference IGC-2016, Chennai, Dec. 15-17, Paper Id. 1.

18    Rinku Varghese, Chandrakaran S & Rangaswamy K. (2016). “Effect of organic content on Geotechnical properties of Bentonite clay” Proceedings of Indian Geotechnical Conference IGC-2016, Chennai, Dec. 15-17, Paper Id. 25.

19    Akhila M, Ranga Swamy K and Sankar N. (2017). “Effect of non-plastic fines on liquefaction susceptibility of fine sands” DFI-India 2017 Conference on Deep Foundation technologies for infrastructure development in India, IIT Madras, India, 05-07 October 2017.

20    Aswathi T.S. and Rangaswamy K. (2017). “Compressibility and triaxial strength behavior of fine soils: Numerical study” Proceedings of Indian Geotechnical Conference IGC-2017, IIT Guwahati, Dec. 14-16, Paper Id: Th16_335

21    M Akhila, K Ranga Swamy and N Sankar: Liquefaction susceptibility of silty sands based on critical state line concept. International Geotechnical Engineering Conference on Sustainability in Geotechnical Engineering Practices and Related Urban Issues, September 23-24, Mumbai, India, 2016.

22    M Akhila, K Ranga Swamy, PC Jitesh and N Sankar:  Numerical study on cyclic loading effects on the undrained response of silty sand. Proceedings of Indian Geotechnical Conference, IISc Banglore, Publisher – Springer, 2018. (accepted)

23    M Akhila, K Ranga Swamy and N Sankar: Liquefaction Mitigation by Preloading – An Experimental Study. Proceedings of 16th Symposium on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, Roorkee, 2018.

24    M Akhila, K Ranga Swamy and N Sankar: Liquefaction criteria for silts and low-plastic clays: A review. Proceedings of Conference of the Kerala state Technological Congress, Government Engineering College Thrissur, 2019.

25. Rinku Varghese, Chandrakaran, and Rangaswamy K (2020). “Effect of Nano-silica stabilization with cement on shear strength and consolidation properties of organic soils” 2nd ASCE India Conference on “Challenges of Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure Development in Emerging Economies (CRSIDE2020)” March 2-4 at Novetel, Kolkatta. 

IGS (LM2826)

ISET (LM1697)

DFI (23015)

Soil Dynamics forum

1. Varghese R., Chandrakaran S., Rangaswamy K. (2019) Effect of Organic Matter on Geotechnical Behavior of Soils. In: Kallel A. et al. (eds) Recent Advances in Geo-Environmental Engineering, Geomechanics and Geotechnics, and Geohazards. Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation, Springer International Publishing, ISBN: 978-3-030-01665-4

2.    Smitha S, and Rangaswamy K (2020) The Potential use of Biopolymers as a Sustainable Alternative for Liquefaction Mitigation- a Review, Springer nature, Advances in Civil Engineering, Lecture notes in Civil Engineering 83, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5644-9_3

3.     P Aswathy, and K. Ranga Swamy (2021).  Stability analysis of Kattipara and Meppady regions of Hill soil slope. Lecture notes in Civil Engineering, Local site effects and ground failures, Springer, Singapore, Proceedings of 7^th ICRAGEE 2020, ISBN:978-981-15-9983-5.

4.     S Smitha, K. Ranga Swamy, and P Balaswamy Naik (2021).  Liquefaction Mitigation of Silty Sands using Xanthan Biopolymer. Lecture notes in Civil Engineering, Volume 118, ground improvement techniques, Springer, Singapore, Proceedings of 7th ICRAGEE 2020, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9988-0_23

5.     Geethu Thomas, and K. Ranga Swamy (2021).  Dynamic soil properties of enzymatic cement stabilized clay. Lecture notes in Civil Engineering, Volume 119, Soil dynamics, Springer, Singapore, Proceedings of 7^th ICRAGEE 2020, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4001-5_1

6.   Rangaswamy K, Geethu Thomas, and Smitha S (2021). Influence of bio and nano materials on dynamic characterization of soils. Lecture notes in Civil Engineering, Key note Volume, Latest developments in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil dynamics, Springer, Singapore, Proceedings of 7^th ICRAGEE 2020 (under production process)

• Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering,
• Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering
• FEM&Constitutive Modelling in Geotechnical Engineering
• Reinforced Soil Structures

Worked as Project Officer under IC&SR at IIT Madras for one year and Involved in several consultancy projects  

Carryout the soil testing and consultancy works with geotechnical group

Conducted the FDP and workshops

Complted FRG research project

Co-invesigated the Research project with Coir board, Kerala

Coordinated with NCESS, Thiruvanthapuram in investigating geotechnical aspects of landsides of Kerala western ghats

Co-investigator of DRIP reserch project and procured Geostudio, Rapid flow, softwares, and fileld dynamic testing facilities of CH/DH, and MASW

Completed: 50

Ongoing 4

• National Merit Scholar

• DAAD Fellowship to carry a part of the Ph.D research work at TUD, Germany

• Paper publication incentive 2019-2020

Faculty advisor

Geotechnical Laboratory Incharge

PG programme / project coordinator 

Teaching and research

Soil testing and consultancy 

Project officer at IIT Madras (October 2007 to December 2008)

Faculty advisor

Geotechnical Laboratory Incharge

PG programme / project coordinator 

Hostel warden

Teaching and research

Soil testing and consultancy 

• Soil Liquefaction during Earthquakes
• Numerical and Physical Modelling of Dynamic Soil Properties
• Dynamic Loaded Piles
• Ground Improvement Methods
• Landslide Hazards

Completed: 5

Ongoing: 4