Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with specialization in Geotechnical Engineering
Biography
28 Years of Teaching Experience
Education
Ph.D. (CIVIL ENGINEERING) from JNTU Kakinada in 2012
M.E (Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering) from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam in 1994
B.E ( Civil Engineering) from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam in 1989
Publications
International Journals : 03
International Conferences : 13
National Journals : 06
National Conferences : 11
Total : 33
2010
1 Umashankar Balunaini, Madhira R. Madhav and Rajyalakshmi K. (2010). "Load
settlement response of reclaimed ground", 7th International Symposium on Lowland
Technology, September16 -18, 2010, Saga, Japan.
2 Rajyalakshmi, K., Madhav, M.R. and Ramu, K.(2010) "Bearing Capacity of
Reinforced Foundation Beds on Soft Non-homogeneous ground", proceedings of
Indian Geotechnical Conference- 2010,Volume 2, IIT Mumbai, pp. 521-524.
2011
3 K. Rajyalakshmi, M. R. Madhav and K. Ramu. (2011) "Bearing Capacity of Granular
Beds On Soft non-homogeneous Clay" National Conference on Recent Advances in
Ground Improvement Techniques February 24-25, 2011, CBRI, Roorkee, India.
4 Rajyalakshmi, K and Ramu, K. (2011). "Bearing Capacity of Reinforced Foundation
Beds on Soft Compressible Clays", 13th
International conference of the International
association for Computer methods and Geomechanics, Proceedings of IACMAG 2011,
Computer Methods for Geomechanics: Frontiers and New Applications Vol.2,
Melbourne, Australia, 9-11 May 2011, pp.1016-1021.
5 Rajyalakshmi, K. and Ramu, K. (2011). "Bearing capacity of Reinforced granular beds
on Soft Non-homogeneous clay", International Journal of Engineering Science and
Technology, ISSN: 0975-5462, Vol.3 (7), July 2011, pp. 5851-5860.
6 Rajyalakshmi, K., Madhira. R. Madhav, and Ramu, K. (2011). "Kinematics and
Bearing Capacity of Reinforced Foundation Bed on Soft Ground", Indian Geotechnical
Journal, 41(3), July 2011, pp. 121-130.
7 Rajyalakshmi, K., Madhav, M.R. and Ramu, K. (2011). "Bearing Capacity of
Reinforced Foundation Beds on Soft Non-Homogeneous Ground", Journal of Civil
Engineering and Architecture, ISSN 1934- 7359, USA, Aug 2011, Volume 5, No. 8
(Serial No. 45), pp. 759-764.
8 K. Rajyalakshmi, M. R. Madhav and K. Ramu. (2011) "Bearing Capacity of
Reinforced Foundation Beds on Soft Compressible Clays", paper presented at Indian
Geotechnical Conference December 15-17, 2011, Kochi.
2012
9 Rajyalakshmi, K., Madhav, M.R. and Ramu, K. (2012). "Bearing Capacity of
Foundations on Geosynthetic Reinforced Foundation Beds on Soft Non-Homogeneous
Ground", Indian Journal of Geosynthetics and Ground Improvement, Technical
Journal of Indian chapter of International Geosynthetics Society (India), Volume1,
Part1, January 2012, pp 11-19.
10 Rajyalakshmi, K., Madhira. R. Madhav, and Ramu, K. (2012). "Bearing Capacity of
Geosynthetic Reinforced Foundation Beds on Compressible Clay", Proceedings of 3
rd
International Conference on New Developments in Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical
Engineering,28-30 June 2012, Near East University, Nicosia, North Cyprus, pp. 715-
722.
11 Rajyalakshmi, K., Madhira. R. Madhav, and Ramu, K. (2012). "Bearing Capacity of
Reinforced Foundation Beds on Soft Non-Homogeneous Ground", Proceedings of the
8th International Symposium on Lowland Technology, September 16-18, 2012, Bali,
Indonesia, pp. 111-115.
12 Rajyalakshmi, K., Madhira. R. Madhav, and Ramu, K. (2012). ″Bearing Capacity of
Reinforced Foundation Bed on Soft compressible Ground", Indian Geotechnical
Journal, Volume 42, No.4, October 2012, ISSN 0971-9555, DOI 10.1007/s 40098-012-
0028-0
13 K. Rajyalakshmi (2012). "Bearing Capacity of Circular footings on Reinforced
Foundation Beds", National Conference on Recent advances in Geo-sciences,
Engineering and Technology (NCRAGE), December 2012, JNTU, Kakinda, pp. 279-
286.
14 K. Rajyalakshmi, M.R. Madhav and K. Ramu. (2012) "Bearing Capacity of Circular
Footings on Reinforced Foundation Beds over Soft Compressible Ground",
Proceedings of Indian Geotechnical Conference, December 13-15, 2012, Delhi, pp.
692-695.
2013
15 Rajyalakshmi, K. and Madhira. R. Madhav. (2013) "Bearing capacity of embedded
circular footings on reinforced foundation beds over soft compressible ground",
Proceedings of Foundation and Soft Ground Engineering Conference Thu Dau Mot
University ICTDMU-1, Binh Duong, Vietnam, June 5 .6, 2013, pp. 211-218.
16 Rajyalakshmi, K., Abhishek, S.V. and Madhav, M.R. (2013) “Bearing Capacity of
Strip Footing on Reinforced Granular Bed over Soft Ground with Granular Trench”,
Proc., 48th Indian Geotechnical Conference, IIT Roorkee, December 22-24, ISBN:
978-81-925548-1-5, Paper No. 176.
2014
17 Sushmita,S., Rajyalakshmi, K., Madhav, M.R. and Ramu, K. (2014). ″Kinematics and
Bearing Capacity of strip footings on Reinforced Foundation Beds over Soft nonhomogeneous Ground"- Indian Journal of Geosynthetics and Ground Improvement,
Technical Journal of Indian chapter of International Geosynthetics Society (India).,
July 2014, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 14-26.
18 S.V. Abhishek, K. Rajyalakshmi and Madhira R. Madhav. (2014). ″Bearing Capacity
of Strip Footing on Reinforced Foundation Bed over Soft Ground with Granular
Trench″, ISSN 0971-9555, DOI 10.1007/s40098-014-0138-y, online first, Indian
Geotechnical Journal.
19 Rajyalakshmi Kurapati, Abhishek Sakhelshpur and Madhav Madhira R. (2014).
″Bearing capacity of a Strip footing resting on reinforced Granular bed over soft clay
stabilized with granular trench considering kinematics″- 9
th International Symposium
on Lowland Technology, September 29-October 1, 2014 in Saga, Japan, pp. 377-384.
20 K. Rajyalakshmi, S.V. Abhishek and M.R. Madhav (2014). ″Bearing Capacity of
Embedded Circular footings on Reinforced Foundation Beds over Compressible
Ground considering Kinematics″- Proceedings of the Golden Jubilee Conference of the
IGS Bangalore Chapter, Geo-Innovations, 30-31 October 2014, pp. 56-63.
21 Rajya Lakshmi, K, Abhishek, S.V., Madhira R. Madhav and Ramu, K. ″Kinematics
and Bearing Capacity of Embedded Circular Footings on Reinforced Foundation Beds
over Soft Non-homogeneous Ground″, proceedings of Indian geotechnical conference
2014, JNTUK, Kakinada, India, pp. 1539-1548.
2015
22 Madhav, M.R., Rajyalakshmi, K. and Abhishek S.V. (2015) “Bearing Capacity of Strip
Footing on Reinforced Granular Bed over Soft Non-Homogeneous Ground Stabilized
with Granular Trench”, 15th ARC on SM&GE, Japanese Geotechnical Society Special
Publication (J-Stage), 2(37):1348-1353.
23 S.V. Abhishek, K. Rajyalakshmi and Madhira R. Madhav (2015)."Bearing capacity of
strip footing on reinforced granular bed over compressible ground with granular
trench", International Conference on Geotechnical Engineering, Colombo, Sri Lanka,
August 10-11: M 297-302.
24 Rajyalakshmi, K., Abhishek, S.V. and Madhav, M.R. (2015) “Effect of Shape on
Bearing Capacity of Embedded Footings on Reinforced Foundation Beds over Soft
Non-Homogeneous Ground”, 15th ARC on SM&GE, Japanese Geotechnical Society
Special Publication (J-Stage), 2(64): 2174-2179.
25 Abhishek, S.V., Rajyalakshmi, K. and Madhav, M.R. (2015) “Kinematics and Bearing
Capacity of Strip Footing on RFB over Compressible Ground Stabilized with Granular
Trench”, 15th ARC on SM&GE, Japanese Geotechnical Society Special Publication
(J-Stage), 2(62): 2115-2120.
26 S.V. Abhishek, K. Rajyalakshmi and M.R. Madhav (2015). ″Bearing Capacity of Strip
Footing on Reinforced Foundation Bed over Soft Ground with Granular Trench″,
Indian Geotech J (July–September 2015) 45(3): 304–317.
27 Madhav, M.R., Abhishek, S.V. and Rajyalakshmi, K. (2015) “Modelling Ground –
Foundation Interactions”, Keynote, Proc., International Conference on Innovations in
Structural Engineering, Hyderabad, India, December 14-16, pp: 91-106.
28 Rajyalakshmi, K., Abhishek, S.V. and Madhav, M.R. (2015) “Bearing Capacity of
Strip Footing on RFB over Soft Non-Homogeneous Ground with Shallow Granular
Trench”, Proc., 50th Indian Geotechnical Conference, College of Engineering, Pune,
December 17-19 (published).
2016
29 Abhishek, S.V., Rajyalakshmi, K. and Madhav, M.R. (2016) “Bearing Capacity of
Circular Footing on RFB over Granular Pile-Engineered Ground, Proc., 4
th
International Conference on New Developments in Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical
Engineering, Nicosia, Cyprus, June 2-4, pp. 1-8
30 Abhishek, S.V., Rajyalakshmi, K. and Madhav, M.R. (2016) “Engineering of Ground
with Granular Piles: A Critical Review”, International Journal of Geotechnical
Engineering, Manuscript No. IGE757.
2017
31 V.A. Sakleshpur K. Rajyalakshmi and M.R. Madhav (2107) “Bearing capacity of circular
footing on reinforced foundation bed over soft non-homogeneous ground with granular
pile”, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and
Geotechnical Engineering, Seoul 2017
2018
32 K. Rajyalakshmi, V.A. Sakleshpur and M.R. Madhav (2108) “Bearing Capacity of
Ring footing on Reinforced foundation Bed over soft ground”, International society for
lowland technology, Hanoi, Vietnam,
2019
33 K. Rajyalakshmi, V.A. Sakleshpur and M.R. Madhav (2019) ″Bearing Capacity of Ring
Footing on Reinforced Foundation Bed over Soft Ground″, Symposium on recent
advances in Sustainable Geotechnics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 17-20
October 2019
Skills
Author of the book "Geotechnical Engineering"
Video lessons LIVE LECTURES (CDs available and are widely used as e-lessons in all State govt. Institutions)
Carried out Geotechnical investigations and material testing (as laboratory in-charge) for many important projects in and around Visakahaptnam, India for a) implementation of Underground drainage system for the Greater Visakha Municipal Corporation and construction of Sewage treatment plants. b) major construction of Roads, buildings and bridges by various central and state government and private organizations namely Military Engineering Services, Indian Railways, Panchayat Raj, Roads and Buildings, Visakhapatnam Urban development Authority, Larsen and Toubro, National thermal power corporation, Power grid Corporation, etc.
