Geotechnical Engineer

Sagarkumar Khunt

Executive Engineer

SKAPS Industries India Pvt. Ltd.

ACADEMIC DETAILS

Degree Institute CPI/% Year

M.Tech (Civil Eng.) Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar 7.39 2017-2019 Btech (Civil Eng.) Darshan Insititute of Engineering and Technology, Rajkot 7.58 2012 - 2016 Class XII Aashta School of Science, Rajkot 79 2011 - 2012 Class X Swaminarayan Gurukul, Junagadh 82 2009-2010 WORK EXPERIENCE

Executive Engineer, SKAPS Industries India Pvt. Ltd. (July 2019- Present)

Coordinate with clients, consultants, owners to identify, study and analyze problems by site visits, meetings, collecting the Soil and Hydraulic data and analyze the same.

Prepare proposals, case studies and preliminary designs for cost estimation for the projects

Responsible for marketing and Installation of SKAPS products

Site Investigation at various locations in Gujarat for Hydratex Product Installation.

Supervise the Autocad drawings of Hydrotex products and help in the production. RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

Khunt, S., Kantesaria, N., and Sachan, A.(2020). Interface Shear Strength Behaviour of Marginal Soils with Geotextiles and Geogrids. In Geocongress 2020: Vision, Insight, Outlook. Minnesota,USA

Khunt, S., and Sachan, A. (2019). Effect of Plastic Fines on Shear Strength on Ennore Sand-Kaolinite Mixtures. Indian geotechnical conference, IGC 2019, SVNIT Surat, India, December19-21, 2019 MAJOR PROJECTS

Interface Shear Strength Behaviour of Marginal Soils with Geotextiles and Geogrids July-2019 Interface Shear Behaviour of marginal soils with geosynthetic products such as woven and non-woven geotextile, Uniaxial and Biaxial Geogrid.

Performed Large Direct Shear test for computing soil-geosynthetic interaction parameters.

Analysis of Pile-Raft foundation using ANSYS April-2018 Studied the suitability of Pile-Raft system under given loading and validated the model result with theoretical results.

‘Geotechnical investigation on IIT-Gandhinagar soil’ Dec.-2017 Performed basic and advanced level testing like UU, UC, CU and CD. Learned to make professional geotechnical investigation report.

‘Estimation and costing of residual building using PROJECT MANAGEMENT software March- 2016

Analyzed the duration of the construction work.

Suggested solution using Project Management Software by setting event in correct sequence. Estimated the overall cost of eleven storey building using Project Management Software. TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software and Tools- Ansys, GEO5, GEO Studio, MATLAB, Microsoft Office ACHIEVEMENTS

Scored 618/1000 in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (Civil Engineering), 2017

Winner, Cricket Combat League, IIT Gandhinagar (2018) POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY

Volunteer, DFI 2018 India 8th Conference on Deep Foundation Technologies for Infrastructure Development, IIT Gandhinagar, IN, Nov 15-16, 2018.

Teaching Assistant in Geotechnical Laboratory for Soil Mechanics Course at IIT Gandhinagar.

Assisted in administrative works at Academic Office of IIT Gandhinagar. Email Id: ************@*****.***

Mobile: +91-966*******

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