Dr. Sivapriya S.V Associate Professor

• Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology – Madras, India (July 2008 – July 2013: Full Time).
• M.E in Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, India (July 2005 – April 2007: Full Time).
• B.E in Civil Engineering SRM Engineering, Anna University, India (July 2001 – April 2005: Full Time).

• August 2013 – till date: Associate Professor, Civil Engineering, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, Chennai.
• September 2007 – July 2008: Geotechnical Engineer in Josmar Consulting Engineers, Chennai

(Anna University Supervisor Recognition Ref. No.:2910003)

• Soil – Structure Interaction.
• Foundation behaviour.
• Slope Stability Analysis
• Waste Management.
• Ground Improvement.

• Analyzing Soil Erosion along the Kovalam Coastal stretch using Image Processing, SSN Trust, India, 2023, INR – 1,40,000.
• Prediction of shallow type landslide influenced by rainfall using ANN , SSN Trust, India, 2019, INR – 1,62,000.
• Effect of eccentricity in laterally loaded pile group in a sloping ground, SSN Trust, India, 2016, INR – 2,00,000.

Consultancy:

• Analysing the stability of the embankment - Southern Railway
• Optimized Surface Preparation for Building Construction – Caterpillar Pvt., Ltd., Chennai, India    
• Soil testing for Minerva Soil Testing Pvt. Ltd., Chennai  

• Best paper award for “Experimental and Numerical Study on Pile Behaviour Under Lateral Load in Clayey Slope” by S.V. Sivapriya and S.R. Gandhi by “IGS – AIMIL Biennial Award – 2014”.
• Best paper award : “Load- Penetration behaviour of composite soil with nano Alumina material under soaked and unsoaked condition”. By Sivapriya S.V, Sajid Ali and T.R.Madhu won First Prize in Best Paper Prizes sponsored by Springer Nature in the Theme(s) "Soil Behavior and Characterizations of Ground"
• Best Faculty Award from SSN College of Engineering for the AY 2015 -2016, 2018 -2019 and 2019 -2020.
• Best paper award:” Influence of slope in modulus of laterally loaded single pile” by Sivapriya S.V by ICC IDEA-2023, SRM ISTE, Chennai. 
• Life member of Indian Geotechnical Society – Parent Body (LM 3144)
• Life member of Indian Geotechnical Society – Chennai Chapter (LM 944)
• Lifer member of Institute of Civil Engineers - M- 167074-8
• Chartered Engineer - M- 167074-8
• DFI Member ID: 24059

Journal Publication

• S. V. Sivapriya, M. Ragesh Raj, J. Dhanushvarman and; S. Gokul (2024),"Analysis of secant pile during underground excavation – A numerical study", AIP Conf. Proc. 3187, 040011, Scopus, doi.org/10.1063/5.0237144.
• Dhanya Vishnu, Balaji Dhandapani, Sivapriya Vijayasimhan, Arasi Rajendran, Madhav Mukunthan, Mohan Pandiyan, Aadithya Shankar and K. Senthilkumar (2024),” Removal of Metal Ions from Wastewater Using Co-integrated Superparamagnetic Nanoparticles”, Doi: 10.1002/ceat.202300306
• Jijo James and Sivapriya S.V., (2024),"Characteristics of Fiber-Reinforced Cement-Sand Blocks with Quarry Dust as Replacement for Sand”, The Scientific World Journal, Volume 2024, Article ID 1914803, 13 pages, doi: 10.1155/2024/1914803. (Scopus - Q2), Hindawi, ISSN: 2356-6140 (Print) ISSN: 1537-744X (Online).
• Arunthathi S, Balaji D and Sivapriya S.V (2023), "Strength, mineralogical and microstructural studies on clayey soil stabilized by bio-stabilized waste ash with lime", Journal of Material Cycle and Waste Management. 25, 3625–3637 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10163-023-01782-w (SCI and Scopus).
• S.V Sivapriya, Jijo James, Pavithra.K, Renuka Devi.S, Sangeetha. K and Sasikala.M (2023)," Comparison of Encased Stone Column with Conventional Column for Varied Parameters Through Experimental and Numerical Investigation “Advances in Civil Engineering, Vol.223, Paper iD:7564756, doi: 10.1155/2023/7564756 (SCI).
• Sivapriya S.V, Gunalan S, Mugesh A, Niranjan J and Yuvaraj K, (2023)” Investigating the advantage of copper and steel
  slags as partial replacement material in a sand
  compaction column in stabilizing the soft clay”, International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, Vol 17 (5), pp -510 -518, DOI: 10.1080/19386362.2023.2239686 (SCI and Scopus).
• Sivapriya S.V, Muttharam.M and Sivaraj R, (2023), “ Modulus and Stiffness of laterally loaded single free headed pile in stratified soil”, Journal of materials and engineering structures, Vol. 10, 105 – 113 (SCI).
• Jijo James, Sivapriya S.V and Eyo, E, (2023), “Stress-Strain Characteristics and Mineralogy of an Expansive Soil Stabilized Using Lime and Phosphogypsum”, Applied Sciences, Vol. 13, 123, (2076-3417) doi: 10.3390/app13010123.(SCI  and Scopus)
• Arunthathi S, Balaji D and Sivapriya S.V (2022), "A short review on feedstock characteristics in methane production from municipal solid waste", Architecture Civil Engineering Environment, Vol. 3, pp. 75–85, WoS, DoI : 1 0 . 2 4 7 8 / A C E E - 2 0 2 2 - 0 0 3 2, ISSN - 1899-0142.(SCI)
• Sivapriya S.V (2022), ”Behaviour of geocomposite as a packing material in the back of weepholes” in Materials Today: Proceedings, doi: 10.1016/j.matpr.2022.08.217.(Scopus)
• Sivapriya S.V and Ganesh Kumar.S (2022) “Modulus Of Laterally Loaded Pile In Cohesionless Slope Crest With Varying Condition” Civil and Environmental Engineering Reports, 3 (32): 133-142,  10.2478/ceer-2022-0032. (SCI)
• Sivapriya S.V, Jijo James, Yuvaraj K, Sushritha Gunipati (2022)” Durability performance of a lime stabilized expansive soil with egg shell ash as a
  subsidiary admixture” Building Materials and Structures, 65, 65-71,doi: 10.5937/GRMK2202065V. (SCI)
• Arunthathi, S., Sivapriya S.V, and D. Balaji (2022)"Assessing the compaction characteristics of modified soil with Incinerated municipal solid waste." Materials Today: Proceedings, 62(2), 629-632 doi: 10.1016/j.matpr.2022.03.624, (Scopus).
• Sivapriya S.V, S. Sadhana, N. Prathibha and S. Saranya (2021) “Pipe  bridge  design  optimisation  through  a  comparative  study  of  truss  and  girder  arrangements”, Revista Facultad de Ingeniería, 10.17533/udea.redin.20210957. (SCI)
• Sivapriya S.V, Harishkumar, M and Hariraj M.J, (2021)” Assessing the retaining wall movement through finite element analysis for sustainable material as a backfill material” API- Conference Proceedings,  doi.org/10.1063/5.0068215.( Scopus)
• Jijo James, Sivapriya S.V, Sajid Ali, Madhu T.R and Basudev Singh (2021)” Wetting and drying resistance of lime- stabilise expansive soils with modified with nano- Alumina” Electronic Journal of the Faculty of Civil Engineering Osijek-e-GFOS, Vol. 12 No. 22, 70 – 80. (SCI)
• Sivapriya S.V, J Gokul Krishnan, Bijivemula Sruthi Reddy, R Roshan, Syed Mohammed, (2021) “Experimental study on properties of mechanical resistance of polyamide in clay soil” ITECKNE,18(1),20-36. (SCI and Scopus)
• Sivapriya S.V. Srinath Rajagopalan,  Duraimurugan  A  Rakesh  S  Ravikumar  P Suryaprakash S (2020)” Physio-chemical properties of contaminated soil under the influence of industrial and municipal wastewater”  International  Journal  of Environmental Science and Technology,17, 3715 – 3722. (SCI and Scopus)
• Sivapriya S.V and Jijo James (2019),” Numerical Study on Static Behaviour of a Stone Column under Uniformly Distributed Load”, API- Conference Proceedings,   https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5127649. (Scopus)
• Jijo James, Sivapriya S. V, Hemavathi Srinivasan, Jayasri Arulselvan,  Sathya Purushothaman, Murali Paramasivam (2019)” A comparative laboratory  investigation into the role of geosynthetics in the initial swell control of an expansive soil”, Civil and Environmental Engineering Reports, 29 (4), 18-40,. (SCI)
• Sivapriya S.V and Rahul Rm (2019) ”Load–Displacement Behaviour of a Pile on a Sloping Ground for Various L/D Ratios” Slovak Journal of Civil Engineering 27 (1), 1-6. (SCI and Scopus)
• Gokul Krishna J, Roshan R and Sivapriya  S.V  (2019)”  Understanding  sustainable strategies in low-cost housing” International Journal of Housing Market and Analysis”, 13(3), 416 – 425, (SCI and Scopus)
• Sivapriya, S.V, Balamurukan, Jai VigneshwaR, A, Prathibhadevi, N, Shrinidhi, A ,(2019)” Effect Of Eccentricity In Sandy Slope Of Laterally Loaded Single Pile” Civil and Environmental Engineering 15(2), 92 -100, (SCI and Scopus)
• Sivapriya S.V and Gandhi S.R,(2019)” Soil–Structure Interaction of Pile in a Sloping Ground Under Different Loading Conditions”, Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, 38(2), 1185 – 1194. (SCI and Scopus)
• Sivapriya S.V and Ganeshkumar S (2019) “Functional  and cost- benefits of geosynthetics as subgrade reinforcement in the design of flexible pavement”. Revista Facultad de Ingeniería ,, 28(51), 39 -49, (SCI and Scopus)
• Sivapriya S.V (2018)” Stress- strain and penetration characteristics of modified clay with crumb rubber” Revista Facultad de Ingeniería ,27(49). (SCI and Scopus)
• Sivapriya S.V and Muttharam M, (2018)” Behaviour of Cyclic Laterally Loaded Pile Group in Soft Clay”, Indian Geotechnical Journal, 49(3). SCOPUS, Emerging SCI
• Sivapriya S.V , P.Sangeetha , Bala Subramanian P,  Dharanedharan  KS,  Srinivasan  V (2018), “Effective reuse of marble dust powder in cement mortar ”, Research Journal of Pharmaceutical, Biological and Chemical Sciences, 9(5), 584-592. (SCI )
• Krishnan A.V, Sivapriya S.V and Nagarajan.V (2017),”Finite Element Analysis of HYPAR Shell Footings with Variation in Edge Beam Dimensions and Embedment Ratio” International Journal of Earth Sciences and Engineering (IJEE) , 10(2),150-154 . (Scopus)
• Sivapriya S.V, Vinothkumar.S and Nagarajan.V, (2016)” Utilization of copper slag as a reinforcing material”, International Journal of Science Technology  and  Engineering, 2(12), 149 -153.
• S Kiran, R Vijaya and S V Sivapriya (2015),” Estimation of pull out capacity of suction anchors in soft clays using numerical modeling” IEEEXplore Digital. (Scopus)
• Sivapriya S.V and S.R. Gandhi. (2013)” Experimental and numerical behaviour of single pile subjected to lateral load”, Indian Geotechnical Journal, Springer, 43(1), 105 -114. (SCI and Scopus)

Conference Publication:

• Sivapriya S.V, Meenaksi V, Rupashri V, Bharathi M and Santhosh Kumar R (2023), "Investigating the bio-gas collection from foodwaste", In: Proceedings of National Conference on Sustainable Trends in Energy and Environmental Resources – 2023, March 23 and 24, Chennai, India.
• Sivapriya S.V, Jeyashree D and Shaleni Elam Thendral A (2023), "Study on Desiccated Cracks on Expansive Soil Treated with Nano Alumina ", In: Proceedings of SPICE – 2023, March 23 and 24, Chennai, India.
• Karthick Vikram I and Sivapriya S.V (2023), "The Engineering Magnificence of An Ancient Temple in Tamil Nadu ", In: Proceedings of SPICE – 2023, March 23 and 24, Chennai, India.
• Sivapriya S.V, (2023), "Influence of Slope in Modulus of Laterally Loaded Single Pile", In: Proceedings of International Conference on Civil Engineering Innovative development in Engineering Advances, March 9 -10, Chennai, India.
• Sivapriya S.V, Ragesh Raj M, Dhanushvarman J, Gokul S, (2023), "Analysis of Secant Pile During Underground Excavation – A Numerical Study", In: Proceedings of International Conference on Civil Engineering Innovative development in Engineering Advances, March 9 -10, Chennai, India.

• Gokul Krishna J, Sivapriya S.V and Priyadharsini R, (2021) Analyzing The Feasibility Of Creating Big Data For Soil Profile From Borehole data”, Proceedings of  Eighth Indian Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference , October 21-23.
• Sivapriya S.V and Priyadharshini.R (2021), “Rainfall induced landslide prediction using neural network-based approach”, at International conference on applied mathematics and civil structures, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, Tamil Nadu, February.
• Arunthathi.S, Balaji.D and Sivapriya S.V(2021),”A review on Bio-gas yield from organic fraction of MSW using anaerobic digestion”at 8th National conference on recent advancesments in geotechnical engineering, Bannari Amman Institute of technology, Tamil Nadu, March.
• Sivapriya S.V, Jijo James, Yuvaraj.K and Sushritha G(2021),”Stbilisation of highly compressible clay mixed with egg shell ash – Laboratory study”at 8th National conference on recent advancesments in geotechnical engineering, Bannari Amman Institute of technology, Tamil Nadu, March.
• Sivapriya S.V and Jijo James (2018), ” Numerical study on static behaviour of a stone column under uniformly distributed load ” International Conference on Mathemati cal Methods, Modeling and Simulation in Chemical Sciences, SSNCE, Chennai.
• Sivapriya S.V, R.Sundaravadivelu and S.R.Gandhi (2018), “Design of piles for a berthing structure on Artificial Slope”, 4th International Conference in Ocean Engineering , IITM, Chennai.
• Jai Vigneshwar A, Shrinidhi A, Prathibha Devi N, Bala Subramanian P, KVaishnavi and Sivapriya S.V (2018), “Parametric study of soil -structure interaction properties of pile subjected to lateral load ” Advances in Civil Engineering, SSNCE, Chennai.
• M.Elamathy, H.Lavanya, H.Nijandhan, R.Dilip Kumar, Nagarajan.V and Sivapriya S.V,(2016) “Influence of Industrial Effluents on soil”, Indian Geotechnical Conference, IIT-Madras, Chennai.
• M.Elamathy, H.Lavanya, H.Nijandhan, R.Dilip Kumar, Nagarajan.V and Sivapriya S.V,(2016) “Influence of Industrial Effluents on soil”, Indian Geotechnical Conference, IIT-Madras, Chennai.
• Sivapriya S.V, Nagarajan.V, AssbishekNunna, Nivaetha.R, Rahul.RM, Raja Sugantha.A and Thivyasri.C ,(2014) ,”Effect of lateral loading in a single pile at slope ground”, Indian Geotechnical Conference, Kakinada, India.
• Sivapriya, S.V and Gandhi S.R (2014).”Evaluation of pile behaviour on sloping clayey soil in supporting a diaphragm wall for building excavation” International Conference in Geotechnical Engineering – ISSMGE,Russia,374-378.
• Sivapriya, S.V., R.Sundravadivelu, S.R.Gandhi and K.Ramadoss (2012) “Static and dynamic slope stability analysis after dredging in Kandla Port”.8thInternational conference on coastal and port engineering indeveloping countries, IIT Madras, 1520 - 1529.
• Sivapriya, S.V., S.R.Gandhi and R.Sundravadivelu (2011) “Effect of lateral movement of soil in Diaphragm wall - A case Study.”3rd Indian Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference, IIT Delhi, 335 -340.
• Sivapriya, S.V. and S.R.Gandhi (2011).” Behaviour of single pile in sloping ground under static lateral load”. Indian Geotechnical Conference, Cochin, India, 199 -202.
• Sivapriya, S.V. and M.Muttharam (2011).” Behaviour of single pile subjected to cyclic laterally load founded in soft clay”. Indian Geotechnical Conference, Cochin, India.
• Sivapriya, S.V, M.Muttharam and P.Yuvaraj( 2006) “Dynamic Analysis of Laterally Loaded Pile Founded in Soft Clay”, Theoretical and experimental advances in Civil Engineering, Chennai, India

• S. V. Sivapriya, J. Dhanush Varman, and S. Gokul (2024), "Permeability Characteristics of Construction Waste as a Column Material in Expansive Clay", Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, Vol. 2022, Q4, pp. 366-373, SCOPUS, (2366-2565), doi:10.1007/978-981-97-2704-9_36. ISSN 2366-2557
• .Sivapriya S.V (2023), "Effect of Slope, Cross-Section of Pile and Eccentricity in Calculating the Modulus of Laterally Loaded Single Pile", Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, Vol. 388, pp. 135-142, Doi: 10.1007/978-981-99-6233-4_13. (Scopus)
• Sivapriya, S.V, James, J., Naveen Prasath, M., Ramesh, T.P. (2023). Effective Reuse of Concrete Debris in Soil–Column Study. In: Vilventhan, A., Singh, S.B., Delhi, V.S.K. (eds) Advances in Construction Materials and Management. ACMM 2022. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 346. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-2552-0_15.
• James, J., Sivapriya, S.V. (2022)” Load-Settlement Behaviour of Stone Column with Varied Spacing”. In: Das, B.B., Gomez, C.P., Mohapatra, B.G. (eds) Recent Developments in Sustainable Infrastructure (ICRDSI-2020)—Structure and Construction Management. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 221. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8433-3_4.
• Sivapriya S.V and Gandhi S.R(2022)” A numerical study about the development of stressed zone around single pile when moved away from the crest of the slope under static lateral load” Ground Characterization and Foundations, Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, 677 - 681 (Scopus)
• Sivapriya S.V, Madhu T.R and Sajid Ali (2022)”Load–Penetration Behaviour of Composite Soil with Nano-Alumina Material Under Soaked and Unsoaked Condition” Ground Characterization and Foundations, Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, 253 – 259 (Scopus)
• Sivapriya S.V (2022)” Single and group static laterally loaded vertical pile in horizontal and sloping ground – A review”, ” Sustainable Practices and Innovations in Civil Engineering, Lecturer notes in Civil Engineering, Springer, 167 – 181. ( Scopus)
• Sivapriya S.V, A. D. Abithoo Dass, A. Bargavi, R. Lakshmipriya, and S. Nandhini (2022)” Seismic analysis of hypar shell foundation in sandy  soil”, ” Sustainable Practices and Innovations in Civil Engineering, Lecturer notes in Civil Engineering, Springer, 161 – 166. ( Scopus)
• Sivapriya S.V and Anne Sherin.A (2022)” Causes and Consequences of Dam Failures – Case Study” ” Sustainable Practices and Innovations in Civil Engineering, Lecturer notes in Civil Engineering, Springer, 155 – 159. ( Scopus)
• Manjula R and Sivapriya S.V (2021)”Expediency of sand compaction piles and it’s earlier studies” Sustainable Practices and Innovations in Civil Engineering, Lecturer notes in Civil Engineering, Springer, 333-348.  ( Scopus)
• Mugesh A, Niranjan J, Gunalan S and Sivapriya S.V(2021) “Immediate load- penetration behaviour of sand piles with sustainable material” Sustainable Practices and Innovations in Civil Engineering, Lecturer notes in Civil Engineering, Springer, 325-33. ( Scopus)
• Gokul Krishna J, Roshan R , Vinothini S.N and Sivapriya S.V (2021) “Glass Fibre Reinforced Gypsum as an Emerging Technology” Sustainable Practices and Innovations in Civil Engineering, Lecturer notes in Civil Engineering, Springer, 309-324.  ( Scopus)
• Sivapriya S.V (2021) “ Compaction characteristics of modified clay soils with various proportions of crumb rubber” Sustainable Practices and Innovations in Civil Engineering, Lecturer notes in Civil Engineering, Springer, 183-190. ( Scopus)
• Sivapriya S.V, R.Sundaravadivelu and S.R.Gandhi (2018), “Design of piles for a berthing structure on Artificial Slope”, Proceedings of 4th International Conference in Ocean Engineering, Lecture notes in Civil Engineering, Springer, pp. 855-866. ( Scopus)
• Sivapriya S.V and Charumathy.N(2018),” Effect of crumb rubber on inorganic and high compressible clay”, Advances in Materials and Metallurgy- Lecturer notes in Mechanical Engineering, Springer, 67-73. ( Scopus)

Filed patent titled “Improving the Strength of Problematic Soil using Chemically Treated Anaerobic Digestate as A Soil Stabilization”. Application Number : TEMP/E-1/120657/2024-CHE

• Soil Mechanics
• Foundation Engineering
• Engineering Geology
• Ground Improvement Techniques
• Environmental Geotechnology

• Number of PhD scholars completed: Nil 
• Number of PhD scholars ongoing: 5
• Number of MS (Research) scholars completed: Nil
• Number of MS (Research) scholars ongoing: 1