Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
Dr. Bindhu Lal
Professor and Head, Civil and Evn Engineering
Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engg (M.E.), Environmental Engg.(PhD)
Contact Address
Permanent Address 'DEEPA' TC 16/117,Krishnavilasam Road,Jagathy,Trivandrum 14,Kerala
Local Address Qr.No.B I/1, BITCampus,Mesra,Ranchi
Phone (Office) 9431596494
Phone Residence 06512275728
Email Id bindhu_63@yahoo.co.in, bindhu@bitmesra.ac.in
Joined Institute on : 15-Jul-1987

  Work Experience
 
Teaching : 36 Years

Research : 19 Years

  Professional Background

Birla Institute of Technology

Research Assistant - cum -Tutor (July 1987- April 1990)

Assosciate Lecturer (April 1990 - April 1995)

Assistant Professor (April 1995- October 2005)

Sr. Lecturer (October 2005- January 2009)

Lecturer,Selection Grade (January 2009 - February 2010)

Reader (February 2010 - July 2011)

Associate Professor (July 2011 -June 2016)

Professor (June 2016 till date)

Served as Associate Dean

  Research Areas
 

Soil stabilization

Air Pollution

Modelling using soft computing techniques in the field of Geotechnical Engineering and Air Pollution

Modelling of air quality in Opencast mines and underground mines

 

 

  Publications
 

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  1. Bindhu Lal and Sanjaya Shankar Tripathy, “Dust Concentration prediction in coal  Mines by Probabilistic Neural Network Model”, International Journal of Applied Environmental Sciences, Vol.5, No.4, Pp 591-602, 2010
  2. Bindhu Lal, Tripathy S.S., “Prediction of dust concentration in open cast coal mine using artificial neural network”.  Atmospheric Pollution Research, ISSN 1309-1402, Vol.3,  No.2,, pp 211-218, 2012 https://doi.org/10.5094/APR.2012.023
  3. Bindhu Lal, MD.Shafique Alam and Sushama Kiran, “Use of stone dust from construction site as a stabilizing agent in flexible pavement construction: A case study” International Journal of Structural & Civil Engg. Research,Vol.3, Number 4,pp 25-29, 2014 ISSN: 2319-6009
  4. Vinit Sehgal & Bindhu Lal, “Wavelet based models for air pollution modeling around coal mining sites in Jharkhand for 1,3and 5 day lead time”, International Journal of Environment and Pollution, Vol. 56, Nos. 1/2/3/4, pp 11-27, 2015 https://doi.org/10.1504/IJEP.2014.067673
  5. Bindhu Lal, “An Empirical Model to Evaluate SPM Concentration in a Colliery Area” Civil Engineering and Architecture, Vol.3 Number1,pp 12-21, 2015 DOI: 10.13189/cea.2015.030103
  6. Sushama Kiran and Bindhu Lal, “ANN based Prediction of Shear Strength of Soil from their index properties”,International Journal of Earth Sciences and Engineering,Vol.8 Number 5,pp 2195-2202, 2015 ISSN 0974-5904
  7. Bindhu Lal, “Utilization of waste plastic polyethylene bags in Bitumen” International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Vol.10 Number 21 pp 41738-41743,2015
  8. Bindhu Lal, Nidhi Kapoor & Apoorva Jha, “Soil stabilization with Rice husk ash and brick Kiln dust for base-course and sub- base course of low volume roads”, International Journal of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Vol.9 Number 1, pp 30-34,2016  ISSN 0974-5904
  9. Sushama Kiran and Bindhu Lal, “Modelling of Soil Shear Strength Using Neural Network Approach”, EJGE (Electronic Journal of Geotechnical Engineering), Vol.21, Bund.10, Pp 3751-3771, ISSN 1089-3032
  10. Mrityunjay Jaiswal & BindhuLal,“Impact of Rice Husk Ash on Soil Stability ( Including Micro Level Investigation)”,Indian Journal of Science and Technology, Vol 9, Number 30,,2016 DOI: 10.17485/ijst/2016/v9i30/99189
  11. Sushama Kiran, Bindhu Lal & SanjayaTripathy,”Shear Strength Prediction of Soil based on Probabilistic Neural Network” Indian Journal of Science and Technology, Vol 9, Number 41, ,2016 DOI: 10.17485/ijst/2016/v9i41/99188
  12. Jaiswal, M. and Lal, B., "Stabilization of Clayey Soil with Garlic Skin and Rice Husk Ash for Flexible Pavement Construction," Geotechnical Testing Journal, Vol. 40, No. 6, 2017, pp. 1071-1082, https://doi.org/10.1520/GTJ20160227. ISSN 0149-6115
  13. Sushma Kiran and Bindhu Lal, “Comparing Artificial Nueral Networks (ANN) and Regression Tree (CART) for estimating soil shear strength parameters”,Journal of Advanced research in Dynamical and Control Systems, Vol II (9). Pp 882-894, 2019
  14. Navin Prasad and Bindhu Lal, “ Analysis of heat stress in underground coal mine using computational fluid dynamics’, Current Sciences, 121(2), Pp 264-272, July 2021
  15. Sanjoli Gupta, Bindhu lal and Shashwati Ghosh Sachan, “Improving the strength of sand by MICCP process using  seashell”, Journal of Geoengineering, 16(3), Pp 091-098, September 2021
  16.  Akash Mishra, Bindhu Lal, “Assessment of Ground Water Quality in Ranchi district, Jharkhand, India using water evaluation indices and multi variate statistics” Environ Monit. Assess 195 (472), Pp 1-23, March 2023
  17. Ram Kishore Singh and Bindhu Lal, “Comparison of Prediction Models (ANN and Time Series) for studying the dispersion of pollutants (Sox, NOx and Particulate Matter) from vehicular emissions - A Case Study, IJEP (Indian Journal of Environmental Protection) 43(5) , Pp 409-420, 2023
  18. Prasad N.,Bhattacharya T., Lal B.,“ Chemometric Techniques in the assessment of Ambient Air Quality Index of Coal Minig Complex: A Statistical Approach” International Journal of Experimental Research and Review, 36, 178-190. https://doi.org/10.52576/ijerr.2023.v36.018
  • International Conference
  1. Asim Sen, Bindhu Lal, Sanjaya Shankar Tripathy, “Determination of Air Quality Index using Fuzzy Logic-based Model” IEEE international Conference on Electrical, Electronics, Signals, Communication and Optimization (EESCO), January, 2015
  2. Sushama Kiran & BindhuLal,“Correlation between Unsoaked CBR value and PI value obtained with Dynamic cone penetrometer-A case study”International Conference on Recent Trends & Challenges in Civil Engineering, MNIT, Allahabad, 2014
  3. Akash Mishra and Bindhu Lal “ Establishing a correlation between soil cation exchange capacity and leaf relative water content in purview of soil structure” International Conference on water security and sustainability,Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, December 2019
  4. Bindhu Lal and Karnika Kochel, “Improving The Strength Characteristics of Soil Using Cotton Fibers”, Proceedings of International conference on Soil Stabilization Techniques and Technologies,Toronto, Canada, July 19-20, 2021, pp 64-80
  5. Bindhu Lal and Sukeerti Bansal, “Stabilization of soil using sewage sludge as admixture”, Proceedings of XV International conference on Applied Research in Engineering and Management Sciences, August 13, 2021,pp 118-130
  6. Bindhu Lal, Akash Mishra, Raj Kumar and Sharad Tiwari(2023), Role of plants in Abandoned Mine Reclamation and removal of Potentially Toxic elements, Recycle 2023, 4th International Conference on Waste Management, IIT Guwahati, May 18-19 2023

          National Conference

  • Shambhavi, Bindhu Lal and aman Ujjwal, “ Effect of randomly distributed Sugarcane bagasse fibres in improving shear sterngth of sand under dry and saturated conditions,” Proceedings of the National Conference on Structural and Geotechnical Engineering,NCSGE,11th - 12th  November

 

  •   Book Chapter 
  • Mishra, A., & Lal, B. (2021). Determining the Role of Leaf Relative Water Content and Soil Cation Exchange Capacity in Phytoextraction Process: Using Regression Modelling. In Spatial Modeling and Assessment of Environmental Contaminants (pp. 107-120). Springer, Cham.

  • Akash Mishra, Bindhu Lal and Raj Kumar (2024). Air quality monitoring and its impact on local tree species in and around mining areas of Dhanbad District, Jharkhand, India in Spatial Modeling of Environmental Pollution and Ecological Risk (9-37). Elsevier
  Current Sponsored Projects
 

Study of Climate Change due to Global Warming and a New Intelligent Model for Air Pollution Concentration Prediction-UGC, Cost – 1 lakh, PI-Bindhu Lal – Completed

Development of Guidelines for Design of All Tiers of Shovel-Dumper Dump above Dragline Dump, with Delineation of Phreatic Surface, within Dragline Dump, throughout the Year and Validation Study of Two Dragline Mines under Coal India Limited, R&D Project, Cost – Rs. 75.3 lakhs (PI – Dr. Indrajit Roy, Co-PI – Prof. Anand Kr. Sinha, Prof. Sudeshna Chakravarty, and Prof. Bindhu Lal) – Completed

Prediction of particulate matter and gaseous pollutant concentration through ANN, PNN and Cart models and comparison with CALPUFF and AERMOD in Singrauli coal mines, Coal India Limited, R&D Project, Cost – 85.25 lakhs ( PI- Dr.Tanushree Bhattacharya, Co-PI – Dr. Bindhu Lal)

Performance Evaluation of Cement Concrete pavements in Rural Roads, NRIDA, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India, R&D Project, Cost-22.76 lakhs( PI- Prof. Bindhu Lal, Co-PIs – Prof. Anand Kumar Sinha and Dr. Mani Mohan) -Completed

Performance Evaluation of roads constructed using Terrazyme in the state of Jharkhand under PMGSY, NRIDA, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India, R&D Project, Cost-23.54 lakhs( PI- Prof. Bindhu Lal, Co-PIs – Prof. Anand Kumar Sinha and Dr. Mani Mohan) – On going

Performance Evaluation of roads constructed using Steel Slag in the state of Jharkhand under PMGSY, NRIDA, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India, R&D Project, Cost-23.54 lakhs( PI- Prof. Bindhu Lal, Co-PIs – Prof. Anand Kumar Sinha and Dr. Mani Mohan) – On going

  Text and Reference Books
 

Study of Air Pollution using Intelligent Model,ISBN: 978-93-85292-00-2,2015

Study of Geotechnical Properties of soil when mixed with stone dust,ISBN 978-3-659-81305-4,2015

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