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Professor & Dept. Chair, Department of Civil Engineering

Bhaskar Chittoori received his Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) in 2008, taught at UTA, and worked as a geotechnical engineer at a civil engineering design firm before joining the faculty of the Department of Civil Engineering at Boise State University in 2013. Dr. Chittoori's research interests and experience span multiple disciplines with significant contributions in the fields of chemical soil stabilization, clay mineral quantification, durability and leachate studies on chemical soil treatment, finite element modeling of pavement behavior, application of artificial neural networks in geotechnical engineering, and seepage and stability analysis of dams and levees. His dissertation investigated an innovative method to determine the dominant clay mineral in expansive clays using chemical properties of a given soil and then examined the need to incorporate clay mineralogy in the soil stabilizer design methodology. Dr. Chittoori is a licensed Professional Engineer in Texas, a member of Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society) and Chi Epsilon (Civil Engineering Honor Society), and serves as a reviewer for engineering journals and conference proceedings.

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Bhaskar Chittoori received his Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) in 2008, taught at UTA, and worked as a geotechnical engineer at a civil engineering design firm before joining the faculty of the Department of Civil Engineering at Boise State University in 2013. Dr. Chittoori's research interests and experience span multiple disciplines with significant contributions in the fields of chemical soil stabilization, clay mineral quantification, durability and leachate studies on chemical soil treatment, finite element modeling of pavement behavior, application of artificial neural networks in geotechnical engineering, and seepage and stability analysis of dams and levees. His dissertation investigated an innovative method to determine the dominant clay mineral in expansive clays using chemical properties of a given soil and then examined the need to incorporate clay mineralogy in the soil stabilizer design methodology. Dr. Chittoori is a licensed Professional Engineer in Texas, a member of Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society) and Chi Epsilon (Civil Engineering Honor Society), and serves as a reviewer for engineering journals and conference proceedings.

Present	Department Chair, Boise State University ‐ Department of Civil Engineering
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2013	Assistant Professor, Boise State University ‐ Department of Civil Engineering
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Civil Engineering and Geotechnical Engineering

Geotechnical Engineering, Soil Chemistry and Sustainability, Pavement Materials Characterization, and Recycle and Reuse of Construction Materials

2016 - National Science Foundation Grant $297,343 to instill sustainability and resiliency concepts into the civil engineering curriculum
2019 - Accomplished Under 40 honoree, Idaho Business Review

E-mail: bhaskarchittoori@boisestate.edu

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8583-1003

Journal Articles (35)

Shrinkage and Consolidation Characteristics of Chitosan-Amended Soft Soil: A Sustainable Alternate Landfill Liner Material (Romana Mariyam Rasheed, Arif Ali Baig Moghal, Sai Sampreeth Reddy Jannepally, et al.) Buildings (2023)

Kuttanad is a region that lies in the southwest part of Kerala, India, and possesses soft soil, which imposes constraints on many civil engineering applications owing to low shear strength and high compressibility. Chemical stabilizers ...

Increasing Heat-Stress Inequality in a Warming Climate (Mohammad Reza Alizadeh, John T. Abatzoglou, Jan F. Adamowski, et al.) Earth's Future (2022)

Adaptation is key to minimizing heatwaves' societal burden; however, our understanding of adaptation capacity across the socioeconomic spectrum is incomplete. We demonstrate that observed heatwave trends in the past four decades were most pronounced in ...

Investigating Title I School Student STEM Attitudes and Experience in an After-School Problem-Based Bridge Building Project (Dazhi Yang and Bhaskar Chittoori) Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research (2022)

Previous studies suggest a strong correlation between exposure to hands-on STEM programs and positive atti-tudes toward and experience with STEM subject matter amongst, middle, high school, and university students. However, there has been little research ...

A Practical Framework to Assess the Sustainability and Resiliency of Civil Infrastructure (Thomas Adam Robbins and Bhaskar C. S. Chittoori) Engineering Sustainablity (2021)

Research within civil engineering is focusing on newer ideas and philosophies such as sustainability and resiliency (S&R;). This is evident in the development of frameworks for assessing the sustainability or the resiliency of civil infrastructures. ...

Machine Learning Methods to Map Stabilizer Effectiveness Based on Common Soil Properties (Amit Gajurel, Bhaskar Chittoori, Partha Sarathi Mukherjee, et al.) Transportation Geotechnics (2021)

Most chemical stabilization guidelines for subgrade/base use unconfined compressive strength (UCS) of treated soils as the primary acceptance criteria for selecting optimum stabilizer in laboratory testing. Establishing optimal additive content to augment UCS involves a ...

Polyurethane Grout Injection as Remedial Measure to Reduce Differential Heave in Pavement Sections Constructed Over Expansive Soils (Md. Fazle Rabbi, Richard L. Boudreau, Bhaskar C. S. Chittoori, et al.) Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part B: Pavements (2020)

Flexible pavement sections constructed over expansive soil deposits often undergo significant damage due to volume changes in the underlying soil strata. When expansive soil deposits are confined to shallow depths, conventional rehabilitation methods can be ...

Efficacy of Enzymatically Induced Calcium Carbonate Precipitation in the Retention of Heavy Metal Ions (Arif Ali Baig Moghal, Mohammed Abdul Lateef, Syed Abu Sayeed Mohammed, et al.) Sustainability (2020)

This study evaluated the efficacy of enzyme induced calcite precipitation (EICP) in restricting the mobility of heavy metals in soils. EICP is an environmentally friendly method that has wide ranging applications in the sustainable development ...

Evaluating the Applicability of Biostimulated Calcium Carbonate Precipitation to Stabilize Clayey Soils (Md Touhidul Islam, Bhaskar C.S. Chittoori and Malcolm Burbank) Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering (2020)

Clayey soils with medium to high plasticity are prevalent in several parts of the world, causing billions of dollars in damage annually to various civil infrastructures. Several ground-improvement techniques can be employed to counteract this ...

Elementary School Student Development of STEM Attitudes and Perceived Learning in a STEM Integrated Robotics Curriculum (Yu-Hui Ching, Dazhi Yang, Sasha Wang, et al.) TechTrends (2019)

Robotics has been advocated as an emerging approach to engaging K-12 students in learning science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). This study examined the impacts of a project-based STEM integrated robotics curriculum on elementary school ...

Evaluating Shallow Mixing Protocols as Application Methods for Microbial Induced Calcite Precipitation Targeting Expansive Soil Treatment (Bhaskar C. S. Chittoori, Tasria Rahman, Malcolm Burbank, et al.) Geo-Congress 2019: Soil Improvement (2019)

Expansive soils, also known as swell-shrink soils, undergo substantial volumetric changes due to moisture fluctuations from seasonal variations. These volumetric changes cause millions of dollars in damages annually. Microbial Induced Calcite Precipitation (MICP) is a ...

Forensic Investigations into Recurrent Pavement Heave from Underlying Expansive Soil Deposits (Bhaskar C. S. Chittoori, Debakanta Mishra and Kazi Moinul Islam) Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (2018)

Pavement sections constructed over expansive soil deposits often exhibit excessive distresses due to volume changes in the underlying soil strata. Differential movements within these deposits resulting from fluctuations in the moisture content manifest themselves in ...

Effect of Polypropylene Fibre Reinforcement on the Consolidation, Swell and Shrinkage Behaviour of Lime-Blended Expansive Soil (Arif Ali Baig Moghal, Bhaskar C.S. Chittoori, B. Munwar Basha, et al.) International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering (2018)

In this article, synthetic fibres in the presence of lime stabilisation are proposed as an alternative to overcome the issues related to shrink-swell distress in expansive soils. Two types of synthetic fibres, Fiber Cast® (FC) ...

Closure to the Discussion of “Long-term Performance of a Highway Embankment Build with Lightweight Aggregates” (Anand J. Puppala, Sireesh Saride, Raja V. Yenigalla, et al.) Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities (2018)

The authors thank Dr. Diyaljee for his interest on the subject and providing assessments based on the two research articles (Saride et al. 2010 and Puppala et al. 2017). Authors appreciate the comprehensive analysis done ...

Addressing Clay Mineralogy Effects on Performance of Chemically Stabilized Expansive Soils Subjected to Seasonal Wetting and Drying (Bhaskar C.S. Chittoori, Anand J. Puppala and Aravind Pedarla) Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering (2018)

Premature failures in chemically stabilized expansive soils cause millions of dollars in maintenance and repair costs. One of the reasons for these failures is the inability of existing stabilization design guidelines to consider the complex ...

Effect of Polypropylene Fiber Reinforcement on the Consolidation, Swell and Shrinkage Behavior of Lime Blended Expansive Soil (Arif Ali Baig Moghal, Bhaskar C.S. Chittoori and B. Munwar Basha) Road Materials and Pavement Design (2018)

In this article, synthetic fibers in the presence of lime stabilization are proposed as an alternative to overcome the issues related to shrink-swell distress in expansive soils. Two types of synthetic fibers, Fiber Cast® (FC) ...

Long-Term Performance of a Highway Embankment Built with Lightweight Aggregates (Anand J. Puppala, Sireesh Saride, Raja V. Yenigalla, et al.) Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities (2017)

This paper presents the results from a field and numerical studies performed to understand the long-term performance of a bridge approach embankment designed with lightweight, expanded clay and shale (ECS) aggregates to mitigate the settlements ...

Target Reliability Approach to Study the Effect of Fiber Reinforcement on UCS Behavior of Lime Treated Semi-Arid Soil (Arif Ali Baig Moghal, Bhaskar C.S. Chittoori, B. Munwar Basha, et al.) Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering (2017)

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of stabilizing expansive soil with two different types of fibers, Fiber Mesh® (FM) and Fiber Cast® (FC), in conjunction with chemical stabilization. The intention of this study is to evaluate ...

Spatial Mapping of Soluble Sulfate Concentrations Present in Natural Soils Using Geostatistics (Tejo V. Bheemasetti, Bhaskar Chittoori, Haifeng Zou, et al.) Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering (2017)

Sulfate heaving has had a major impact on civil engineering infrastructure for the past few decades. Past researchers have attributed the provenance of this heaving mechanism to the chemical reactions between soluble sulfates and calcium-based ...

Long-Term Durability Studies on Chemically Treated Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement Material as a Base Layer for Pavements (Anand J. Puppala, Aravind Pedarla, Bhaskar Chittoori, et al.) Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (2017)

For several years reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) material has been used as a construction material in hot-mix asphalt (HMA) to reduce material costs and stabilize pavements. Of the 45 million tons of RAP produced every ...

Evaluation of Swell Behavior of Expansive Clays from Internal Specific Surface and Pore Size Distribution (Aravind Pedarla, Anand J. Puppala, Laureano R. Hoyos, et al.) Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering (2016)

The interdependency of microsoil fabric-related properties and swell/shrink behavior of expansive soils needs to be identified to achieve a more thorough and accurate prediction of heave of expansive soils. In a recent research study, two ...

Flowability and Density Characteristics of Controlled Low Strength Material (CLSM) Using Native High Plasticity Clay (Anand J. Puppala, Bhaskar Chittoori and Anil Raavi) Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering (2015)

In pipeline construction projects when high plastic clayey soils are encountered in the excavated trench material, they are typically landfilled and better quality materials are imported from outside quarry sources for use as bedding and ...

Safety Evaluations for Skewed Intersections on Low-Volume Roads: Case Study (Bhaskar C. S. Chittoori, Mandar Khanal and Dan Harelson) Transportation Research Record (2015)

Safety on low-volume roads is a major concern. It has been reported that the traffic fatality rate is more than three times higher on rural roads than on other roads. Some of these fatalities occur ...

Flowability and Density Characteristics of Controlled Low Strength Material (CLSM) Using Native High Plasticity Clay (Anand J. Puppala, Bhaskar Chittoori and Anil Raavi) Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering (2015)

In pipeline construction projects when high plastic clayey soils are encountered in the excavated trench material, they are typically landfilled and better quality materials are imported from outside quarry sources for use as bedding and ...

Strength and Stiffness Characterization of Controlled Low-Strength Material Using Native High-Plasticity Clay (Bhaskar Chittoori, Anand J. Puppala and Anil Raavi) Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering (2014)

A research attempt was made to design a controlled low-strength material (CLSM) mix that can be used as bedding and haunch material for a pipeline by using the native soil as fine aggregate. Several CLSM ...

Swell and Shrinkage Strain Prediction Models for Expansive Clays (Anand J. Puppala, Thammanoon Manosuthikij and Bhaskar C. S. Chittoori) Engineering Geology (2014)

A comprehensive laboratory investigation was conducted to study volume change behaviors of five different types of expansive clayey soils sampled from various regions in Texas, USA. The laboratory test results, which were presented in an ...