Dr. Md. Jahangir Alam

Email: mjahangiralam@ce.buet.ac.bd
PABX No: 7173
Room No: 532
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Dr. Md. Jahangir Alam

Professor
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

Specialization: Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering

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Education

  • PhD in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, the University of Tokyo, Japan, 2005
  • MSc in Civil and Geotechnical Engineering, BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2002
  • BSc in Civil Engineering, BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1998

Research Interest

  • Earthquake Resistant Foundation in Liquefiable Soil
  • Physical and Numerical Modeling of Liquefaction Hazard,
  • Mitigation of Seismic Liquefaction induced Damage,
  • Cyclic Behavior of Non-plastic silt,
  • Ground Improvement
  • Climate Resilient Road
  • Climate Resilient Concrete
  • Tunneling through Soft Ground

Research Awards

  • “Upgradation of Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory Facilities for Postgraduate Research on Soft Soil Engineering and Soil Dynamics” under Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project (HEQEP) of University Grants Commission funded by World Bank (2014-2016) – total fund USD 375,000
    • Key achievements are (i) Setup of Geotechnical FEM simulation lab using Geo5, Geostudio and Plaxis 3D, (ii) Installation of static and cyclic triaxial apparatus for post graduate students, (iii) enhancement or air quality of geotechnical lab (iv) installation of humid chamber for storing saturated soil samples, (v) boast up of research capacity of postgraduate students in geotechnical lab
  • “Introduction of Quality Test Protocols for Road and Market Rehabilitation” under Coastal Climate Resilient Infrastructure Project (CCRIP) of LGED funded by World Bank and IFAD (2014-2018) – total fund USD 50,000
    • Key achievements are (i) use of AfCAP DCP software for evaluating road construction quality, (ii) identification of causes rural road damage in coastal areas (ii) development of methodology for climate resilient rural road construction and climate resilient concrete (iii) published papers in journal and conferences
  • Monbu-Kagaku-sho Scholarship of Japan Government during PhD research in the University of Tokyo

Professional Work at National and International Levels

  • Project Name: Capital Dredging of Kornafuly River,
    • Year: 2010-2013
    • Client: Chittagong Port Authority (CPA),
    • Role: Design of Jetty, Bridge Foundations, Embankment, Slope Protection and River Training Works
  • Project Name: CEMCOR River Container Terminal, Mukterpur, Munshiganj
    • Year: 2010
    • Client: CEMCOR LIMITED (SUMMIT GROUP)
    • Role: Jetty Design
  • Project Name: Preliminary Structural Safety Assessment of Existing Garments Factory Buildings
    • Year: 2013-2014
    • Client: International Labor Organization (ILO)
    • Role: Preliminary Structural and Foundation Safety Assessment based on visual observation and Factor of Safety Calculation of Columns
  • Project Name: 14-Storied Academic Building of BUP,
    • Year: 2010
    • Client: Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP),
    • Role: Checking foundation and structural design
  • Project Name: Gulshan Center Point (3+26 Storied Shopping and Commercial Complex),
    • Year: 2011-2013
    • Client: United City Development Ltd (United Group),
    • Role: Checking foundation and structural design
  • Project Name: BMA Bangabandhu Complex at Bhatiari Chittagong,
    • Year: 2011-2013
    • Client: Bangladesh Army,
    • Role: Checking foundation and structural design
  • Project Name: Materials Testing under BRTC, BUET
    • Year: 2000-2014
    • Client: Various government organizations of Bangladesh
    • Test names: Index tests of soil, consolidation, static and cyclic triaxial, index and strength tests of geotextile, field density test, unconfined compression test, pile integrity test (PIT), pile load test, GPR test, Dynamic Probing, DCP, SPT, Field Vane Shear, plate load test, CBR, PDA test of pile, Mix Design of Concrete, Compressive strength of concrete, tensile strength of rebar, compressive strength of cement, grain size distribution of aggregates, Los Angel’s Abrasion value, Aggregate Crushing Value, flakiness index, elongation index, specific gravity of aggregate, bulk density of aggregate
    • Role: Supervision of test, result preparation and data interpretation
  • Project Name: Design Checking of Advance Police Town Residential Buildings
    • Year: 2009-2010
    • Client: Advanced Design and Development Limited
    • Role: Checking foundation design of 12-storied residential buildings
  • Project Name: Design Checking of Foundation and Structure of 80,000 gallon Capacity Overhead Water Reservoir
    • Year: 2010-2011
    • Client: Pink City Xenovelley
    • Role: Design Checking of Foundation and Structure
  • Project Name: Geotechnical Exploration and Design of Moulovi Bazar Drilling Pads of Chevron
    • Year: 2011
    • Client: Chevron Bangladesh
    • Role: Designing drilling pad of gas exploration field
  • Project Name: Design of Communication Towers
    • Year: 2009-2014
    • Client: Mobile companies and government organizations
    • Role: Checking foundation design of self-standing lattice frame communication towers
  • Project Name: Shore Protection of Deep Excavations
    • Year: 2009-2014
    • Client: Various construction and developer companies
    • Role: Checking shore protection design of excavations
  • Project Name: Building Construction for British High Commission, Dhaka, Bangladesh
    • Year: 2011
    • Client: Charuta
    • Role: Checking pile foundation design to resist liquefaction induced damage during earthquake
  • Project Name: Load bearing capacity of existing jetty (No. 1 to 6) of Chittagong Sea Port
    • Year: 2012
    • Client: Chittagong Port Authority
    • Role: Checking adequacy of existing jetty to bear load of 10 ton capacity shore crane
  • Project Name: Shadinota Stamba (Liberty Tower)
    • Year: 2012
    • Client: Public Works Department, Bangladesh Government
    • Role: Checking foundation design of steel frame tower

Selected Publications

Journal Articles:

  1. Alam, M. J., Karim, M. E. and Hoque, M. S. (2020).“Causes of Damage of Rural Road in Coastal Areas of Bangladesh” Accepted for publication in Geotechnical Engineering Journal of the SEAGS & AGSSEA.
  2. Karim, M. E., Alam, M. J., and Hoque, M. S. (2017).“Effect of salinity of water in lime‑fly ash treated sand”, International Journal of Geo-Engineering, Springer. 8:15
  3. Karim, M. E. and Alam, M. J. (2016).“Undrained Monotonic and Cyclic Response of Sand-Silt Mixtures”, International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, Taylor & Francis Group, Vol. 10 No.3, p. 223-235.
  4. Karim, M. E. and Alam, M. J. (2016).“Effect of Nonplastic Silt Content on Undrained Shear Strength of Sand-Silt Mixtures”, International Journal of Geo-Engineering, Springer. 8:14
  5. Taiyab, M. A., Alam, M. J. and Abedin, M. Z. (2014).“Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction of Gravity Quay Wall and Effect of Densification in Liquefiable Sites”, International Journal of Geomechanics, ASCE, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 20-33.
  6. Karim, M. E. and Alam, M. J. (2014).“Effect of Non-Plastic Silt Content on Liquefaction Behavior of Sand-Silt Mixture”, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Elsevier, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 65, pp. 142–150.
  7. Alam, M. J., and Sididiquee, M. S. A. (2014).“A Parametric Study of Anchored Earth Wall by Finite Element Method”, KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, July 7, 2014, DOI=10.1007/s12205-014-0171-5.
  8. Alam, M. J., Hossain, M. S. and Azad, A. K. (2014).“Correlation between Dynamic Cone Resistance and Relative Density of Sand”, Journal of Civil Engineering, Institute of Engineers Bangladesh, Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 63-76.
  9. Towhata, I., Alam, M. J, Honda, T. and Tamate, S. (2009)“Model Tests on Behaviour of Gravity-Type Quay Walls Subjected to Strong Shaking”, Bulletin of The New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 42, No. 1, March 2009, pp.47-56.
  10. Alam, M. J., Towhata, I., and Wassan, T.H. (2005).“Seismic behavior of a quay wall without and with a damage mitigation measure”, Published in “Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics – GeoFrontiers 2005”, ASCE Geotechnical Special Publication No.133.

Conference Proceedings:

  1. Alam, M. J., Islam, M, and Islam, M. S. (2019).“Development of Soft Soil Improvement Scheme for Lateral Stability of Railway Bridge Abutment”, INTERNATIONAL IACMAG SYMPOSIUM, IIT, Gandhinagar, 5 – 7 MARCH 2019.
  2. Alam, M. J., and Islam, M. (2019).“2D Numerical Modeling of Sand Compaction Pile in Soft Soil under Railway Embankment”, 13th Australia New Zealand Conference on Geomechanics-2019, Perth, Australia.
  3. Alam, M. J., Islam, M. S., Karim, M. E. and Hoque, M. S. (2019).“Evaluation of Low Volume Rural Road Damage in Coastal Areas of Bangladesh”, ICCC2019: International Conference on Climate Change-2019, Dhaka Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban, University of Dhaka.Dhaka, Bangladesh, March 1-3, 2019.
  4. Alam, M. J., Islam, M. S., and Islam, M. (2019).“Effectiveness of Various Retrofitting Options of Footing Under Existing Building”, International Conference on Disaster Risk Management, Dhaka, Bangladesh, January 12-14, 2019.
  5. Alam, M. J., Islam, M. S., Islam, M., and Uddin, M. N. (2019).“Effect of Interaction of Nearby Footings on Settlement of Foundation under Building”, INTERNATIONAL IACMAG SYMPOSIUM, IIT, Gandhinagar,5 – 7 MARCH, 2019
  6. Karim, M. E., Alam, M. J. and Hoque, M. S. (2015). “Effect of Salt Water in Sand, Lime And Fly Ash Mixture”, CICM 2015, First International Conference on Advances in Civil Infrastructure and Construction Materials MIST, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 14–15 December 2015. p. 746-757.
  7. Karim, M. E. and Alam, M. J. (2015), “Behavior of Padma Sand-Silt Mixtures Under Cyclic and Static Loading”, CICM 2015, First International Conference on Advances in Civil Infrastructure and Construction Materials MIST, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 14–15 December 2015. p. 758-766.
  8. Karim, M. E. and Alam, M. J. (2013).“Response of Sand-Silt Mixture Under Cyclic and Undrained Monotonic Loading”, Proceedings of 8th CUTSE (Curtin University Technology Science and Engineering) International Conference, Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia, 3-4 December, 2013.
  9. Mominul, H. M., Alam, M. J., Ansary, M. A. and Karim, M. E. (2013).“Dynamic Properties and Liquefaction Potential of a Sandy Soil Containing Silt”, Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Paris, 2-6 September 2013, pp.1539-1542.
  10. Abdullah, M., Tamim, M. M., Borman, S. K., and Alam, M. J. (2012).“Determination of Shear Strength of Cohesive Soil By Rod Penetration Method”, Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Civil Engineering for Sustainable Development (ICCESD-2012), 2~3 March 2012, KUET, Khulna, Bangladesh.
  11. Islam, M. K. and Alam, M. J. (2012).“Protection of Harmful Effect of Tsunami by Retaining System at Coastal Area”, Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Civil Engineering for Sustainable Development (ICCESD-2012), 2~3 March 2012, KUET, Khulna, Bangladesh.
  12. Taiyab, M. A., Alam, M. J. and Abedin, M. Z. (2010).“Numerical Simulation of Level Ground Loose Sand Deposit Subjected to Cyclic Load”, Proceedings of Bangladesh Geotechnical Conference 2010, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 4-5 November, 2010.
  13. Yasin, S. J. M., Alam, M. J., Islam, M. S., & Siddique, A. (2009).“Static load capacity of RCC piles in soft clay – a case study”, Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Biblitheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt, 5-9 October, 2009, pp.1325-1328.
  14. Alam, M. J. and Towhata, I. (2009).“Case Histories and Mitigation Studies on Seismic Liquefaction Induced Embankment Damage”, Proceedings of Bangladesh Geotechnical Conference 2009 (BGC-2009), December 2009, Dhaka, Bangladesh, pp.283-291.
  15. Islam, M. S. and Alam, M. J. (2009).“Geological Aspects of Soil Formation of Bangladesh”, Proceedings of Bangladesh Geotechnical Conference 2009 (BGC-2009), December 2009, Dhaka, Bangladesh, pp.174-183.
  16. Akhtar, S., Alam, M. J. and Siddique, A. (2009).“Comparison of Sample Disturbance between Standard and Traditional Shelby Tube Samples of Bangladesh”, Proceedings of Bangladesh Geotechnical Conference 2009 (BGC-2009), December 2009, Dhaka, Bangladesh, pp.157-162.
  17. Alam, M. J., Yasin, S. J. M. and Rahman, M. M. (2008).“Development of a Liquefaction Potential Analysis Method using DPSH for Soil Deposits of Bangladesh”, Proceedings of the 6th Asian Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference, December 15-16, 2008, Bangalore, India, pp.268-279.
  18. Alam, M. J., Azad, A. K. and Rahman, Z. (2008).“Prediction of Liquefaction Potential of Dredge Fill Sand by DCP and Dynamic Probing”, CP1020, 2008 Seismic Engineering Conference Commemorating the 1908 Messina and Reggio Calabria Earthquake, edited by A. Santini and N. Moraci, pp. 413-418.
  19. Alam, M. J., and Towhata, I. (2008).“Some Important Aspects of Physical Modelling of Liquefaction in 1-g Shaking Table”, CP1020, 2008 Seismic Engineering Conference Commemorating the 1908 Messina and Reggio Calabria Earthquake, edited by A. Santini and N. Moraci, pp. 419-425.
  20. Alam, M. J., Siddiquee, M. S. A. and Taiyab, M. A., (2007).“Effect of Stiffness of Backfill Soil and Anchor Size on the Behavior of Anchored Earth Wall Supporting Soft Backfill”, Proceedings of the 13th Asian Regional Conference of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Kolkata.
  21. Siddique, A., Safiullah, A. M. M. and Alam, M. J. (2007).“Ground Improvement and Construction of Pavements in Stages in Two Soft Sections of a Major Highway in Bangladesh”, Proceedings of the 13th Asian Regional Conference of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Kolkata.
  22. Honda, T., and Alam, M. J. (2007).“A Mitigation Technique against Damages of A River Dike Due To Liquefaction”, Proceedings of the 13th Asian Regional Conference of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Kolkata.
  23. Siddique, A., Ansary, M. A. and Alam, M. J. (2007)“Remedial Measures for Damaged Slopes due to Landslides in Chittagong Hill Tracts”, Proceedings of the 10th Australia New Zealand Conference on Geomechanics, Brisbane 21-24 October 2007, pp.710-715.
  24. Towhata, I., Alam, M. J, Honda, T. and Tamate, S. (2006)“Model Tests on Behaviour of Gravity-Type Quay Walls Subjected To Strong Shaking”, Proceedings of Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering Workshop, Christchurch, New Zealand.
  25. Alam, M. J., Towhata, I., Honda, T. and Tamate, S. (2005)“Effect of Location of Soil Improvement in Mitigating Seismic Liquefaction Induced Damage of Gravity Quay Wall”, Proceedings of the First Bangladesh Earthquake Symposium, Dhaka, pp. 77-81.
  26. Alam, M. J., Towhata, I., and Wassan, T.H. (2005).“Seismic behavior of a quay wall without and with a damage mitigation measure”, Proceedings of Geo-frontiers 2005, Austin, Texas, USA. Later published in ASCE Geoetechnical Special Publication #133.
  27. Siddiquee, M. S. A. and Alam, M. J. (2005).“Effect of Stiffness of Reinforcing Tendon on The Behavior of Anchored Earth Wall Supporting Soft Backfill”, Proceedings of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, Vol. 5, pp. 829 – 844.
  28. Alam, M. J. and Towhata, I. (2005).“Mitigation of Caisson Quay Wall by Sheet Piling in Seaside”, Proceedings of 40th Annual Conference of Japanese Geotechnical Society, Hokkaido, Japan, Vol. 2, pp. 1807-1808.
  29. Alam, M. J., Towhata, I., Honda, T., Fukui, S. and Tamate, S. (2004)“Mechanism of liquefaction process under embankment without and with a mitigation measure studied by dynamic centrifuge testing”, Proc. South East Asian Geotechnical Conference, Bangkok, pp. 905-910.
  30. Alam, M. J., Honda, T., Towhata, I., Tamate, S., Fukui, S., Yasuda, S., and Tanaka, T. (2004).“Behavior of liquefaction mitigative measures of foundation soil under earth embankment”, Proc. IS-Osaka, Engineering Practice and Performance of Soft Deposits, 343-348.
  31. Alam, M. J., Fukui, S., Towhata, I., Honda, T., Tamate, S., Tanaka, T., Uchiyama, J., and Yasuda, A. (2004).“Centrifuge model tests on mitigation effects of underground walls on liquefaction-induced subsidence of embankment”, Proc. 11th Int. Conf on Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering and the 3rd Int. Conf. Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, Berkeley, Vol.2, 537-544.
  32. Alam, M. J., Towhata, I., and Sato, H. (2004).“Earthquake Damage Mitigation of Existing Gravity Type Caisson Quay Wall by Sand Compaction Piles”, Proceedings of 39th Annual Conference of Japanese Geotechnical Society, Niigata, Japan, Vol. 2, pp. 1943-1944.
  33. Kabir, M. H. and Alam, M. J. (2000):“Use of Geonatural and Geosynthetic Technology In Bangladesh”, Proceedings of the 2nd Asian Geosynthetics conference – Geosynthetics Asia 2000, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, vol. 1, pp. 163-174.
  34. Kabir, M. H., Alam, M. J., Hamid, A. M. and Akhtaruzzaman, A. K. M. (2000):“Foundations on Soft Soils for Khulna Medical College Buildings In Bangladesh”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, Melbourne, Australia, 19-24 November 2000.
  35. Kabir, M. H., Alam, M. J., Hamid, A. M. and Akhtaruzzaman, A. K. M. (2000):“Foundations for Tall Buildings in Dhaka City”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, Melbourne, Australia, 19-24 November 2000.