Purnachandra Saha

Professor

Dr. Purnachandra Saha is a Professor in School of Civil Engineering at KIIT DU, Bhubaneswar, India. He joined KIIT-DU in 2013 and has been involved in various teaching, and research activities. He received his PhD from IIT Bombay and teaching in Universities since 2009. He has worked in a multinational company (mainly design of industrial structure before completing his doctoral degree) for seven and half years. He has written more than 120 research articles (Journal & Conference Papers) among which 35 are with B. Tech students till date. He is Faculty Advisor of ASCE KIIT University Student Chapter. He Guided B. Tech students to won National Level Steel Design Competition organized by INSDAG, Ministry of Steel for 4 times (2016-17, 2019-20 and 2020-21, 2021-22). He is Member of ASCE, IE (I), EERI, ACI and Council of Vibration Specialists.

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Email :
purnasahafce@kiit.ac.in
Scopus Id :
56734114300
Google Scholar :
https:\/\/civil.kiit.ac.in//scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=LDZ9wQIAAAAJ&hl=en

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Educational Qualification
  • PhD - IIT Bombay
  • M.E IIEST Shibpur
  • B.Tech IE (India)


Research Interests
  • Earthquake engineering
  • Structural Dynamics
  • structural health monitoring and structural control
  • sustainable materials, green buildings

Journals/Conferences :
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Purna_Saha
https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=LDZ9wQIAAAAJ&hl=en
Scopus Author ID: 56734114300., https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=56734114300
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2722-1669
Web of Science Researcher ID: AAN-6850-2020
1) Swagato Das, Purnachandra Saha (2023), “A Novel Pigeon Nesting Algorithm Based on the Nesting Behaviour of Pigeon for Health Monitoring of Structure”, Journal of Vibration Engineering & Technologies, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42417-023-01043-y
2) Ankita Sikder, Purnachandra Saha, Partha Sarathi Singha (2023), “Sugar industry waste produced geopolymer concrete and its compressive strength prediction via statistical analysis and artificial intelligence approach” Innovative Infrastructure Solutions, https://doi.org/10.1007/s41062-023- 01168-9.
3) Ipsita Mohanty, Purnachandra Saha, Sumriti Ranjan Patra, Sachin Kumar Jha (2023), “Waste to valuable resource: Application of copper slag and steel slag in concrete with reduced carbon dioxide emissions”, Innovative Infrastructure Solutions, https://doi.org/10.1007/s41062-023- 01090-0
4) Md.Shahzar Intekhab, Swagato Das, M. Ahmad Jajnery, Salman Akhtar, Debarshi Sahoo & Purnachandra Saha  (2022), “Analysis Methods of Irregular High-Rise Buildings Subjected to
Seismic Loads. Journal of Vibration Engineering & Technologies https://doi.org/10.1007/s42417- 022-00636-3
5) S. Das and P. Saha (2021) “Performance of Swarm Intelligence based Chaotic Meta-Heuristic algorithms for Structural Health Monitoring” Measurement, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.measurement.2020.108533
6) S. Das, P. Saha, SC Satapathy, and JJ Jena (2021), “Social Group Optimization Algorithm for Civil Engineering Structural Health Monitoring” Engineering Optimization, https://doi.org/10.1080/0305215X.2020.1808974
7) S. Das and P. Saha (2020), “Performance of Hybrid Decomposition Algorithm under Heavy Noise Condition for Health Monitoring of Structure” Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitoring, 10(4), pp 679-92, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13349-020-00412-5
8) S. Das and P. Saha (2018), “A review of some advanced sensors used for health diagnosis of civil engineering structures”, Measurement, 129, pp. 68-90.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.measurement.2018.07.008
9) S. Das and P. Saha (2018), “Structural health monitoring techniques implemented on IASC–ASCE benchmark problem: a review”, Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitoring
(Springer), 8, pp. 689-718. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13349-018-0292-5
10) S Das, P Saha, SK Patro (2016), “Vibration-based damage detection techniques used for health monitoring of structures: a review”, Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitoring ,https://doi.org/10.1007/s13349-016-0168-5


Books :


PEER REVIEWER FOR ACADEMIC JOURNALS

  • Engineering Structures, Published by Elsevier [impact factor 4.471(2020)]
  • Structures, Published by Elsevier [impact factor 2.983(2020)]
  • Materials and Structures, Published by Springer [impact factor 3.428(2020)]
  • Sustainability, Published by MDPI [impact factor 3.251(2020)]
  • Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, Published by SAGE [impact factor 2.569 (2020)]
  • Intelligent Buildings International, Published by Taylor & Francis [impact factor 1.93(2020)]
  • Journal of the Institution of Engineers (India): Series A, Published by Springer[impact factor 0.96 (2020)]
  • Management Decision, Published by Emerald Insight [impact factor 4.957 (2020)]