Present position: Associate Professor, Department of
Geology and Mining
University of
Ph.D. thesis title: Slope Stability Analysis Considering
Local Factors of Safety Using Non-vertical Slices within the Limit Equilibrium
framework
M.Sc.
from
M.Sc. thesis title: Analysis
of Landslides and Slope stability problems in the Coastal Cliffs, Cox’s
Address :(Work): Department of
Geology and Mining
Tel.
(880 721) 750041 4111 Fax. (880 721) 750064
At present (until Feb. 2007): KOSEF Post-Doctoral Fellow
Department
of Geology and Earth Environmental Science
Chungnam National University, Daejeon, South
Korea.
AREA OF RESEARCH/
TEACHING
Teaching:
Geotechnical and
Slope Engineering
Rock
and Soil mechanics
Mining
Research
Interest:
Limit Equilibrium
Analysis, Progressive failure of slopes, Pseudo-static analysis
Natural hazards (landslides, mudflow, flowslides, topling and earthquake) and
their mitigation, Mine Hazards
Numerical methods in Geomechanics
RESEARCH
A.
Ongoing research Project.
1. Landslide
and hazard mapping of Chittagong city area, Bangladesh,
Funded by Korea Science and Engineering Foundation, 2006
2. Study
of river bank erosion and potentialities of sustainable groundwater development in the Barind-Floodplain complex
of parts of Rajshahi-Nawabganj-Naogoan districts.-
Funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of Bangladesh.
3. Bank
failure and related erosional activities of
B.
Guiding research theses and projects in MSc and BSc levels.
Ongoing:
1)
Availability of drinking water for Rajshahi
City Corporation from
2) Comparative
study between slope stability methods using vertical and non-vertical slices. MSc
student thesis
3) Safety evaluation of Chapai Nawabgonj Town Protection Embankment along
4) Safety evaluation of Left bank of
5) River
Bank erosion and Sedimentological study along
6) Effects
of inclination pattern and number of
slices in Slope Stability analysis using non-vertical slices. BSc student
project
Completed in 2004:
1) Deformation
of roadway tunnel of Madhyapara Hard Rock Mine,
2) Rockmass characterization of roadway tunnel of
Madhyapara Hard Rock Mine,
1) Stress
analysis and possible wedge calculations along the roadway tunnel of Madhyapara
Hard Rock Mine,
2) Slope
Stability and Seepage problems of the Rajshahi City Protection Embankment
(RCPE)-BSc student project
3) Soil
erosional activities along the
Completed
in 2002:
1) Soil erosion and landslide activities along the
Jaintiapur-Tamabil road-cut section,
2) Pseudo-static stability evaluations of RCPE at Khojapur,
C. Research publications:
1.
Khan, Y. A. and Chang, C. 2006. Landslide
potentialities in low hills in Chittagong, Bangladesh. Proceedings of the Korean
Society of Engineering Geology Conference, April 27-28, 2006, Daejeon, South
Korea, pp79-88.
2.
Monir, M. M. U. and Khan, Y. A. 2004.
Seasonal Potential Seepage Analysis Of
3.
Islam, D. A. and Khan, Y. A. 2004. Seasonal
Deterioration of
4.
Khan, Y.A. 2003. Application of Secant Method
in slope stability analysis using slices within limit equilibrium procedure. Proc. of Inter. Conf. on Slope Engineering,
Lee, C. F. et al. eds.,
5.
Khan, Y. A., Yamagami, T. and Jing, J-C.
2002, Progressive failure analysis of slopes using non-vertical slices,
Landslides- J. Japanese Landslides Society, vol.39. no.2, pp203-211.
6. Khan,
Y. A., Yamagami, T. and Jing, J-C.2002, Stability Evaluation of Rajshahi City
Protection Embankment at Khojapur Area, Rajshahi, Bangladesh., Tech. J. River
Res. Inst. vol.9, no.1, pp57-64.
7. Yamagami,
T., Jing, J-C, Yamabe, S. and Khan, Y. A. 1999. A promising approach for
progressive failure analysis of reinforced slopes. Proc. of Inter. Symp. on Slope Stability Engineering: Geotechnical and
Geo-environmental Aspects (IS-Shikoku '99,
8. Yamagami,
T., Khan, Y. A. and Jing, J-C. 1999. Progressive failure analysis based on a
method of non-vertical slices. Proc. of
Inter. Symp. on Slope Stability Engineering: Geotechnical and Geo-environmental
Aspects (IS-Shikoku '99,
9. Rahman,
M. H. and Khan, Y. A. 1995. Landslides and Stability of Coastal Cliffs of Cox's
Bazar
Submitted for Publication:
10. Khan, Y. A., Deformation Modulus and Strength
Parameters of Rock Mass of Madhyapara Granite Mine of Bangladesh using
Geological Strength Index
13. Landslide
hazard zoning map using rock mass characterization along Tamabil-Jaintiapur
road cut section,
14. Stress
Distribution And Possible Stress Induced Failure Around Roadway Tunnel Inside
Madhyapara
15. Wedge
Calculation Along The Roadway Tunnel Inside Madhyapara Hardrock Mine,
Academic awards/Scholarship :
1) Agrani
Bank Gold Medal for
securing the first place in the faculty of Life and Earth Sciences of University
of Rajshahi in B.Sc. examination of 1996
2)
Computer Literacy :
Languages:
FORTRAN
77, FORTRAN 90
ftp, HTML, Javascript
Others:
Workable
knowledge about Operating Systems like DOS, Windows 9x, NT & XP
Word processing: 