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Disaster Research Laboratory
Department of Environmental Design
Faculty of CRI, Ehime University (Japan)
(*CRI: Collaborative Regional Innovation)
Netra Prakash Bhandary, Ph.D.
Professor of Civil Engineering and Landslide Disaster Science
I am a university professor in Japan. After school education in Nepal, I earned a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Aligarh Muslim University of India in 1993. With this degree, I returned to Nepal and worked as a civil engineer for about one year and as an engineering college junior faculty member for a little more than three years. Then, in November 1997, I came to Japan and entered Ehime University as a research student leading to the graduate program in geotechnical engineering from April 1998. Then, in March 2000, I received a master's degree in engineering and in March 2003, a Ph.D. in engineering specializing in landslide mechanisms. Starting April 2003, I have been working at Ehime University for nearly 20 years now. This is my personal homepage and I welcome you here.
Research Interests
I have been learning, teaching, and studying landslide and earthquake disasters from geotechnical engineering perspectives. In addition, I use GIS (geographic information system) techniques in rain- and earthquake-induced landslide hazard mapping and prediction. Most of my research work is based on laboratory tests comprising of ring shear machine and field measurements comprising microtremor or ambient vibration survey.
Publications
Tsuyoshi Hatori, Netra Prakash Bhandary "Posttraumatic stress disorder and its predictors in Kathmandu Valley residents after the 2015 Nepal Earthquake", International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (2021.12)
Indra L. Subedi, Ram C. Tiwari, Netra P. Bhandary "Safety Factor Plan Based on Predicted Progressive Failure Surface Under Elasto-Plastic 2D-FEM: A case study of Nuta-Yone Landslide Clusters, Shikoku, Japan", Nepal Journal of Civil Engineering 2(1) 27-36 (2021.11)
R. C. Tiwari, N. P. Bhandary "3D SEM-based seismic ground response analysis of Kathmandu Valley in 2015 Gorkha Nepal earthquake", Journal of Seismology 25(5) 1321-1338 (2021.10)