Speakers

Dr. Rabi Yadava is a Principal Engineer for Terracon’s Gaithersburg, MD, USA office with 33 years of experience in managing, supervising, analysis and design of various types of super-structures and sub-structures using national and internation codes.

Dr. Yadava received B.Tech degree from IIT Kharagpur in year 1990, M.Tech degree in 1992 and PhD Degree in 1998 from IIT Bombay, India. He is licensed in eight states in USA as Professional Engineer and is a certified Project Management Professional. 

He has extensive experience in the fields of Geo-Structural engineering, Structural engineering, Automated web-based Geotechnical and Structural instrumentation and monitoring. His industry experience includes fossil and nuclear power plants, wind turbine generator foundatios, dams, tunnels, petrochemical complexes, buildings, and highway structures. His doctoral research titled “Optimal Design of Offshore Jacket Platforms considering Soil Structure Interaction” invloved  combined analysis of super-structure and sub-structure, consisting of deep piles, considering soil structure interaction. 

His specific expertise in the field of underground construction includes planning for large scale support of temporary construction considering different systems, risk assessment, deep foundations, structural and geotechnical instrumentation, shoring, underpinning and working with various types of earth retaining systems. In the field of structural engineering his experstise working with multiple materal types, advance analyses and design of buildings, rehabilitation of structures.

His powerful combination of expertise in Structural engineering, Geo-Structural engineering, and Instrumentation and Monitoring is unique in the industry and a valued resource for his design team members.