1. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, KPR Institute of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore; formerly, Doctoral Research Fellow, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India (corresponding author). ORCID: .
2. Professor, Computational Geomechanics Laboratory, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India.