Overview
- Focus on sustainability and innovations in design, construction & maintenance of geotechnical structures
- Discusses technological advancement, challenges encountered & solutions for sustainable infrastructure
- Contributes towards climate change adaptation and disaster resiliency meeting the UN SDGs
Part of the book series: Springer Transactions in Civil and Environmental Engineering (STICEE)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Landslides and Slope Failures
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Sustainable Development for Infrastructures
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Adaptation to Climate Change-Induced Hazards
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About this book
This edited volume is a compilation of peer-reviewed papers of the plenary lectures, keynote lectures, special lectures and young researcher’s special lectures delivered at the 1st International Symposium on Construction Resources for Environmentally Sustainable Technologies (CREST 2020) organized by Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. The book focuses on sustainability, promotion of new ideas and innovations in design, construction and maintenance of geotechnical structures with the aim of contributing towards climate change adaptation and disaster resiliency to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It presents latest research, information, technological advancement, practical challenges encountered, and solutions adopted in the field of geotechnical engineering for sustainable infrastructure towards climate change adaptation. This volume will be of interest to those in academiaand industry alike.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Hemanta Hazarika is Professor at the Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University, Japan. His research activities include disaster prevention and mitigation, soil-structure interaction, stability of soil-structures during earthquakes and tsunami, ground improvement, application of recycled waste and lightweight materials in construction, stability of cut slopes, and landslides and countermeasures to mitigate landslides disasters. He has published over 350 technical papers in various international journals, conferences, workshops and symposia to date. Prof. Hazarika has several years of experience in teaching, research as well as geotechnical practice and consulting both within and outside Japan.
Stuart Haigh is Reader in Geotechnical Engineering at Cambridge University, UK and a Fellow of Trinity College, UK. His research interests involve physical and numerical modelling in areas including earthquake engineering, retaining wall and pile behaviour.He has published over 70 papers in various international journals and will be the 2021 Geotechnique Lecturer.
Haruichi Kanaya is Professor in the Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, Japan. In 1998, he was a visiting scholar in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. He is a senior member of IEEE, USA and IEICE, Japan. His research areas include superconductors, RF CMOS LSIs, antennas and energy harvesting systems.
Babloo Chaudhary is Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK) Surathkal, India. His research areas include geo-disaster prevention and mitigation, dynamic soil-structures interaction, ground improvement, coastal geotechnics, energy geotechnics. He has more than 50 technical papers in various international journals, international and national conferences, workshops and symposia.
YoshifumiKochi is currently a Representative Director of K’s Lab. Co. Ltd., Yamaguchi, Japan. He is a specialist in landslides disasters and their mitigations. Dr. Kochi has 17 years of experience in teaching engineering ethics to undergraduate students. He has been involved in geotechnical practice and consulting both within and outside Japan for more than forty years.
Masanori Murai is Senior Engineer in the Division of Civil Engineering Technology at Shimizu Corporation, Tokyo, Japan. He received his Ph.D. in Geology from Kochi University, Japan in 2007. As a professional civil engineer, he has participated in many projects related to infrastructure development and landslide mitigation.
Sugeng Wahyudi is Chief in Technology Planning Division at NITTOC Construction, Tokyo, Japan. He obtained doctoral degree in Engineering from Kyushu University in 2011. Before joining NITTOC in 2020, he worked at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan and Kyushu University, Japan. His research interests include nanobubble technology and AI to develop advanced and smart solutions for construction site.
Takashi Fujishiro is the representative of the Ground Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kitakyushu, Japan, a company which he started in August 2019. He specializes in geology and has several years of experiences in surveys and design of slope disaster countermeasures, and road planning and maintenance.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustainable Geo-Technologies for Climate Change Adaptation
Editors: Hemanta Hazarika, Stuart Kenneth Haigh, Haruichi Kanaya, Babloo Chaudhary, Yoshifumi Kochi, Masanori Murai, Sugeng Wahyudi, … Takashi Fujishiro
Series Title: Springer Transactions in Civil and Environmental Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4074-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-4073-6Published: 03 October 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-4076-7Published: 04 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-4074-3Published: 02 October 2022
Series ISSN: 2363-7633
Series E-ISSN: 2363-7641
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 255
Number of Illustrations: 72 b/w illustrations, 171 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics, Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings, Building Materials