Overview
- Features active collaboration between industry and academia
- Discusses case studies on the various problems and solutions adopted for different sites
- Includes lab and field studies and recommendations
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering (LNCE, volume 88)
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Conference proceedings info: IGC 2018.
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Table of contents (68 papers)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This volume comprises select papers presented during the Indian Geotechnical Conference 2018. This volume focuses on discussing the many challenges encountered in geoenvironmental engineering. The book covers sustainability aspects related to geotechnical engineering, problematic soils and ground improvement, use of geosynthetics and concepts of soil dynamics. The contents of this book will be useful to researchers and professionals working in geo-environmental engineering and to policy makers interested in understanding geotechnical concerns related to sustainable development.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. G. Madhavi Latha is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, India. She completed her Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Madras, and has previously worked as a post-doctoral fellow and assistant professor at IISc and IIT Guwahati respectively. Professor Latha is a member of various professional bodies including IGS, ISSMGE and ISRM, and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Indian Geotechnical Journal, and an Editorial board member in many reputed journals. Her research work focuses on fundamental aspects of soil and ground reinforcement, and she has authored 70 journal articles, 4 book chapters and has developed a web-course on Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering on the NPTEL platform, sponsored by the Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India.
Dr. P Raghuveer Rao is Principal Research Scientist at Department of Civil Engineering and involved in teaching, research and consultancy inthe broad area of geotechnical engineering. He has been working with the department since 1989 and has been teaching courses related to subsurface exploration and soil testing, Earth retaining structures, behavior and testing of unsaturated soils, and fundamental of soil behavior for Masters and Doctoral students. His research interests are geotechnical instrumentation, slope stability analysis, numerical modelling, mechanics of unsaturated soils, contaminant transport through soil and reinforced earth structures. He has conducted several field and laboratory tests for design of foundations of different structures like buildings, turbo-generator and water tanks. He has analyzed stability of several embankments, tailing dams and stability of large size surge shafts for a hydropower project through numerical modelling and trial wedge method. He has 21 publications in journals and conference proceedings.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Problematic Soils and Geoenvironmental Concerns
Book Subtitle: Proceedings of IGC 2018
Editors: Madhavi Latha Gali, P. Raghuveer Rao
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6237-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-6236-5Published: 12 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-6239-6Published: 13 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-6237-2Published: 11 September 2020
Series ISSN: 2366-2557
Series E-ISSN: 2366-2565
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 847
Number of Illustrations: 235 b/w illustrations, 335 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Waste Management/Waste Technology, Sustainable Development, Soil Science & Conservation