Best Practices in Geotechnical and Pavement Engineering: Select Proceedings of IACESD 2023: 449 (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, 449) - Tapa dura

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Dr. Sreevalsa Kolathayar pursued M.Tech. from IIT Kanpur, Ph.D. from IISc, and served as International Research Staff at UPC Barcelona Tech Spain. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK) Surathkal, India. He has authored five books, edited twelve books, and published over 100 research articles. He is on the Editorial Board of several International Journals. In 2017, The New Indian Express honored him with South India's Most Inspiring Young Teachers Award. He received the ISET DK Paul Research Award from the Indian Society of Earthquake Technology for the best Ph.D. thesis on Earthquake Risk Reduction in India. He received the "IEI Young Engineers Award" from The Institution of Engineers (India) in 2019. He is on the roster of two technical committees of ASCE Geo-Institute and is a Member of the Working Groups of BIS CED 39 for three IS codes.

Prof. N. Vinod Chandra Menon has worked as Professor in the Centre for Disaster Management at the Yeshwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration (YASHADA), Pune. He has worked in charge of Emergency Preparedness and Response in UNICEF India Country Office in New Delhi. He is currently Adjunct Professor at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India; President of RedR India, and Regional Director Asia of The International Emergency Management Society (TIEMS) Oslo. He has over 37 years of working experience, of which more than a quarter century has been in the fields of disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and public policy analysis. In 2005, he was nominated by the Prime Minister of India as one of the Founder Members of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), Government of India, with the status of a Union Minister of State in the Government of India.

Dr. K. S. Sreekeshava is currently working as Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Civil Engineering, Jyothy Institute of Technology, Bangalore. He obtained Ph.D. from BMS College of Engineering, Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi in the year 2020. His research interests are in the field of masonry structures, bio-composites, and structural design. He has published more than 30 research articles in reputed journals, Elsevier and Springer publishing houses. He has successfully coordinated funded AICTE-ISTE faculty refresher Programme and is also working as Student Project Proposal (SPP) Coordinator. He has the honours of life member of ISET, ISTE, ICI, INSC, NICEE, and IAENG. He has successfully completed the research funding grant under competitive research funding scheme initiated under scheme of TEQIP by Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi. He has guided several undergraduate and postgraduate projects sponsored by Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology.

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This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Approaches in Civil Engineering for Sustainable Development (IACESD 2023). The topics covered include emerging practices in geotechnical engineering and pavement, innovative approaches, and technologies to enhance the durability, sustainability, and performance of infrastructure, geosynthetics, geotechnical monitoring systems, and ground improvement techniques to address soil stability, settlement, and liquefaction issues. This book is useful for researchers and professionals' geotechnical engineering.