Ground Improvement and Reinforced Soil Structures: Proceedings of Indian Geotechnical Conference 2020

This volume comprises the select proceedings of the Indian Geotechnical Conference (IGC) 2020. The contents focus on recent developments in geotechnical engineering for sustainable tomorrow. The volume covers the topics related advances in ground improvement of weak foundation soils for various civil engineering projects and design/construction of reinforced soil structures with different fill materials using synthetic and natural reinforcements in different forms.

Dr. C.N.V. Satyanarayana Reddy is a Professor of Civil Engineering at College of Engineering, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India, and has 28 years of teaching, research, and consultancy experience. His expertise and research interests are in the areas of reinforced soils, ground improvement, landfills, soil retention in excavations, deep foundations, and forensic geotechnical engineering. He obtained B.Tech. in Civil Engineering from Nagarjuna University, M.Tech. in Geotechnical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, M.E. (Structures) from Andhra University, and Ph.D. from National Institute of Technology (NIT) Warangal, India. He has guided 8 Ph.D. scholars and 92 M.Tech. dissertations. He has more than 110 publications in various national and international journals and seminars/conference proceedings. He has organized more than 30 seminars, workshops, and training programs. He is fellow of Indian Geotechnical Society, The Institution of Engineers (India) and Life member of Indian Roads Congress, Indian Concrete Institute, Indian Society for Technical Education, Indian Society for Rock Mechanics and tunneling Technology. He handled several research projects funded by DST, UGC and AICTE. He received the Engineer of the Year 2006 Award from Govt. of Andhra Pradesh and The Institution of Engineers (India) A.P. State Centre, Best Academician Award for the year 2014 from Andhra University and Andhra Pradesh Scientist Award 2020 in Civil Engineering Discipline from A.P. State Council of Science and Technology, Govt. of A.P.  He served as National Executive Committee member of Indian Geotechnical Society during the period 2013-2020.  He served as a member in H-4 Committee on Embankment, Ground Improvement and Drainage Committee of Indian Roads Congress (IRC) for the term 2018-2020. He is serving as member of TC 213 on "Scour and Erosion" of International Society for Soil mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE). Dr. Sireesh Saride is currently Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad. His expertise and research interests are in the area of pavement geotechnics, geosynthetics, and ground improvement. He graduated from JNTU College of Engineering, Kakinada, in 2000 and earned his Master’s degree integrated with Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, in 2006. Prior to joining IIT Hyderabad, he was Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Texas at Arlington. Dr. Saride has published more than 200 referred journals, conference articles, and technical reports. He is Member of ASCE, ICE, TRB, International Geosynthetic Society, Life Member of IRC, and Fellow of Indian Geotechnical Society.  Prof.  A.  Murali  Krishna is currently a faculty member in the department  of  Civil  Engineering,  Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Tirupati. Dr. Krishna obtained his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, M.Tech. degree from IIT Kanpur and B.Tech. degree from Sri Venkateswara University College of Engineering,  Tirupati. His  research  interests include earthquake geotechnics, geosynthetics and ground improvement, site characterization, and numerical and physical modelling of geotechnical structures. He  was  a  recipient  of  BRNS  Young  Scientist  Research  award,  BOYSCAST  fellowship  and HERTAGE fellowship. He was a visiting fellow at Bristol University(UK), Surrey University (UK)  and  University  de  Torino  (Italy).  He  supervised  7  Doctoral  students  and  24  Masters students;  co-authored  nearly  180  publications  of  technical  papers  in  international/national Journals and conference/seminar proceedings, including book chapters.