Best Practices in Geotechnical and Pavement Engineering

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.

• Best Practices in Geotechnical and Pavement Engineering- An Introduction.- Sustainable Implementation of Standard Geotechnical Practices to Optimize the Foundation Design of a Residential Building a Case Study.- Non Linear Site Response Studies of Shallow Foundation Isolated on Gravel Tire Crumb Mixture Layer on Shallow Bedrock Sites.- Experience in Designing and Calculating Slab Foundations of a Two-section Multi-story Building on Weak Water-saturated Soils.- Experimental and Numerical Analysis for Enhancing Bearing Capacity of Shallow Foundation Through Geotextile Implementation.- Behavior of Piled Raft Foundation of Different Pile Lengths, Pile Diameter and Raft Thickness for a High Rise Building by Using Finite Element Modeling.- Retrofit of Foundations Supporting Structures That Have Undergone Settlement Located in Seismically Active Zones.- Assessment of Stability of Embankments on Soft Ground Using Matsuo Chart and Slope/W.- Experimental Investigation on Interrelation Between Hydraulic Conductivity and Compressive Strength of Soft Soil Using Metakaolin as Stabilizer.- Laboratory Investigation of Soil Stabilization Using Terrazyme and Cement.- A Framework for Geotechnical Engineering Practice & Education Forsterite Treated Silt as a Liner Material.- Evaluating the Influence of Montmorillonite Content on Swelling Behaviour in Relation to Its Plasticity.- 3d Numerical Investigation of Stone Column Simulated in Soft Soil.- Uncertainty of Measurement of Geotechnical Parameters of a Lateritic Soil.- Analysis of Slope Stability for Hill Based Construction in North East India: A Case Study in Guwahati.