Soil Dynamics: Select Proceedings of 7th ICRAGEE 2020 (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9813340037 ISBN 13: 9789813340039

Publisher: Springer, 2022

Synopsis

This volume presents select papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics. The papers discuss advances in the fields of soil dynamics and geotechnical earthquake engineering. A strong emphasis is placed on connecting academic research and field practice, with many examples, case studies, best practices, and discussions on performance based design. This volume will be of interest to researchers and practicing engineers alike. 

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Prof. T.G. Sitharam is currently the Director of Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India. He is also KSIIDC Chair Professor in the area of Energy and Mechanical Sciences and Senior Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru (IISc). He was the founder Chairman of the Center for Infrastructure, Sustainable Transport and Urban Planning (CiSTUP) at IISc, and is presently the Chairman of the AICTE South Western Zonal Committee, Regional office at Bengaluru and President of the Indian Society for Earthquake Technology (ISET). Prof Sitharam is the founder President of the International Association for Coastal Reservoir Research (IACRR). He has been a Visiting Professor at Yamaguchi University, Japan; University of Waterloo, Canada; University of Dolhousie, Halifax, Canada;  and ISM Dhanbad, Jharkhand, and was a Research Scientist  at the Center for Earth Sciences and Engineering,  University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA until 1994.

Prof. S. V. Dinesh is currently working as Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Siddaganga Institute of Technology (SIT), Tumkur. He completed his postdoc research from Yamaguchi University, Japan under NPEE fellowship from MHRD, Government of India. He is the recipient of Institution of Engineers fellowship. He is life member of many professional Societies. His areas of interest in research is in Geotechnical engineering, Geotechnical earthquake engineering and Pavement geotechnics. He has guided 7 doctoral students and 60 M.Tech. thesis. He has more than 100 publications in reputed journals and conferences.. As a geotechnical consultant, he has advised and acted as consultant covering a wide range of civil and geotechnical structures for the past two decades.

Prof. Ravi Jakka is working as Associate Professor in the Department of Earthquake Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. He is also currently serving as Secretary, Indian Society of Earthquake Technology(ISET). He has graduated in Civil Engineering from Andhra University Engineering College in the year 2001. He has obtained masters and doctorate degrees from IIT Delhi in the years 2003 and 2007 respectively. His areas of interest are Dynamic Site Characterization, Soil Liquefaction, Seismic Slope Stability of Dams, Landslides, Foundations & Seismic Hazard Assessment. He has published over 100 articles in reputed international journals and conferences. He has supervised over 35 Masters Dissertations and 6 Ph.D. thesis, while he is currently guiding 10 PhD Thesis. He has received prestigious DAAD and National Doctoral fellowships. He has obtained University Gold Medal from Andhra University. He also received ‘Young Geotechnical Engineer Best Paper Award’ from Indian Geotechnical Society. He was instrumental in the development of Earthquake Early Warning System for northern India, a prestigious national project. He isalso the Organizing Secretary to 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9813340037
• ISBN 13: 9789813340039
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 440
• Editor: Sitharam T. G., Dinesh S. V., Jakka Ravi