Advanced Geotechnical and Structural Engineering in the Design and Performance of Sustainable Civil Infrastructures

This book covers different geotechnical and structural engineering topics applied to buildings, power grid infrastructures, hydroelectric projects, bridges, and transport infrastructures. The book contains research data useful for researchers and practitioners to support the sustainable design, building, operation, and maintenance of civil infrastructures. The papers included in this book were selected from the 6th GeoChina International Conference on Civil & Transportation Infrastructures: From Engineering to Smart & Green Life Cycle Solutions.

Prof BitangZhu is Directorof the Engineering Research & Development Centre for Underground Technology of Jiangxi Province, China. He is a chartered professional engineer with 10-year experience in engineering consultancy on tunnelling. His research interestsare in tunnelling, piling, deep excavation engineering andtechnology onreal-time remote monitoring. He has been the principal investigators or technical investigators for 2research grantsfunded by National Natural Science Foundation of China and 18industry jointed Projects. He was awarded both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the Wuhan Universityanddoctoraldegree at the Tongji University, China, and has authored/co-authored more than 50 journal and conference papers andauthored one book on laterally loaded piles.He is a Fellow of the Engineers Australia. 

Prof Paulus PramonoRahardjo completed undergraduate study at Universitas KatolikParahyangan (UNPAR) and since then has been faculty member at the university. He pursued graduate study in highway engineering at Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), then Master's Degree and Ph.D degree from Virginia Tech (USA). He has been actively engaged in teaching, research as well as hundreds of geotechnical consultancy. He works for design and advising clients on many geotechnical problems including building foundations, highways, tunnels, bridges, jetty and wharfs, dams, coal mining etc. Among his specialties with intense experience in research and practice are in the field of in-situ testing and landslides or slope protections. He has written more than 200 articles/ papers, research reports and manuals. He has served the university as Department Head, Vice Dean of Faculty of Engineering, Director of the Graduate Program and Vice Rector for Academic Affairs. Currently, he is the coordinator of Geotechnical Engineering Division and Director of Research Center for Infrastructure and Urban Development. His affiliation include the Indonesian Geotechnical Society (HATTI), American Society of Civil Engineers in the Geo-Institute, the Indonesian Experts on Disasters (IABI) and Board Representative of International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), currently responsible as Head of Deep Foundation Research Institute at Universitas KatolikParahyangan, Bandung Indonesia.