Geotechnical Design and Practice

Dr. K Ilamparuthi is a professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, Chennai, with more than three decades of teaching and research experience. He obtained his PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. His areas of research include ground improvement, soil-structure interaction, anchor foundations, slope stability analysis and finite element analysis. Over the course of his career, Professor Ilamparuthi has published over 200 research papers in journals and conference proceedings and has guided nine PhD students and 145 M.E students. He is actively involved in the administrative running of the College of Engineering Guindy, and has held various posts including dean in-charge, chairman of the Faculty of Civil Engineering and head of department. Professor Ilamparuthi is an active consultant involved in several major projects. He has received numerous prestigious awards for his research and his consultation work, as well as for the Commonwealth fellowship. He worked at the University of Liverpool, UK for a period of 13 months from October 1999 to November 2000, and has visited several countries such as UK, Belgium, Australia, Hong Kong, USA, Middle East and Singapore on various assignments. Dr. R. G. Robinson is a professor in the Geotechnical Engineering Division at the Department of Civil Engineering at IIT Madras, India. He obtained his PhD from the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India and has pursued postdoctoral research at the National University of Singapore, in addition to visiting University of Wollongong in Australia for a period of six months under the Endeavour India Fellowship. His research interests include physical modelling, soil characterisation and ground improvement with special reference to soft clays and expansive soils. He has published over 100 research papers in journals and conference proceedings, and has guided 8 PhD and 15 Masters students. Dr. Robinson and his students received the IGS-Mr H.C. Verma Diamond Jubilee Award for Innovative Instrument Design from IIT Madras.

• Quality Assurance Studies for Ground Improvement Projects.- Liquefaction Screening - Nonplastic Silty Sands and Sands.- Insights into the role of osmotic suction in soil behavior.- Modern Geotechnical Practices.- A design framework for cement mixing in deep excavations and underground constructions.- Understanding Performance and Developing Global Geotechnical Standards.- Stress State Variables for Unsaturated Soils – Consensus and Controversy.- Addressing The 21st Century Transportation Geotechnics Challenges Using the Mechanics of Unsaturated Soils.- Characterization of sensitive soft clays for design purposes.- Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction of Offshore Wind Turbines.- Multiple Driven Fibre-reinforced Columnar Intrusion for Vertical Drains - A case study.- Development of Fly ash Stabilized Recycled Base Material (FRB) for Indian Highways.- Impact of anisotropy in permeability of peaty soil on deep excavation.- Seismic analysis of reinforced soil retaining structures.- Tailoringthe Properties of Cement Treated Clayey Soils.- Landslides in Nilgiris- Causal Factors and Remedial Measures.- New Paradigm in Geotechnical Performance Monitoring Using Remote Sensing.- Characterisation of vesicular basalts of Mumbai using piezoceramic bender elements.- Geotechnical challenges and opportunities in large infrastructure projects - learning from failures.- Overcoming Challenges in Design & Construction of Tunnels in Mixed and Varying Ground Conditions.- Reliability based Design of Pile Foundation under Static and Dynamic Loads.- Modelling large deformation in geomechanics.- Geotechnical Engineering through Mind Maps.