Transportation and Environmental Geotechnics

Dr. Kasinathan Muthukkumaran is currently Professor in Civil Engineering at National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India. He obtained Ph.D. in Soil-Structure Interaction and Marine Geotechnical Engineering from Indian Institute Technology Madras. He has published more than 150 papers in international and national journals and conferences. He has completed 5 R & D (including ISRO - Chandrayaan- 2 Mission project) & 70 major consultancy projects in Geotechnical Engineering and published two patent including “Moon Soil” (A Method for Manufacture of Highland Lunar Soil Simulant). He has guided 10 PhD scholars and 6 more are in progress, 5 MS (by research) and more than 40 M.Tech. students in Geotechnical and allied research areas. He is the Founder Chairman of Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS-Trichy) Trichy Chapter. He is a member of Technical Committee (TC-301 on "Preservation of Historic Sites") of International Society for Soil Mechanicsand Geotechnical Engineering. Prof. Muthukkumaran area of research is in geotechnical engineering, which includes pile foundation, soil-structure interaction, marine geotechnics & foundations, field instrumentation, geotechnical physical modeling, ground improvement and forensic geotechnical engineering. He has received DST Young Scientist Award, IGS- Smt. Indra Joshi Biennial Award and Keynote Paper Award – GEOMATE Conference 2015 at Osaka, Japan. He is an Associate Editor of Australian journal of Civil Engineering and serving editorial board member of several journals.   Prof. Muthukkumaran has significant administrative contribution as Estate Officer, Associate Dean (Planning and Development), Member of Buildings and Works Committee and Member of Board of Governors (BoG) of National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli and Member of Buildings and Works Committee, IIM Trichy. He has received NIT Trichy Achiever Awards for research publications, research projects, maximum citation and consultancy projects. Dr. Deendayal Rathod has obtained his B.Tech. (Civil Engineering) from JNTU College of Engineering (University Campus), Hyderabad, and M.E. and Ph.D. both from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore. He is currently working as professor at National Institute of Technology (NIT) Trichy since 2006. He has published more than 15 papers in the referred international journals and 12 papers in the reputed national/international conferences. He has more than 15 years of teaching, research and consultancy experience at NIT Trichy, and two months of abroad working experience at the University of Warwick (U.K.) as Visiting Fellow. Dr. Rathod has involved in all the major consultancy work carried out by the Department of Civil Engineering, NIT Trichy, for various organizations like Tamil Nadu Housing Board, Southern Railway, NLC-Neyveli, TNEB, PWD Trichy, etc.  Dr. Sujatha E. Ramanicurrently works as Professor in the School of Civil Engineering, SASTRA Deemed University, India. She holds a Master’s degree in soil mechanics and foundation engineering and a Ph.D. in slope stability. Her research interests include sustainable ground improvement, landslide analysis and GIS applications, landfill liner applications, biopolymer and nano-additive characterization and applications. She previously served as Assistant Engineer in Tamil Nadu Public Works Department and has an academic career spanning 21 years. Also, she is the member secretary of the Indian Geotechnical Society, Thanjavur chapter. She published over 50 technical articles in many peer-reviewed national and international journals. She has also given over 30 conference presentations and has 12 peer-reviewed book chapters to her credit. She successfully investigated two extra-mural and one intra-mural funded project. At present, she is investigating a project funded by TNSCST on biopolymer-based brick development for economical housing. She is an active reviewer for many peer-reviewed journals. Dr. M. Muthukumar is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering Division in the School of Civil Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore, India. He has over 20 years of professional experience in the field of geotechnical engineering. His primary areas of research include ground improvement techniques, helical piles, granular pile anchors, clay liners and soil reinforcement. He is also member in various professional societies. Prof. Muthukumar has published several research articles in peer-reviewed international journals and reputed conferences. He is also a recipient of Tamil Nadu young scientist fellowship award in 2017. He is also a reviewer for various journals of national and international repute in geotechnical engineering.

• Chapter 1. Study of Bearing Capacity of Shallow Foundation on Bamboo Geotextile Reinforced Clayey Bed.- Chapter 2. Strip Footing on Reinforced Granular Bed using Geo- grid and Bearing Reinforcement.- Chapter 3. Geosynthetics – Past findings, Present trends, and future prospects in Road pavements.- Chapter 4. Modeling and Analysis of Back-to-back Walls with combined Wrap around and Full-Height Rigid Facing for High-Speed Rail Applications.- Chapter 5. Influence of Conductive Jute Geotextile -Encased Stone Column in Soft Clay.- Chapter 6. Simulation of Geosynthetic Encased Stone Column under Embankment Loading in Soft Clay.- Chapter 7. Improvement of Railway Embankment Formation by laying Geogrid beneath ballast Bed - A Case Study.- Chapter 8. Review on the application of Geosynthetic for ground improvement.- Chapter 9. Coconut Tree Roots As Natural Geosynthetics.- Chapter 10. Experimental and Numerical Study on California Bearing Ratio for Two-Layer Soil Systems.- Chapter 11. Strength & Durability Characteristics of Cement Treated Soil for its Application in Sub-Base & Base Course of Flexible Pavements.- Chapter 12. Evaluation of Pond ash mixed with Coir as a Pavement Material.- Chapter 13. Effect of Soil Properties on the Rutting Performance of Flexible Pavement: A Numerical Study.- Chapter 14. Feasibility of Utilizing MSW Incinerated Bottom Ash for Subgrade & Sub-base Applications in Flexible Pavements.- Chapter 15. Influence of Existing Ganga Sand on Subgrade Characteristics of Rural Road in South Bengal Districts.- Chapter 16. Relationship between Index Properties & CBR of Soil and Prediction of CBR.- Chapter 17. Numerical Evaluation of Performance of the Geosynthetic Reinforced Walls with Poorly Graded Reinforced Fill.- Chapter 18. Life cycle assessment for the management of municipal solid waste in Indian cities.- Chapter 19. A Review on Removal of Heavy Metals From Contaminated Soils By Phytoremediation.- Chapter 20. Investigation of soil characteristics in and around the open dump site near Sathyamangalam town in Erode District.- Chapter 21. Experimental and Numerical Studies on Usage of Soil- Bentonite Mixture as Clay Liner in Engineered Landfill.- Chapter 22. Correlation of Rheological Properties with Slump and Undrained Shear Strength of Bauxite Residue.-  Chapter 23. Utilisation of Red Mud (Bauxite Residue) in Environmental and Geotechnical Engineering Applications - An Overview.- Chapter 24. Assessment of Using Soil Sized Material from Construction & Demolition Waste as an Earthfill.- Chapter 25. A Study on Pore Size Distribution of Compacted Expansive soils.- Chapter 26. Stabilized Soil as A Sustainable Construction Material Using The Rammed Earth Technique.- Chapter 27. Assessment of Adsorptive removal of Naphthalene through Constructed Wetland using Physical and Numerical Modeling.- Chapter 28. Study of Soil Erosion Process in Laboratory Flume Experiments.- Chapter 29. Influence of Biochar Particle Size Fractions on Thermal Properties of Biochar-Amended Soil.- Chapter 30. Experimental Study on Volumetri Shrinkage Behaviour of Indian Clays.- Chapter 31. Thermo-mechanical Behavior of geothermal Energy Pile in Indian sand.- Chapter 32. A Review on Use of Biochar for Remediation of Heavy Metal Polluted Soils.- Chapter 33. Influence of Slope Geometry and Decomposition Time- Age on Stability of Bioreactor Landfills – Numerical Analyses.- Chapter 34. Interfacial Mechanical Properties and Microstructural properties of lead contaminated soil.- Chapter 35. Impact of Aquaculture Solid Waste on Environment in the Delta Region of Andhra Pradesh: A Case Study.- Chapter 36. Performance of permeable reactive barrier by using rubber particles.- Chapter 37. Influence of Freezing-Thawing Cycles on Biotreated Sand using MICP.