Dynamics of Soil and Modelling of Geotechnical Problems
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This book provides information on the latest technological developments taking place in Geotechnical engineering, pertaining to Soil Dynamics and Modelling of Geotechnical Problems. The book is useful for the academicians and working professionals with coverage of both theoretical and practical aspects of Dynamics of Soil and Modelling studies on Geotechnical problems based on research findings and site specific inputs. The book serves as a useful reference resource for graduate and postgraduate students of civil engineering and contents of the book are helpful to the postgraduate students and research scholars in carrying out the research.
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Dr. C. N. V. Satyanarayana Reddy is a Professor of Civil Engineering at College of Engineering, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India, and has 28 years of teaching, research, and consultancy experience. His expertise and research interests are in the areas of reinforced soils, ground improvement, landfills, soil retention in excavations, deep foundations, and forensic geotechnical engineering. He obtained B.Tech. in Civil Engineering from Nagarjuna University, M.Tech. in Geotechnical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, M.E. (Structures) from Andhra University, and Ph.D. from National Institute of Technology (NIT) Warangal, India. He has guided 8 Ph.D. scholars and 92 M.Tech. dissertations. He has more than 110 publications in various national and international journals and seminars/conference proceedings. He has organized more than 30 seminars, workshops, and training programs. He is fellow of Indian Geotechnical Society, The Institution of Engineers (India) and Life member of Indian Roads Congress, Indian Concrete Institute, Indian Society for Technical Education, Indian Society for Rock Mechanics and tunneling Technology.
He handled several research projects funded by DST, UGC and AICTE. He received the Engineer of the Year 2006 Award from Govt. of Andhra Pradesh and The Institution of Engineers (India) A.P. State Centre, Best Academician Award for the year 2014 from Andhra University and Andhra Pradesh Scientist Award 2020 in Civil Engineering Discipline from A.P. State Council of Science and Technology, Govt. of A.P. He served as National Executive Committee member of Indian Geotechnical Society during the period 2013-2020. He served as a member in H-4 Committee on Embankment, Ground Improvement and Drainage Committee of Indian Roads Congress (IRC) for the term 2018-2020. He is serving as member of TC 213 on "Scour and Erosion" of International Society for Soil mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE).
Prof. A. Murali Krishna is currently a faculty member in the department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Tirupati. Dr. Krishna obtained his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, M.Tech. degree from IIT Kanpur and B.Tech. degree from Sri Venkateswara University College of Engineering, Tirupati. His research interests include earthquake geotechnics, geosynthetics and ground improvement, site characterization, and numerical and physical modelling of geotechnical structures. He was a recipient of BRNS Young Scientist Research award, BOYSCAST fellowship and HERTAGE fellowship. He was a visiting fellow at Bristol University(UK), Surrey University (UK) and University de Torino (Italy). He supervised 7 Doctoral students and 24 Masters students; co-authored nearly 180 publications of technical papers in international/national Journals and conference/seminar proceedings, including book chapters.
Dr. Neelima Satyam is currently Associate Professor and Head in Discipline of Civil Engineering at Indian Institute Technology (IIT) Indore. She obtained her Ph.D. and M.Tech. from IIT Delhi and B.Tech. from SV University, Tirupati. She is actively engaged in teaching, research, and consultancy in the field of geotechnical engineering, particularly in geotechnical earthquake engineering, microzonation and site response studies, landslide hazard and monitoring, liquefaction modeling, microseismic data processing, and rock engineering. She received research grants from DST, MHRD, AICTE, ITRA, DAE, NIOT, NRDMS, ISRO, and MoES. She has 97 papers published in journals and conferences of national and international repute. She was Recipient of IEI Young Engineers Award 2011, AICTE Career Award 2012, JSPS fellowship in 2013, and INWES Young Woman Engineer Award in 2012. She is elected National Executive Member of Indian Geotechnical Society (2018-2020) and Indian Society of Engineering Geology (2020-2021).