Ground Improvement Techniques

Application of Steel Fiber in Soil Stabilization.- Investigations on Mechanical Properties of Bio-Stabilized Soil.- Strength Behaviour of Sand Reinforced with Treated Sisal Fibres.- Unconfined Compressive Strength of MICP Treated Black Cotton Soil.- Potential of Reuse Options of Rice Husk Ash in Various Applications.- Effect of Sulphate Contamination on Lime Stabilized Black Cotton Soil.- Influence of Geofoam Infill Trenches in Attenuation of Ground Vibrations Induced During Dynamic Compaction.- A Short Review on Improvement in Soil and Cement Properties by Addition of Bagasse Ash.- Enhanced Geotechnical Properties of High Plastic Clay Stabilized with Industrial Waste - Step for Sustainable Development.- Strength Behaviour of Marine Clay Stabilized with Marble Dust and Quarry Dust.

Prof. T.G. Sitharam is a 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.
Dr. C.R. Parthasarathy holds B.E. and M.E. degrees in Civil/Geotechnical Engineering from Bangalore University and Ph.D. (Geotechnical) from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He has been involved in numerous large scale site investigation/engineering studies at various levels for multi-storeyed complexes, industrial buildings, embankments, bridges, water-retaining structures, subways, pavements, offshore platforms, pipelines, mobile drilling units, etc. in India, South East Asia and Middle East, Africa and USA. Dr. Parthasarathy is the founder-director of Sarathy Geotech & Engineering Services Pvt Ltd., a company which provide both offshore and on-land integrated geotechnical engineering services in India and abroad. As a technical partner of Pile Dynamics USA, he is instrumental in promoting quality testing of deep foundations in India and authorised trainer for high strain dynamic pile testing. He is the life fellow of Indian Geotechnical Society and member of several other professional bodies like DFI, ISRM, Indian concrete Institute,