Ground Improvement Techniques

Chapter 1. Enhancement of Soil Properties by using Red Mud and Lime.- Chapter 2. Ground Improvement for Open Foundation on Soft Clays using stone columns and PVD Drains for Retaining Walls and Approaches of a Cable Stayed ROB.- Chapter 3. State of the art on the extent of smear zone and variation of permeability during the installation of drain in clayey soil.- Chapter 4. State of the Art Review on Improvement of Strength Characteristics of Soil using Nano Silica.- Chapter 5. Influence of Aquaculture Sludge on Volume Change Behaviour of Expansive Clays.- Chapter 6. Densification of Fly ash deposits equipped with Rammed Stone Column - A Case Study.- Chapter 7. Application of Prefabricated Vertical Drains (PVD) for Improvement of Soft Clays - A Case Study.- Chapter 8. Performance Evaluation of Earthen Embankment underlain by Marine clay Deposit with ground improvement techniques-A case study of Mangaluru Region, Karnataka.- Chapter 9. An Experimental Study on Development of the Bearing Capacity of Soft Clay Soil Using Stone Column with Bamboo Sheet Plate.- Chapter 10. Evaluation of Heave Behaviour by Numerical Modelling of Granular Pile Anchor in Expansive Soil.- Chapter 11. A Study of Load Distribution between Soil and Stone Columns.- Chapter 12. An Experimental Study to Determine the Best Aggregate Mix for Stone Columns.- Chapter 13. Static and Dynamic Study on the Performance of Modified Stone-Column in Ahmedabad Soil.- Chapter 14. Modeling On Fiber-Reinforced Modeling of Subgrade Strength on Fiber-Reinforced Alkaline Binder Mixed Expansive Soil.- Chapter 15. Behavior of Jute Fibre-Reinforced Sand Using Direct Shear Test for Ground Engineering Application.- Chapter 16. Numerical Studies on Effects of Embankment Layer Construction Period on Consolidation Settlements of Underlain Soft Soil.- Chapter 17. Improvement of Soft Ground by Employing Granular Piles below Raft.- Chapter 18. Multivariate Regression Model to Predict Geotechnical Properties of Fly Ash

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,