Stability of Slopes and Underground Excavations / Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering Bd.185 (PDF)

currently Professor of Civil Engineering at National Institute of Technology (NIT), Tiruchirappalli, India. He obtained his Ph.D. in Marine Geotechnical Engineering from Indian Institute Technology (IIT) Madras. He has published more than 120 papers in international and national journals and conferences. He has completed 5 R&D (including ISRO Chandrayaan-2 Mission project) & 50 major consultancy projects in geotechnical engineering and published two patents. Dr. Muthukkumaran's 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 has guided 8 PhD, 5 MS (by research) and more than 40 M.Tech. students in Geotechnical and allied research areas. He is a member of Technical Committee (TC-301 on "Preservation of Historic Sites") of International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. He served as a member of IGS National Executive Committeeduring the period 2017-18. He has received DST Young Scientist Award, IGS- Smt. Indra Joshi Biennial Award and Keynote Paper Award - GEOMATE Conference 2015 at Osaka, Japan. He has received NIT Trichy Achiever Awards for research publications, research projects, maximum citation and consultancy projects. He is a recipient of Bharat Vikas Award -2018.
Mr. Ravikiran Vaidya is Principal Engineer and Founder of Geo Dynamics, a company involved in deep foundation testing. He has been instrumental in popularizing and pioneering various methods for deep foundation testing in India. It is to his credit that methods like high strain dynamic testing, integrity testing, sonic logging, etc., are now routinely used all over India to verify pile foundations and also form a part of all specifications of all major projects. He has recently worked on thermal integrity profiling for bored piles and indigenized the bidirectional load testing technology. He has written several technical papers on the subject, and his work has been cited by several authors in various articles and dissertations. He is also Guest Lecturer at academic and industry forums.