Soil Behavior and Characterization of Geomaterials

Chapter 1. Characteristic properties of natural aggregate incorporated fibre reinforced compressed earth blocks.- Chapter 2. Soil Contamination Level in Cauvery Delta Region through Machine learning and GIS Techniques.- Chapter 3. Chemical And Mineralogical Evaluation of  Soils For Their Suitability In  Geotechnical Application.- Chapter 4. Prediction of Suitable Percentage of Waste Materials for Improving Geotechnical Properties of Black Cotton Soil using AI Approaches.- Chapter 5. Effect of sample disturbance on compressibility parameters.- Chapter 6. A Critical Review on Potential Use of Iron Ore Tailings as Structural Fill Material.- Chapter 7. New Correlation System for Compressibility and Expansivity of Clays.- Chapter 8. Analysis of Particle Breakage for Blasted Rockfill Material under Large Size Triaxial Testing.- Chapter 9. Elemental Assessment of Pond Ash for Evaluating Its Application as a Subbase Material for Hardstand Construction.- Chapter 10. Effect of MoistureContent on the Shear Strength Parameters.- Chapter 11. Compaction Characteristics of Fiber Reinforced Expansive Soils - Plasticity Approach.- Chapter 12. Parametric Study on Compaction Characteristics of Clay Sand Mixtures.- Chapter 13. Electrical Resistivity Based Characterization of Geotechnical Properties of Mine Tailing.- Chapter 14. Geotechnical Properties of Soil Stabilized with Urea Formaldehyde Polymer.- Chapter 15. Effect of Remolding Water Content on Hydraulic Response of a Compacted Expansive Soil.- Chapter 16. GIS mapping and geostatistical analysis of dredged soil properties of Mangalam reservoir.- Chapter 17. Correlating Relative Density and Particle Distribution at Specific Compaction Energy of Cohesionless Soil in Ahmedabad Region.- Chapter 18. Geotechnical and Geophysical Characterization - Case Study of a Site with Steeply Dipping Rock.- Chapter 19. A Parametric study of the Yield of Ring Well - A Practical Approach.- Chapter 20. Using lab electrical resistivity

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 SoilMechanics and 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