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International Geotechnical Engineering Conference on
Sustainability in Geotechnical Engineering Practices and
Related Urban Issues
Organising Chairman Organising Secretary Joint Organising Secretary
Prof. Anand R. Katti Prof. Deepankar Choudhury Prof. Mahua A. Chakrabarti
Venue: Ramada Powai Hotel and Convention Centre,
Saki Vihar Road, Powai, Mumbai 400087, India,
Date: September 23-24, 2016
Tentative Conference Program (as on 08th September 2016)
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2016 (Day 1)
8.00 am – 5.30 pm Registration
9.00 am – 10.30 am Inauguration and Presidential Lecture
by ISSMGE President Professor Roger
Frank, France
10.30 am – 11.00 am High Tea
Keynote Session 1
Session Chairs: Professor Roger Frank, France and Professor N. K. Samadhiya, India
11.00 am – 11.30 am Keynote Lecture 1
Speaker: Professor Ikuo Towhata,
Japan-India
Topic: Significance of Maintenance and
Life Cycle Cost in Infrastructures
Indian Geotechnical Society
IGS Mumbai Chapter
ISSMGE
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11.30 am – 12.00 Noon Keynote Lecture 2
Speaker: Professor G. L. Sivakumar
Babu, India
Topic: Characterization of MSW for
Sustainable Design of landfills
12.00 Noon – 12.30 pm Keynote Lecture 3
Speaker: Professor Dinesh R. Katti,
USA
Topic: Molecular Interactions Control
Macroscale Properties in Swelling Clays
Design of landfills
12.30 pm – 1.00 pm Discussions and Corporate Presentations
1.00 pm – 2.30 pm Lunch Break
Keynote Session 2
Session Chairs: Professor A. Sreerama Rao, India and Professor Kalpana S Katti, USA
2.30 pm – 3.00 pm Keynote Lecture 4
Speaker: Professor C. F. Leung,
Singapore
Topic: Centrifuge and Field Study of Pile
Subject to Lateral Soil Movement
3.00 pm – 3.30 pm Keynote Lecture 5
Speaker: Professor Manoj Datta, India
Topic: Stability Aspects Related to
Enhancement of Capacity of Hazardous
Waste Landfill- A Case Study
3.30 pm – 4.00 pm Tea Break
4.00 pm – 5.30 pm (Concurrent Technical Sessions 1 to 4)
Concurrent Technical Session 1,
Venue: Hall 1
Session Chairs: Professor B.V.S. Viswanadham and Professor
Purnanand Savoikar, India
Strength Improvement of Weak Subgrade Soil Reinforced
with Geogrid
Ayush Mittal, Shalinee Shukla
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Bearing Capacity of Square Footings Supported on Coir
Geotextile Reinforced Sand
Dharmesh Lal, N Sankar, S Chandrakaran
Soil Reinforcement with Waste Material
S.K. Tiwari, Rajshree Mathur
Bottom Ash and EPS Beads Based Light Weight
Geomaterial - an Experimental Study
V. N. Badwaik, Ram Rathan Lal Birali
Uplift of Rafts Due to Bouyancy Effect - A Review
Nagesh S. Naik, Purnanand P. Savoikar
Liquefaction Susceptibility of Soils in Kutch Region
Majid Hussain, Ajanta Sachan
Reduction of Lateral Earth Pressure Acting on Non-
yielding Retaining Wall using Relief Shelves
Vinay Bhushan Chauhan, Dasaka S. M.
Concurrent Technical Session 2,
Venue: Hall 2
Session Chairs: Professor Amitava Ghosh, and Dr. Vedula
Srinivasa Phanikanth, India
Development Of a Flexible Boundary Plane Strain
Apparatus For Soil Testing
Debayan Bhattacharya, Amit Prashant
Frequency dependent Horizontal dynamic stiffness and
damping of 2x2 pile groups using 3D finite element
modelling
Abhishek Kumar, Shiva Kuncharapu, vedula srinivasa
phanikanth, Kakaraparthi Srinivas
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Design of Track Transitions in Railway Bridges approaches
A Review
Saurabh Singh, R. P. Singh
Capacity Augmentation Of Red Mud Pond Using Industrial
Wastes
Parvathi G. S., Amitava Ghosh
A Comparative Study on Limit Equilibrium Method and
Finite Element Method of Slope Stability analysis for
Highway Embankment
Atuliya G.K, Sunil K.Ahirwar, Sariput M.Nawghre, J.N.
Mandal
Effect of Geofoam inclusion on Behavior of Geogrid
Reinforced Soil Walls
Abhinav Mane, Pooja A. Gore, Seema L. Gawali
Concurrent Technical Session 3,
Venue: Hall 3
Session Chairs: Shri Raghupati Roy and Dr. Sima Ghosh, India
Stiffness Degradation and Cyclic Response of Naturally
available Combination Soil
Saloni P.Pandya, Ajanta Sachan
Effect of Impregnation of Bitumen at Different Tack Coat
Rate in Jute Geotextile
Ankita Kumar, Jnanendra N. Mandal
Analysis of a combined piled-raft system (CPRF) of a
typical NPP safety related structure founded on alluvium
soil
Girish Patil, Tushar Mondal, Apurba Mondal, Raghupati Roy
and Arvind Shrivastava
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A Critical Review of IS: 1893 (Part 3) (2014)
S. Chakraborty, S. Das, S. Gupta, Sima Ghosh
Behaviour of Reinforced Soil Slopes under Strip Loading
Koushik Halder, Debarghya Chakraborty, Sujit K. Dash
Assessment of Lateral Earth Pressure Reduction using EPS
Geofoam- A Numerical Study
Vinay Bhushan Chauhan, Dasaka S. M. and Dave T. N.
Evaluation of seismic passive resistance of retaining wall
considering non-linear failure surface
Sima Ghosh, C. Kavin Kumar
Concurrent Technical Session 4,
Venue : Hall 4
Session Chairs: Professor Mahendra Singh and Dr. Anil Joseph,
India
Unsaturated Behaviour of Geotextile in Earth Retaining
Structure under Rainwater Infiltration
Amalesh Jana, Arindam Dey
Effect of GBS on the UCS and Shear modulus of soil
Ansu Thomas, R. K. Tripathi, L. K. Yadu
Some Studies on Mechanical Behavior Of Stabilized
Dredged Soil For Sustainable Environment
Bashir Ahmed Mir, Faizan Amin, Basit Majid
Study On Effect of Horizontal Drains On Slope Stability
Naresh M, K V Uday
A study on comparison of pullout behavior of helical and
conventional driven soil nails
Mahesh Sharma, M. Samanta, S. Sarkar
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Three Dimensional Computer Simulation Of Cushion-
Taper Finned Pile Foundation For Offshore Wind Turbine
Rohan R. Deshmukh, V.K.Sharma
Experimental study of vertical and batter piles in loose sand
under lateral loads
Pankaj Bajaj, Laxmikant Yadu
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2016 (Day 2)
8.00 am – 5.30 pm Registration
Keynote Session 3
Session Chairs: Professor Ikuo Towhata, Japan-India and Professor G.L.S. Babu, India
9.00 am – 9.30 am Keynote Lecture 6
Speaker: Dr. Dilip V. Karandikar,
India
Topic: Challenges to Quality Control in
Bored Cast-in-situ Piling in Growing
Urban Environment
9.30 am – 10.00 am Keynote Lecture 7
Speaker: Professor Eun Chul Shin,
Korea
Topic: Stability Analysis of
Underground Tunnel for
2nd Perimeter Highway Construction
work in Incheon
10.00 am – 10.30 am Keynote Lecture 8
Speaker: Professor T. G. Sitharam,
India
Topic: Seismic Microzonation Of
Urban Centres along with Evaluation of
Seismic Hazards For Deep Soil
Deposits in Active Himalayan Region:
Case Studies, Highlights and Findings
10.30 am – 11.00 am Discussions and Corporate presentations
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11.00 am – 11.30 am Tea Break
Keynote Session 4
Session Chairs: Professor Eun Chul Shin, Korea and Professor T.G. Sitharam, India
11.30 am – 12.00 Noon Keynote Lecture 9
Speaker: Professor Dipanjan Basu,
Canada
Topic: Yet to receive
12.00 Noon – 12.30 pm Keynote Lecture 10
Speaker: Professor Chandan Ghosh,
India
Topic: Bio-engineering measures for
erosion and landslides mitigation by
Vetiver Grass
12.30 pm – 1.00 pm Keynote Lecture 11
Speaker: Professor Kalpana S Katti,
USA
Topic: Applications of FTIR
Spectroscopy in Flow and Swelling
Behavior of Smectite Clays
1.00 pm – 2.30 pm Lunch Break
2.30 pm – 4.00 pm (Concurrent Technical Sessions 5 to 8)
Concurrent Technical Session 5,
Venue : Hall 1
Session Chairs: Shri Jai Bhagwan, and Dr. Jaykumar C. Shukla,
India
Behavior of Model Square Footing Resting on Three
Dimensional Geogrid Reinforced Sand Bed
Femy. M. Makkar, Chandrakaran.S, Sankar.N
Influence of Vertical Seismic Acceleration on Sliding
Stability of Gravity Retaining Wall: A Modified Pseudo-
Dynamic Approach
Anindya Pain, D. Choudhury, S. K. Bhattacharyya, P. Kumar
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Stability Analysis of a Vertical Cut at a Factory Site in Goa
Aniket R. Dessai, Nisha P. Naik
Determination of Absorption Capacity of Open Mesh Type
Jute Geotextile (JGT)
Md Nazmus Sakib, Mohammad Maksimul Islam, Abdul Jabbar
Khan, Imran Khan
Mnagement of Municipal Solid Waste Ash in Soil
Stabilization
Mohammed Wasim Shaikh, Rajendra Magar, Umesh Jadhav
Multiple Nonlinear Regression Analysis for Slope Stability
using Limit Equilibrium Method
Rubi Chakraborty, Arindam Dey
Concurrent Technical Session 6,
Venue : Hall 2
Session Chairs: Professor Chandresh H Solanki and Dr. Rajib
Saha, India
Crushing Effect of Mica Particles on Mechanical Behavior
of Micaceous Sand at Macro and Micro Level
Seethalakshmi P, Ajanta Sachan
Foundation Remediation for a Reservoir on Anomalous
Ground
Sujatha Manoj, N. S. Kontopoulos
Effect of organic content and curing period on Atterberg
limits of expansive clay
Rinku Varghese, S Chandrakaran, K Rangswamy
Liquefaction Susceptibility of Silty Sands based on Critical
State Line Concept
Akhila M, Kodi Ranga Swamy, N Sankar
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Seismic soil-pile foundation-structure interaction in
liquefiable soil: A parametric study
Parteek Mallik, Moumita Chakraborty, Rajib Saha, Subhamoy
Bhattacharya
Influence of Ground Response Analysis on Seismic
Behavior of Piles
Kaustav Chatterjee
Concurrent Technical Session 7,
Venue : Hall 3
Session Chairs: Professor Dilip Kumar Baidya and Professor
C.N.V. Satyanarayana Reddy, India
Soil Liquefaction: Potential Analysis and Evaluation by
SPT blow count
Anurag Kapoor
Reduction of Bearing Resistance of Rock below Foundation
Subjected to Underground Blast
Ranjan Kumar, Deepankar Choudhury, Kapilesh Bhargava
Contamination of fine grained soils by oil spillage: Effects
and remediation by electrochemical technique
Sony Balan, M Harikumar
Slope Stability Analysis and Erosion Studies with
Lithomargic Clays
R. Shivshankar, Biji Chinnamma Thomas, K. T. Krishnanunni,
S. Anaswara
Improvement in strength and durability of soil using Blast
Furnace Slag and Lime
Amanpreet Tangri, Jagadanand Jha
Seismic Earth Pressure Coefficients for Vertical Strip
Anchors in Cohesionless Soil
Sunil Mahadeorao Rangari, Radhika Dinesh Joshi
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Effect Of Soil Layering On Coupled Dynamic Response
And Active Length Of Piles Embedded in Layered Soil
Using Cone Model
Amar Sankar Pal, Dilip Kumar Baidya
Concurrent Technical Session 8,
Venue : Hall 4
Session Chairs: Shri R.K. Kulkarni, and Professor Santiram
Chatterjee, India
An Experimental Study on The Effect Of Tide Induced
Seepage In A Typical Sunderban Embankment
Kaustuv Bhattacharya, Gupinath Bhandari, Sibapriya
Mukherjee
Uplift behavior of closely spaced horizontal anchors in clay
Vikram Singh, S. Chatterjee
Influence of Fly Ash on the Shear Strength and Volumetric
Behaviour of Sand Rubber-tire Mixture (SRM)
M. Senthen Amuthan, B. R. Madhusudhan, A. Boominathan,
Subhadeep Banerjee
Stability analysis of lime stabilized soil slope
Tarun Kumar Rajak, Laxmikant Yadu
Assessment of Coefficient of Soil Modulus Variation over
Laterally Loaded Piles Large Diameter Using IS 2911 and
Pressure-meter Methods
Mandeep Kamboj, Anand Katti
Computation of load carrying capacity of a single pile in
Mumbai region
B.G. Gajre, V.B. Deshmukh
4.00 pm – 5.00 pm Valedictory Function and Distribution of Multiple Best
Paper Awards for Young Engineers (below 35 years) for
Technical Sessions 1 to 8
5.00 pm – 5.30 pm High Tea
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ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Vice President (Asia) ISSMGE: Prof. Ikuo Towhata
Organising Chairman: Prof. Anand R. Katti
Organising Secretary: Prof. Deepankar Choudhury
Joint Organising Secretary: Prof. Mahua. A. Chakrabarti
Treasurer: Ms. Aruna Lall
Joint Treasurer: Ms. Kshitija Nadgouda
Convenor of Technical Committee: Prof. Vivek. B. Deshmukh
Convenor of Finance Committee: Mr. Mahesh Kukalyekar
Organizers
Indian Geotechnical Society
IGS Mumbai Chapter
ISSMGE
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