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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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