1st Edition

Geotechnical Characteristics of Soils and Rocks of India

Edited By Sanjay Kumar Shukla Copyright 2022
742 Pages 452 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

742 Pages 452 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

742 Pages 452 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

This book presents mainly the geotechnical details of geomaterials (soils and rocks) found in all the 36 states and union territories of India. There are 37 chapters in this book. Chapter 1 provides an overview of geomaterials, focusing on their engineering properties as determined based on the project site investigations and laboratory/field tests; this will help readers understand the technical... Read more

1 Introduction

Sanjay Kumar Shukla

2 Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Rajashri Shashikant Kulkarni

3 Andhra Pradesh

G.V. Rama Subba Rao and Chava Srinivas

4 Arunachal Pradesh

Ajanta Kalita, Sukumar Baruah, and Yachang Omo

5 Assam

Utpal Kumar Das, Diganta Goswami, and Ramani Mohan Das

6 Bihar

J.N. Jha, S.K. Singh, Sunita Kumari, Akash Priyadarshee, Vijay Kumar, and Ashish Kumar

7 Chandigarh

S. K. Singh

8 Chhattisgarh

Laxmikant Yadu, Sunny Deol Guzzarlapudi, Mahasakti Mahamaya, and Arun Bhave

9 Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu

Rakesh Kumar, Radha J. Gonawala, Ketan Bajaj, Neetu Yadav, Moirangthem Johnson Singh, Lalit Borana, and Chandresh H. Solanki

10 Delhi

Ashutosh Trivedi and Sadanand Ojha

11 Goa

Purnanand P. Savoikar

12 Gujarat

Chandresh H. Solanki, Mohit K. Mistry, and Manali S. Patel

13 Haryana

Ashwani Jain and Nitish Puri

14 Himachal Pradesh

Varinder S. Kanwar, Surinder Kumar Vashisht, Abhishek Kanoungo, Rajesh Pathak, and Manvi Kanwar

15 Jammu and Kashmir

Falak Zahoor and Bashir Ahmed Mir

16 Jharkhand

Anil K. Choudhary and Awdhesh K. Choudhary

17 Karnataka

C.R. Parthasarathy

18 Kerala

Anil Joseph, Jayamohan J., and Sreevalsa Kolathayar

19 Ladakh

Chandan Ghosh, Nitin Joshi, Prabhat Kumar, and Avinash Dubey

20 Lakshadweep

Sreevalsa Kolathayar, Nizar P.K., and Anil Joseph

21 Madhya Pradesh

Lalit Borana, Sanjoy Bhowmik, V.K. Panwar, Manish Kumar Goyal, and Vikas Poonia

22 Maharashtra

Hemant S. Chore, S. Rupali, and Gaurav Kumar

23 Manipur

Sangeeta Shougrakpam, Ashutosh Trivedi, and Arunkumar Yendrembam

24 Meghalaya

Smrutirekha Sahoo

25 Mizoram

Naveen Kumar, Prashant Navalakha, and Ashish D. Gharpure

26 Nagaland

Raju Sarkar, Devashish Gupta, Aman Pawar, Sunil Saha, and Chandan Ghosh

27 Odisha

Manas Chandan Mishra, Swagatika Senapati, and Bendadi Hanumantha Rao

28 Puducherry

J. Saravanan, T. Kaviarasu, N.J.L. Ramesh, and R. Premkumar

29 Punjab

Harvinder Singh, K.S. Gill, and J.N. Jha

30 Rajasthan

Anil Dixit, Nirbhay Mathur, and Harsh Chittora

31 Sikkim

Kaushik Bandyopadhyay, Abhipriya Halder, Saptarshi Nandi, Bappaditya Koley, and Subhajit Saraswati

32 Tamil Nadu

K. Premalatha, M. Muthukumar, B. Arun, and M. Dhanasekaran

33 Telangana

Balunaini Umashankar, Sravanam Sasanka Mouli, and Chennarapu Hariprasad

34 Tripura

Sima Ghosh and J.R. Kayal

35 Uttarakhand

S.S. Gupta and V.A. Sawant

36 Uttar Pradesh

Ashish Gupta, Vinay Bhushan Chauhan, and Vikrant Patel

37 West Bengal

Kaushik Bandyopadhyay, Abhipriya Halder, Saptarshi Nandi, Bappaditya Koley, and Subhajit Saraswati

Biography

Dr. Sanjay Kumar Shukla is Founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Geosynthetics and Ground Engineering, Springer Nature, Switzerland. He holds the Distinguished Professorship in Civil Engineering at Delhi Technological University, Delhi, VIT University, Vellore, Chitkara University, Solan, Himachal Pradesh, VR Siddhartha Engineering College, Vijayawada, Amity University, Noida, Amrita University, Coimbatore and Nirma University, Ahmedabad, India. He is a fellow of Engineers Australia, a life fellow of Institution of Engineers (India) and Indian Geotechnical Society, a member of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), International Geosynthetics Society and several other professional bodies. He has been honoured with several awards, including the most prestigious IGS Award 2018 from the International Geosynthetics Society (IGS), USA.