Geotechnical Characterization and Modelling

Dr. G. Madhavi Latha is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, India. She completed her Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Madras, and has previously worked as a post-doctoral fellow and assistant professor at IISc and IIT Guwahati respectively. Professor Latha is a member of various professional bodies including IGS, ISSMGE and ISRM, and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Indian Geotechnical Journal, and an Editorial board member in many reputed journals. Her research work focuses on fundamental aspects of soil and ground reinforcement, and she has authored 70 journal articles, 4 book chapters and has developed a web-course on Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering on the NPTEL platform, sponsored by the Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India. Dr. P Raghuveer Rao is Principal Research Scientist at Department of Civil Engineering and involved in teaching, research and consultancy inthe broad area of geotechnical engineering. He has been working with the department since 1989 and has been teaching courses related to subsurface exploration and soil testing, Earth retaining structures, behavior and testing of unsaturated soils, and fundamental of soil behavior for Masters and Doctoral students. His research interests are geotechnical instrumentation, slope stability analysis, numerical modelling, mechanics of unsaturated soils, contaminant transport through soil and reinforced earth structures. He has conducted several field and laboratory tests for design of foundations of different structures like buildings, turbo-generator and water tanks. He has analyzed stability of several embankments, tailing dams and stability of large size surge shafts for a hydropower project through numerical modelling and trial wedge method. He has 21 publications in journals and conference proceedings.

Characterization of compacted fine-grained soils.- Characterization of Borrow Areas for Suitability of Soil for Core of Earthand Rockfill dam – A Case Study.- Assessment of shallow foundation settlement by using a presently developed 3-D consolidation apparatus.- Determination of Groutability Ratio through Image Processing.- Strength and Dilatancy of Sands mixed with Jute Fibre.- In situ investigation for geotechnical characterization of consolidated dry mine tailing slurry backfill.- Characterization of Steel Slag as Geomaterial.- Site Specific Calibration of Nkt and Nu Factors for Interpretation of Cone Penetration Test for Offshore Sites: A Case Study.- Comparison of Maximum Shear Modulus Interpreted from CPT and Laboratory Tests for Eastern Indian Offshore Clays.- Strength tests and model experiments on soil reinforced with areca and PVA fibers.- Load –Settlement Behaviour of Ballasted Rail Track Stabilized with Geosynthetics.