Transportation, Water and Environmental Geotechnics (eBook)

This book comprises select proceedings of the Indian Geotechnical Conference 2020 (IGC2020) focusing on emerging opportunities and challenges in the field of transportation geotechnics, scour and erosion, offshore geotechnics, and environmental geotechnology. The contents will be useful to researchers, educators, practitioners and policy makers alike.

Dr. Sumanta Haldar is currently an associate professor at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhubaneswar. He has over 15 years of research experience in the field of offshore geotechnics, soil-structure interaction, and dynamics of soils and foundations. Dr. Haldar is working on offshore geotechnics, foundations for renewable energy devices, and soil-structure interaction problem. During his doctoral research at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, he worked on static and dynamic soil structure interaction and risk reliability-based design of pile foundation. His current research aims at developing theoretical models of various geotechnical structures with a goal of producing more rational design solutions and considering reliability concepts. The focus of his research is on the application of the fundamental principles of mechanics and mathematics in the experimental and computational aspects of geotechnical engineering. He has more than 50 peer-reviewed international and national journal and conference publications and book chapters.