Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering

Professor A. Boominathan received his Ph.D. in Soil Dynamics from Moscow Civil Engineering Institute in 1986. He worked as a CSIR Scientific Pool Officer at the Ocean Engineering Centre, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras in 1987. Since 1988, he has been a faculty member of the Geotechnical Engineering Division at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. His fields of specialization include Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Foundation Engineering, and Ground Improvement. Dr. Boominathan has long since been actively involved in the area of site-specific seismic hazard assessment, which includes seismological, geophysical and geotechnical considerations. He has completed nine sponsored research projects worth roughly Rs. 1.5 crores and is currently coordinating major research projects funded by the Ministry of Earth Sciences of Government of India and the Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL), Mumbai in the area of Seismic Soil-Structure Interaction andBase Isolation using Geo-Isolators. He has authored and co-authored over 130 scientific papers, and serves as an editorial board member of Journal of Earthquake & Tsunami, International Journal of Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering and ISET Journal of Earthquake Technology. He was part of a working group of experts in the Geohazards program of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), Government of India. He received the IGS-Shri M.S. Jain Biennial Prize in 2004 and IGS-Prof. C.S. Desai Biannual Prize in 2012. Dr. Subhadeep Banerjee is an Associate Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the National University of Singapore. His research interests include cyclic behavior of geomaterials, seismic soil-structure interactions, and finite element analysis of complex dynamic problems. In addition, he is an expert for constitutive modeling of soils, with a special focus on transient dynamic behavior. At the IIT Madras, he has formed three research groups to study the following attributes: (i) Cyclic characterization of various types natural soils, improved ground, landfills etc., (ii) Development of constitutive models of soils, with an emphasis on their performance under seismic loadings, and (iii) Application of fundamentals of dynamics to various complex soil-structure problems such as tunneling, base isolation techniques, plate anchors, retaining walls etc.  

THEME  5: SOIL DYNAMICS AND EARTHQUAKE GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING.- Effects of Dynamic Loading on Properties of Saturated Sand.- A Study on Mitigation of Tilting Problems in Liquefiable Soils.- Effect of Soil Heterogeneity on Soil Structure Interaction.-  Nonlinear 1D Ground Response Analysis of Soil Profile using Different Procedures.-  Fuzzy - Probabilityapproach in Seismic Hazard Analysis.- Effect of Saturation on Dynamic Properties of Solani Sand.- Effects of Discontinuities on Rock Slope.- In-Direct Estimation of Local Soil Response in the  Light of Past as Well as Recent Earthquakes in the  Shillong Plateau.- Development of Predictive Equation for Vibration due to DMC Piling.- Effect of Fines on Pore Pressure Development During Cyclic Loading.- Comparative Study of Dynamic Response Analysis of Shallow Foundation on Layered Soils.- Shake Table Studies on Embankments on Liquefiable Soil.- Development of Design Charts for the  Dynamic Active Thrust From C– Φ Soil Backfills.- Pseudo-Static Stability Analysis of MSW Landfills in Goa.- Study of Local Site Effects for Strong Motion Recording Stations of Delhi.- Mitigation of Dynamic Loading Effects on Retaining Walls using Recycled Tire Chips.- An Experimental Study on Seismic Soil-Pile Foundation-Structure Interaction in Soft Clay.- THEME 8: ANALYTICAL AND NUMERICAL MODELING IN GEOMECHANICS.- Numerical Modelling of Mechanised Tunnelling in Clay.- Numerical Analysis of Stone Columns in Soft Clay with Geotextile Encasement and  Lime Stabilisation.- Stability Analysis of a Typical Sunderban Embankment During Diurnal Tidal Cycle.- Rock Mass Slope Stability Analysis Under Static and  Dynamic Conditions in Mumbai, India.- Numerical Analysis of MSE Wall using Finite Element and  Limit Equilibrium Methods.- Field and  Numerical Investigation on Time Dependent Behaviour of Jute Geotextile (JGT) Reinforced Rural Road.- Parametric Study on the  Behaviour of Combined Pile Raft Foundation Founded on Multi-Layered Soil Using Plaxis 3D.- Numerical Analysis of Seismic Response of a Piled Raft Foundation System.- Ultimate Pullout Capacity of Isolated Helical Anchor using Finite Element Analysis.- THEME 9: GEOHAZARDS: ANALYSIS, MITIGATION AND MANAGEMENT.- Landslide Risk Assessment and  Mitigation - a Case Study.- A Catastrophe Theory for Planar Sliding Slope.- Properties of Sand – Rubber Tyre Shreds Mixtures for Seismic Isolation Applications.