Advances in Earthquake Geotechnics

257 Pages·2022·11.16 MB·English

by  T. G. Sitharam, Ravi S. Jakka, Sreevalsa Kolathayar

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T. G. Sitharam Ravi S. Jakka
Sreevalsa Kolathayar
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Advances in Earthquake
Geotechnics
Editors
T. G. Sitharam Ravi S. Jakka
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati Department of Earthquake Engineering
Guwahati, Assam, India Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India
Sreevalsa Kolathayar
Department of Civil Engineering
National Institute of Technology Karnataka
Surathkal, Karnataka, India
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Preface
This book volume contains the state-of-the-art contributions from invited speakers
of the 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earth-
quake Engineering and Soil Dynamics, 2021 (7ICRAGEE). This book serves as 2nd
keynote volume of 7ICRAGEE. 1st Keynote volume titled ‘Latest Developments
in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics’ has been published in
Springer Transactions in Civil and Environmental Engineering in the year 2021.
We thank all the staff of Springer for their full support and cooperation at all the
stages of the publication of this book. We do hope that this book will be benefi-
cial to students, researchers and professionals working in the field of Geotechnical
Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics. The comments and suggestions from
the readers and users of this book are most welcome.
Guwahati, India T. G. Sitharam
Roorkee, India Ravi S. Jakka
Surathkal, India Sreevalsa Kolathayar
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Acknowledgements
We (editors) thank all the invited speakers of 7th International Conference on
Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics, 2021
(7ICRAGEE), who have contributed articles to this book. We could bring this volume
out in time only due to the invited authors’ timely contribution and cooperation. The
editors also thank and acknowledge the service of the anonymous reviewers for their
valuable time and efforts.
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Contents
Risks and Vulnerabilities in the Design, Construction,
and Operation of Offshore Wind Turbine Farms in Seismic Areas ...... 1
Subhamoy Bhattacharya, Domenico Lombardi, Athul Prabhakaran,
Harsh K. Mistry, Surya Biswal, Muhammad Aleem, Sadra Amani,
Ganga Prakhya, Sachin Jindal, Joshua Macabuag, and Zhijian Qiu
Numerical Modelling of Basin Effects on Earthquake Ground
Motions in Kutch Basin ............................................ 29
A. Boominathan and R. Vijaya
Controlled Ground-Borne Vibrations for Design of Sub-structural
Systems—Theory and Practice ..................................... 45
Deepankar Choudhury, Milind Patil, and Ritwik Nandi
Geotechnical, Geological and Geophysical Investigations
for Seismic Microzonation and Site-Specific Earthquake Hazard
Analysis in Gujarat ................................................ 73
B. K. Rastogi, Kapil Mohan, B. Sairam, A. P. Singh, and Vasu Pancholi
Seismic Analysis of Pile Foundations Using an Integrated Approach .... 93
Pradeep Kumar Dammala and A. Murali Krishna
Numerical Modeling of Liquefaction ................................ 113
Sunita Kumari and V. A. Sawant
Region Specific Consideration for GMPE Development,
Representative Seismic Hazard Estimation and Rock Design
Spectrum for Himalayan Region .................................... 131
P. Anbazhagan and Ketan Bajaj
Seismic Response of Shallow Foundations on Reinforced Sand Bed ..... 163
Monu Lal Burnwal and Prishati Raychowdhury
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Seismic Performance Evaluation of Concrete Gravity Dam
on Rock Foundation System with Shear Zone ........................ 177
Bappaditya Manna, Arnab Sur, Amalendu Gope, and Debtanu Seth
Visualization of Liquefaction in Soils with PWP Measurements
by Tapping ........................................................ 187
Chandan Ghosh and Supratim Bhowmik
An Experimental Study on Soil Spring Stiffness of Vibrating Bases
on Polypropylene Fibre-Reinforced Fine Sand ........................ 201
C. N. V. Satyanarayana Reddy and M. Nagalakshmi
Guidelines for Minimization of Uncertainties and Estimation
of a Reliable Shear Wave Velocity Profile Using MASW Testing:
A State-of-the-Art Review .......................................... 211
Ravi S. Jakka, Aniket Desai, and Sebastiano Foti
About the Editors
Prof.T.G.Sitharam is Director of Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam,
since July 2019. He is a member of the Science and Engineering Research Board
(SERB), Established through an Act of Parliament: SERB Act 2008, Department of
Science and Technology, Government of India. He is Senior Professor in the Depart-
ment of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, and served
IISc for more than 27 years. He was Chairman of the Board of Governors at IIT
Guwahati during 2019–2020 for more than a year. He was the former Chairman,
Research Council, CSIR-CBRI (Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee). He
is holding the position of Director (additional charge) of Central Institute of Tech-
nology, Kokrajhar, Assam (A Deemed to be University), since May 2021. Over the
last 35 years, he has carried out research and development in the area of geotechnical
and infrastructure engineering, seismic microzonation and soil dynamics, geotech-
nical earthquake engineering and has developed innovative technologies in the area
of earth sciences, leading to about 500 technical papers, 20 books with Google
scholar H-index of 47 and I-10 index 137 with more than 7175 citations. He has
guided 40 Ph.D. students and 35 Master’s Students. He was listed in the world’s
top 2% of scientists for the most-cited research scientists in various disciplines by
Stanford University in 2020. Again his name appeared in the top 2% of scientists
IN Elsevier by Stanford University in 2021. His broad area of research falls into
Geotechnical Infrastructure engineering, earth sciences, hydrology, seismology, and
natural hazards. He has carried out seismic microzonation of many urban centers in
India, and he is an authority on seismic microzonation and site effects. Presently,
he is the President of the Indian Society of Earthquake Technology, and he was
the chairman of the 7th International conference on recent advances in geotechnical
earthquake engineering and soil dynamics held in July 2021. He is the chief editor
of the International Journal of Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, (IJGEE), PA,
USA since 2010. He is Editor-in-chief, Springer Transactions in Civil and Envi-
ronmental Engg series, Book Series, Singapore. He is Fellow of ASCE, Fellow of
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