Geotechnical Characteristics of Soils and Rocks of India

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 details explained throughout the book, with each chapter dealing with geomaterials of one state/union territory only. Each chapter, contributed by a team of authors, follows a common template with the following sections: introduction, major types of soils and rocks, properties of soils and rocks, use of soils and rocks as construction materials, foundation and other geotechnical structures, other geomaterials, natural hazards, case studies and field tests, geoenvironmental impact on soils and rocks, concluding remarks and references. All the chapters cover highly practical information and technical data for application in ground infrastructure projects, including foundations of structures (buildings, towers, tanks, machines and so on), highway, railway and airport pavements, embankments, retaining structures/walls, dams, reservoirs, canals and ponds, and landfills and tunnels. These details are also highly useful for professionals dealing with mining, oil and gas projects and agricultural and aquacultural engineering projects. Although this book covers the Indian ground characteristics, the information provided can be helpful in some suitable forms to the professionals of other countries having similar ground conditions and applications.

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

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.