Advances in Earthquake Geotechnics

Chapter 1. Risks and Vulnerabilities in the design, construction and operation of offshore wind turbine farms in seismic areas.- Chapter 2. Numerical modelling of basin effects on earthquake ground motions in Kutch basin.- Chapter 3. Controlled ground-borne vibrations for design of sub-structural systems - theory and practice.- Chapter 4. Geotechnical, Geological and Geophysical Investigations for Seismic Microzonation and Site-Specific Earthquake Hazard Analysis in Gujarat.- Chapter 5. Seismic Analysis of Pile Foundations using an Integrated Approach.- Chapter 6. Numerical Modeling of Liquefaction.- Chapter 7. Region Specific Consideration for GMPE Development,Representative Seismic Hazard Estimation and Rock Design Spectrum for Himalayan Region.- Chapter 8. Seismic Response of Shallow Foundations on Reinforced Sand Bed.- Chapter 9. Seismic Performance Evaluation of Concrete Gravity Dam on Rock Foundation System with Shear Zone.- Chapter 10. Visualization of Liquefaction in Soils withPWP Measurements by Tapping.- Chapter 11. An Experimental Study on Soil Spring Stiffness of Vibrating Bases on Polypropylene Fibre Reinforced Fine Sand.- Chapter 12. Guidelines for minimization of uncertainties and estimation of a reliable shear wave velocity profile using MASW testing: A state of the art review.

Prof. TG 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 Department 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 Technology, 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, geotechnical earthquake engineeringand 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 heldin