Earthquake Geotechnics

Control of Liquefaction Potential by Geosynthetic Reinforcements - A Study.- Analytical Solution for the Action of Seismic Active Earth Pressures of Unsaturated Backfills Behind Inclined Walls.- Shear Wave Velocity based Liquefaction Susceptibility of Soil using Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) with Strength Pareto Evolutionary Algorithm (SPEA 2).- Seismic Pullout Capacity of Strip Plate Anchors Embedded in Sandy Slopes.- Role of Borehole Information in Minimizing Uncertainties in Surface Wave Testing.- Engineering Geological Mapping for Seismic Hazard Assessment of the Gandhinagar City, Western India.- Linear and Nonlinear Site Response Study of Soil Tire Crumb Mixture.- Effects of Air Intrusion Technique on Permeability of Liquefiable Soil.- A study on Effect of 12 mm Polypropylene Fiber on Shear Strength Characteristics of Fine Sand.- Local Site Effects Influence on Earthquake Early Warning Parameters.

Prof. Dr. T. G. Sitharam is the Chairman of 7th ICRAGEE, and President of Indian Society for Earthquake Technology. Presently, he is the Director of Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, Assam since July 2019. He is a Senior Professor at Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He is also the Director of Central Institute of Technology, Kokrajhar, Assam (additional charge) since May 2021. He holds Masters in Civil engineering from Indian Institute of Science and Phd from University of Waterloo, Canada and worked for his postdoctoral at University of Texas, USA. He has served as a visiting or honorary/visiting professor at several overseas universities. He has guided 40 Ph.D, more than 35 Masters Students, 20 postdoctoral students and several thousand industry professionals and teachers through continuing education workshops. Over the last 35 years, he has carried out research and development in the area of geotechnical and infrastructureengineering, seismic microzonation & soil dynamics and Geotechnical earthquake engineering leading to about 500 technical papers, 20 books and 5 patents. He has 2 start-up companies and many technological innovations to his credit. Prof Sitharam has recently delivered the IGS annual lecture in IGC 2020 and recipient of several National and International awards. In 2020, He was listed in the world's top 2% of scientists for the most-cited scientists (with more than 6700 citations with an H-index of 46) in various disciplines by Stanford University in 2020. He is the Fellow of American Society of Civil Engineering, Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (UK), Diplomate of Geotechnical Engineering from Academy of Geoprofessionals, ASCE, USA, and holds many other fellowships to his credit. 

Dr. Sreevalsa Kolathayar pursued his M.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and served as International