Foundation and Forensic Geotechnical Engineering

Chapter 1. Analysis and Design of Foundation System for the Horizontal Solar Axis Tracker.- Chapter 2. Bidirectional and Conventional Static Load Test on Bored Piles in Soil: A Field Comparison.- Chapter 3. The Ultimate Bearing Capacity of Ring Footing with Inclined Base.- Chapter 4. Comparative Study of Geotechnical Design of Foundations as per Indian Standards & Eurocode 7.- Chapter 5. Parametric Study of the Behavior of Large Piled Raft Foundation on Stiff Clay.- Chapter 6. Estimation of shaft-base initial stiffness and  ultimate resistance of O-cell piles.- Chapter 7. A Numerical Study of Performance of Large Piled Raft Foundation on Sand under Vertical Loading.- Chapter 8. Effect of Compressibility on Bearing Pressure of Soft Ground.- Chapter 9. Raft Foundation Analysis for a 135-m High-Rise Residential Tower in Noida.- Chapter 10. Model Study on Single Pile Subjected To Axial and Inclined Load Embedded In Contaminated Soil.- Chapter 11. Behaviour of Combined Piled-Raft Foundation under Eccentric Loading.- Chapter 12. Shape Optimization of Onshore Wind Turbine Foundations.- Chapter 13. Analysis of Load Distribution Coefficient of Piled Raft System: A Numerical Approach.- Chapter 14. Effect of Slope Inclination on V-H and V-M Capacity Envelope of Strip Foundation on Undrained Clay Slope.- Chapter 15. Wind Turbine Foundation Using PHC Piles in Problematic Soil.- Chapter 16. Effect of Super Structural Symmetry on Pile Foundations under Pseudo-Static Loading.- Chapter 17. Behavior of Pile in Sloped Grounds Under The Influence of Surcharge Loads.- Chapter 18. Influence of Flexural Rigidity of Footing and Shear Strength of Supporting Soil on Internal Stresses in Foundation.- Chapter 19. Influence of oil spill on the Load-Settlement Behaviour of Footings of Adjacent Structures.- Chapter 20. Behavior of Vertical and Battered Piles under Combined Axial and Lateral Load.- Chapter 21. Footing Resting on Clayey Slopes.- Chapter 22. A comparison of solutions of

Dr. Kasinathan Muthukkumaran is currently Professor in Civil Engineering at National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India. He obtained Ph.D. in Soil-Structure Interaction and Marine Geotechnical Engineering from Indian Institute Technology Madras. He has published more than 150 papers in international and national journals and conferences. He has completed 5 R & D (including ISRO - Chandrayaan- 2 Mission project) & 70 major consultancy projects in Geotechnical Engineering and published two patent including "Moon Soil" (A Method for Manufacture of Highland Lunar Soil Simulant). He has guided 10 PhD scholars and 6 more are in progress, 5 MS (by research) and more than 40 M.Tech. students in Geotechnical and allied research areas. He is the Founder Chairman of Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS-Trichy) Trichy Chapter. He is a member of Technical Committee (TC-301 on "Preservation of Historic Sites") of International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. Prof. Muthukkumaran area of research is in geotechnical engineering, which includes pile foundation, soil-structure interaction, marine geotechnics & foundations, field instrumentation, geotechnical physical modeling, ground improvement and forensic geotechnical engineering. He has received DST Young Scientist Award, IGS- Smt. Indra Joshi Biennial Award and Keynote Paper Award - GEOMATE Conference 2015 at Osaka, Japan. He is an Associate Editor of Australian journal of Civil Engineering and serving editorial board member of several journals. Prof. Muthukkumaran has significant administrative contribution as Estate Officer, Associate Dean (Planning and Development), Member of Buildings and Works Committee and Member of Board of Governors (BoG) of National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli and Member of Buildings and Works Committee, IIM Trichy. He has received NIT Trichy Achiever Awards for research publications, research