Geoenvironmental Practices and Sustainability

Geophysical Imaging of Landfill Interiors: Examples from Northern Illinois, USA.- Evolution of Municipal Solid Waste Shear Strength Parameters with Biodegradation - A Large-Scale Laboratory Study.- Environmental Benign Electrokinetics for Landslides Mitigation.- Recent Advances in Seismic Design of MSW Landfill Considering Stability.- Dynamic properties of Municipal Solid Waste and Amplification of Landfill site.- A Methodology for Load Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) for MSW Landfill Slopes.- Rehabilitation and Expansion of Operational Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Dumps of India.- Surface Charge Properties and Particle Size Analysis of Red Mud Waste from Zeta Potential Measurements.- Sustainable Management of Dredged Sediments and Waste Using Geotextile Tube Dewatering System.- Site Characterization of Landfills through In-Situ Testing.- Effective Management of Aged Stockpiled Solid Wastes in India.- Advances in Raman Spectroscopy for the Geoenvironment.- Sustainable Design of Monopile Supported Offshore Wind Turbine Considering Climate Change.- Axial Stress Distribution in Geothermal Energy Pile Group in Sand.- Importance of Non-stationarity in Sustainability and Resilience of Geo-Infrastructure.- Reliability based sustainable design of piled-raft supported structure.- Quality Control and Quality Assurance for Large Infrastructure Projects.- Risk Management: Challenges and Practice for U.S. Dam and Levee Safety.- Energy Geotechnics - Towards a Sustainable Energy Future.- Performance evaluation of coal ash-based barrier based landfill covers subjected to flexural distress.- Sustainability analysis of the Vertical Barriers based on Energy and Carbon Assessment for leachate containment.- Geotechnical Characterization and Performace Assessment of Organo clay Enhanced Bentonie Mixtures for Use in Sustainable Barriers.- Observations of Field Condition of an

G L Sivakumar Babu completed his Ph.D.(Geotechnical Engineering) in 1991 from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, after earning his Masters Degree (Soil Mechanics Foundation Engg.) in 1987 from Anna University, Madras and B.Tech. (Civil Engineering) in 1983 from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati. He worked in Central Road Research Institute and International Airports Authority of India New Delhi. He joined Indian Institute of Science in 1997, where his teaching and research activities include courses on Geomechanics, Soil investigations, risk and reliability applications in Civil Engineering, Pavement Engineering, Geosynthetics, and Ground Improvement. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Indian Geotechnical Journal and is Editorial Board Member of 1) Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste, ASCE, 2) International Journal of Geomechanics, ASCE 3) International Journal of Georisk -Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards, Taylor & Francis Group, and 4) International journal of systems assurance engineering and management, Springer Publications, 5) International Journal of Geosynthetics and Ground Engineering and Ground Improvement, Journal of Institution of Civil Engineers, UK (during 2006 to 2013). He is the Governor of Region 10, ASCE, Ex-President of ASCE (India Section), a member of Sectoral Innovation Council, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways and Highway Research Board (Identification, Monitoring and Research Application) Committee, Indian Roads Congress, New Delhi. He worked as Humboldt Fellow & Visiting Scientist in Germany during June 1999- July 2000 and as Visiting Scholar, Purdue University, Lafayette, USA during 2/95 - 2/96. He is presently the Chairman, International Technical Committee (TC-302) on Forensic Geotechnical Engineering (FGE) of International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) and served as its secretary during 2005-2009 and 2009-2013. He was