Sustainability Issues in Civil Engineering

This compilation on sustainability issues in civil engineering comprises contributions from international experts who have been working in the area of sustainability in civil engineering. Many of the contributions have been presented as keynote lectures at the International Conference on Sustainable Civil Infrastructure (ICSCI) held in Hyderabad, India.
The book has been divided into core themes of Sustainable Transportation Systems, Sustainable Geosystems, Sustainable Environmental and Water Resources and Sustainable Structural Systems. Use of sustainability principles in engineering has become an important component of the process of design and in this context, design and analysis approaches in civil engineering are being reexamined to incorporate the principles of sustainable designs and construction in practice. Developing economies are on the threshold of rapid infrastructure growth and there is a need to compile the developments in various branches of civil engineering and highlight the issues. It is this need that prompted the composition of this book. The contents of this book will be useful to students, professionals, and researchers working on sustainability related problems in civil engineering. The book also provides a perspective on sustainability for practicing civil engineers who are not directly researching the problems but are affected by the concerns in the course of their profession. The book can also serve to highlight to policy makers and governing bodies the need to have a mandate for sustainable infrastructural development.

Auteur

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 a member in International Technical Committee (TC-32) on Risk assessment in Geotechnical Engineering during 1997-2001 and 2001-2005.

He is a Fellow of ASCE, Life Member of Indian Roads Congress, Fellow of Institution of Engineers India, Fellow of Indian Geotechnical Society, Fellow of Association of Consulting Engineers (ACCE). He has guided a number of students for research degrees (Ph.D and M. Sc (Engg.) and wrote a book on soil reinforcement and geosynthetics, edited six books and proceedings and has over 200 publications to his credit in journals and conferences of international repute. He has received several awards for his work such as best PhD thesis in geotechnical Engineering in India from Indian Geotechnical Society, Humboldt fellowship from Germany, DST Boyscast Fellowship, Young Engineer from Central Board of Irrigation and Power, New Delhi and a few awards for best papers from ASCE and Indian Geotechnical Society.

Contenu

Part 1: Sustainable Transportation Systems.- Sustainable Usage of Construction and Demolition Materials in Roads and Footpaths.- A Few Dilemmas Pertaining Transportation Infrastructures and their Sustainability.- Bitumen Stabilized Materials for Sustainable Road Infrastructures.- Sustainable Transportation for Indian Cities: Role of Intelligent Transportation Systems.- Economic Sustainability Considerations in Asphalt Pavement Design.- Sustainable Design of Indian Rural Roads with Reclaimed Asphalt Materials.- Sustainability of Railway Tracks.- Use of System Approach To Identify, Evaluate and Implement Sustainable Policies and Practices in the Road Construction Industry.- Part 2: Sustainable Geosystems.- Resilient and Sustainable Geotechnical Solution: Lessons Learned from the 2011 Great East Japan Disaster.- Reinforced Piled Embankments for Sustainable Infrastructure Development.- Experimental Modeling of Unsaturated Intermediate Geomaterials for Sustainable Design of Geotechnical Infrastructure.- Underground Space for Sustainable Urban Development: Experiences from Urban Underground Metro Constructions in India.- Sand - Tire Chips Mixtures for Sustainable Geo-Engineering Applications.- Evaluation of Bioreactor Landfill As Sustainable Land Disposal Method.- <part 3:="" sustainable="" environmental="" and="" water="" resources.- Assessment of Landfill Sustainability.- Approaches To Selecting Sustainable Technologies for Remediation of Contaminated Sites: Case Studies.- Disinfection of Water using Pulsed Power Technique:Effect of System Parameters and Kinetic Study.- Part 4: Sustainable Structural Systems.- Pre-Engineered Bamboo Structures: A Step Towards Sustainable Construction.- Sustainability- way forward in Architectural Engineering.- Harnessing Sustainable Solutions through Challenges A Case Study of World Record Long-Distance Pumping of Concrete