Quality Assurance Studies for Ground Improvement Projects -- Liquefaction Screening - Nonplastic Silty Sands and Sands -- Insights into the role of osmotic suction in soil behavior -- Modern Geotechnical Practices -- A design framework for cement mixing in deep excavations and underground constructions -- Understanding Performance and Developing Global Geotechnical Standards -- Stress State Variables for Unsaturated Soils - Consensus and Controversy -- Addressing The 21st Century Transportation Geotechnics Challenges Using the Mechanics of Unsaturated Soils -- Characterization of sensitive soft clays for design purposes -- Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction of Offshore Wind Turbines -- Multiple Driven Fibre-reinforced Columnar Intrusion for Vertical Drains - A case study -- Development of Fly ash Stabilized Recycled Base Material (FRB) for Indian Highways -- Impact of anisotropy in permeability of peaty soil on deep excavation -- Seismic analysis of reinforced soil retaining structures -- Tailoring the Properties of Cement Treated Clayey Soils -- Landslides in Nilgiris- Causal Factors and Remedial Measures -- New Paradigm in Geotechnical Performance Monitoring Using Remote Sensing -- Characterisation of vesicular basalts of Mumbai using piezoceramic bender elements -- Geotechnical challenges and opportunities in large infrastructure projects - learning from failures -- Overcoming Challenges in Design & Construction of Tunnels in Mixed and Varying Ground Conditions -- Reliability based Design of Pile Foundation under Static and Dynamic Loads -- Modelling large deformation in geomechanics -- Geotechnical Engineering through Mind Maps.

This book presents articles covering a wide spectrum of topics in geotechnical engineering, including properties of soils, unsaturated soil mechanics, ground improvement, liquefaction and seismic studies, soil-structure interaction and stability analysis of man-made and natural slopes. The contributing authors are renowned researchers in their respective fields, which include soft ground improvement, seismic response of retaining structure using soil-structure Interaction (SSI) principles, and unsaturated soils. Based on keynote addresses and invited talks presented at the Indian Geotechnical Conference 2016, this book will prove a valuable resource for practicing engineers and researchers in the field of geotechnical engineering.