Seminor On Geotechnical Engineering Applications and Opportunities

Seminor On Geotechnical Engineering Applications and Opportunities.


session 1: Application of Geotechical Enginnering in Konkan Railways.

Speaker : Dr Ketan Gokhale the Ex Managing Director of Konkan Railway, Currently Director of Dimple International Pvt.Ltd Pune.

- In this session the speaker addressed us with different types of geotechnical aspects of konkan railway project. He told us about the different Innovations in railways as per time like Re-sloping, Grading, Catch-water Drains.Some methods of avoiding soil eroision like plantation, Toe walls implementation etc which further helps in avoiding landslides of rocks on railway tracks. He also shared his experience of working in Kashmir Railways and showed us the Arch railway Bridge of span 359m high from ground level through Ppt.


Session 2: Basal Reinforcement & Ground Improvement.

Speaker: Annapoorni Iyer, Assistant General Manager Maccaferri Enviormental Solutions Pvt Ltd India.

-In these session speaker asdressed us on the Basal Reinforcement techqunies. She told us about the different techniques of hardning the soft soil. She thought us the preparation of basal reinforcement by geosynthesis materials. She also shared the standard IRC 113 code. She shared the case study and making of Sikkim airport through her ppt's.


Session 3: Rock fall Protection

Speaker: Tiru Kulakarni, President Gaware Wall Ropes Pvt Ltd

--In this session speaker addressed us with different landslide protection techniques. He shared the working process of site reconnaissance  in which the Block size, Interface friction,Slope conditions, weak rock mass identification etc.

It was a great learning experience to get detail application knowledge about Geotechnical Engineering.