Question

As a Civil Engineer, identify at least two Geotechnical Engineering problems and explain how the study of Environmental Engineering will be applied to solve those problems identified?​

Answer 1

a) Practical Equivalent Continuum Model and Applications to Large Underground Openings in Jointed Rock Mass

b) Static And Seismic Analysis of Rock Slopes

c) Prediction of Stress-Strain Behavior of Rocks Using ANN

Condition Assessment of Railway Bridges

Reliability in Civil Engineering Systems

a) Reliability Based Design of Foundations and Retaining Walls

b) Spatial Variability of In-situ Soil Properties

c) Structural Seismic Safety and Fragility Analyses of Nuclear Power Plant Structures

Environmental Engineering

a) Design of Efficient Surface Aerators for Waste Water Treatment

b) Modeling Contaminant Transport in Ground Water and Vadoze Zone

c) Fuzzy-Stochastic Modeling for Water Quality Control in Streams

d) Water Distribution Network

e) Electrokinetic Decontamination of Soils

f) Re-Use of Hazardous Wastes in Civil Engineering Applications

g) Characterization of Bentonites as Buffer Material for Deep Geological Repository

h) Defluoridation of Ground Water

i) Pollution Induced Heave in Soils

j) Role of Osmotic Suction in Volume Change Behaviour of Expansive Clays

k) Geochemistry of fluoride rich groundwater

l) Modeling of solute transport in heterogeneous porous media

Climate Hydrology

a) Assessing Impacts of Climate Change On Rainfall And Streamflows Using Downscaling Models

b) Hydroclimatic Influence of Large-Scale Circulation on the Variability of Reservoir Inflow

Water Resources Management

a) Use of Remote Sensing for Irrigation Water Allocations

b) Optimization in Water Resource Systems

c) Structured Irrigation Network

Stochastic Hydrology

a) Data Mining for Evolution of Association Rules for Droughts and Floods in India using Climate Inputs

b) Nonlinear Ensemble Prediction of Chaotic Daily Rainfall

c) Bayesian Networks for Forecasting Nonstationary Hydroclimatic Time Series

d) Non Parametric Approach for Simulating Hydrologic and Meteorologic Time Series

e) Regionalization Methods for Predicting Floods

f) New Approach for Prediction of Precipitation in Data Sparse Regions

Watershed Hydrology

a) Water Balance Studies in Small Experimental Watersheds

b) Root Zone Soil Moisture Estimation at Watershed Scale using Satellite Retrieval, Assimilation and Modeling

c) Groundwater Recharge Estimation

d) Sustainable Groundwater Use Under Climatic Variability and Land Use Change

Hydrochemistry

Precipitation and land-use controls on the groundwater chemistry

Hydraulics

a) River Mechanics/ Sediment Transport Mechanics

b) Flow Measurements

Transportation Engineering

a) A Goal-Oriented Method for Urban transport Strategy Development for Indian Metropolitan Areas

b) Development of a Simultaneous Approach for Integrated Mass Transit Planning

c) Air Travel Demand Modeling for Indian Cities

d) Development of a Web-based Transit Passenger Information System (PIS) Design

e) Effect of Driver Characteristics and Behavior on Road Safety a

Answer 2

Explanation:

Geotechnical engineering, also known as geotechnics, is the branch of civil engineering concerned with the engineering behavior of earth materials. It uses the principles of soil mechanics and rock mechanics for the solution of its respective engineering problems. It also relies on knowledge of geology, hydrology, geophysics, and other related sciences.