DFI INDIA 2018 Souvenir With extended abstracts Sponsor / Exhibitor catalogue www.dfi -india.org Deep Foundations Institute USA, DFI of India Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India Indian Geotechnical Society, Ahmedabad Chapter, Ahmedabad, India 8th Annual Conference on Deep Foundation Technologies for Infrastructure Development in India IIT Gandhinagar, India, 15-17 November 2018 1 Deep Foundations Institute of India Advanced foundation technologies Good contracting and work practices Skill development Design, construction, and safety manuals Professionalism in Geotechnical Investigation Student outreach Women in deep foundation industry Join the DFI Family DFI India 2018 8th Annual Conference on Deep Foundation Technologies for Infrastructure Development in India IIT Gandhinagar, India, 15-17 November 2018 Souvenir With extended abstracts Sponsor / Exhibitor catalogue Deep Foundations Institute, DFI of India Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India Indian Geotechnical Society, Ahmedabad Chapter, Ahmedabad, India www.dfi -india.org 3 Deep Foundation Technologies for Infrastucture Development in India - DFI India 2018 IIT Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India, 15-17 November 2018 DFI India 2018, 8th Annual Conference on Deep Foundation Technologies for Infrastructure Development in India Advisory Committee Prof. Sudhir K. Jain, Director. IIT Gandhinagar Dr. Dan Brown, Dan Brown and Association and DFI President Mr. John R. Wolosick, Hayward Baker and DFI Past President Prof. G. L. Sivakumar Babu, IGS President Er. Arvind Shrivastava, Nuclear Power Corp of India and EC Member, DFI of India Prof. A. Boominathan, IIT Madras and EC Member, DFI of India Prof. S. R. Gandhi, NIT Surat and EC Member, DFI of India Gianfranco Di Cicco, GD Consulting LLC and DFI Trustee Prof. M. R. Madhav, Emeritus Professor at JNTU Hyderabad and Visiting Professor at IIT Hyderabad Dr. Niranjan Swarup, CIDC and EC Member, DFI of India Prof. V. S. Raju, Former Director of IIT Delhi Dr. V. R. Raju, Keller Group Plc Prof. G. V. Rao, IIT Gandhinagar Er. Vivek P. Kapadia, Water Resource Dept., Government of Gujarat Technical Committee Prof. Arindam Dey, IIT Guwahati Dr. V. Balakumar, Simplex Infrastructure Ltd and EC Member, DFI of India Dr. Ing P.V. Chandran Mohan, Navayuga Eng. Co. Ltd Prof. Debasis Roy, IIT Kharagpur Prof. K. Ilamparuti, CEG Anna University Er. M. Iyengar, Former Executive Director of Engineers India Ltd Dr. Kumar Pitchumani, AECOM India Pvt Ltd India and EC Member, DFI of India Er. Mary Ellen Bruce Large, DFI Director of Technical Activities Dr. A. Murali Krishna, IIT Guwahati Dr. K. S. Rama Krishna, Chairman - DFI of India Er. Ravi Sundaram, Cengrs Geotechnica Pvt Ltd Prof. Sarvesh Chandra, Formerly IIT Kanpur Er. Seth Vaidya, Langan Engineering and Environmental Services, USA Prof. K. G. Sharma, IIT Delhi Er. Siva Arunachalam, Soletanche Bachy Er. L. P. Srivastava, IIT Gandhinagar Dr. Sunil Basarkar, Afcons Infrastructure Limited and EC Member, DFI of India Er. Tiru Kulkarni, Garware Wall ropes - Geo-Division Mr. M. Venkataraman, IIT Gandhinagar Organizing Committee Prof. Abhaykumar Gandhi, LD College of Engineering Er. I. V. Anirudhan, Geotechnical Solutions and Vice Chairman-DFI of India Er. Apurva N Parikh, Multi Media Consultants Pvt Ltd Er. K. Bairagi, L & T Construction and EC Member, DFI of India Er. Gyan C Chaudhary, IIT Gandhinagar Er. Y. Hari Krishna, Keller Ground Engineering India Pvt. Ltd, EC Member, DFI of India Er. Jagpal Singh Lotay, Bauer Maschinen and EC Member, DFI of India Dr. Jaykumar Shukla, L&T Sargent & Lundy, EC Member, DFI of India Er. Kamlesh Mishra, Geo Ground Engineering Operation India Pvt Ltd Er. Laxmi Kanta Tripathy, Dept of Water Resources, Odisha and EC Member, DFI of India Mr T.S. Mahendran, DFI of India Mr. M. Mohamed Athif, DFI of India Er S. K. Patel, R&B Department, Gujarat Er. D Pradeep Kumar, Panasia Project Consultancy Pvt Ltd Er. G.V. Prasad, DFI of India Col. Sarvjeet Singh Kapoor, IIT Gandhinagar Er. Saurabh Vyas, TechFab India Prof. Sharadkumar Purnanand Purohit, Nirma University Ms. Silky Agrawal, GeoCarte Radar Tech Pvt. Ltd. Conference Chair Prof. C. H. Solanki, SVNIT Surat Prof. Amit Prashant, IIT Gandhinagar Prof. Vikas P Singh, IITRAM Ahmedabad Mrs. Theresa Engler, DFI Executive Director Organising Secretaries Ms. Maureen Mandel, DFI Director of Programs Prof. Ajanta Sachan, IIT Gandhinagar Mrs. Lauren Nance, Senior Meetings & Events Specialist Mr. Ravikiran Vaidya, Geodynamics Mrs. Angie Gibble, DFI Meetings and Events Specialist ii Deep Foundation Technologies for Infrastucture Development in India - DFI India 2018 IIT Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India, 15-17 November 2018 Preface DFI-INDIA 2018: The Eighth Annual Conference on Deep Foundation Technologies for Infrastructure Development in India with a one-day pre-conference workshop on Ground Improvement Techniques - Column Support Embankments and Soil Mixing is being organised by Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) and DFI of India during 15-17 November 2018 at IIT Gandhinagar near Ahmedabad. Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gujarat, and Indian Geotechnical Society-Ahmedabad Chapter are the collaborators. DFI is an international non-profit forum for engineers, contractors, manufacturers, equipment suppliers, and academia to share knowledge that improves the planning, design, and construction aspects of deep foundations and deep excavations. In 1996, DFI organised its first conference in India in Mumbai (Bombay). DFI of India was registered in the year 2013 as a non-profit organisation with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MOCA) and entered into an affiliation agreement with DFI. Seven annual conferences on a common theme Deep Foundation Technologies for Infrastructure Development in India were organised at Hyderabad, IIT Madras, IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IISc Bangalore, IIEST Shibpur and IIT Madras. The conference is designed to have three main events: a one-day workshop on Ground Improvement Techniques - Column Support Embankments and Soil Mixing, a two-day conference to highlight four important aspects of quality foundation construction, viz., Deep Foundations in Infrastructure Projects – Owners Perspective; Geotechnical Investigation - testing, contractual and reporting requirements; Best Design Practices and New Technology Initiatives; and Ground Improvement, Piling and Deep Excavation & Support Technologies. The third event which runs parallel with the conference is the exhibition, is to showcase the latest technologies, equipment, testing & monitoring techniques, and special materials. Eight Keynote lectures from overseas and Indian experts and forty four presentations from industry specialists and researchers are the highlights of this conference. Abstracts of these technical presentations are compiled and presented in this Souvenir. The full-length papers are provided in electronic media. A Panel Discussion on Possible Solutions for Handling Issues in Geotechnical/Foundation Scope of Major Infrastructure/Building Projects and an introductory session on the Women in Deep Foundations on the first day of the conference are special events of this conference. For making this souvenir a valuable document and guide, the organising committee has included technical abstracts, along with messages of dignitaries, details of sponsors and exhibitors. We hope the volume will be of interest and benefit to the delegates. A Conference of this scale would not be possible without the support and contributions of the invited Speakers, Authors, Conference Sponsors, Exhibitors and Delegates. We gratefully acknowledge all for their generous support and inspirational participation. Even though there is a good number of sponsors and exhibitors, the turnout was far below the expectations. DFI of India is hoping for more substantial participation in the coming years as economic conditions of India are improving. We also express our sincere gratitude to the members of the Advisory Committee, Organizing Committee, Technical Committee and Student Volunteers for their untiring efforts, besides individuals who lent their quiet efforts for making this Conference a great success. The enthusiastic support in the form of guidance, close coordination and follow up by Ms Theresa Engler, Executive Director, Ms Mary Ellen Large, Technical Activities Manager, and the staff of DFI are gratefully acknowledged. The untiring support from Prof. Amit Prashant and his team at IIT Gandhinagar made this conference a great event. The efforts from Mr G V Prasad, Director-operations at DFI of India, Mr Mohamed Athif, Mr Chandrasekhar and Mr T.S. Mahendran, all at DFI of India is highly appreciated. Dr K.S. Rama Krishna I.V. Anirudhan Chairman-DFI of India Vice Chairman-DFI of India iii Deep Foundation Technologies for Infrastucture Development in India - DFI India 2018 IIT Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India, 15-17 November 2018 About the Organizers Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) and DFI of India DFI is an international non-profit association of engineers, contractors, manufacturers, equipment suppliers in the deep foundations and deep excavations industry. DFI of India was registered at Chennai with the Ministry of Company Affairs as a non-profit organization in 2013, following the success of its first event in Hyderabad in 2011 and the inaugural Deep Foundation Technologies for Infrastructure Development in India conference held in Chennai in 2012. These events were followed by highly successful conferences in Mumbai in 2013, in New Delhi in