Table Of ContentSpringer Transactions in Civil
and Environmental Engineering
G.L. Sivakumar Babu
Sireesh Saride
B. Munwar Basha Editors
Sustainability
Issues in Civil
Engineering
Springer Transactions in Civil
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G.L. Sivakumar Babu (cid:129) Sireesh Saride
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Sustainability Issues
in Civil Engineering
Editors
G.L.SivakumarBabu SireeshSaride
DepartmentofCivilEngineering DepartmentofCivilEngineering
IndianInstituteofScienceBangalore IndianInstituteofTechnologyHyderabad
Bengaluru,Karnataka Sangareddy,Telangana
India India
B.MunwarBasha
DepartmentofCivilEngineering
IndianInstituteofTechnologyHyderabad
Sangareddy,Telangana
India
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Preface
Sustainability issues in civil engineering have been the topic of discussions and
intense debate among civil engineering professionals and academics worldwide.
Many universities across the globe are now offering courses on sustainability in
civilengineeringprogramsatbothundergraduateandgraduatelevels.Thetopicis
alsoatthecoreofmanyprofessionalcertificationprograms.
Sustainabilityissuesbecomemorepronouncedindevelopingeconomies,which
have high economic and infrastructural growth rates. This edited volume on
Sustainability Issues in Civil Engineering is an outcome of deliberations and
discussions in the “International Conference on Sustainable Civil Infrastructure”
heldon17–18October2014inHyderabad,India.Thisinternationalconferencewas
organized by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)_ India Section in
association with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hyderabad. At the
conference,severalkeynotelecturesweredelivered,whichhavebeenincorporated
aschaptersinthisbook.Inaddition,afewinvitedexpertsoutsideoftheconference
havecontributedchapterstomakethisvolumecomplete.
Chapter 1 is on the usage of construction and demolition materials in road
construction in which Prof. Arulrajan and his colleagues from Australia present
the evaluation of suitability of recycled concrete aggregate (RCA), crushed brick
(CB), reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP), and waste rock (WR) as embankment
fills,pavementbase/subbase,andpipebeddingapplications.
In Chap. 2, Prof. Filippo Practico from Italy presents an approach to estimate
costsandbenefitswhenoneuses(1)perviouspavements,(2)continuousmonitor-
ingofpavementstructuralcondition,(3)reinforcementtoincreaselifeexpectancy,
and(4)recyclinginpavements.
Prof. Veeraraghavan and Ms. Nivedya from IIT Madras present the results of
characterization of bituminous stabilized mixes (BSH) in Chap. 3. They also
present the evaluation of sections which are constructed with cold in-place
recycling(CIPR)technologyinIndia.
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InChap.4,Prof.Partha ChakrabortyofIITKanpurpresentstheroleofintelli-
gent transportation systems in the context of sustainable transportation for Indian
cities.
Prof. Animesh Das of IIT Kanpur presents economic sustainability consider-
ationsinasphaltpavementdesignandexaminestheroleofalternativematerialsand
technologiesinChap.5.
InChap.6,Prof.SireeshSarideandhiscolleaguesfromIITHyderabadpresenta
sustainabledesignforruralroadsinIndiausingreclaimedasphaltmaterials.
Prof. Sarvesh Chandra of IIT Kanpur discusses sustainability issues in railway
tracksinChap.7andadvocatestheuseofgeosyntheticsinrailways.
Chapter 8 presents the use of system approach to identify and evaluate
sustainability policy and practices in road construction industry. This article
by Prof. Rajib B. Mallick demonstrates the ideas with an example of road con-
struction and its impact and the use of recycling for achieving sustainable road
construction.
Prof. Hemanta Hazarika and his colleagues from Kyushu and Kochi Universi-
ties, Japan, walk us through Great East Japan earthquake disasters and success
storiesoftheinnovativetireretainingwall,whichsurvivedduringtheearthquake.
They propose a new concept of using waste tires behind seawalls to protect them
fromdevastatingtsunamiimpactforcesinChap.9.
Prof.K.RajagopalandMs.AnjanaofIITMadraspresenttheusesofreinforced
piled embankments for sustainable infrastructure development in Chap. 10. They
investigatetheperformanceoftheseembankmentsinsoftsoil.
Chapter11presentsthestudiesofProf.HoyosandProf.AnandPuppalaofthe
University of Arlington, USA, in modeling the unsaturated geomaterials for sus-
tainablegeotechnicaldesigns.
Chapter12addressestheuseofundergroundspaceforsustainableurbandevel-
opmentinwhichProf.T.G.SitharamofIISc,Bangalore,presentstheexperiences
inundergroundmetroconstruction.
Prof. Murali Krishna Adapa and Mr. Bali Reddy S from IIT Guwahati
demonstrate the advantages of adopting sand-tire chips mixture as a sustainable
materialinvariousgeo-engineeringapplicationsinChap.13.
Chapters 14 and 15, contributed by Prof. G.L. Sivakumar Babu of IISc,
Bangalore, address the sustainability issues in landfills and use the appropriate
environmental,social,andeconomicindicatorstoanalyzethecasesconsidered.
Prof. Krishna Reddy and Ms. Bala Yamini Sadasivam of the University of
Illinois, Chicago, USA, present approaches to select appropriate sustainable tech-
nologiesforremediationofcontaminatedsitesandillustratethemwithcasestudies
inChap.16.
Chapter17presentsthedevelopmentofanewdisinfectionsystemwhichhasthe
potentialtoreplaceconventionalsystems,andthestudiesofProf.LigyPhilipand
her students from IIT Madras clearly establish the supremacy of the proposed
system.
Chapter 18 presents the use of pre-engineered bamboo structures as a step
toward sustainable construction. This article by Prof. Suresh Bhalla and his
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co-workerfromIITDelhiprovidesusefulinsightsontheuseofbambooinhousing
construction.
Chapter19presentshowthearchitecturalengineeringprofessionalsincorporate
sustainability concepts in practice. Mr. Anchuri and Prof. N. V. Ramana Rao
illustratetheprinciplesofsustainabilityinaconsistentmanner.
InChap.20,Mr.ChetanHazareeandhiscolleaguespresentacasestudyoflong-
distance pumping of concrete and demonstrate how sustainable solutions were
implementedinthisuniquecase.
Wewishtoplaceonrecordoursincerethanksandappreciationtoalltheexperts
andcontributorstothisspecial volume.We wishtothankSpringerforpublishing
thisimportantcontributionintheareaofsustainablepracticesincivilengineering
construction.
Bengaluru,Karnataka,India G.L.SivakumarBabu
Sangareddy,Telangana,India SireeshSaride
Sangareddy,Telangana,India B.MunwarBasha
Contents
PartI SustainableTransportationSystems
1 SustainableUsageofConstructionandDemolitionMaterials
inRoadsandFootpaths. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
ArulArulrajah,MahdiM.Disfani,andSuksunHorpibulsuk
2 AFewDilemmasPertainingTransportationInfrastructures
andTheirSustainability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
FilippoG.Pratico
3 Bitumen-StabilisedMaterialsforSustainableRoad
Infrastructure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
M.K.NivedyaandA.Veeraragavan
4 SustainableTransportationforIndianCities:RoleofIntelligent
TransportationSystems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
ParthaChakroborty
5 EconomicSustainabilityConsiderationsinAsphaltPavement
Design. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
AnimeshDas
6 SustainableDesignofIndianRuralRoadswithReclaimed
AsphaltMaterials. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Sireesh Saride, Anu M. George, Deepti Avirneni,
and B. Munwar Basha
7 SustainabilityofRailwayTracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
SarveshChandraandDevansheeShukla
8 UsingSystemDynamicstoIdentify,Evaluate,andImplement
SustainablePoliciesandPracticesintheRoadConstruction
Industry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
RajibB.MallickandMichaelJ.Radzicki
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PartII SustainableGeosystems
9 ResilientandSustainableGeotechnicalSolution:Lessons
Learnedfromthe2011GreatEastJapanDisaster. . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
HemantaHazarika,TadashiHara,andYasuhideFukumoto
10 ReinforcedPiledEmbankmentsforSustainableInfrastructure
Development. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
K.RajagopalandAnjanaBhasi
11 ExperimentalModelingofUnsaturatedIntermediate
GeomaterialsforSustainableDesignofGeotechnical
Infrastructure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
LaureanoR.HoyosandAnandJ.Puppala
12 UndergroundSpaceforSustainableUrbanDevelopment:
ExperiencesfromUrbanUndergroundMetroConstructions
inIndia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
T.G.SitharamandS.D.AnithaKumari
13 Sand–TireChipMixturesforSustainableGeoengineering
Applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
S.BaliReddyandA.MuraliKrishna
14 EvaluationofBioreactorLandfillasSustainableLand
DisposalMethod. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
P.Lakshmikanthan,L.G.Santhosh,andG.L.SivakumarBabu
PartIII SustainableEnvironmentalandWaterResources
15 AssessmentofLandfillSustainability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
G.L.SivakumarBabu,P.Lakshmikanthan,andL.G.Santhosh
16 ApproachestoSelectingSustainableTechnologies
forRemediationofContaminatedSites:CaseStudies. . . . .. . . . .. 271
BalaYaminiSadasivamandKrishnaR.Reddy
17 DisinfectionofWaterUsingPulsedPowerTechnique:
EffectofSystemParametersandKineticStudy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
RajKamalSingh,VigneshwarBabu,Ligy Philip,
andSarathi Ramanujam
PartIV SustainableStructuralSystems
18 Pre-engineeredBambooStructures:AStepTowards
SustainableConstruction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
SureshBhalla,RogerP.West,DiwakerBhagat,
MukulGupta,andAaartiNagpal
