Guest Lectures Delivered

INVITED AND GUEST LECTURE DELIVERED

Sl. No.	Topic	Programme	College/ Organizer
1	Port and Harbour Structures	Faculty & Student Development Programme	Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) – Vellore (Sep 2004)
2	Geotechnical Aspects for Civil Engineering Structures	Faculty & Student Development Programme	Govt. Polytechnic Aranthangi (18^th Sep 2006)
3	Non-linear soil structure interaction of piles on sloping ground	TEQIP fellowship	Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia (Nov’ 2007)
4	Know your soil	Civil Engineering Federation of Tiruchirappalli (CEFTRON-2009)	Civil Engineering Federation of Tiruchirappalli (CEFTRON-2009) (24^th March 2009)
5	Earthquake Resistance Structures	Disaster Risk Management Programme	Pudukkottai District Collector under Disaster Risk Management Programme (DRMP), Pudukkottai District (5^th June 2009)
6	Geotechnical investigation	“Failure of structures” Staff Development Programme	Oxford Engineering College, Trichy (13^th May 2010)
7	Performance of Ground and Buildings during Earthquakes	National Programme for Capacity Building of Architects in Earthquake Risk Management (NPCBAERM)	Periyar Maniammani University, Vallam, Thanjavur (25^th March 2010)
8	Earthquake induced lateral soil movement on lateral pile capacity	Applications of Finite Element Method in Earthquake Engineering	VLB Janakiammal College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore (5^th October, 2010)
9	Geotechnical earthquake engineering	Disaster Risk Management Programme	Periyar Maniammani University, Vallam, Thanjavur (23^rd Dec 2010)
10	Pile foundations	“Modern methods and materials” Institute of Engineers India (IEI), Trichy chapter	Institute of Engineers India (IEI), Trichy chapter (10^th September, 2011)
11	Foundation Piling-Sustainable Construction	Workshop on Sustainable Construction Technology (key note speaker)	JJ College of Engineering and Technology, Trichy (25^th January 2012)
12	Recent advancement in ground improvement techniques - - Keynote lecture	Intl. workshop on Recent Advances in Civil Engineering-2012 (key note speaker)	Noorul Islam Univesrity, Inida (27.09.2012)
13	Performance of lateral pile under Earthquake induced lateral soil movement - Keynote lecture	4^th International joint Conference on Advances in Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (key note speaker)	Sun College of Engineering and technology, Erachakulam, Kanyakumari (20^th February 2013)
14	Foundation Engineering – an overview	Faculty & Student Development Programme	RVS School of Engineering and Technology, Dindigul (12^th October 2013)
15	Measurement of Aquifer Parameters	2 days Workshop on contaminant transport modeling	NIT Trichy (25^th & 26^th October, 2013)
16	Assessment of Pile Failures due to Excessive Settlement during Pile Load Test	International workshop on Structural Life assessment and failure diagnosis	NIT Trichy (6^th and 7^th December, 2013)
17	Ground Improvement Techniques For Highways	One day National level workshop on Highway Engineering	Karur College of Engineering Karur (5^th February 2014)
18	Soil Stabilization for Highway Project	Faculty development program on innovative Practices in Highway Design, construction, maintenance and safety	Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai (20^thFebruary 2014)
19	Assessment of pile failures and strengthening of RC pile using FRP	One day workshop on Repair and Rehabilitation of Structures	CARE School of Engineering, Trichy (3^rd March 2014)
20	Soil Sampling for Engineering Analysis	National Workshop on Water, Air & soil sampling and Analysis	NIT Calicut (12^th March 2014)
21	Fibre Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Strengthened Reinforced Concrete Piles Under Lateral Loads	Symposium on Geotechnical Applications-2014	JNTU, IIT Hyderabad and IGS Hyderabad (4^th April 2014)
22	Finite Element theory and application in geotechnical Engineering (Material modeling of soil behaviour)	Faculty & Student Development Programme	Division of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, Chennai (21^st April 2014)
23	Soil and Foundation Engineering	Faculty Development Programme	KALASALINGAM UNIVERSITY (8^th August 2014)
24	Pile Foundation	Faculty & Student Development Programme	Karunya University, Coimbatore (26^th August 2014)
25	Innovation in Civil Engineering	National Level Technical Symposium and Workshop (AMONEC-14)	University College of Engineering, Nagercoil. (A Constituent college of Anna University Chennai) (19^th September 2014)
26	Performance monitoring of a berthing structure under service condition Forensic investigation of a berthing structure under seismic condition – a field study	Two day International workshop on Forensic Engineering	Builders Association of India, Tirunelveli Centre (4^th & 5^th October 2014)
27	Advance in Geotechnical Engineering – Performance monitoring of geotechnical constructions - Keynote lecture	Two day National Conference on Advances in Soil, Water and Environmental Engineering (ASWEE 2014)	SASTRA University, Thanjavur (10^th October 2014)
28	Challenges in Geotechnical Investigations – Keynote lecture	Pre-conference workshop on Geotechnical Investigation - Indian Geotechnical Conference -2014	JNTU Kakinada (IGC-2014) (17^th December 2014)
29	Later Load Capacity Enhancement of RC Piles using FRP under Static and Cyclic Loads - Keynote lecture	International Conference on Advances in Civil Engineering Materials and Processes (ICACEMAP-2015)	Coimbatore Institute of Technology (CIT) (7^th January 2015)
30	Soil Strength at Construction Site	Faculty & Student Development Programme – Geology Association	National College Trichy (3^rd February 2015)
31	Performance of Ground and Buildings during Earthquakes. and Recent advancement in ground improvement techniques	One Day Seminar on Disaster Risk Mitigation & Sustainable Construction	Kongunadu College of Engineering & Technology, THOTTIAM (14^thFebruary 2015)
32	Long and short term mitigations of earthquake	DST-SERB Sponsored National level workshop on Seismic Hazard Assessment and Mitigation Techniques	Sri Shakthi Institute of Engineering and Technology Coimbatore (17^th February 2015)
33	Disaster mitigation - foundation perspective	Building Material & Technology Promotion Council, Government of India Sponsored Training Program in “Cost Effective and Disaster management Techniques”	Bharathidasan Institute of Technology Anna University, Trichy (26^th February 2015)
34	Concreting in Pile Foundation	One Day Workshop on Advances in Concrete technology and Structures	Peace Social Welfare Mission, Nagercoil (24^th October 2015)
35	Behaviour of laterally loaded rock socketed pile in multi-layered soil-rock profile	Second Japan-India Workshop in Geotechnical Engineering - Geotechnics for Resilient Infrastructure	Fukuoka University, Japan (14^th November 2015)
36	FRP Strengthened Reinforced Concrete Piles under Static Lateral Loads – A Field Study – Keynote lecture	Fifth International Conference on Geotechnique, Construction Materials and Environment	GEOMATE, Osaka, Japan (16 to 18 November 2015)
37	Soil Mechanics- Soil Classification and shear strength	Faculty Development Programme	Ramco Institute of Technology, Rajapalayam (2^nd December 2015)
38	Evaluation of interface shear strength of composite liner system and stability analysis for a landfill lining system	One day workshop on Environmental Geotechnology	SASTRA University, Thanjavur (27^th February 2016)
39	Performance of FRP Strengthened/ Retrofitted RC Piles Subjected to Lateral Loads	National Conference on Innovative Materials and Techniques in Civil Engineering	Karunya University, Coimbatore (April 6-7, 2016)
40	Pile Foundation Theory and Practices	One week Short term training programme On Foundation engineering -Theory and practices	Bannari Amman Institute of Technology (13-18 June 2016)
41	Earthquake soil structure interaction analysis	Two days national workshop on soil structure interaction problems and management	KALASALINGAM UNIVERSITY(2^nd September 2016)
42	Exposure and Job Opportunities in Civil & Geotechnical Engineering	One Day Workshop on Exposure and Job Opportunities in Geotechnical Engineering	KNOWLEDGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Salem (17^th September 2016)
43	Research Avenues in geotechnical Engineering	National level Technical Seminar On Research Avenues in Civil Engineering	Erode Sengunthar Engineering College (24^th September 2016)
44	Assessment of pile failures due to excessive settlement during pile load test	STTP on Forensic Geotechnical Engineering	SASTRA University, Thanjavur (6^th December 2016)
45	Research Opportunities in Geotechnical Engineering	Research Colloquium on Research Opportunities in Geotechnical Engineering	College of Engineering Trikaripur, Kerala (21^st January 2017)
46	Criteria and failures of a few foundation structures – related case studies	SSTP – Infrastructure Management	ISRO Bangalore (4^th February 2017)
47	Challenges in Geotechnical Investigation	One-day National Seminar on Geotechnical Investigations	Vignan’s Foundation for Science Technology & Research University (VFSTRU), Guntur (18^th February, 2017)
48	Instrumented Pile Load Tests For Both Vertical And Horizontal Load In Soft Marine Clay	DFI Seminar on “Pile Foundations – Advances In Design And Construction Practices	SVNIT, Surat (27^th May 2017)
49	Modernization of ports – Innovation in pile foundation	Preconference workshop on Modernization of Ports – International Conference in Ocean Engineering (ICOE -2018)	IIT Madras (16^th Feb’2018)
50	Modern construction material for RC Strengthened/ Retrofitted – Role of Fibre Reinforcement	AICTE – ISTE Sponsored Programme on Modern Construction Materials and Construction Methods (21 -26, May 2018)	Valliammai Engineering College, Chennai (21^st May 2018)
51	Analysis of Rock-Socketed Monopiles Under Lateral Load	PLAXIS User Meet	Ram Caddsys, Chennai at Delhi (30^th May 2018)
52	Special Course on “Analysis and Design of Pile Foundation”	Special Course- 1 Credit	MEPCO Schlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi (28^th & 29^th, September 2018)
53	Dynamic Soil-pile interaction	National Seminar on Emerging Trends in Soil Structure Interaction	K.S.Rangasamy College of Technology Tiruchengode (6^th October, 2018)