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CLE538 – ENVIRONMENTAL GEOTECHNOLOGY

Dr. S. Shantha Kumar

Associate Professor
Environmental, Water Resources & Transportation Engg. Division
Room No. GDN 145B
School of Mechanical and Building Sciences
VIT University, Vellore - 632014, Tamil Nadu, India

Email : shanthakumar.s[at]vit.ac.in

OPEN HOURS

Monday: 4.00 pm - 5.00 pm

Thursday: 10.00 am – 11.00 am

General Instructions:

(1) Wear your ID card while coming for the lecture.

The students WITHOUT ID card will NOT be permitted to
enter the classroom / if found WITHOUT ID card
inside the classroom,
classroom he/she will be asked to move
out of the classroom.

(2) Strictly follow the lecture schedule. Don’t be late to the

classroom and disturb the lecture. Generally those who
are coming late to the lecture will NOT be allowed inside
the classroom and will be marked as ABSENT for that
l t
lecture.

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Course Objectives and Academic/Learning Goals:

¾ To provide the students with exposure to the Geotechnical nature

of Environmental problems.

¾ To impart knowledge in the selection of sites for waste disposal

using current methodologies.

¾ To understand transport phenomena in saturated and partially

saturated porous media of the contaminant.

¾ To obtain knowledge on ground modification techniques in waste

remedial measures for contaminated zones.

Upon completion of the course, the student should be able to:

9 Demonstrate the application of principles of Geotechnical

engineering to design of waste disposal facilities.

9 Familiarize the use of different linear materials for protecting

the ground and groundwater from leachate.

9 Expose the various ways of soil contamination and

their effect on soil properties.

9 Disseminate methods of redemption of soil contamination.

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Unit 1 - Introduction to Environmental Geotechniques

- Environmental cycles and their interaction

g to g
- Soil water environment interaction relating geotechnical
Problems

-Effect of population on soil, water

- Source, production and classification of wastes

- Environmental considerations in India

Unit 2 - Selection of Sites

-Criteria for selection of sites for wastes disposal

- Current methodologies for waste disposal

- Sub surface disposal techniques

- Passive contaminant Systems

- Leachate contamination

- Application
A li ti off geomembranes
b and
d other
th techniques
t h i in
i solid
lid
and liquid waste disposal

- Rapid or flexible membrane liners

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Unit 3 - Transport Phenomena

-Transport phenomena in saturated and partially saturated
porous media

-Contaminant migration and contaminant hydrology

- Hydrological design for ground water pollution control,
- Ground water pollution downstream of land fills
- Bearing capacity of compacted fills
- Foundation for waste fill ground
- Pollution of aquifers by mining and liquid wastes
- Protection of acquifers

Unit 4 - Remediation of Hazardous Waste

-Hazardous waste control and storage system

- Stabilization / solidification of waste

- Monitoring and performance of waste facilities

- Environmentally safe disposal of solid

- Dynamic response of soil under environmental stress

- Case studies

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Unit 5 - Ground Modification Techniques

- Ground modification techniques in waste remedial

measures for contaminated grounds

- Remediation technology

- Bio-remediation

Reference Books

1. Wentz, C.A., “Hazardous Waste Management”, McGraw Hill, Singapore,

1989.

2. Daniel,D.E., “Geotechnical practice for waste disposal”, Chapman and

Hall London 1993.
Hall,London, 1993

3. Proceedings lof the International symposium of Environmental

Geotechnology (Vol. I and II), Envo, Publishing Company, 1986 and
1989.

4. Ott, W.R., “Environmental Indices”, Theory and Practice, Ann, Arbor,

1978.

5. Friend, J.J., “Ground Water Pollution”, Elsevier, 1975.

6. ASTM Special Technical Publication 874, hydraulic Barriers in Soil and

Rock, 1985.

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Additional Reference Books:

1. Chen, Y., Tang, X., Zhan, L., “Advances in Environmental Geotechnics”,
Springer Publications, 2009.

2. Raymond, N., “Geoenvironmental engineering – Contaminated soils,

P ll t t fate
Pollutant f t and
d Mitigation”,
Miti ti ” CRC P
Press, N
New YYork,
k 2001
2001.

3. Lakshmi N. Reddi, Hilay I Inyang, “Geoenvironmental Engineering –

Principles and Applications”, Marcel Dekker, New York, 2000.

4. Mohamed, A.M.O., Antia, H.E., “Geoenvironmental Engineering” ,

Elsevier Science B.V., The Netherlands, 1998.

5 Raymond N.Y.,
5. N Y Catherine,
Catherine N
N.M.,
M Masaharu,
Masaharu F.,
F “Geoenvironmental
Geoenvironmental
sustainability”, CRC Press, New York, 2007.

Schedule:

The class will meet for three lectures each week.

C1 Slot -
Monday: 10
10.00
00 am-10
am-10.50
50 am
Wednesday: 8.00 am-8.50 am
Thursday: 11.00 am-11.50 am

I plan to cover these periods by scheduling activities (e.g. lecture,

assignment/seminar presentations, quiz) during the semester.
Your help in scheduling these activities is sincerely appreciated.

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Course Material:

‰ The class discussion material (i.e. ppt) and additional course

material will be posted in the course page (University website).

‰ The documents will be posted in electronic version (pdf format).

‰ A number of articles will be posted for the course during the

semester. These articles have technical and/or historical
significance to the current state of practice. You are expected to
read these articles critically.

Attendance:

™ Students are expected to attend all class periods and participate

in the discussion.

™ Since the course material will provide only the theoretical

understanding, the lectures are clearly the main source of
information to understand the practical applications which will
be helpful to do the assignments and exams.

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Course Evaluation:

9 Quiz
9 Midterm Assessment
9 Assignment & Seminar
9 Term-end Exam

(i) Quiz

• There will be three quizzes during the semester.

• Each quiz will be conducted for 10 marks and the

weightage will be 5%.

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(ii) Midterm Assessment

¾ There will be two midterm tests which will be scheduled during

the August 2014 & September 2014 (Exact date and time will
be announced later) and will be conducted for 30 marks and
the weightage will be 15%.

Note:
Students who miss a midterm exam will receive zero mark
for that exam. Exceptions to this rule will be made only on
a carefully considered basis, and only if the student
contacts me before the exam
exam.

(iii) Assignment

¾ An assignment has to be done by the student individually.

¾ The assignment topics along with last date for submission will be
uploaded in the course page and each student is expected to
select the topic of his/her interest and communicate the same
to the faculty. The topics will be assigned to the students on first
come first basis. If the selected topic is already chosen by
another student, then one has to select another topic.

¾ Generally, the assignment topics will be on soil contamination,

transport phenomenon
phenomenon, contaminated soil remediation
remediation, ground
improvement techniques.

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The assignment has to be submitted as a report and the report should:

• Introduce the topic and briefly state the purpose of your work
• Describe the data, and other information on relevant topic.
• Critical review of literature available in the given topic.
• Refer to any y attached drawings,
g p plots, and other figures
g and
identify the significant information they contain.
• Summarize important outcomes of your assignment.

¾ There will one assignment in this course.

Assignment will be evaluated for 20 marks and the weightage
will be 10%.

N t
Note:
The report and presentation after the submission date
will NOT be considered for evaluation.

(iv) Term-end Exam

‰ There will be a term-end exam for the course as per the

schedule on slot basis provided by the COE office.

‰ The TEE will be conducted for 100 marks and the weightage
will be 45%.

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Final Grade:

Your final letter grade will be determined by your

performance relative to others in the class.

Your final
Y fi l score ffor this
thi course will
ill b
be computed
t d using
i
the following weights:

9 Quiz: 15%
9 Midterm examination: 30%
9 Assignment: 10%
9 TEE: 45%

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