THE PROBLEMS IN SUB-SURFACE EXPLORATION FOR LARGE INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS

Abstract

The study reported herein was carried out under the guidance of Dr. Shansher Prakash, Reader in Civil Engineering for the author's Master of Engineering dissertation. The author wishes to express his deep and sincere gratitude to Dr. Shansher Prakash for his valuable guidance, encouragement and help throughout the preparation of this dissertation. The author is highly indebted to Sri G.Pande, Vice- Chancellor, University of Roorkee, for encouraging hin to take up this topic and to Prof. Jai Krishna, Prof. R.S.Mithal and Sri L.S.Srivastava for the help given by them in collection of the data. The author gratefully acknowledges the very valuable help given by Sri L.G.Dastidar of the Cementation Co.Ltd. , who supplied the data of a number of projects and gave the author very helpful suggestions and guidance based on his long experience in the line. His thanks are due to Sarvshri J.P.Gupta and M.S.Limaye of the Fertilizer Corporation of India, Namrup, Sri M.Ramabrahman of Gauhati Refinery, Sarvasrl K.M.Gupta and V.J.Pandey of Foundry Forge Plant, Ranchi, Prof. N.S.Gupchup and Sri D.M.Savur of M/S Hindustan Construction Co.Ltd., Sri 0.P.Kapoo of Railway Testing and Research Centre, Lucknow, Sri S.N.Adhikari of Steel Plant, Rourkela, Sri N.N.Chopra of Steel Plant, Durgapur, Sp.rvasri D.S.Desai and K.N.Dadina of M/S M.N.Dastur and Co., Sri J.R.Khanna of the Central Water and Power Commission, Sarvashri R.S.Gahlowt and S.D.Vidyarthi of Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd., Hardwar,(taharanpur), Sri D.K.Goy(7.1 of Central Foundry Vorge Project, Hardwar, Sri A.C.Chaturvedi of Antibiotics Project,Rishik,Lh, (iv) and Sarvasri Hari Krishna and S.C.Goel of Irrigation Works Circle, Aligarh, who very kindly supplied the information required 12y the author. His thanks are also due to those engineers of various projects, with whom he discussed the sub-surface explorations of their projects during his visits to the projects or during their stay at Roorkee to attend Refresher Courses.