Editorial: special issue of igc-2022 keynote volume.

Abstract

Greetings of the New Year 2024 to all the readers of Indian Geotechnical Journal (IGTJ). This first issue of volume 54 of IGTJ in 2024 is tagged as ‘Special issue of IGC-2022 Keynote Volume.’ The Indian Geotechnical Conference (IGC) is an annual flagship event of the national Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS), New Delhi, India. IGC-2022 with the major theme GEOLEAP—Geotechnics: Learning, Evaluation, Analysis and Practice was hosted by the Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS) Kochi Chapter in association with the Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT) and was held during December 15–17, 2022, at Hotel Le Meridien Kochi, Kerala, India. This special issue is a collection of some of the peer-reviewed selected keynote and theme lecture articles of IGC-2022. The first article of this issue is the 44th IGS Annual Lecture, which was delivered by Prof. A. Boominathan during IGC-2022 at Kochi. It followed by some of the keynote lecture articles and then theme lecture articles of IGC-2022. In total, 15 articles are there from IGC-2022. For these articles, the Guest Editors were: Prof. Benny Mathews Abraham, Prof. K. S. Beena and Dr. Jimmy Thomas. Guest Editors were assisted by the IGC-2022 Kochi Conference Chair Dr. Babu T. Jose, Conference Co-Chair Mr. M. D. Nair and Conference Organising Secretary Dr. Anil Joseph. The last 3 additional peer-reviewed articles are from selected invited papers of Eighth Indian Young Geotechnical Conference (8IYGEC 2021), which was jointly hosted by Indian Geotechnical Society Chennai Chapter, in association with Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Anna University, Chennai, NITTTR Chennai and SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, under the umbrella of national Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS), New Delhi, India. These 3 articles are Guest Edited by the Organizing Chair of 8IYGEC 2021, Prof. T. Thyagaraj and IGS Chennai Chapter Chair, Prof. M. Muttharam. To recognize the significant contributions made by the various reviewers of IGTJ, Springer along with IGS give Best Reviewer Awards since last few years at the time of annual conference of IGS, i.e., IGC. Last year, the number of awards has been increased from three (3) to nine (9) Best Reviewers Awards, as large number of reviewers are performing and contributing significantly for the growth of this journal. Based on the Springer data and ensuring a detailed and timely review of significant number of manuscripts during a year, the journal committee had finalized the following Best Reviewer Awards for performance during 2022 and a special contribution award to the previous outgoing Editor-in-Chief (EiC), which were given during the valedictory function of the Indian Geotechnical Conference (IGC-2023) at IIT Roorkee on December 16, 2023.