Indian Geotechnical Conference 2017 GeoNEst

14-16 December 2017, IIT Guwahati, India

Guidelines for Preparing the IGC2017 Extended Abstract (14 Pt Bold,

Times New Roman, Capitalise Each Word)
Author 1 (10 Pt Bold, Times New Roman)
Author 2
Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati 781039
E-mail : author1@iitg.ernet.in; author2@iitg.ernet.in

Author 3
Department of Civil Engineering, Assam Engineering College, Guwahati 781013
E-mail : author3@aec.ac.in

Keywords: keyword1; keyword2; keyword3 (3-5 keywords, 9 Pt Times New Roman, Italics)
1. Introduction the format shown here. One or two important references
This article presents detailed instructions for the shall be cited and listed in reference section.
preparation of Extended Abstract for the IGC-2017 at
Guwahati. The extended abstract (ONE PAGE only)
shall be prepared considering the sections shown in this
template. Use Times New Roman font consistently.
All section headings shall be of 9 pt bold. Body text
shall be of 9 pt normal. Kindly follow the guidelines
strictly for the preparation of the extended abstracts.
The abstract shall be submitted under any one of the
conference sub-themes. Please avoid reporting of
routine trends, routine characterization as the main
accomplishment of the study. The novelty and its
Fig. 1 Consolidation of test specimen (after Head, 1992)
impact on geotechnical knowledge database need to be
brought forth. 5. Conclusions
Main conclusions highlighting the novelty of the work
2. Motivation and Objective have to be briefly mentioned in this section.
This part of the abstract shall be provided with the
motivation for the work and objective of the paper. Pdf version of the extended abstract shall be uploaded to
the conference website using author registration/login.
3. Methodology Each abstract will be given a unique number which shall
This part shall discuss about the methodology adopted be used for further communication. The abstract will be
in the study for achieving the objective. Details about reviewed and the authors of the accepted abstracts will
the various stages in the methodology shall be provided be requested to submit full length paper. References
in brief. The extended abstract may have one table, should be cited by surnames of authors and year of
and/or one figure indicating methodology and/or typical publication in text e.g. Kumar et al (2014), Malaya and
results. Data in the form of a table should be reported in Sreedeep (2012), and listed in alphabetical order at the
the format pertaining to Table 1. Format of all figures end of the abstract. All listed references should be cited
should be as per Fig. 1. in text and vice versa.
Table-1 Physical properties of sands References
D60 D30 D10
Soil Cu Cc Head, K.H. (1992) Manual of soil laboratory testing,
(mm) (mm) (mm)
Volume 3, Effective stress tests, John Wiley & Sons
Sand1 0.25 0.20 0.16 1.56 1.00 33 Inc. New York,
Sand2 0.22 0.19 0.13 1.47 1.09 35 Kumar, S.S., Krishna, A.M. and Dey, A. (2014)
Dynamic soil properties of Brahmaputra sand using
Cyclic Triaxial tests, North-East Students Geo-
4. Important Outcomes Congress (NESGC 2014), IIT Guwahati, India.
Important outcomes of the study shall be presented in
this section. The extended abstract shall be of maximum Malaya, C. and Sreedeep, S. (2012) Critical evaluation
one page (A4 size, with 2 cm (0.79') top & bottom on the drying water retention characteristics of a class
margins and 1.5 cm (0.59') left and right margins) as per F Indian fly ash, J. of Materials in Civil Engg., ASCE,
24(4), pp. 451-459.