Indo-US Workshop on Ground Improvement Using Geosynthetics March 26-28, New Delhi, India. Award in US and Indian Currencies

该奖项旨在支持美国科学家和工程师参与"美国-拟于1997年3月26日至28日在印度新德里举行的印度利用土工合成材料改善地面讲习班。 组织者是新奥尔良大学的迈索尔·纳塔拉杰博士和新德里中央道路研究所所长D. V.辛格博士。 研讨会计划将包括三个主题：土工合成材料在屏障系统中的使用，排水，膨胀土地区的过滤和侵蚀控制;土工合成材料在低容量和高容量道路和铁路路堤建设中的使用;以及土工合成材料在软土和边缘土壤中的使用。 来自两国学术和工业组织的科学家、工程师和从业人员将发表演讲。 将展出美国和印度制造商目前使用的材料。 与会者将讨论扩大使用这些新材料和其他同类材料的潜力，以解决印度和美国民用基础设施中的许多紧迫问题。 他们还将讨论材料研究、材料加工或应用技术领域需要进一步研究和开发的问题领域。 适用范围：该奖项将资助一个美国科学家小组参加一个重要的两国研讨会，讨论对大多数关心建设民用基础设施的国家（如印度和其他发展中国家）具有当前经济重要性的主题。 这一主题对美国等有兴趣恢复其民用基础设施的国家也很重要。 将要讨论的实际经验和研究结果以及对未来研究的审议，旨在实现降低道路、桥梁、隧道和大型结构的建造或维修成本的目标，同时减少对土工合成材料所取代的污染材料的需求。 其结果可能包括美国和印度工程师和科学家的合作研究，以及提高主要由美国公司生产的材料的使用潜力，至少目前是这样。 该项目符合国际方案司促进与外国科学家和工程师在共同感兴趣的领域合作的目标。

Description: This award is to support participation by scientists and engineers from the United States in a `U.S.-India Workshop on Ground Improvement Using Geosynthetics` to be held March 26-28, 1997 in New Delhi, India. The organizers are Dr. Mysore Nataraj from the University of New Orleans and Dr. D.V. Singh, Director of the Central Road Research Institute in New Delhi. The workshop program will include three themes: use of geosynthetics in barrier systems, drainage, filtration in expansive soil areas and in erosion control; use of geosynthetics in low and high volume roads and railway embankment construction; and use of geosynthetics in embankments on soft soils and marginal soils. Presentations will be made by scientists, engineers, and practitioners from academic and industrial organizations in the two countries. An exhibition of materials currently in use and available from manufacturers in the US and India will be available. The participants will discuss the potential for expanding the use of these new materials, and others in their class, to solve many of the pressing problems in civil infrastructure in India and in the United states. They will also discuss problem areas that require further research and development in the materials research, materials processing, or applications' technologies areas. Scope: This award is to fund travel of a team of U.S. scientists to participate in an important binational workshop where discussions will deal with a topic of current economic importance to most of the countries concerned with building their civil infrastructure such as India and other developing countries. The topic is also important to countries interested in rehabilitating their civil infrastructure such as the United States. The practical experiences and research results to be discussed, and the deliberations on future research, are intended to accomplish the objective of reducing the cost of building or repairing roads, bridges, tunnels, and large structures in general, while reducing the need for polluting materials that the geosynthetics replace. The results could include collaborative research involving US and Indian engineers and scientists, as well as enhancing the potential for the use of materials that are primarily produced, at least for the time being, by US companies. The project meets the objectives of the Division of International Programs in promoting collaboration with foreign scientists and engineers in areas of mutual interest.