Services
Services for Different Design Stages
She provides reliable and cost effective geotechnical & Structural designs to our Hydropower and Infrastructure Clients. She helps our clients in the following design stages of Projects:-
- Alternative Studies
- Preliminary Design
- Geotechnical Report
- Tender Stage
- Tender Evaluation
- Detail Design Stage
- Design Review
- Others
Geotechnical Interpretation Report
Shaloo Puri provides Geotechnical Interpretation Reports (GIR) that deliver a detailed analysis of subsurface conditions, ensuring safe and efficient design solutions for construction, infrastructure, and tunnelling projects. Her reports support developers, and consultants by offering:
Site Investigation Data Analysis – Interpretation of borehole logs, geophysical surveys, in-situ and laboratory test results.
Soil & Rock Characterization – Classification of ground materials, strength properties, and geotechnical parameters for design considerations.
Ground Stability & Slope Assessment – Evaluation of slope stability in both soil and rock strata, including mitigation strategies for unstable slopes.
Tunnelling & Rock Mechanics Assessment – Analysis of rock mass quality, stress conditions, and potential hazards to optimize tunnel design and support systems.
Geotechnical Risk Evaluation – Identification of geohazards such as landslides, subsidence, fault zones, and groundwater challenges.
Foundation & Excavation Recommendations – Providing expert advice on deep/shallow foundations, retaining structures, cuttings, and embankments.
Slope Stabilization & Support Solutions – Design recommendations for rock bolting, shotcrete, retaining walls, and other stabilization techniques.
Her expertise ensures a comprehensive understanding of ground behaviour, reducing risks and optimizing design solutions for safe and sustainable development.
Soil and Rock Profiling for Foundations
She is specialized in preparing detailed soil and rock profiles for dam foundations using borehole data and geophysical surveys. Our profiling process provides a comprehensive understanding of subsurface conditions to ensure the stability, safety, and longevity of dam structures.
Her Approach:
Borehole Data Interpretation – Analyzing core samples, Standard Penetration Test (SPT) results, and laboratory tests to determine soil and rock properties.
Geophysical Surveys – Utilizing methods like seismic refraction, electrical resistivity, and ground-penetrating radar (GPR) to map subsurface variations.
Soil & Rock Stratification – Identifying different layers, strength parameters, permeability, and deformation characteristics.
Foundation Suitability Assessment – Evaluating bearing capacity, settlement potential, and potential risks such as seepage or liquefaction.
Geotechnical Risk Identification – Detecting weak zones, fault lines, karst formations, or any geohazards affecting the dam's foundation stability.
Stabilization & Design Recommendations – Providing expert guidance on grouting, excavation techniques, slope stability measures, and foundation treatments.
Our soil and rock profiling services help engineers and developers make informed decisions, mitigate geological risks, and optimize dam foundation design for long-term performance.
Slope Stability
She provides the slope stability analysis both in limit equilibrium and FEM. She designs excavated slopes along with its stress analysis, Check their stability, groundwater analysis and also provide designs of excavation support system both in soil or rock. In her designs she performs seismic analysis for slopes. For embankments and dam abutments where there is fluctuation of water levels. She adopt the following conditions for analysis and check their stability and seepage effects:
1. Empty 2. Full water level
3. Minimum water level 4. Sudden draw down of water levels 5. Above conditions with Seismicity.
Underground Excavation
By using FEM software, she design complex, multi-stage models and interprets results for every stage of excavation. She design tunnels and shafts in weak and jointed rock, underground power house caverns and tunnels portals. She adopt all rock mass classifications for determining support measures empirically and numerically for all tunnel classes. Numerically She adopts convergence-confinement method for anticipating deformation in rock mass and support design.
Here she adopts longitudinal displacement profile (LDP) to relate tunnel wall deformations at successive stages in the analysis to the actual physical location along the tunnel axis. She also provide empirical designs.
Tunnel Lining Design
Tunnel Lining is designed for both hydropower and transportation tunnels and design for both internal as well as external water pressures, wedges and other existing pressures.
Deep Excavation
Shoring Design for deep excavation for the construction of building basements. Determine the type of piles used for excavation as per geology of the site.
- Sheet piles
- Contiguous piles
- Soldier piles
- Strut Design
Seepage and Groundwater Modelling
She perform analysis to assess potential groundwater inflows during construction and the potential water level changes and settlement due to draw down beneath surrounding properties.