Papers by Ananth Ramasamy
International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, 2018
Preloading with surcharge and prefabricated vertical drains (PVDs) was used to construct road and... more Preloading with surcharge and prefabricated vertical drains (PVDs) was used to construct road and rail embankments on a 26-m-thick soft clay layer across Boubyan Island, Kuwait. Given the variations in the horizontal and vertical coefficients of consolidation (Ch and Cv, respectively) measured in the laboratory, the preliminary analysis predicted that the time to reach 90% consolidation may vary from three months to one year. To validate these predictions, a full-scale pilot project that included an instrumented section under a surcharge load with PVDs was carried out. Back analysis of the consolidation parameters was carried out by an observational method and numerically by finite element modelling. The results indicated that 98% consolidation was achieved in 367 days. The numerical model of the heave due to surcharge removal and settlement due to reloading predicted 70 mm of heave and minimum primary and secondary consolidation for a service period of 20 years.
Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, 2021
Stealthy Freedom," the most popular and controversial campaign against the compulsory hijab in Ir... more Stealthy Freedom," the most popular and controversial campaign against the compulsory hijab in Iran, tweeted "In praise of necessary anger." 1 Masih Alinejad was stating, in effect, that Iranian women could no longer be expected to maintain a peaceful and gradualist approach to campaigning for their rights while their lives and bodies were being attacked and violated by the government's regulatory gendered practices and prohibitions. Her comment referred to an internationally circulated video of the February 15 incident in Tehran where pedestrians removed a police car door in an attempt to defend two young women whom the morality police were trying to arrest and detain for not wearing "full hijab." The video sparked varying responses, ranging from enthusiastic support for the women to highly charged accusations that "diasporan" campaigns such as My Stealthy Freedom were disseminating a negative image of the country to Western media. As a transnational women's rights campaign, My Stealthy Freedom, founded on Facebook in May 2014, is no stranger to these intense emotional polarizations (Seddighi and Tafakori 2016). In this article, I analyze the potentials and limits of building transnational solidarity around women's rights through examining how emotions operate both to enable and to block the recognition of injustices. In particular, I explore how emotions around women's rights mobilizations in Iran are mediated between "indigenous" or authentic and "diasporan" or inauthentic feminisms (Rostami-Povey 2012; CHRI 2019). By referring to emotions as "mediated," I mean that their impact on the recipient is shaped by the Special thanks to Lilie Chouliaraki for her unstinting support, encouragement, and feminist care. I am also grateful to the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, for the postdoctoral fellowship that allowed me to complete this essay, and to the editors of Signs for seeing the potential and for their invaluable feedback. I also wish to thank the anonymous reviewers, and, in particular, one reviewer for her engaged and incisive critique.
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Papers by Ananth Ramasamy