In the 2010 Touring Lecture for the British Geotechnical Association, Serge Varaksin presents “Concepts and Parameters related to ground improvement illustrated by Case Histories".
The presentation is now available here (warning: file size 24MB). http://bga.city.ac.uk/cms/html/BGA%20Touring%20Lecture%202010.pdf
Serge Varaksin is the current chairman of ISSMGE Technical Committee 211 on Ground Improvement, having been chair of the equivalent TC 17 since 2006. He worked for the Menard Company for three and half decades and is the author of over 50 international publications.