Recent Advances in Infrastructure Development and Management - Volume 2

Dr. Y. K. Guruprasad is working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at BMS College of Engineering, Bengaluru. He received his Ph.D from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru. He carried out part of his Ph.D. research at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom in 2009 as part of the UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI) program on the repair of structures adopting Fibre Reinforced Polymer (FRP) and the behaviour of structures exposed to fire. Dr. Guruprasad has also completed his post-doctoral research at IISc. He completed M.Tech. in structural engineering from M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology (MSRIT), Bengaluru and his B.E. in civil engineering from BMS College of Engineering, Bengaluru. His areas of research include but are not limited to, repair and retrofit of structures, retrofit of structures adopting FRP composites, adoption of IoT in structural health monitoring, non-destructive testingevaluation, earthquake engineering and seismic resistant analysis and design of structures, structural dynamics and vibration analysis, fracture mechanics, microanalysis of concrete exposed to high temperature. Dr Guruprasad has multiple publications in refereed international and national journals, conferences and book chapters. He has guided 7 M.Tech. students in structural engineering. He has also guided many final-year B.E. projects, which have been recognized and funded by the Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology (KSCST) at the IISc Campus. He has also carried out consultancy work in non-destructive evaluation of structures and structural analysis and design of structures. Dr. Guruprasad is a reviewer for international journals. He is a life member of the Institution of Engineers (India), Chartered Engineer (CE) and Institution of Engineers (India), Indian Concrete Institute(ICI), Indian Society of Non-destructive Testing (ISNT), Indian Association for Computational Mechanics (IndACM) and Institute for Research Development and Training Of Construction Trades & Management (INSTRUCT). He is also a fellow member of the Association of Consulting Civil Engineers (ACCE).

Dr. P. C. Pandey retired as a professor of structural engineering from IISc, Bengaluru and is currently serving as the Professor Emeritus in Civil Engineering at REVA University, Bangalore. Dr. Pandey has obtained his B.E. from BIT Mesra, ME from IISc, Bengaluru and Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (UK). He has previously served as faculty at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and at BITS Pilani. He completed his post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Wales, Swansea and later served there as an Erasmus Mundus Visiting Professor. His broad areas of research interest are computational mechanics, finite element analysis and damage mechanics. Dr Pandey has supervised 6 Ph.D. students and has published over 120 papers in international journals and conferences.

Dr. G. R. Dodagoudar is presently working as a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, India. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from IIT Bombay. His areas of research interest include computational geomechanics, contaminant transport modelling, reliability analysis of geotechnical systems, soil dynamics and earthquake engineering and, seismic hazard and risk assessment. Dr. Dodagoudar has guided 21 Ph. D. and 7 M.S. (research) theses and many M. Tech. dissertations. He has extensive publications in national and international refereed journals. Dr. Dodagoudar has been actively involved in many continuing education programmes. He is an active member of the New Delhi Standing Appellate Committee of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). Dr. Dodagoudar has completed many prestigious sponsored research and consultancy projects.

Dr. K. S. Nanjunda Rao is currently the Chief Research Scientist in the Department of Civil Engineering at IISc, Bangalore. He obtained his BE (civil engineering) and M.E. from BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore and Ph.D. (structural engineering) from IISc Bangalore. His research interests include mechanics of composite plate and shell structures, finite element structural analysis, structural masonry, reinforced and prestressed concrete, earthquake-resistant design of structures and alternative building materials. Dr. Dodagoudar is actively involved in experimental facilities like shock table testing and strong floor development for structural testing. The book co-authored by him titled 'Alternative Building Materials and Technologies' received the ACCE - NAGADI AWARD in 2008 for Best Publication in Civil Engineering. He has supervised 10 Ph.D. and MS.c. (Engineering) theses. He has published over 60 papers in refereed journals and conferences. Dr. Dodagoudar has successfully completed several sponsored research projects. He has served as the chair and as a member of several academic and administrative committees.

Dr. H. B. Nagaraj completed his bachelor's in civil engineering from SJCE, Mysore, in 1986 and obtained his post-graduation in geotechnical engineering from the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Surathkal. He completed his doctoral degree in soil mechanics from IISc, Bengaluru. He has been serving as a faculty in the Civil Engineering Department at B. M. S. College of Engineering since 1997 and is currently heading the department. He has keen research interests in the engineering behaviour of fine-grained soils and alternate building materials. He has published more than 40 technical papers in international journals and conferences. Dr. Nagraj is an active reviewer for most of the leading international journals in the field of geotechnical engineering and building materials. He has been a recipient of many international awards as a reviewerfrom 'Publons' and has also received the Outstanding Reviewer Award from two international journals the 'Journal of Cleaner Production' and 'Applied Clay Science'. He has recently been successful in implementing his laboratory-scale research findings in the construction of a rammed earth structure in one of the residential building projects in Bengaluru, taken up in collaboration with Made in Earth-Sustainable Architecture and Building Practices, Bengaluru. In 2016, he was invited to review an international project proposal (seeking funding) submitted by a leading materials manufacturing and research organisation to the United States Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the grant programme Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR), USA. Dr. Nagaraj has supervised 2 doctoral dissertations along with four master of science and forty master's degree theses. He has filed several patents, a few of which have been published. He has handled various externally funded projects, including those of the Department Of Science & Technology (DST) and AICTE. He has also reviewed the BIS Code: Review of Geotechnical Provisions in Indian Seismic Code IS 1893 (Part 1): 2002 as a part of the Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority, Gandhinagar (GSDMA) - IIT Kanpur project. He has delivered more than 20 lectures for e-learning programmes on geotechnical engineering. He has handled more than 50 major consultancy projects in the fields of geotechnical investigation and forensic geotechnics and has recently managed two major industry-sponsored research projects to use iron ore tailings from Rai Bahadur Seth Shreeram Narasingdas (RBSSN) Pvt. Ltd., Karnataka to produce building blocks using iron ore tailings. He is presently supervising the practical implementation of the production units.