Research Interests:

• Hygrothermics of porous building materials

• Durability of structural materials in tropical climates

• Sustainable concrete production based on alternative resources

• Optimum structural design

Memberships:

• Life member of the Indian Society of Technical Education

• Life member of the Indian Society for Construction Materials and Structures

• Life member of the Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics

• Life member of the Indian Concrete Institute

• Life member of the Indian Building Congress

• Member of the American Concrete Institute

Peer Reviewed for:

• Arabian Journal of Geosciences (Springer)

• Building and Environment (Elseveir)

• Buildings (MDPI)

• Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering (Canadian Science Publishing)

• Case Studies in Construction Materials (Elseveir)

• Indian Concrete Journal (ACC)

• Iranian Journal of Science and Technology Transactions of Civil Engineering (Springer Nature)

• Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering (ASCE)

• Journal of Building Physics (Sage)

• Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series A (Springer)

• Multiscale and Multidisciplinary Modeling, Experiments and Design (Springer Nature)

• Sadhana (Springer)

• Steel and Composite Structures, An international Journal (Techno Press)

• Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure (Taylor & Francis)

Ph.D. projects guided:

• Thermal fatigue of concrete pavements – Saurabh Dhiman (Ongoing since January 2024).

• Hygrothermics of concrete under open-to-air condition – Rehan Fazal (Ongoing since January 2024)

• Development of pine biomass based solutions for concrete – Anurag Rajput (Ongoing since August 2023).

• Uncertainty analysis of concrete-water interaction – Mahesh Kumar (Ongoing since August 2022).

• Drying characteristics of brick, mortar and concrete - Mohammad Kamran (Defended in June 2023).

• Indexing of climatic severity for the durable design of steel and concrete structures in India - Sneha Das (Defended in September 2022).

• Improved modelling of sorptivity and hydraulic diffusivity based on efficient phenomenological considerations - K. Hanumanthu (Defended in June 2022).

Thesis refereed:

• Thermal performance of high-volume fly ash and steel slag fine aggregate based sustainable cementitious composites (Ph.D. thesis, BITS Pilani, June 2024)

• Studies on Enhancement of Stability, Rheology, and Mechanical Performance of 3D Printable Foam Concrete (Ph.D. thesis, IIT Guwahati, April 2024).

• Characterization of historic mortars and evaluation of repair mortar materials (Ph.D. thesis, IIT Madras, June 2023).

• Study of volume change behavior of autoclave aerated concrete masonry (M.S. thesis, IIT Tirupati, January 2023).

• Quantitative evaluation of the influence of supplementary cementitious materials on the performance of cement mortar (Ph.D. thesis, IIT Madras, July 2022)