Current Trends in Civil Engineering: Select Proceedings of ICRACE 2020 (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, 104, Band 104) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 9811581509 ISBN 13: 9789811581502

Verlag: Springer, 2020

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This book comprises the select proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (ICRACE) 2020, held at the Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, Kerala, India. The book focuses on latest research in different areas of civil engineering and lays special emphasis on sustainable construction practices. It is divided into seven major themes: (i) Modern materials and sustainable construction, (ii) Environmental engineering and management, (iii) Geotechnical engineering, (iv) Health, safety and environment, (v) Irrigation, water resources and management, (vi) Structural Engineering, and (vii) Transportation engineering and traffic planning. Given the range of the topics covered, this book can be useful for students, scholars and professionals interested in the different sub-disciplines of civil engineering.

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Dr. Job Thomas, Professor, Cochin University of Science and Technology is a renowned academician and structural consultant. He graduated from University of Kerala and completed his PhD at Indian Institute of Science. His area of interest are sustainability aspects in civil engineering, building materials, innovative construction practices, project management etc. He has 20 years of teaching experience and is the member of Indian Concrete Institute, Institution of Engineers and Indian Society for Technical Education. He received many national and institute awards. He received many research funds projects from AICTE, DST, KSCSTE etc.  He has published more than 40 Scopus indexed papers in various international journals. He is the reviewer for many international journals.

 

Dr. B. R. Jayalekshmi is currently serving as Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal. She obtained her B.Tech. (Civil) from National Institute of Technology, Calicut (REC Calicut), Ph.D. from National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal and Post Doctoral Fellowship from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Her major areas of research interests include  dynamic soil- structure interaction, seismic structural engineering and applications of finite element method  in structural engineering. She has 25 SCI/SCOPUS publications and  published  more than 110 research articles in international journals and conferences.  She is a member of Special Structures Sectional Committee of Bureau of Indian Standards and recipient of Women Achievers Award 2017 of Institution of Engineers (India), Karnataka. She has been a reviewer for Elsevier, Springer and Technopress journal articles and technical papers of international conferences.

 

Dr. Praveen Nagarajan had his CivilEngineering education from NIT Calicut and IIT Madras. After a brief stint as Bridge design Engineer at L&T Ramboll, Chennai, he took to academics. His areas of interest are reinforced and pre-stressed concrete, bridge engineering and structural reliability.  He has published more than 90 technical papers in these areas and has authored the books ‘Prestressed Concrete Design’ (published by Pearson) and ‘Matrix Methods of Structural Analysis’ (published by CRC).  He is the recipient of several awards like the Valli Anantharamakrishnan Merit Prize from IIT Madras, E P Nicolaides Prize from the Institution of Engineers (India), the Best Young Teacher award from NIT Calicut, ICI -UltraTech Award for Outstanding Young Concrete Engineer of Kerala by the Indian Concrete Institute (ICI) and ICI-Prof. V. Ramakrishnan Young Scientist Award by the ICI.  He has guided 4 PhD students and more than 40 M-Tech projects.  He is also guiding ten research scholars for their doctoraldegrees.  Presently, he is working as Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at National Institute of Technology, Calicut.

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This book comprises the select proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (ICRACE) 2020, held at the Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, Kerala, India. The book focuses on latest research in different areas of civil engineering and lays special emphasis on sustainable construction practices. It is divided into seven major themes: (i) Modern materials and sustainable construction, (ii) Environmental engineering and management, (iii) Geotechnical engineering, (iv) Health, safety and environment, (v) Irrigation, water resources and management, (vi) Structural Engineering, and (vii) Transportation engineering and traffic planning. Given the range of the topics covered, this book can be useful for students, scholars and professionals interested in the different sub-disciplines of civil engineering.

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• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9811581509
• ISBN 13: 9789811581502
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 226
• Herausgeber: Thomas Job, Jayalekshmi B.R., Nagarajan Praveen
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