Recent Advances in Civil Engineering / Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering Bd.256 (PDF)

composite constructions, and numerical methods in structural analysis. He has completed a number of R&D and consultancy projects in his department. He has guided more than fifty five postgraduate students for their dissertations and eight students for their doctoral thesis. He has a large number of research publications to his credit in leading journals or presented and included in proceedings of reputed international conferences. He has been a reviewer of papers submitted to leading international research journals like Construction and Building Materials, Cement and Concrete Composites, Thin-Walled Structures, Journal of Cleaner Production and Journal of Building Engineering, etc. He has chaired technical sessions at international conferences held at Curtin University, Miri, Malaysia, IIT-Delhi, BITS-Pilani, etc. He is an associated member in the sectional committee on special structures, Bureau of Indian Standards, New Delhi. He is also a life member of leading professional organizations like Institution of Engineers (India), Indian Concrete Institute, Association of Consulting Civil Engineers, Indian Society for Technical Education, and Indian Society for Earthquake Technology.



Dr. Shriram Marathe is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at NMAM Institute of Technology NITTE. He has competed his Ph.D. degree at VTU Belagavi in the area of alkali activated concrete pavements. He completed his M.Tech. (Transportation Engineering) from National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, and Master Facilitator Degree (MFLHRD) in Human Resources Development from CLHRD, Mangalore. His areas of research interests include alkali-activated concrete applications to pavements, stabilization of sub-grade soil, road safety, pavement material characterization, and pavement design. He has guided several projects for B.E. and M.Tech dissertations. He also successfully executed one funded researchproject on "Study and to Develop Cost-Effective and Green Masonry Block Using Industrial Waste Materials", funded by NITTE Education Trust. Till date, he has about 50 research publications out of which 10 articles are published in scopus indexed journals (Three Q1 articles). Further, he also filed a patent on his invention entitled, "Sustainable Pervious Alkali Activated Concrete Paver Block Pavement for Ground water Recharge" on 29-07-2020. He also served as conference secretary and successfully completed the CTCS-2020, International Conference held at NMAMIT Nitte during Decemeber 2020. Further, he is also serving as a potential reviewer for "International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology" published by Springer Nature, "Construction and Building Materials" published by Elsevier B V, "Case Studies in Construction Materials" published by Elsevier B V and "Cogent Environmental Science" published by Taylor & Francis Online. Being a resource person, he has delivered several technical talks at various graduate schools. He is a life member of Indian Roads Congress (IRC) New Delhi, Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS) New Delhi, Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), Indian Society of Systems for Science and Engineering (ISSE), Technical Institute for Engineers (India), and Kannada Sahithya Parishadh, Karnataka. He worked as Departmental Co-ordinator (Civil Engineering) for NAAC, NBA, IQAC, Industry Institute Interaction, ISTE, IE(I), and IOV related works.