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Advances in Sustainable Construction Materials

Select Proceedings of ASCM 2019

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2020

Overview

  • Discusses a range of next-generation energy-efficient and eco-friendly building materials
  • Provides economically viable solutions to current challenges in sustainable construction
  • Includes contributions from academics and professionals in sustainability

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering (LNCE, volume 68)

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Table of contents (17 papers)

  1. Sustainable Material Alternatives and Special Concrete

  2. Embodied Energy, Carbon Footprint and Impact on Sustainability

  3. Life Cycle Assessment of Materials

  4. Advanced or Alternative Construction Materials

  5. Recycling and Reuse of Construction Materials

  6. MCDM Methods for Selecting Alternative Construction Materials

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About this book

This book presents select proceedings of the National Conference on Advances in Sustainable Construction Materials (ASCM 2019) held at the National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India. The book includes contributions from academics and practitioners on low-energy cement technologies, innovative materials and structural technologies towards cost-effective, environment friendly, durable, energy-efficient, and sustainable construction. The topics covered emphasize on cutting-edge, economically viable, and sustainable solutions with an aim to increase profitability, and decrease construction time and overall impact on the built environment. The book will be useful for researchers and practitioners interested in sustainable construction and allied fields. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Warangal, Warangal, India

    Rathish Kumar Pancharathi

  • CSIR-Structural Engineering Research Centre, Chennai, India

    Bhaskar Sangoju

  • Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India

    Sandeep Chaudhary

About the editors

Dr. P. Rathish Kumar is currently Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Warangal. He obtained his Ph.D from the National Institute of Technology, Warangal and Doctor of Engineering & Post-Doctoral research from Japan. His major areas of interest include new/alternate/supplementary cementitious materials, special concretes, rehabilitation of structures, construction technology and management, structural health monitoring and earthquake engineering. He has published 205 articles in various international and national journals and conferences of repute. He is a recipient of several awards including the Aftab Mufti Medal, prestigious Monbusho and JSPS Scholarships of the Japanese Government, Best Engineering Researcher Award, Heritage Scholarship to visit IST Portugal, Danish Government Scholarship, Italy Government Post Doctoral Scholarship, Heritage Scholarship under Erasmus Mundus, AIT Fellowship, Jawaharlal Nehru memorial fellowship and Distinguished Alumnus award. Prof Kumar is a member of the Research Advisory Council member of the National Council for Cement and Building Materials (NCCBM), Hyderabad for the past four years. He has representation in several Bureau of Indian Standard committees like CED-4 ie Lime and Gypsum Products of the Bureau of Indian Standards, Member of the Preparation of the Handbook of lime for the Buruea of Indian Standards, Convenor for revision of all parts of the Indian Standard Code IS 2542-1978 including tests for Gypsum, Plaster, Concrete and Mortars, Member of the Revision of Indian Standard Code IS 712:1984 ie Specification for building limes (third revision). He is on the editorial board of Journal of Facta Universtatis, Journal of Cement Wapno Beton among others.


Dr. Bhaskar Sangoju is a Senior Principal Scientist in Advanced Materials Laboratory (AML), CSIR-Structural Engineering Research Centre (SERC) Chennai, India. He has nearly 20 yearsof experience in industrial research, sponsored and consultancy projects. He graduated in Civil Engineering from Osmania University, Hyderabad; received his M.Tech in Structural Engineering from JNTU, Hyderabad and Ph.D. from IIT Madras. He has more than 70 publications in journals and conference proceedings. His areas of interest include durability of reinforced concrete including condition assessment and service life enhancement, quality and integrity assessment of new and existing concrete structures using NDT&E. He received the outstanding PhD thesis award from the Indian Concrete Institute (ICI), and NACE International Gateway India Section. He was a visiting scientist to work in the area of advanced NDT for Reinforced concrete structures at Federal Institute of Materials and Testing (BAM) Berlin, Germany. He is a Principal member, CED2:7, BIS New Delhi.


Dr. Sandeep Chaudhary is currently working as a Professor and Dean of Infrastructure Developmentin the Discipline of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Indore. Before joining IIT Indore, he served as a faculty member in different capacities at MNIT Jaipur. He obtained his B.E from MBM Engineering College Jodhpur, M.E from MREC Jaipur, Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and carried out his Post-Doctoral research at Kunsan National University, S. Korea. His research interests include strength, durability and microstructure of concrete, sustainable construction practices and steel-concrete composite structures. He has carried out various sponsored research and consultancy projects and has published more than a hundred papers in well-known international and national journals and conference proceedings.  He has served on prestigious committees at National and International Level and is presently chairing the Technical Committee-1 of Asian Concrete Federation.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Advances in Sustainable Construction Materials

  • Book Subtitle: Select Proceedings of ASCM 2019

  • Editors: Rathish Kumar Pancharathi, Bhaskar Sangoju, Sandeep Chaudhary

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3361-7

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-3360-0Published: 18 April 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-3363-1Published: 18 April 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-3361-7Published: 17 April 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2366-2557

  • Series E-ISSN: 2366-2565

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 236

  • Number of Illustrations: 51 b/w illustrations, 115 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Building Materials, Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics, Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings

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