Editors:
- Presents select contributions from the International Conference on Civil Engineering Trends and Challenges for Sustainability (CTCS) 2019
- Focuses on current research in structural, construction, geotechnical and environmental engineering
- Discusses strategies for affordable construction, risk management, and sustainable development
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering (LNCE, volume 99)
Conference series link(s): CTCS: International Conference on Civil Engineering Trends and Challenges for Sustainability
Conference proceedings info: CTCS 2019.
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Table of contents (62 papers)
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Front Matter
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Construction and Structural Engineering
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Front Matter
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About this book
Keywords
- Building materials
- Construction technology
- Earthquake engineering
- Coastal engineering
- Risk analyses
- Structural health monitoring
- Geotechnical engineering
- Transportation and traffic engineering
- Hydraulics and water resources engineering
- Waste management
- Remote sensing
- GIS
- Weather monitoring
- Climate change
- Infrastructure development
- CTCS 2019
- water quality and water pollution
- remote sensing/photogrammetry
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, India
M. C. Narasimhan, Varghese George
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Department of Civil Engineering, N.M.A.M. Institute of Technology, Nitte, India
G. Udayakumar, Anil Kumar
About the editors
Dr. Varghese George Professor and Head in the Department of Civil Engineering (2017-19). He pursued his B.Sc. (Engineering) Degree from College of Engineering, Trivandrum in the year 1984, M.Tech (Transportation Systems Engineering) from IIT, Kanpur in the year 1986, and Ph.D (Transportation Engineering) from IIT Bombay in the year 1999. He served as the Associate Dean (Research and consultancy) in NITK Surathkal during 2010 -13, and asthe Head of Department of Civil Engineering, NITK, Surathkal during 2017-19. He has more than 33 years of teaching experience. Dr. Varghese George is a life member of professional bodies like the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), Indian Roads Congress (IRC), Coorg and South Kanara Engineer’s Assn and the Institute of Urban Transport (IUT), and is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India). He is also an Associate member of the ASCE, USA. He has has published 20 research papers in International Journals, 22 papers in National journals, and 20 papers in International Conferences. He has guided 5 Doctoral Research students till date. His areas of expertise include urban transport planning, traffic engineering, road safety audit, porous friction courses, warm Mix asphalt, pavement evaluation and monitoring, ground improvement, genetic algorithm & ANN applications, town panning and architecture, surveying, and green building.
Dr. G. Udayakumar, Former Professor and Head of Civil Engineering Department in N.M.A.M Institute of Technology, Nitte. He obtained his B.E. (Civil Engineering) from Mysore University, M.Tech (Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering) from Mangalore University and Ph.D (Water conservation) from NITK, Surathkal. He has 32 years of teaching experience and served as the Chief Project Leader of EDC for 3 years from 2013 to 2016 at NMAM Institute of Technology, Nitte. Dr. Udayakumar G is the member of professional bodies like ISTE, MIE and IAHS. He also served as a member of BOS and BOE in Mangalore University and VTU, Belgaum. He has published 19 research papers in National, International journals and conferences. He has guided 23 Under Graduate projects, 6 Post-Graduate students, 1 Doctoral student and 1 Post-Doctoral student. His areas of interest includes hydrology and water resources engineering, water conservation, engineering mechanics, strength of materials, fluid mechanics, hydraulics and hydraulic machines and groundwater engineering
Dr. Anil Kumar, Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering. He pursued his B.E (Civil Engineering) from Nitte Mahalinga Memorial Institute of Technology, Nitte in the year 2008, M.Tech (Geo-Technical Engineering) from National Institute of Technology, Surathkal in the year 2010 and Ph.D (Geo-Technical Engineering) from National Institute of Technology, Surathkal in the year 2018. He has more 10 years of teaching experience. Dr. Anil is the member of professional bodies like LM-ISTE, SM-ASCE,SM-IRC. He has published 19 research papers in International Journals and 3 papers in National journals and 6 papers in International Conferences in the recent years. He has guided 7 Post-Graduate Students and 18 Under-Graduate students. His areas of expertise include Geotechnical Engineering, Ground improvement techniques, Sub-surface exploration, Pavement evaluation and monitoring, and deep foundations.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Trends in Civil Engineering and Challenges for Sustainability
Book Subtitle: Select Proceedings of CTCS 2019
Editors: M. C. Narasimhan, Varghese George, G. Udayakumar, Anil Kumar
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6828-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-6827-5Published: 29 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-6830-5Published: 30 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-6828-2Published: 28 September 2020
Series ISSN: 2366-2557
Series E-ISSN: 2366-2565
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 880
Number of Illustrations: 101 b/w illustrations, 481 illustrations in colour
Topics: Building Materials, Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics, Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution, Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry, Sustainable Development