Overview
- Presents latest advances in sustainable construction materials
- Discusses the importance of wastewater treatment and management
- Includes case studies in traffic planning and intelligent transportation systems
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering (LNCE, volume 104)
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Conference proceedings info: RACE 2020.
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Table of contents (20 papers)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Current Trends in Civil Engineering
Book Subtitle: Select Proceedings of ICRACE 2020
Editors: Job Thomas, B.R. Jayalekshmi, Praveen Nagarajan
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8151-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-8150-2Published: 21 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-8153-3Published: 21 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-8151-9Published: 20 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2366-2557
Series E-ISSN: 2366-2565
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 218
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 102 illustrations in colour
Topics: Civil Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Environment, general, Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering