Emerging Trends in Composite Structures

Dr. Md. Abdul Mannan is working currently as a professor in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS). He graduated B.Sc. (Civil) from Raishashi University, M.Sc. (Civil) from University Kebangsaan Malaysia, and Ph.D. (Civil) from University Malaysia Sabah. His areas of research interest are advance concrete technology, integrated design project, reinforced concrete design, strength of materials, engineering mathematics, highway engineering, engineering mechanics, structural steel design, structural analysis, etc. He has published around 50 research papers in national/international journals. Dr. R. Sathyanathan is currently working as an associate professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering and Technology, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, India. He obtained his B.E. (Civil) from Government College of Technology, Coimbatore, and M.E. (Irrigation Engineering Management) from the Center for Water Resources, College of Engineering, Anna University, Chennai and Ph.D. from SRM University, Kattankulathur. He has 22 years of professional experience in academics. His areas of research interest include coastal hydrodynamics, watershed management, meteorological data anal-ysis, GIS and remote sensing applications in water resources and environmental engineering. He has published around 50 papers in national/international journals and six chapters. Apart from his academic pursuits, he devotes himself to mentoring and advising students who are enthusiastic about pursuing careers in different domains of civil engineering research. He actively reviews paper for many international journals published in the field of Water Resources Engineering. Dr. N. Umamaheswari is currently working as a professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering and Technology, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, India. She obtained her B.E. (Civil) and M.E. (Structures) degrees from Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, and Ph.D. from SRM University, Kattankulathur. She is having 30 years of professional experience of which 26 years are in academics. Her area of research interest includes steel-concrete composite structures, steel structures, finite element analysis, and fracture mechanics. She has published around 60 papers in national/international journals and conferences, received four grants for organizing/attending international/national programs from Government of India and SRM IST, executed one in-house project, received a patent grant, visited UK and Japan, performed collaborative research with foreign experts, organized/chaired international conferences, and authored a book. Dr. Hemant S. Chore is working currently as an associate professor and the head in the Department of Civil Engineering at Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar (Punjab), India. Prior to joining NIT Jalandhar in 2018, he was working as a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Datta Meghe College of Engineering, New Mumbai, affiliated with the University of Mumbai for 24 years. He has got rich experience in the field of academics and research. His area of research interest includes soil-structure interaction, pavement analysis and design, structural engineering, and utilization of waste materials in geotechnical and highway construction. He has guided 08 Ph.D.s till now with 09 more candidates pursuing their Ph.D.s under his supervision. He has guided more than 50 M.Tech. candidates for their Dissertations. He has got more than 60 research publications in refereed journals and more than 200 papers in the proceedings of national and international conferences.

Chapter 1. Behaviour of quartz powder based fibre Reinforced concrete.- Chapter 2. Study On Self Consolidating Hybrid Fibre Reinforced Concrete.- Chapter 3. Effect of High Performance on Glass Fibre Reinforced Concrete Beams.- Chapter 4. Strength Of Concrete with Partial Replacement of Aggregate with Granite.- Chapter 5. Dynamic response of cable stayed bridge under seismic vulnerability analysis; State of the art.- Chapter 6. Complex and light-weight tensegrity structure under dynamic and impact loads; State of the art.- Chapter 7. Investigations on Ambient Cured Alkali-Activated One-Part Geopolymer Concrete.- Chapter 8. State of the art review on Synthesis and Utilization on Graphene Oxide in Concrete under Elevated Temperature.- Chapter 9. Analyzing the Characteristics of Self-Compacting, Basalt Fibre, Ultra-High-Performance Concrete Using Nano Waste Product at both high and Normal Temperature Changes.- Chapter 10. Behaviour of Double Layer Compound Cold Formed Steel Columns.-Chapter 11. Investigation on Innovative Cold-Formed Steel Built-Up Columns using lipped and unlipped channels.- Chapter 12. Experimental Investigation on the Incorporation of Reed Plant Ash in Concrete.- Chapter 13. Flexural Behaviour of Cold-Formed Ferritic Stainless Steel Built-up Joists.- Chapter 14. Flexural Behaviour of Corrugated Web Beams using Cold formed Steel.- Chapter 15. Experimental Study on Nanomaterials in High-Performance Concrete. etc.