Smart Technologies for Sustainable Development

The Diagnosis for the Lack of Remote Village Electrification Using Sustainable Energy in Labranzagrande.- Experimental Studies on Suitability of Coconut Shell as Filler Material in Concrete Cubes.- A Sustainable Approach to Turn Plastic Waste into Useful Construction Blocks.- A Study on The Flexural Behavior of Rc Beams With Partial Replacement of Sugarcane Bagasse Ash as Fine Aggregate.- Experimental Study on Light Weight Gypsum Bricks.- Study on Mechanical Properties of M30 Grade Concrete with Replacement of Cement by Wollastonite.- Experimental Study of Energy Saving Analysis using Tubular Daylighting Device.- Flexural Behavior of Auxetic Core Sandwich Beam.- Correlation between Surface Absorption and Chloride Ion Penetration of Concrete with Nano Silica.- Performance Analysis of ALFC for Dynamic Interconnected Power System Using Artificial Neural Network.

Dr Sanjay Kumar Shukla is an internationally recognized expert in the field of Civil (Geotechnical) Engineering. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Geosynthetics and Ground Engineering, published by Springer Nature, Switzerland. He is also the Founding Research Group Leader (Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering) at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia. He holds the Distinguished Professorship in Civil Engineering at VIT University, Vellore, Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh, VR Siddhartha Engineering College, Vijayawada, India, and Fiji National University, Suva, Fiji. He graduated in Civil Engineering from BIT Sindri, India, and earned his MTech in Civil Engineering (Engineering Geology) and PhD in Civil (Geotechnical) Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. His primary areas of research interest include geosynthetics and fibres for sustainable developments, ground improvement techniques, utilization of wastes in construction, earth pressure and slope stability, environmental, mining and pavement geotechnics, and soil-structure interaction. He is an author/editor of 14 books, and more than 235 research papers, including 147 refereed journal papers. Shukla's generalized expression for seismic active thrust (2015) and Shukla's generalized expression for seismic passive resistance (2013) are routinely used by practicing engineers worldwide for designing the retaining structures. He has been honoured with several awards, including the most prestigious IGS Award 2018 by the International Geosynthetics Society (IGS), USA, in recognition of outstanding contribution to the development and use of geosynthetics during the 2014-2017 IGS award period. He is a fellow of Engineers Australia, Institution of Engineers (India) and Indian Geotechnical Society, and a member of American Society of Civil Engineers, International Geosynthetics Society and several other professional bodies. He is the Senior Editor