Recent Trends in Civil Engineering / Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering Bd.274 (PDF)

thesis was nominated as one of the best thesis for "institute MEDAL" in IISc, Bangalore from Civil Engineering Department during 2014-2015.
Dr. Denise-Penelope N. Kontoni obtained her Diploma in Civil Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece (grade: excellent, ranked 1st), and her Ph.D. (doctor of civil engineering) in structural engineering also from the University of Patras, Greece. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of the Peloponnese, Greece. She has also been teaching for 19 years in postgraduate programs of the Hellenic Open University, Greece, and she has supervised many M.Sc. theses in the postgraduate programs such as "Earthquake Engineering and Earthquake Resistant Structures", "Engineering Construction Management", etc. She is the author of 120 scienti¿c articles in refereed international scienti¿c journals and in proceedings of international conferences, which have received many citations from other researchers. She is a reviewer in many international scienti¿c journals (e.g., "Certi¿cate of outstanding contribution in reviewing" from "Engineering Structures"-Elsevier). She is editor and guest editor in refereed international scienti¿c journals and has been a member of the scienti¿c committee in many international conferences. Her research interests are focused on structural dynamics, earthquake engineering, ¿nite element method (FEM), boundary element method (BEM), soil-structure interaction, vibration control, computer-aided structural analysis, wave propagation, elastodynamics, elastoplasticity, computer programming in civil engineering, etc.
Dr. Rathish Kumar Pancharathi is currently a Professor and Head of the Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Warangal. He obtained his Ph.D. from the NIT Warangal and Doctor of Engineering and postdoctoral 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, earthquake engineering and sustainable materials and technologies. He has published 226 technical articles in various international and national journals and conferences of repute. He has contributed 15 book chapters and authored 2 books. He has two patents granted to his credit. He has guided 8 doctoral students and 12 students are presently working with him. He has guided 68 Master's students and 37 Bachelor's student batches. He is a recipient of several awards including Aftab Mufti Medal, Monbusho and JSPS Scholarships of the Japanese Government, Best Engineering Researcher Award, Heritage Scholarship to pursue research at IST Portugal, Danish Government Scholarship, Italy Government Post-Doctoral Scholarship, Heritage Scholarship under Erasmus Mundus, AIT Fellowship, ASEM-Duo India Fellowship, Slovakian Government Scholarship, Jawaharlal Nehru memorial fellowship, Earth leader award 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 six years. He represents several Bureau of Indian Standard (BIS) committees like CED-4 i.e., Lime and Gypsum Products of the BIS, Preparation of Handbook of lime for the BIS, Convenor for revision of all parts of Indian Standard Code IS 2542-1978 including tests for Gypsum, Plaster, Concrete and Mortars, Member of Revision of Indian Standard Code IS 712:1984 i.e., speci¿cation for building limes. He is on the IRC B8 Committee of Inspection, Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Bridges. He is on the editorial board of Journal of Facta Universtatis, Journal of Cement Wapno Beton among others and is a reviewer of several International Journals published by Elsevier, Thomas Telford, Taylor and Francis etc.