Emerging Trends in Composite Structures: Select Proceedings of ICC-IDEA 2023 (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, 387)

This book presents the select proceedings of International Conference on Civil Engineering: Innovative Development in Engineering Advances (ICC IDEA 2023). This book covers the latest research in the areas of structural engineering and health monitoring, steel and composite structure, bridge and tunnel engineering, earthquake engineering, disaster management, and coastal and harbor engineering. The book is useful for researchers and professionals in related fields of civil engineering.

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.