Particle Packing Method for Recycled Aggregate Concrete

Dr. Shailendra Kumar is a Professor of Civil Engineering Department, School of Engineering & Technology, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, India. Before this, he was a faculty member at National Institute of Technology (NIT) Jamshedpur. He pursued his undergraduate degree from NIT Jamshedpur, post graduate degree from NIT Rourkela and Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. His main research areas are concrete fracture mechanics, fibre-reinforced concrete, alternate construction materials, etc. He published more than 75 research papers in national/ international journals/conferences and authored 02 books on Concrete Fracture Models (published by Springer) and Applications and Simplified Testing Methods of Double-K Concrete Fracture Model. He has executed 02 sponsored research projects under MHRD/UGC and supervised many M.Tech. and Ph.D. thesis works. He has been one of the members of the Technical Committee of “RILEM TC265-TDK” who developed the theoretical and experimental standardization of Double-K Fracture Model of concrete which have been published through 04 research papers in Materials & Structures in 2021.

Dr. Sudhirkumar Barai is a Director and Senior Professor of Civil Engineering at Birla Institute of Technology & Science Pilani, India. He is also a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur availing lien for the current position since January 2020. In 1995, he obtained Ph.D (Eng.) from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore. He received the degrees of B.E. (Civil) and M.E. (Civil) with specialization in structural engineering in 1987 and 1989, respectively, from the Faculty of Engineering, MS University of Baroda, India. He was Erskine Visiting Fellow at University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand during May-June 2008. He was also visiting scientist at National University of Singapore during May-July 2003. He was recipient of BOYSCAST fellowship and visited Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA during May-November 2000. He was a post-doctoral fellow at Department of Solid Mechanics, Materials and Structures, Tel Aviv University, Israel during February 1997-July 1998. His areas of research are sustainable construction materials, structural health monitoring and computational intelligence in engineering. He has published more than 250+ papers in leading international journals and conferences in his research fields. He has co‐authored four books‐ (1) Concrete Fracture Models and Applications (2) Shear Strengthening of T‐beam with GFRP: A Systematic Approach and (3) Systematic Approach of Characterisation and Behaviour of Recycled Aggregate Concrete, (4) Stability and Failure of High Performance Composite Structures, which have been published by Springer.