K
S NANJUNDA RAO
Chief Research
Scientist
Department of Civil Engineering
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore 560 012, India
Phone: +91 80 2293 2527
09449826828 (Mobile)
Fax : +91
80 2360 0404
Email : ksn@iisc.ac.in
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph D) in Structural Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian
Institute of Science, Bangalore.
(1989‑1995)
Master of Engineering (M E) in Civil Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Bangalore
University, Bangalore, First class with Distinction. (1984‑1986)
Bachelor of Engineering (B E) in Civil Engineering, Bangalore University, Bangalore, First class with
Distinction. (1978‑1983)
Details of Ph D
Title
of the thesis: Elasticity solutions
for thick orthotropic and laminated circular cylindrical shells.
Year
of Award: 1995
Membership of Professional Bodies
Member, Indian Society for Non-destructive Testing.
Research
Interests
Mechanics
of Composite Plate and Shell Structures; Structural Masonry, Earthquake Resistant
Design of Structures, Reinforced and Prestressed
Concrete Structures, Application of FRP in Civil Engineering, Low carbon
building materials.
Teaching
I have been teaching UG, PG and Research students
at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, since 1996. The subjects taught by
me are given below;
Theory
of Plates and Shells; Finite Element Method for Engineers; Advanced Concrete
Design (Plain, Reinforced and Prestressed); Design of
Reinforced Concrete and Masonry Structures; Seismic Analysis and Design of
Structures; Experimental Methods in Structural Engineering, Natural hazards and
their mitigation.
Guidance
of students for research:
|
Degree |
Status |
Number of Students |
|
Ph
D |
Awarded Under
Progress |
5 2 |
|
M
Sc (Engg.)/ M
Tech(Research) |
Awarded Under
Progress |
3 1 |
|
M
E Project |
Awarded |
7 |
Publications
·
Referred Journals: 24
Conferences/Symposia/Workshops: 21
·
Technical reports and Edited Volumes: 4
·
Books: 1
Professional
Experience
·
Chief Research Scientist, Department of Civil
Engineering, IISc, Bangalore (August 2015 to date)
·
Principal Research Scientist, Department
of Civil Engineering, IISc, Bangalore (December 2004
to July 2015)
·
Senior Scientific Officer, Department of Civil
Engineering, IISc,
·
Scientific Officer Gr I, Department of Civil
Engineering, IISc, Bangalore (December 1995 to
December 1998)
·
Scientific Officer Gr II, Department of Civil
Engineering, IISc, Bangalore (October 1992 to
December 1995)
·
Scientific Assistant, Department of Civil
Engineering, IISc, Bangalore (October 1986 to October
1992)
Awards
& Recognitions
·
ACCE NAGADI AWARD 2008 for Best Publication
in Civil Engineering for the Book
·
Subject expert, Board of Studies, Department of Civil
Engineering,
National Institute of Engineering, Mysore.
·
Subject expert, Board of Studies, Department of Civil
Engineering,
B M S
College of Engineering, Bangalore.
·
Member, Academic council, National Institute of
Engineering, Mysore.
·
Member, Board of Appointments, National Institute
of Engineering, Mysore.
·
Member, Advisory Committee, Department of Civil
Engineering, B M S College of Engineering, Bangalore.
·
Member, Advisory Committee, Department of Civil
Engineering, P E S Institute of Technology, Bangalore.
·
Expert Member(IISc
Nominee), Karnataka Building and other construction workers Board, Government
of Karnataka
·
Expert Member (IISc
Nominee), Joint security review committee of Raj Bhavan,
Government of Karnataka.
·
Chairman, Works Advisory Committee, Indian
Statistical Institute, Bangalore Centre, Bangalore (period: 2016-2018)
·
Member, Buildings Works Committee, Centre for Nano
and Soft Matter Sciences, Bangalore.
In Refereed Journals:
1.
B K Raghu Prasad, B R Srinivasa Murthy, A R Gopalakrishnan
and K S Nanjunda Rao (1993), Damage assessment and rehabilitation measures
for R C C sewage digester tank, Jl. of Structural
Engineering, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp 83-90.
2.
K Chandrashekahar
and K S Nanjunda Rao(1995), Static analysis of a long and thick orthotropic
circular cylindrical shell of revolution, Journal of Archiv
of Applied Mechanics Ingenieur Archive, Vol. 65,
No. 6, pp. 425 436.
3.
K Chandrashekahar
and K S Nanjunda Rao(1996), Analysis of a long and
thick orthotropic circular cylindrical shell panel, Journal of Engineering
Mechanics, ASCE, Vol. 122, No. 6, pp.575-579.
4.
K Chandrashekahar
and K S Nanjunda Rao(1997), Approximate elasticity solution
for a long and thick laminated circular cylindrical shell of revolution, Intnl. Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 34, No. 11,
pp 1327 1341.
5.
K Chandrashekahar
and K S Nanjunda Rao(1998), Static analysis of an infinite laminated
cylindrical shell panel, Journal of Aerospace Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 11, No.
1, pp 1-8.
6.
K Chandrashekahar
and K S Nanjunda Rao(1998), Method of initial
functions for the analysis of laminated circular cylindrical shells under
axisymmetric load, Mechanics of Composite Materials and Structures: An
International Journal, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp 187-201.
7. K S Jagadish, S Raghunath
and K S Nanjunda Rao (2002), Shock table studies on masonry building model
with containment reinforcement, Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol. 29,
No. 1, pp 9-17.
8. K S Jagadish, S Raghunath
and K S Nanjunda Rao (2003), Behaviour
of masonry structures during the Bhuj earthquake of
January 2001, Proc Indian Academy of Sciences (Earth and Planetary Sciences)
Vol. 112, No. 3, September 2003, pp 431 440.
9. K S Gumaste, , B V Venkatarama Reddy, K S Nanjunda
Rao and K S Jagadish (2004), Properties of burnt
bricks and mortars in India, Masonry International, Vol.17, No.2,pp 45-52
10. B. Saikia, J. Thomas, A. Ramaswamy and K.S.Nanjunda Rao
(2005), Performance of hybrid rebars as
longitudinal reinforcement in normal strength concrete, Materials and
Structures (Rilem), Vol. 38, pp. 857 864.
11. B.V.Venkatarama Reddy, Richardson Lal and K.S.Nanjunda Rao
(2007), Enhancing bond strength and characteristics of soil-cement block
masonry, Jl. Mats. In Civil Engg. (ASCE), Vol. 19,
No. 2, pp. 164-172.
12. B.V.Venkatarama Reddy, Richardson Lal and K.S.Nanjunda Rao
(2007), Optimum soil grading for soil-cement blocks, Jl. Mats. In Civil Engg. (ASCE), Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 139-148.
13. K S Gumaste, K S Nanjunda Rao, B V Venkatarama
Reddy and K S Jagadish (2007), Strength and
elasticity of brick masonry prisms and wallettes
under compression, Materials and Structures (Rilem),
Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 241 253.
14. Biswarup Saikia, Phanindra
Kumar, Job Thomas, K S Nanjunda Rao and Ananth Ramaswamy (2007),
Strength and serviceability performance of beams reinforced with GFRP bars in
flexure, Construction and building materials, Vol.21, No. 8, pp 1709-1719.
15. K S Jagadish, K S Nanjunda Rao, S Raghunath and Biswarup
Saikia (2008), Improving seismic resistance of
masonry buildings using containment reinforcement, Journal of Structural
Engineering, Vol. 34, No. 6, pp 406-411.
16. B V Venkatarama Reddy,
Richardson Lal and K S Nanjunda Rao (2009), Influence of joint thickness and
mortar-block elastic properties on the strength and stresses developed in
soil-cement block masonry, Jl. Mats. In Civil Engg.
(ASCE), Vol. 21, No. 10, pp. 535-542.
17. Sivakumar Babu G L, Amit Srivastava, Nanjunda Rao K S
and Venkatesha S (2011) Analysis and design of
vibration isolation system using open trenches, International Journal of Geomechanics (ASCE), Vol.11, No. 5, pp. 364 369.
18. A S Guru Prasad, M Anitha,
K S Nanjunda Rao and S Asokan
(2011), Measurement of stress-strain response of a rammed earth prism in
compression using fiber bragg grating sensors,
International Jl. on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp.
376 387.
19. K S Gumaste, K S Nanjunda Rao, B V Venkatarama
Reddy and K S Jagadish, (2012)Compressive strength
of storey height burnt clay brick masonry walls, Journal of Structural
Engineering, Vol. 38, No. 6, pp. 541-547.
20. S. Raghunath, K.S. Nanjunda
Rao and K.S. Jagadish (2012), Ductility of brick
masonry beams with containment reinforcement, Journal of Structural
Engineering, (SERC, Madras), Vol. 39, No.4, October-November 2012, pp. 399-408.
21. K. S. Nanjunda Rao and G. S. Pavan
(2014), FRP-Confined Clay Brick Masonry Assemblages under Axial Compression:
Experimental and Analytical Investigations, Journal of Composites for
Construction (ASCE), DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CC.1943-5614.0000525,
[Print details-Vol.19, Issue 4, August 2015].
22. G S Pavan and K S Nanjunda
Rao (2015), Behavior of brick-mortar interface in FRP strengthened masonry
assemblages under normal loading and shear loading, Journal of Materials in
Civil Engineering (ASCE), DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)MT.1943-5533.0001388, Published
online August 6, 2015.
23. B V Venkatarama Reddy, V
Suresh and K S Nanjunda Rao (2016), Characteristic compressive strength of
cement-stabilized rammed earth, Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
(ASCE), DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)MT.1943-5533.0001692.
Published online.
24. G S Pavan and K S Nanjunda Rao (2017), Bending analysis of laminated
composite plates using isogeometric collocation
method, Composite Structures, Vol. 176, September 2017, pp. 715-728.
In
Conferences, symposia and workshops:
1.
Prakash Desayi
and K
2.
Prakash Desayi,
K S Nanjunda Rao and Veerappa
Reddy (1988), Experimental roofing with pre-tensioned ferrocement
elements, Proc. 3rd Intnl. Conf. on Ferrocement,
3.
4.
K S Nanjunda Rao and K S Jagadish (2000), Ferro-cement: Materials and
Applications, Proc. of the short term course on Alternative Building
Methodologies for Architects and Engineers, Organised
by Centre for Continuing Education, IISc, Bangalore, 6-16 November 2000, pp. 45
75.
5.
K S Jagadish,
B V Venkataram Reddy and K S Nanjunda Rao(2000),
Ferro-concrete roofing systems, Proc. of the short term course on Alternative
Building Methodologies for Architects and Engineers, Organised
by Centre for Continuing Education, IISc, Bangalore, 6-16 November 2000, pp.100
119.
6. K S Jagadish,
7.
Likhar
Sushant Kumar, Ananth Ramaswamy
and K S Nanjunda Rao (2002) Behaviour
of GFRP reinforced SFRC beams in flexure and shear, Proc. Intnl.
Conf. on Advances in Civil Engineering, Vol. 2, IIT Kharagpur, pp. 1151 1157.
8.
Biswarup Saikia, Phanindra Kumar, Job
Thomas, K S Nanjunda Rao and Ananth
Ramaswamy (2004), A study on performance of beams
reinforced with GFRP bars Proc. Of the Intnl Conf on Fibre Composites, High
Performance Concretes and smart Materials, 8- 10 Jan 2004, Chennai, pp 465-474.
9.
K S Nanjunda Rao, S Raghunath and K
S Jagadish (2004), Containment reinforcement for
earthquake resistant masonry buildings, 13th World Conf on
Earthquake Engineering, 1-6 Aug 2004, Vancouver, B.C. , Canada.
10. Jagadish
K. S., Raghunath S, Nanjunda Rao K S & Saikia B
(2007) Evaluation of seismic behaviour of masonry
building models through shock table tests, Proc. Structural Engineers World
Congress 2007, November 2-7, 2007,
11. Raghunath
S, Nanjunda Rao K S and Jagadish K S (2010),
Response of full-scale walls subjected to out-of-plane soft impact loads,
Proc. Of the 8th International Masonry Conference, 4 7, July 2010,
12. Joshi
Amrut Anant, Pavan G S and Nanjunda Rao K S (2010), Shock table
facility: Design and assessment of characteristics of table motion, Proc. of
the Conference on infrastructure, sustainable transportation and urban
planning, 18 20 October 2010, IISc,
13. B
V Venkatarama Reddy, S N Ullas
and Nanjunda Rao K S (2010), Masonry mortars using
iron ore tailings as fine aggregate, Proc. 12th International conference on
non-conventional materials and technologies (IC-NOCMAT-2010), 21 23 September
2010, Cairo, Egypt.
14. Ullas
S N, B V Venkatarama Reddy and Nanjunda
Rao K S (2010),Characteristics of masonry units from iron ore tailings,
Proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Built Environment
(ICSBE-2010 13-14 December 2010,
15. K
S Nanjunda Rao, B V Venkatarama Reddy and Maheshreddy Gade (2011),
Strength and elastic properties of cement stabilized rammed earth, National
Conference on Recent Developments in Civil Engineering, 8 & 9 April 2011,
VVIET,
16. Joshi
Amrut Anant and K S
Nanjunda Rao (2012), Design and assessment of shock table facility for
earthquake related studies: ISET Golden Jubilee Symposium, Department of
Earthquake Engineering, IIT Roorkee, October 20-21,
2012, Paper No. D017, (Proceedings in CD and hence no page numbers available).
17. G
S Pavan and K S Nanjunda
Rao (2014), Isogeometric analysis of shells with
folds and intersections, 5th International Congress on Computational Mechanics
and Simulations, 10-13 December 2014, SERC, Chennai, India, (Proceedings in CD
and hence no page numbers available).
18. Manju
M A and Nanjunda Rao K S (2014), Response of RC
framed buildings with masonry infills having openings under lateral loading,
5th International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulations, 10-13 December
2014, SERC, Chennai, India, (Proceedings in CD and hence no page numbers
available).
19. K
S Nanjunda Rao, M Anitha
and B V Venkatarama Reddy (2015), Dynamic behavior
of scaled cement stabilized rammed earth building models, Proc of the First international
conference on rammed earth construction, Perth and Margaret River, Australia,
10-13 February 2015, Publisher: CRC Press, pp 123-128.
20. B
V Venkatarama Reddy, V Suresh and K S Nanjunda Rao
(2015), Specimen slenderness effect on compressive strength of cement
stabilized rammed earth , Proc of the First international conference on rammed
earth construction, Perth and Margaret River, Australia, 10-13 February 2015,
Publisher: CRC Press, pp 163-166.
21. G
S Pavan and K S Nanjunda Rao (2016), Analysis of
laminated composite plates using isogeometric
collocation method, VII European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied
Sciences and Engineering, 5-10 June 2016, Greece.
Books/Reports/Monographs:
1.
K S Jagadish,
B V Venkatarama Reddy and K S Nanjunda Rao (2007),
Alternative building materials and technologies, New Age International
Publishers
2.
Prakash Desayi
and K S Nanjunda Rao (1987), Studies on post-tensioned ferrocement
roofing elements, DST-FC-RR11, pp.141.
3.
Prakash Desayi
and K S Nanjunda Rao (1987), Experimental tenement with precast pre-tensioned ferrocement roofing elements, DST-FC-13, pp. 41.
4.
Ananth Ramaswamy and K S Nanjunda Rao (2002), Progress report on
the project Experimental and analytical study on the behaviour
of fiber reinforced plastic (FRP) composite reinforcements in plain and fiber
reinforced latex modified concrete beam elements, Report submitted to
Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, pp. 124.
5.
Proceedings of the National
workshop on alternative building methods, Editors: K S Jagadish
and K S Nanjunda Rao, Organised
by Department of Civil Engineering, IISc, Bangalore, 16 18 January 2002, pp.
185.
Sponsored Research Projects:
|
Title |
Funding Agency |
Value (INR) |
Duration |
Investigators |
|
Experimental
and analytical study on the behaviour of fibre reinforced plastic (FRP)
composite reinforcements in plain and fibre reinforced latex modified
concrete beam elements. |
Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt.
of |
Rs.14,94,525/- |
December 2000 to December 2003. |
Prof. Ananth Ramaswamy and Dr K S Nanjunda Rao |
|
Development
and dissemination of roofing tiles from industrial and mine wastes. |
Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt.
of |
Rs. 7,65,000/- |
October 2002 to April 2005 |
Prof. B V Venkatarama Reddy and Dr K S Nanjunda Rao |
|
Shock
table studies for earthquake resistant design of masonry buildings. |
Karnataka Council for Technological Upgradation (KCTU),
Joint venture of Govt. of India and Govt. of Karnataka. |
Rs. 5,00,000/- |
March 2004 to March 2006 |
Prof. B K Raghu Prasad and Dr K S Nanjunda Rao |
|
Assessment
of seismic performance of reinforced masonry building models through shock
table and shaking table tests |
Centre for infrastructure transportation and
urban planning (CiSTUP),
IISc |
Rs. 4,34,000/- |
January 2010 to September 2011 |
K S Nanjunda Rao(PI) & R Ramesh Babu (CPRI, Bangalore) |
|
Strength
and fracture properties of cement stabilized rammed earth and its application
for structural walls |
Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of |
Rs.24,00,000/- |
26 July 2011 to 25 July 2014 |
K S Nanjunda Rao (PI) B V Venkatarama Reddy
& B K Raghu Prasad |
|
Developing
design guidance for rammed earth construction |
Indo-French centre for the promotion of advanced
research (IFCPAR)/ CEFIPRA |
Rs.81, 52,000/- |
December 2011 to December 2015 |
B V Venkatarama Reddy (Principal Collaborator-
India) K S Nanjunda Rao (Joint Collaborator- India) J C Morel (Principal Collaborator- France) S
Hans (Joint |
|
Retrofitting
of masonry in compression, flexure and shear with FRP |
Centre for infrastructure transportation and
urban planning (CiSTUP),
IISc |
Rs.5,28,000/- |
16 April 2012 to 16 April 2014 |
K S Nanjunda Rao (PI) |
|
Developing
earth based building products utilizing waste |
UGC-UKIERI Joint research programme
(UKIERI-III) |
Rs. 20,80,000/-
(First year grant released) |
March 2017 to March 2019 |
B V Venkatarama Reddy (Principal Collaborator-
India) K S Nanjunda Rao and Prof. Monto Mani(Joint
Collaborators- India) Prof. Pete Walker (Principal Collaborator- UK) Prof.
Andrew Heath, Dr. Dan Maskell (Joint Collaborators-
UK) |
PI Principal investigator
·
Member, Council of
Wardens, IISc Student Hostels (August 2008 to May 2012).
·
Convener, Structural
Engineering Group, Dept. of Civil Engg, IISc (September 2008 to September
2010).
·
Faculty in-charge
of Civil Engg. Department library (May 2007 to April 2009).
·
Member,
Organizing Committee, 6th International Seminar on Structural
Masonry for Developing Countries held during 11-13 October 2000, IISc