Dr. V. Sunitha



 

Qualifications

  • Ph.D,in Civil Engineering /Transportation Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 2013.

  • M.Tech,in Traffic and Transportation Planning, National Institute of Technology, Calicut, 2003.

  • B.Tech,in Civil Engineering, Calicut University, 2001.

Experience

Designation

Organisation

From

To

Associate Professor

National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli

22.09.2022

Till Date

Assistant Professor (Grade I)

National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli

12.03.2018

22.09.2022

Assistant Professor (Grade II)

National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli

27.03.2011

12.03.2018

Assistant Professor (Grade III)

National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli

27.03.2006

26.03.2011

Research Associate

National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli

06.08.2003

26.03.2006

Research Interests

  • Transportation Engineering

  • Pavement Materials

  • Pavement Management System

International Journals

  1. V. Sunitha, A. Veeraragavan, Karthik K. Srinivasan, and Samson Mathew, “Cluster-Based Pavement Deterioration Models for   Low-Volume Rural Roads”, ISRN Civil Engineering, ISSN 2090-5106, Vol. 2012, Article ID 565948, 2012.

  2. V. Sunitha, A. Veeraragavan, Karthik K. Srinivasan, and Samson Mathew, “Application of Factor Analysis in Maintenance Management of Low Volume Roads”, International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology, ISSN 1997-1400, Volume 6, No. 2, March 2013, 130-135.

  3. R.T Arjun Siva Rathan, V. Sunitha and Samson Mathew, “Experimental Investigation on the Partial Replacement of Fine Aggregate with Waste Granite Fines in Concrete Paving Block”, International Journal of Earth Sciences and Engineering, ISSN 0974-5904, Volume 7, No. 5, October 2014, 1099 -1104.

  4. Latha, D., Sunitha, V., Mathew, S. (2015). “Experimental Investigation to Find Transition Temperature of VG-30 Binder”, World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, International Science Index 108, International Journal of Civil, Environmental, Structural, Construction and Architectural Engineering, volume 9, No. 12, 2015, 1558 - 1562.

  5. Samson Mathew, A. K. Raji, S. Malagi and Sunitha, V.. “Rural Connectivity based on ranking of villages – a Case study of Mandhya District of Karnataka”, Journal of The Institute of Engineers (India), volume 88, 2007, 34-42.

  6. L. Janani, Raunak Kumar Dixit, Sunitha, V. and Samson Mathew. “Prioritisation of Pavement Maintenance Sections Deploying Functional Characteristics of Pavements”, International Journal of Pavement Engineering, 2019.

  7. L. Janani, Sunitha, V. and Mathew S. “Influence of Surface Distresses on Smartphone-Based Pavement Roughness Evaluation”, International Journal of Pavement Engineering, 2020.

  8. Janani L., Samuel, N. M., Sunitha, V. and Mathew S. “Vibration vs. Vision: Best Approach for Automated Pavement Distress Detection”, International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology, 2020.

  9. Arjun Siva Rathan R.T, and Sunitha, V.. “Mechanical and Microstructural study on interlocking concrete block pavers using waste granite dust”, International Journal of Pavement Engineering, 23 (2), 2020.

  10. Anusudha V, Sunitha, V. and Samson Mathew. “Field Evaluation of Coir Geotextile Reinforced Subgrade for Low Volume Pavements”, Journal of Natural fibers, 2020.

  11. Janani L., Sunitha, V. and Mathew S. “Effect of combining algorithms in smartphone based pothole detection”, International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology, 2020.

  12. Anusudha, V. Sunitha, V. and Mathew S. “Performance of coir geotextile reinforced subgrade for low volume roads”, International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology, 2020.

  13. Rejani V.U, Sunitha, V. and Samson Mathew. “Upgradation of pavement deterioration models for urban roads by non-hierarchical clustering”, International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology, 2020.

  14. Anusudha Visvanathan, Sunitha, V. and Samson Mathew. “Evaluation of Coir Geotextile Reinforcement for Low Volume Roads”, Journal of Natural Fibers, 2020.

  15. Arjun Sivarathan R. T, Sunitha, V. MurshidaP., and Anusudha V. “Influence of Bedding and Jointing Sand on the Shear Strength Characteristics of Interlocking Paver Blocks-Bedding Sand Surface”, International Journal of Pavement Engineering, 23 (7), 2020.

  16. Arjun Siva Rathan Raveendran Thulasibai, Sunitha, V. MMurshida Pathath, Janani Lekshmipathy, and Anusudha Visvanathan. “Experimental and Numerical Evaluation of the Parameters Influencing the Shear-Stress Behavior of Interlocking Paver Blocks–Bedding Sand Interface Using Large-Scale Direct Shear Test”, Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, 33(6), 2021.

  17. Arjun Siva Rathan Raveendran Thulasibai, Aravinda Sai and Sunitha, V.. “Mechanical and structural performance evaluation of pervious interlocking paver blocks”, Construction and Building Materials, 292, 2021.

  18. Arjun Siva Rathan Raveendran T, Sunitha, V. and Anusudha Visvanathan. “Parametric study to investigate the deflection and stress behaviour of Interlocking Concrete Block Pavement”, Road Materials and Pavement Design, 2021.

  19. Janani Lekshmipathy Rashmi Doley, Sunitha, V. and Samson Mathew. “Precision Enhancement of Smartphone Sensor-Based Pavement Roughness Estimation by Standardizing Host Vehicle Speed”, Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 2021.

  20. Arjun Siva Rathan, and Sunitha, V.. “Development of Deflection Prediction Model for the Interlocking Concrete Block Pavements”, Transportation Research Record, Journal of TRB, 2676(3), 2021.

  21. Arjun Siva Rathan, and Sunitha, V.. “Development of Design Procedure for Interlocking Concrete Block Pavement”, International Journal of Pavement Engineering, 2676(3), 2021.

  22. Arjun Siva Rathan, and Sunitha, V.. “Numerical Modelling and Optimization on the Geometric Properties Influencing the Deflection Behaviour of Interlocking Concrete Block Pavement”, Journal of Transportation Engineering: Part B, Pavements/ASCE, 148 (3), 2022.

  23. Arjun Siva Rathan, and Sunitha, V.. “Development of Effective Wearing Layer Elastic Modulus for Interlocking Concrete Block”, Construction and Building Materials/Elsevier, 2022.

  24. Arjun Siva Rathan, Sunitha, V. and Anusudha Visvanathan. “Influence of Thickness Parameters on the Performance of Interlocking Concrete Block Pavement”, ACI Materials Journal, 2022.

International/National Conference Proceedings

  1. Samson Mathew, D. Srividya and V. Sunitha. “Selection of Site for Vegetable Market in Tiruchirappalli Using Integrated GIS and User Optimisation”, National Conference on Applications of GIS and GPS in Civil Engineering, July 2004, 151-161.

  2. Samson Mathew, D. Srividya, V. Sunitha and R. Sundaresan. “User Optimized Vegetable Market Site Selection Using Integrated GIS”, National Conference on Advances in Road Transportation (ART – 2005), February 2013, 182 – 188.

  3. Samson Mathew, V. Sunitha V. M. Rajanandhini and R. Resmi, “Integrated Transportation System for Tiruchirappalli City”, National Conference on GIS, GPS and RS applications in Transportation Planning and Management, November 2006, 76-84.

  4. Samson Mathew, A. K. Raji, Sunitha, V. and Swathi N. “Rural Road Network Planning - A case study of Karimnagar District in Andhra Pradesh”, National conference of Focussing on Advances in Civil Engineering FACE, February 2007, 85-90.

  5. Samson Mathew, Sunitha, V., R. Resmi and Pooja. S. Nair. “Commuters Rating on Bus Transport System in Tiruchirappalli City”, National conference of Focussing on Advances in Civil Engineering FACE, February 2007, 175 - 180.

  6. S. Moses Santhakumar, Samson Mathew, Sunitha, V., and J Sheeba. “Travel Characteristics of Tamil Nadu Rural Population”, National Conference on Earthquake and Transportation Engineering NCETE ’07, TE143, March 2007.

  7. R. Jayasankar, Sunitha, V., S. Abdul Rasheed, and A. Siddique. “A Study on Cost Effectiveness of StabilizedFlyash for Rural Road Costruction, ”, ROAD 07, National Conference, Workshop and Exposition on Trends in Road Making Materials, Methods & Machines – for Quality, Economy & Speed, April 2007, 95 – 109.

  8. S. Moses Santhakumar, Samson Mathew, R. Jayasankar and Sunitha, V.. “Impact of PMGSY on Travel Characteristics of Tamil Nadu Rural Population”, National Conference on Rural Roads, May 2007, 349 – 358.

  9. Samson Mathew, Sunitha, V., G. S. Ramanujam and A.Veeraragavan. “Application of Genetic Algorithm in Pavement Maintenance and Rehabilitation Optimization ”, Proceedings of International Conference on Transportation Planning and Implementation Methodologies for Developing Countries TPMDC-2008, Paper ID 38, December 2008, 95 – 109.

  10. P. Gauthaman, Sunitha, V., and Samson Mathew. “Genetic Algorithm Approach for Pavement Maintenance and Rehabilitation”,Student Symposium on Research in Civil Engineering, March 2009, pp. 193 – 194.

  11. Mohammed Shinas S, Nisha Radhakrisnan, and Sunitha, V., and Samson Mathew. “GIS-GPS Based Pavement Management System” National Symposium for Post Graduate Students NSPGS 2010, April 2010.

  12. Samson Mathew and Sunitha, V.. “GUrban Pavement Maintenance Management Systems (UPMMS)” National Conference on Urban Mobility – Challenges, Solutions and Prospects, July 2012.

  13. D. Latha and Sunitha, V.. “Experimental Investigation on Viscosity Behaviour of Binders”, National Conference on Latest Advancements in Civil Engineering (LACE – 2014), April 2014.

  14. J. Cyril Santhosh and Sunitha, V.. “Optimization of Maintenance Strategies of Urban Roads in Trichirappalli City”, Colloquium in Transportation Systems Engineering and Management, CTSEM 2014, paper ID 243, May 2014.

  15. K. Venu Madhav and Sunitha, V.. “Effect of Flyash and Steel Slag in Sub-base Layer”, Colloquium in Transportation Systems Engineering and Management, CTSEM 2014, paper ID 242, May 2014.

  16. Lijin Rajeev and Sunitha, V.. “Application of Jute and Coir Geotextiles in Flexible Pavement”, Colloquium in Transportation Systems Engineering and Management, CTSEM 2014, paper ID 239, May 2014.

  17. J. Cyril Santhosh and Sunitha, V.. “Pavement Prediction Modelling for Urban Roads in Trichirappalli City”, Annual Conference for Innovations and Developments in Civil Engineering, ACIDIC 2014, 819-826, May 2014.

  18. K. Venu Madhav and Sunitha, V.. “Effect of Flyash and Steel Slag in Sub-base Layer”, Annual Conference for Innovations and Developments in Civil Engineering, ACIDIC 2014, 70-79, May 2014.

  19. R.T Arjun Siva Rathan, Sunitha, V. and Samson Mathew. “Experimental Investigation on the Partial Replacement of Fine Aggregate with Waste Granite Fines in Concrete Paving Block”, International Conference on Ingenious Technologies and Sustainable Developments in Civil Engineering, paper ID EM30, October 2014.

  20. Praveen S B, Sunitha, V. Samson Mathew and A. Veeraragavan. “Pavement Performance Model for PMGSY Roads in India”, 2nd Conference on Transportation Systems Engineering and Management (CTSEM 2015), paper ID 118, May 2015.

  21. Karthik. K. R, Sunitha, V. and Samson Mathew. “Pavement Management System for Urban Roads in Tiruchirappalli City”, 2nd Conference on Transportation Systems Engineering and Management (CTSEM 2015), paper ID 124, May 2015.

  22. Syed Sahir and Sunitha, V.. “Study on Effect of Coir Geotextie as Reinforcement in Pavement Design”, 2nd Conference on Transportation Systems Engineering and Management (CTSEM 2015), paper ID 131, May 2015.

  23. Puli Sridhar and Sunitha, V.. “SExperimental Investigation on the Properties of Modified Bitumen Binders”, 2nd Conference on Transportation Systems Engineering and Management (CTSEM 2015), paper ID 133, May 2015.

  24. Bhanu Prakash and Sunitha, V.. “Effect of Copper Slag as a Replacement of Fine Aggregate in Sub-Base Layer”, 2nd Conference on Transportation Systems Engineering and Management (CTSEM 2015), paper ID 134, May 2015.

  25. Anil Kumar Badita and Sunitha, V.. “Evaluation of Performance Enhancers in Subgrade and Base Layers of Flexible Pavement”, 2nd Conference on Transportation Systems Engineering and Management (CTSEM 2015), paper ID 135, May 2015.

  26. Chetan R Bhole, Sunitha, V. and Samson Mathew. “Effect of Coir Geotextile as Reinforcement on the Load Settlement Characteristics of Weak Subgrade”, International Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction Management (ICSECM), 87-94, December 2015.

  27. Latha, D., Sunitha, V. and Samson Mathew. “Experimental Investigation to Find Transition Temperature of VG-30 Binder”, I17th International Conference on Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics, ICCEAM 2015, 3520 - 3524, December 2015.

  28. Praveen, S B, Sunitha, V. Samson Mathew and A. Veeraragavan. “Pavement Performance Model for PMGSY Roads in India”, 8th International Conference on Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Pavements (MAIREPAV8), July 2016.

  29. Chetan R Bhole, Sunitha, V. Samson Mathew and A. Veeraragavan. “Field Implementation and Performance of Coir Geotextiles Reinforced Roads”, 8th International Conference on Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Pavements (MAIREPAV8), July 2016.

  30. Karthik, K R, Rejani V. U, Sunitha, V. Samson Mathew and A. Veeraragavan. “Urban Pavement Maintenance Management System For Tiruchirapalli City”, 8th International Conference on Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Pavements (MAIREPAV8), July 2016.

  31. Karan Salokhe, P.Sandnya Rani and Sunitha, V.. “Urban Pavement Maintenance Management System For Tiruchirapalli City”, 3rd Conference on Transportation Systems Engineering and Management (CTSEM 2016), 343-350, October 2016.

  32. Rejani V. U., Sunitha, V. and Samson Mathew. “Urban Pavement Maintenance Management System for Tiruchirapalli City”, 3rd Conference on Transportation Systems Engineering and Management (CTSEM 2016), 464-472, October 2016.

  33. P.Sandhya Rani, and Sunitha, V.. “Experimental Investigation on the Rheological Properties of the Bitumen”, CTSEM-2017, May 2017.

  34. Rejani V. U., Sunitha, V. and Samson Mathew. “Pavement Maintenance Management System for Tiruchirappalli City”, International Conference on Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Constructed Infrastructure Facilities (MAIREINFRA - 2017), July 2017.

  35. Sunitha, V. A. Veeraragavan, Karthik K Srinivasan and Samson Mathew. “Deterioration Models for Latent Class Clustered Pavement Sections”, National Conference on Roads and Transport (NCORT-2017), October 2017.

  36. Sunitha, V. Bhanu Prakash K., and Janani L. “Sustainable use of Copper Slag as a Replacement of Fine Aggregate in Sub-base layer”, International Conference on Desalination, 163, April 2018.

  37. Sunitha, V. Sidarth Sahu, and Mohit Negi. “Utilization of Recycled Waste Plastic in Pavement”, International Conference on Desalination, 162, April 2018.

  38. Arjun Siva Rathan, Sunitha, V. and Raunak Kumar Dixit. “Eco-friendly use of Waste Granite Fines in Concrete Paving Block”, International Conference on Desalination, 132-133, 163, April 2018.

  39. Chandra Sekhar, and Sunitha, V., “Study of Drainage Characteristics on Flexible Pavements”, International Conference on Desalination, 164, April 2018.

  40. Janani L, Raunak Dixit, Sunitha, V. and Samson Mathew, “Development of relationship between functional and structural characteristics of pavement”, International Conference on infrastructure Development: Issues, Innovations and the Way Forward (ICID 2018), June 2018.

  41. Sai Rahul Reddy N., and Sunitha, V., “Analyzing the Rutting Resistance of Modified Binders Using MSCR Test ”, New and effective Innovations, Technologies and Key challenges 2020” NCCE, 26, January 2020.

  42. Sai Rahul Reddy N., and Sunitha, V., “Investigating the Rheological Properties of Waste plastic Modified Binders”, International Conference Innovative Trends in Civil Engineering for Sustainable Development, 197 - 198, September 2019.

  43. Anusudha, V., Sunitha, V. Babu, C., Bhole, C.R., and Mathew, S., “Numerical Studies on Coir Geotextile Reinforced Flexible Pavement”, IMAIREPAVE 2020, June 2020.

  44. Anusudha, V., Sunitha, V. and Samson Mathew, “Finite Element Analysis on Coir Geotextile Reinforced Rural Roads”, 7th Conference on Transportation Systems Engineering and Management, CTSEM 2020, PT 75-PT 79, December 2020.

  45. Arjun Siva Rathan, and Sunitha, V., “Evaluation on the Influence of Bedding Sand Source in the Shear Behaviour of Interlocking Concrete Block Pavement”, 7th Conference on Transportation Systems Engineering and Management, CTSEM 2020, PT48 – PT51, December 2020.

  46. Janani L., Sunitha, V. and Samson Mathew, “Smartphone Sensor-Based Pavement Roughness Estimation”, 7th Conference on Transportation Systems Engineering and Management, CTSEM 2020, PT52 – PT 56, December 2020.

  47. Mohit Singh Parihar, Sunitha, V. and Jegan Bharath Kumar. A, “Investigation of Moisture Damage of Hot Mix Asphalt using Artificial Neural Network”, 7th Conference on Transportation Systems Engineering and Management, CTSEM 2020, PT 67- PT 70, December 2020.

  48. Shilpa Rajan, Sunitha, V. and S. Shaheem, “Understanding the Travel Behaviour of Government Employees – A Case Study of Thiruvananthapuram city”, 7th Conference on Transportation Systems Engineering and Management, CTSEM 2020, TP 25- TP 28, December 2020.

  49. Susan Francis, Sunitha, V. and Samson Mathew, “Bus Passenger Origin Destination Matrix Estimation from Electronic Ticketing Machine Data”, 7th Conference on Transportation Systems Engineering and Management, CTSEM 2020, TP 17- TP 20, December 2020.

  50. Arjun Siva Rathan, Aravind Sai, and Sunitha, V., “Investigation on the Mechanical Properties and Structural Behaviour of Novel Pervious Interlocking Paver Block”, Transportation Research Board (TRB) 100th Annual Meeting , January 2020.

  51. Arjun Siva Rathan, and Sunitha, V., “Determination of Effective Elastic Modulus of Interlocking Concrete Block Pavement Wearing Layer”, 8th International Conference on “Transportation Systems Engineering and Management” (CTSEM 2021) , 2021.

  52. Anusudha Visvanathan, Sunitha, V. and Samson Mathew, “Experimental Studies on Coir Geotextile Reinforced Low Volume Rural Road”, 6th Conference of the Transportation Research Group of India (CTRG-2021), 2021.

  53. Arjun Siva Rathan R.T and Sunitha, V., “Influence of Thickness Parameters on the Mechanical Behaviour of Interlocking Concrete Block Pavement”, 6th Conference of the Transportation Research Group of India (CTRG-2021), 2021.

  54. Mohit Singh Parihar, Jegan Bharath Kumar and Sunitha, V., “Moisture damage prediction of hot mix asphalt using Artificial Neural Network”, 6th Conference of the Transportation Research Group of India (CTRG-2021), 2021.

  55. Susan Francis, Sunitha, V. and Samson Mathew, “Potential of Electronic Ticketing Machine Data in Public Transport Planning”, 6th Conference of the Transportation Research Group of India (CTRG-2021), 2021.

  56. Anjumol M Sadhu,and Sunitha, V., “Effect of Binder Content on Moisture Susceptibility of Bituminous Mixtures at Different Test Conditions”, International Virtual Conference on "Smart and Sustainable Development of Urban Green Infrastructure in India and Canada" (SSDUGI – 2022), Paper ID: SSDUGI_6, pp: 28-29, March 2022.

  57. Nihil John, and Sunitha, V., “Investigation on the Performance of Warm Mix Asphalt mixture with Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement”, International Virtual Conference on "Smart and Sustainable Development of Urban Green Infrastructure in India and Canada" (SSDUGI – 2022), Paper ID: SSDUGI_20, March 2022.

  58. Tummala Venkata Ganesh, and Sunitha, V., “Study on the Effect of Geopolymer on Rheological Properties of Crumb Rubber Modified Binders”, International Virtual Conference on "Smart and Sustainable Development of Urban Green Infrastructure in India and Canada" (SSDUGI – 2022), Paper ID: SSDUGI_25, March 2022, pp: 56-57.

  59. Tejas Shrivastava, Arjun Siva Rathan R.T, and Sunitha, V., “Performance assessment of plastic waste modified bitumen pavement constructed by wet process”, International Virtual Conference on "Smart and Sustainable Development of Urban Green Infrastructure in India and Canada" (SSDUGI – 2022), Paper ID: SSDUGI_72, March 2022, pp: 118-119.

  60. Ankit Kumar Singh, Sh. Satish Pandey, and Sunitha, V., “Finite Element Analysis of Geocell Reinforced Flexible Pavements”, International Virtual Conference on "Smart and Sustainable Development of Urban Green Infrastructure in India and Canada" (SSDUGI – 2022), Paper ID: SSDUGI_73, March 2022.

  61. Kawaldeep Singh Bhatia, Sunitha, V. and R. Chandra Prathap, “Effect of overloading on flexible pavement performance”, International Virtual Conference on "Smart and Sustainable Development of Urban Green Infrastructure in India and Canada" (SSDUGI – 2022), Paper ID: SSDUGI_74, pp: 120-121, March 2022.

  62. Suneel Singh, Arjun Siva Rathan R.T and Sunitha, V., “Performance assessment of plastic waste modified bitumen mix pavements constructed by dry process”, International Virtual Conference on "Smart and Sustainable Development of Urban Green Infrastructure in India and Canada" (SSDUGI – 2022), Paper ID: SSDUGI_75, pp: 122-123, March 2022.

Books & Monographs

  1. V. Anusudha, V. Sunitha, Chithu Babu, Chetan R. Bhole, and Samson Mathew, “Numerical Studies on Coir Geotextile Reinforced Flexible Pavement”, Lecture notes in Civil Engineering, Scopus, ISSN/ISBN Number 2366-2565, 2022.

Ph.D. / M.Tech. / B.Tech. Projects Guided

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Handling Subjects and Laboratories

  • Highway and Pavement Engineering.

  • Pavement Materials and Design.

  • Pavement Construction and Management.

  • Railway, airport and Harbour Engineering.

  • CAD in Civil Engineering.

  • Traffic Engineering and Highway Geometrics.

  • Transportation and Land Use Planning.

  • Urban Transportation Systems.

  • Road Transport Management and Economics.

  • Highway Materials.

  • Highway Engineering laboratory.

  • Traffic and pavement Engineering Laboratory.

  • CAD in Transportation Engineering Laboratory.

Awards/Associateships

  1. Best Performer Award in Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering in 2022, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli

  2. Best Performer Award in Assistant Professor Grade I (Engineering) in 2021, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli

  3. Best paper award in theme Pavement Technology in 2020, 7th Conference on Transportation Systems Engineering and Management 2020 (CTSEM 2020) organized by KSCSTE-NATPAC and CET Trivandrum

  4. Best Performer Award in Assistant Professor Grade I (Engineering) in 2020, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli

  5. Institute Day award for Consultancy Work in 2019, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli

  6. Best paper award in 2018, International Conference on infrastructure Development: Issues, Innovations and the Way Forward (ICID 2018) organized by the Dept. of Civil Engg, Mar Baselios College of Engineering and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram

  7. Second Rank Holder in 2003, National Institute of Technology, Calicut, Kerala

  8. First Rank Holder in 2001, N.S.S. College of Engineering, Palakkad, Kerala

Academic/Administrative Responsibilities

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Membership of Learned Societies

  1. Life Member of Indian Road Congress, M-29704, 2004.

  2. Associate Member of The Institution of Engineers (India), AM097458-5, 2009.

  3. Life Member of Indian Geotechnical Society, LM-3666, 2013.

  4. Life Member of Transportation Research Group of India (TRG), 20143, 16.11.2020.

  5. Affiliate Member of ASCE American Society of Civil Engineers, 12216129, April 2021.

Research Projects

  • “Development of Optimization Models and Decision Support System for National Highways”, Funding Agency-National Highway Authority of India (Ongoing).

  • “Traffic Rules and Signs-based Toys”, Funding Agency-Ministry of MSME, Government of India (Ongoing).

  • “Evaluation of Pavement performance of Coir reinforced Rural Roads in Tamilnadu”, Funding Agency-Coir Board, Ministry of MSME, Government of India (Ongoing).

  • “Centre of Excellence in Transportation Engineering (CETransE)”, Funding Agency-MHRD, Government of India (Ongoing).

  • “Performance evaluation of cement concrete pavements in rural roads ”, Funding Agency-National Rural Infrastructural Development Agency, NRIDA (Ongoing).

  • “Life Cycle and Performance Assessment of Waste Plastic Roads ”, Funding Agency-NRIDA, Government of India (Completed in 2021).

  • “Pavement Performance Studies on Coir Geotextiles Reinforced Rural Roads in Tamilnadu ”, Funding Agency-Coir Board, Ministry of MSME, Government of India (Completed in 2018).

  • “Urban Pavement Maintenance Management Systems (UPMMS) ”, Funding Agency-Ministry of Urban Development and IIT, Madras, Chennai (Completed in 2015).

  • “Coir Geotextiles Reinforced Low Volume Rural Road Pavement Performance Studies in Tamilnadu and Puducherry (UPMMS) ”, Funding Agency-Coir Board, Ministry of MSME, Government of India (Completed in 2012).

Consultancy Projects

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