PROFILE

Education

B. E (Civil Engineering).,
M.E (Construction Engineering and Management) from CEG, Anna University, Chennai.

Research Activities

R&D activities on Testing, Evaluation and Development of building materials such as cement, concrete, timber, and other panel products.

Fiber-reinforced composite/ panel products for structural and heavy load applications.

Development of Engineered Wood Products (EWP) such as RLVL for structural applications.

As a part of teaching and training for students theory and practical classes on Panel Products Applications (PPA) and Timber Engineering. Also, Short-term training courses and student projects for M.E & B.E were guided.

Research Expertise

Development of composite cements, concrete, wood based panel products and other alternatives.

Development of panel products from other ligno - cellulosic materials such as Lantana, natural fibers, etc

Development of fiber reinforced plywood and LVL for heavy duty applications

Modular panel systems were being developed for bamboo housing which will enable prefabrication in bamboo housing using all IPIRTI developed products.

Projects

Development of composite cement from industrial waste

Development of lantana composites composites such as Particle Board, Bricks and laminates

Development of Fibre Reinforced LVL from Melia dubia for structural applications

Ongoing Projects

Development of composite cement from industrial waste

Development of lantana composites composites such as Particle Board, Bricks and laminates

Development of Fibre Reinforced LVL from Melia dubia for structural applications

Publications

International and National Conference - 5, Journal Publications - 9 (Scopus Indexed)

Ramkumar V R, Thanigai K, Prakash V, Kiran M C, “Development of Lantana camara composites” in the 3rd International Conference on Advances in Physical Sciences and Materials 2022 (ICAPSM 2022), 18 - 19, August 2022.

Sumathy R, Jagadheeswari R, Brindha D, Sasi R, Siva A, M Amran, K L Usanova , Roman Fediuk, Pablo Guindos and Ramkumar V R,""Flexural behavior of copper slag admixed reinforced concrete beams with fly ash partially replaced for cement under forwarded cyclic load"", Materials, 15 (3101), 1 -24, 2022, IF. 3.75"

Ramkumar V R, Murali G, Asrani N P and K Karthikeyan, “Development of a novel low carbon cementitious two stage layered fibrous concrete with superior impact strength”, Journal of Building Engineering, 25, 2019, IF. 7.14

G Murali, K Karthikeyan and Ramkumar V R, “Reliability Analysis of Impact Failure Energy of Fibre Reinforced Concrete Using Weibull Distribution”, Journal of Applied Science and Engineering 21 (2), 163-170, 2018, IF - 0.28

G. Murali, Ramkumar V R and T. Indhumathi, “Analysis of flexural fatigue failure of concrete made with 100% coarse recycled and natural aggregates”, Computers and Concrete, 21 (3), 291-298, 2018, IF. 1.950

Ramkumar V R and G. Murali, “Impact resistance of fibre reinforced concrete containing lime sludge based composite cements”, Journal of Structural Engineering 44 (6), 649-662, 2018, (UGC listed Journal, Scopus Indexed)

Ramkumar V R, Chinnaraju K and G. Murali, “On Low-Energy Impact Response Of Fibre Reinforced Concrete Made With Binary And Quaternary Cementitious Blends Of Lime Sludge, Fly Ash And Metakaolin”, Romanian Journal of Materials 2017, 47 (4), 491 – 499, 2017, IF. 0.65

G. Murali, R. Gayathri and Ramkumar V R, “Two statistical scrutinize of impact strength and strength reliability of steel Fibre-Reinforced Concrete”, KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, 1-13, 2017, IF. – 1.57.

G Murali, Ramkumar V R and K Karthikeyan, “The Effects of Impact Loading on the Flexural Strength of Fibre Reinforced Concrete”, NISCAIR-CSIR, 2017, IF. 0.557. (UGC listed Journal, Scopus).

Murali G, Monika Vincy T, Suraj K, Ramkumar V R, “Assessment of Impact Strength of Fibre Reinforced Concrete by Two Parameter Weibull Distribution”, ARPN Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, March 2017, Vol. 12(5), (Impact Factor: 0.2) (UGC listed Journal, Scopus).

Achievements

Institute projects - 1
Institute Projects (as Co.PI) - 2
Sponsored/Consultancy Projects (As Co. PI) – 40 testing and evaluation of fire retardant doors received from various clients as consultancy projects