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

Effect of natural fiber reinforcement on mechanical properties of Plywood. [IWST/PPPT/XXIII/199 - As. PI]

Development of composite doorframe for fire-rated door shutters. [IWST/PPPT/XXIII/191 - As. Co. PI]

Exploratory studies on the addition of different fire retardant chemicals in the different stages for the development of fire retardant plywood. [IWST/PPPT/XXIII/196 - As. Co. PI]

Effect of glue core veneer in along direction beneath face veneer on the Bending properties of plywood.

Mapping, Monitoring and Management of Lantana camara through utilization for improving livelihood of people in forest fringe villages of India, Component: C - IWST Component - 2: Demonstration of value-added products from Lantana and Analysing the value chains and business models. [As Co. PI, Budget: ₹. 86.89 Lakhs]

Design and development of short span pedestrian bamboo foot bridge. [As Co. PI, Budget: ₹. 7.93 Lkahs, Ext – 19, RPC 2024].

Development of Fire retardant door shutter for 120 mins rating through construction method, [As Co. PI, Budget: ₹. 12.00 Lakhs]

Publications

G Murali, Leong Sing Wong, V.R Ramkumar, Sallal R. Abid, “From waste to resource recycled lime sludge: Sustainable low clinker cementitious binder, a comprehensive study on hydration, strength of concrete”, Journal of Building Engineering 86 (108935), 2024. I.F. 6.4

V R Ramkumar, G. Murali, N. Anand, V. Prakash, D. Sujatha, “Experimental study on the performance of fiber-reinforced laminated veneer lumber produced using Melia dubia for structural applications”, Construction and Building Materials, 417 (135325), 2024. I.F. 7.6

VR Ramkumar, K Thanigai, MC Kiran, V Prakash, MK Dubey, “Development of medium density particle board from Lantana camara”, AIP Conf. Proc. 2901, 050013 (2023) 2901 (050013), 1-8, 2023.

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

GMurali G, Herda Yati Binti Katman, Leong Sing Wong, Mohd Rasdan Ibrahim, Ramkumar V R, “Effect of recycled lime sludge, calcined clay and silica fume blended binder-based fibrous concrete with superior impact strength and fracture toughness”, Construction and Building Materials, 409 (133880), 2023. I.F. 7.6

A. K. P. Dhanakodi, Smila Jenifer, Ramkumar V.R , Manoj Kumar Dubey, “Optimization of process parameters during flax and polypropylene composite manufacturing using Box-Behnken Design of Experiments”, Materials Today: Proceedings,2023, I.F. 2.5 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2023.11.103.

V R Ramkumar, MK Dubey, S Hema, “Rethinking of Building Materials in Green Building Construction”, Wood is Good 3 (3), 21 – 27, 2022.

S Avudaiappan, G Pablo, VR Ramkumar, “Future trend in construction: A hybrid approach to timber buildings”, Wood is Good 3 (3), 33 – 37, 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

V R Ramkumar, 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, 100841, 2019, IF. 6.4.

G Murali, NP Asrani, V R Ramkumar, A Siva and MK Haridharan, “Impact resistance and strength reliability of novel two-stage fibre-reinforced concrete”, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering 44 (5), 4477- 4490, 2019, IF. 2.87.

G Murali, K Karthikeyan and V R Ramkumar, “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. 18.

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. 1.95.

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), IF. 0.2, (UGC listed Journal, Scopus).

Murali G and Ramkumar V R, “Utilization of Bottom Ash too Enhance Compressive Strength of Different Grade of Concrete”, International Journal of Advanced Scientific Research and Technology, June 2012, Vol. 3(2), pp 371-375.

Jayakumar P T and Ramkumar V R, “Experimental Investigation on paver Blocks using Steel Slag as partial replacement of aggregate and Sludge as Replacement of Cement”, International Journal of Science and Research, May 2013, Vol. 2(5), pp 87-91.

K.Chinnaraju, Ramkumar V R, K.Lineesh and S.Nithya, “Study on Concrete Using Steel Slag as Coare Aggregate Replacement and EcoSand as Fine Aggregate”, International Journal of Research and Engineering & Advanced Technology, Vol. 1 (3), June-July 2013, pp 1 – 6.

Achievements

Awarded Junior Research Fellow (UGC – CPEES) – 2014
Young Scientist Award