Assistant Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Powai, Mumbai - 400
076
Phone: 91 22
2576 7323 (O)
Fax: 91 22 2576
7302
prakashn@iitb.ac.in, prakashn@civil.iitb.ac.in
Education
Ph.D. (Building Technology and Construction Management), Indian Institute of Technology Madras, July 2009.
M.E. (Construction Engineering and Management), College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University, 2003.
B.E. (Civil Engineering), Government
College of Technology,
Coimbatore, 2001.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Assistant
Professor, Indian institute of Technology Bombay, Since July 2011
Assistant
Professor, National Institute of Technology Calicut from April 2010 to June 2011
Senior Project Officer, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
from August 2009 to March 2010
Provisional Research Associate, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
from January 2009 to July 2009
Research Scholar, Indian Institute of Technology Madras from
August 2004 to December 2008
Lecturer,
PSNA College of Engineering and Technology, Dindigul from February
2003 to July 2004
Project
Associate, Structural Engineering Research Centre
(CSIR), Chennai from August 2002 to December 2002
RESEARCH INTEREST
High
performance concrete, Sustainable construction materials, Mineral and chemical
admixtures in concrete, Rheology of cement based materials
PUBLICATIONS - Journal papers
Prakash Nanthagopalan, Michael Haist, Manu Santhanam and Harald
S. Muller (2008) Investigations on the
influence of granular packing on the flow properties of cementitious
suspensions, Cement and Concrete
Composites, vol. 30, No. 9, 763 -
768.
Prakash Nanthagopalan and Manu Santhanam (2008) A new approach to optimisation of paste composition in self-compacting concrete, The Indian Concrete Journal, vol. 82, 11 - 18.
Prakash Nanthagopalan and Manu Santhanam (2009) Experimental investigations on
the influence of paste composition and content on the properties of
self-compacting concrete, Construction
and Building Materials, vol. 23, No. 11, 3443 - 3449.
Prakash Nanthagopalan and Manu Santhanam (2010) A new empirical test method
for the optimisation of viscosity modifying agent dosage in self-compacting
concrete, Materials and Structures, Vol. 43, No. 1-2, 203 - 212.
Prakash Nanthagopalan and Manu Santhanam (2011) Fresh and hardened properties of self-compacting concrete produced with Manufactured sand, Cement and Concrete Composites, Vol. 33, No.3, 353-358.
Prakash Nanthagopalan and Manu Santhanam. An empirical approach for the optimisation of aggregate combinations for self-compacting concrete, Materials and Structures (Published Online).
Vijay Kumar Gopalan, S Venkatraghavan, Prakash Nanthagopalan and Manu Santhanam. Standardisation of experimental investigations on optimizing the viscosity modifying agent dosage for flowable concretes, Cement and Concrete Composites (Under review)
PUBLICATIONS - Conference papers
Prakash Nanthagopalan and Manu Santhanam. A study of the interaction between Viscosity
Modifying Agent and High Range Water Reducer in Self-Compacting Concrete, Measuring, Monitoring and Modeling Concrete
Properties, 3- 7 July, Greece, 2006, pp 449 - 454.
Prakash Nanthagopalan and Manu Santhanam. A simple and systematic mixture design procedure for self-compacting concrete, 6th International RILEM Symposium on Design, Production and Placement of SCC, Canada, 2010, Vol. II, pp 55-63.
SPONSORED PROJECTS
|
Sl. No. |
Projects |
Sponsoring Agency |
Status |
Duration |
|
1 |
Rheological characterisation of self compacting concrete |
IIT Bombay |
Ongoing |
3 years |
|
2 |
A Pilot Project for Reusing the Rubble (Co-PI:
Dr. Ramasubramanian) |
IIT Bombay |
Ongoing |
1 year |
Invited Talk: Mixture design for pavement quality
concrete, Refresher cum orientation course on road works for BMC Engineers,
November 2011, IIT Bombay.
Reviewer: KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering
CSIR - EMR
Indian Concrete
Institute
Indian Journal of
Engineering and Material Science
STUDENTS:
B.Tech: (On going 2011-12)
1. Saloni Metha - Post consumer wastes utilisation in IIT Bombay for construction purposes - A Framework
M.Tech: -
PhD:
For those who are dedicated, self motivated and having an interest to pursue their PhD in the area of concrete:
I am looking for PhD students to work on the rheological aspects of self compacting concrete. The students should have in depth knowledge in concrete especially on self compacting concrete. Further, they should also have good knowledge in rheology of concrete in general, with special focus on rheology of self compacting concrete and rheometers. Prepare a research proposal on the rheology of self compacting concrete and write to me (prakashn@iitb.ac.in).
I am also looking for PhD students to work on the sustainable construction materials/alternative construction materials. Prepare a research proposal on above topics and write to me (prakashn@iitb.ac.in).
AWARDS AND
MEMBERSHIPS
DAAD
fellowship - University
of Karlsruhe, Germany from April 2006 to September 2006.
Life Member,
The Indian Society for Technical
Education
Life Member, Indian Concrete Institute