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Department of Civil Engineering

Dr.M.V.Renukadevi, Associate Professor Dr.M.V.Renukadevi
Educational Qualification Ph.D, IISc, Bangalore
Experience Teaching: 7 years
R&D: 6 years
Area of Interest Structural Engineering
Email ID renu_gowri@yahoo.co.in
Achievements :
  1. Guiding for 5 PhD scholars; 2 Phd's awarded under VTU.
  2. Principal Investigator for the VTU Research Grant scheme, titled "Strength of Hollow Concrete Block Walls for High Rise Buildings" with a grant of Rs. 17.42 Lakhs for a period of 3 years.

List of Publications in international journal:

  1. B.K.Raghu Prasad and M.V.Renuka Devi, "Extension of FCM to plain concrete beams with vertical tortuous cracks", Vol 74 (2007) pp 2758-2769 Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Elsevier.
  2. B.K.Raghu Prasad and M.V.Renuka Devi, "A fractal and Probabilistic approach to obtain the most probable fractal dimension", submitted to Journal of Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, Elsevier.
  3. Radhakrishna, Renuka Devi. M.V., and Udayashankar.B.C., "Use of fly ash in Construction Industry for sustainable development" Journal of Environmental Research and Development, volume 03, 2009, pp1211-1221.
  4. Radhakrishna, Renuka Devi M.V., Udayashankar B.C., and Manjunath GS. "Development of Sustainable Concrete using Marginal Materials", Proceedings of The 26th International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management, March 27 – 30, 2011 Philadelphia, PA U.S.A. pp 414-425.

Books:

  1. Book entitled "Recent Advances in Structural Engineering, Editors: K.S.Jagadish and R.N.Iyengar, pp 296-329, Universities press, 2005 Contributed paper " Fracture mechanics of Concrete Structures: A State-of-the-art with A Historical review", by B.K.Raghu Prasad and M.V.Renuka Devi.Papers

International / National Conference:

  1. B.K.Raghu Prasad and M.V.Renuka Devi, "Extension of FCM to Self-Affine Cracks" International Conference on Computational and Experimental Engineering Sciences, ICCES'07, Miami Florida, USA, 3-8 January 2007.
  2. B.K.Raghu Prasad and M.V.Renuka Devi, "Fracture Mechanics of Concrete Application of Fractals" Keynote Paer), Dec-2004, STTP,IIT Madras, Chennai.
  3. B.K.Raghu Prasad and M.V.Renuka Devi, " Extension of FCM to Self –Affine Cracks", Keynote paper, Intrernational Conference on Computational and Experimental Engineering Sciences, ICCES -07, Miami, Florida, USA, 3-8, Jan 2007.
  4. B.K.Raghu Prasad and M.V.Renuka Devi " Application of Fictitious Crack Model to Self-Affine Cracks", Internattianl Conference on Civil Engeering in the new Millennium : Oppurtunities and Challenges(CENeM-2007), Bengal Engineering and Science university, Shibpur, Howra, INDIA. 11-14, Jan 2007.
  5. B.K.Raghu Prasad and M.V.Renuka Devi " ANalysisa of fracture in Palin concrete Beams with inclined Tortuous Cracks using Extended Fictitious Crack Model" McMaT – 2007 ASME Applied Mecahniocs and MAterilas Conference June 3-7, 2007.Univeristy of Texas, Austin, USA.
  6. B.K.Raghu Prasad and M.V.Renuka Devi, "Analysis of fracture in plain concrete beams with inclined crack using extended fictitious crack model" McMat 2007, ASME Applied mechanics and Materials Conference June 3-7, 2007, University of Texas at Austin. USA.

Published in Journals:

  1. Radhakrishna, Shashishankar A. Udayashankar.B.C and Renuka Devi. M.V., “Compressive Strength Assessment of Geopolymer Composites by a Phenomenological Model”, Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites, 4, March, 2009, doi:10.1177/0731684408100703 (Available online).
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