Director

Dr. K. Ramanjaneyulu PhD
Professional Background
- Chief Scientist - , CSIR-Structural Engineering Research Centre, Chennai, since 01-01-2011
- Professor - Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Chennai, since 27-02-2014
- In-charge - Software building, CSIR-SERC, from 1-4-2009 to 7th October 2010
- Head - Structural Testing Laboratory, CSIR-SERC, from 08-10-2010 to 10-7-2011
- Head - Advanced Concrete Testing and Evaluation Laboratory (ACTEL), CSIR-SERC, from 11-7-2011 to 1-9-2020


Areas of Scientific Interest
- Reinforced and Prestressed Concrete
- Seismic upgradation and retrofitting of deficient and distressed beam-column sub-assemblages
- Fatigue of concrete structures
- Composite bridge girders with corrugated steel webs
- Performance evaluation and structural health assessment of bridges
- Power plant structures such as cooling towers and Chimneys
- Shell structures
- Numerical modelling and analysis of structures
- Structural repair/restoration
- Blast resistant design of structures

Professional Recognition /Awards
- Awarded DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Fellowship, 1992 – 93 to carry out research at Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany
- Awarded Raman Research Fellowship, 2006-07 to carry out research at ILEK, University of Stuttgart, Germany
- Awarded Certificate of appreciation by the Director, SERC, Madras, on 29-8-2000 - for the significant scientific contribution towards SERC winning 1999 CSIR Technology Prize for Engineering Technology in the area of Computer-aided Analysis and Design of Structures and Software Development
- Awarded prizes by the Institution of Engineers ( Four times)
• The George Oomen Memorial prize in the year 2006
• The Sir Arthur Cotton Memorial prize in the year 2007
• The Suchit Kumar Ghosh Memorial Prize in the year 2009
• Dr. Jai Krishna Prize in the year 2013
- Awarded The Indian National Group of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering Medal (twice)
• The ING-IABSE Medal for the year 2005
• The ING-IABSE Medal for the year 2006 Awarded Dr. M. Ramaiah prize for the best technical paper (Four times)
- Awarded Dr. M. Ramaiah prize for the best technical paper (Four times)