சி. எஸ். ஐ. ஆர். - கட்டமைப்பு பொறியியல் ஆராய்ச்சி நடுவம்

Professional Background

• Principal Scientist/ Scientist - E, CSIR – Structural Engineering Research Centre Chennai, May 2024 – till date
• Senior Scientist, CSIR – Structural Engineering Research Centre Chennai, May 2020 – May 2024
• Scientist, CSIR – Structural Engineering Research Centre Chennai, April 2016 – 22 May 2020
• Senior Project Fellow, CSIR – Structural Engineering Research Centre Chennai, September 2014 – March 2016
• Quick Hire Scientist (Trainee), CSIR – Structural Engineering Research Centre Chennai, August 2011 – August 2014

Areas of Scientific Interest

• Ultrasonic wave propagation
• Tomography of wave propagation in heterogeneous medium
• Acoustic emission technique for damage characterization and localization
• Active-passive dual technique for structural health monitoring
• Al-ML assisted techniques for damage diagnostics

Awards & Honours

• Awarded Dr. M. Ramaiah award for the best technical paper for the paper titled “Early detection and monitoring of corrosion in reinforced concrete structures using coupled time-frequency analysis” published in ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering and the award was presented during the CSIR Foundation day celebration during October 8, 2025.
• Awarded IEI Young Engineer award 2024-25 in the Civil Engineering discipline by The Institution of Engineers, India (IEI) and the same was presented during the inaugural session of the 39th National Convention of Civil Engineers held at Kochi during October 17-18, 2024
• Awarded Best paper award for the paper entitled ‘Monitoring of hydration of engineered cement composites using impedance signature’ presented by Thirumalaiselvi A and Saptarshi Sasmal in Structural Engineering Convention (SEC 2018), International Conference held at Jadavpur University, 19-21 December 2018.
• Received Gold Medal for securing First rank in B.E Civil Engineering, 2010
• Topped High school by scoring 92.25%, 2006
• District third rank holder in X Matriculation Examination by scoring 94%, 2004

Publications

SCI  Journals

• Thirumalaiselvi, A., & Sasmal, S. (2024). Machine learning-based acoustic emission technique for corrosion-induced damage monitoring in reinforced concrete structures. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 137, 109121.
• Thirumalaiselvi, A., & Sasmal, S. (2024). Early Detection and Monitoring of Corrosion in Reinforced Concrete Structures Using Coupled Time-Frequency Analysis. Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, 36(8), 04024207.
• Thirumalaiselvi, A., Sasmal, S., & Kundu, T. (2022). Detection of initiation of corrosion induced damage in concrete structures using nonlinear ultrasonic techniques. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 151(2), 1341-1352.
• Sindu, B. S., Thirumalaiselvi, A., & Sasmal, S. (2022). Investigations on fracture related properties of strain hardened concrete using digital image correlation and acoustic emission techniques. European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering, 26(14), 6807-6829.
• Thirumalaiselvi, A., Sindu, B. S., & Sasmal, S. (2022). Crack propagation studies in strain hardened concrete using acoustic emission and digital image correlation investigations. European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering, 26(10), 4346-4373.
• Thirumalaiselvi, A., & Sasmal, S. (2021). Monitoring the mechanical properties of flyash incorporated cement composite using complimentary passive-active wave propagation techniques. Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation, 36(6), 667-691.
• Basu, S., Thirumalaiselvi, A., Sasmal, S., & Kundu, T. (2021). Nonlinear ultrasonics-based technique for monitoring damage progression in reinforced concrete structures. Ultrasonics, 115, 106472.
• Thirumalaiselvi, A., & Sasmal, S. (2020). Pattern recognition enabled acoustic emission signatures for crack characterization during damage progression in large concrete structures. Applied Acoustics, 175, 107797.
• Thirumalaiselvi, A., & Sasmal, S. (2020). Electro-mechanical impedance based strength monitoring technique for hydrating blended cements. Smart Structures and Systems, 25(6), 751-764.
• Prem, P. R., Thirumalaiselvi, A., & Verma, M. (2019). Applied linear and nonlinear statistical models for evaluating strength of Geopolymer concrete. Computers and Concrete, 24(1), 7-17.
• Thirumalaiselvi, A., Anandavalli, N., & Rajasankar, J. (2019). Mesoscale studies on the effect of aggregate shape idealisation in concrete. Magazine of Concrete Research, 71(5), 244-259.
• Thirumalaiselvi, A., & Sasmal, S. (2019). Acoustic emission monitoring and classification of signals in cement composites during early-age hydration. Construction and Building Materials, 196, 411-427.
• Thirumalaiselvi, A., Verma, M., Anandavalli, N., & Rajasankar, J. (2018). Response prediction of laced steel-concrete composite beams using machine learning algorithms. Structural Engineering and Mechanics, 66(3), 399-409.
• Verma, M., Thirumalaiselvi, A., & Rajasankar, J. (2017). Kernel-based models for prediction of cement compressive strength. Neural Computing and Applications, 28(1), 1083-1100.
• Thirumalaiselvi, A., Anandavalli, N., & Rajasankar, J. (2017). Mechanics based analytical approaches to predict nonlinear behaviour of LSCC beams. Struct Eng Mech, 64, 311-321.
• Thirumalaiselvi, A., Anandavalli, N., Rajasankar, J., & Iyer, N. R. (2016). Numerical evaluation of deformation capacity of laced steel-concrete composite beams under monotonic loading. Steel Compos Struct, 20(1), 167-184.

Reputed non-SCI  Journals

• Thirumalaiselvi, A., Kannusamy, M., & SAPTARSHI, S. (2023). Acoustic emission-based non-destructive technique for integrity assessment of heavily reinforced typical Trunnion beam of spillway structure. Journal of Non Destructive Testing and Evaluation (JNDE), 20(3), 23-32.
• Thirumalaiselvi, A., & Sasmal, S. (2021). Damage Assessment of Concrete Bridge Structures Using Ultrasonic Tomography. Advances in Non-destructive Evaluation: Proceedings of NDE 2019, 163.
• Thirumalaiselvi, A., Anandavalli, N., Rajasankar, J., & Iyer, N. R. (2015). Blast response studies on Laced Steel-Concrete Composite (LSCC) slabs. In Advances in Structural Engineering, 331-342. Springer India.
• Thirumalaiselvi, A., Anandavalli, N., Rajasankar, J., & Iyer, N. R. (2015). Simplified approach to evaluate displacement of laced steel-concrete composite beams for blast loads. Journal of Structural Engineering (JoSE), CSIR – SERC, 42(1), 49-56.

Patents / Copyrights