Earned Degrees

Awards and Honours

Certificate of Merit, awarded during CSIR foundation day, for the paper, Prediction of the tensile capacity of cold- formed angles experiencing shear lag, published in the International Journal of Thin Walled Structures, 2012

Certificate of Merit , awarded during CSIR foundation day, for the paper, Simple formulation for the flexure of plates on nonlinear foundation, published in the International Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, 2008

Special Certificate of Merit , awarded by Dr.Samir Brahmachary, Director General, CSIR, for officiating as a Cotutor along with Dr.Ian Dean, Groman Consulting, South Africa, during CSIR Leadership Development Program, LDP-08-02, May, 2008

Certificate of Merit, awarded by Dr.Samir Brahmachary, Director General, CSIR, during CSIR Advanced Leadership Development Program LDP-07-01, March, 2008

Invited to Chair, session no.V on Steel Structures during Fifth International Conference on Advances in Steel Structures ICASS 07, National University of Singapore, Dec. 5-7, 2007

Elected to the Editorial Board , of International Journal of Advanced Steel Construction, Prof.WF Chen (USA), Prof.S.L.Chan (HongKong) and Prof.Zandononi (Italy) ,Chief Editors, Published from Hong Kong., 2006

Elected as a Life Educator member , of American Institute of Steel Construction, Chicago, USA, 2005

Awarded the Raman Research fellowship , by CSIR to carry out research in the area of Advanced technology of steel frames at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA as a Visiting Associate Professor during the period May-October, 2005

Certificate of Appreciation , by Prof. Joseph Hughes, Chair, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA for the work on Advanced computational methods for the analysis of steel structures at Georgia Tech., USA during May-October , 2005

Dr. Ramaiah prize, for the paper Explicit incremental matrices for the postbuckling analysis of thin plates with small initial curvature, International Journal of Struct. Engg. and Mechanics, 12-3, 283-295 which was adjudged as the best paper amongst the papers published by the scientists of Structural Engineering Research Centre, CSIR Campus, Chennai., 2001

Received a Special prize , from Hon. Union Minister for Iron and Steel Shri.B.K. Tripathy for Efforts to popularize of steel construction in India, during National seminar on Pre-engineered buildings, Chennai., 2000

Received the CSIR Technology Prize , as a member of the SERC, Chennai, team for their contribution towards Advanced analysis of complex structures, 1999

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