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RECORD OF PAST ACHIEVEMENTS

THE FIRST DECADE
* Cold Worked Deformed Bars (1966) – Import substitution
* Ultimate Strength Design Hand Book (1966)
* Construction of Heavy Duty Test Floor (1968)
* Un-reinforced Funicular Brick Shell Roof (12.5 m x 12.5 m) (1969)
* Pioneered the use of computers for civil engineering applications (1969)
* Structural Use of Fly Ash in Prefabricated Channel Slab Construction (1972)
* Journal of Structural Engineering (1973)
* Prefabricated Industrialised Construction (1974)
* Handbook of Machine Foundations (1974)
* Ferrocement Grain Storage Bins, Water Tanks, Service Core Units and other Products (1974 – continuing)
*  Mono Block Prestressed Concrete Railway Sleepers (1970-78)
* Model and Prototype Testing of Concrete Pressure Vessels (1971-79)

  THE SECOND DECADE
* Low cost Housing Technologies (1975)
* Rehabilitation of Fire Damaged Buildings (1975 – continuing)
* Health Assessment, Repair and Rehabilitation of Buildings and Structures (1975 – continuing)
*  Fibre Reinforced Concrete Manhole Covers (1977)
* Engineering of Structures for cyclone disaster mitigation (1977 – continuing)
* Experimental Facilities for three-Dimensional Photo-elasticity, Moire-technique, Holographic Interferometry etc., for Testing of Models & Prototypes (1978 – continuing)
* Funicular Shells and Moveable Form Work (1979)
* Space Grid Roof (1979)
*  Special Purpose Softwares – CODES, OSTA, etc. (1981 – continuing)
*  Setting up of Tower Testing and Research Facility and Testing of Transmission Line Towers (1982 – continuing)
*  Licensing of Analysis and Design Software to Spread the Message of Use of Computers for Structural Design among Civil Engineering Community (1984)
*  Use of Polymer Impregnated Ferrocement Panels with Stainless Steel Bolts for Light Beacon Towers (1984)

THE THIRD DECADE
* Pile Dynamics (1985)
* Seismic Qualification Testing of Industrial Components (1985)
* Laced Reinforced Concrete Construction Techniques for Blast Resistant Design of Structures (1987 – 1994)
* Blast Pen structure in Steel (1989)
* Fatigue Testing and Evaluation (1989 – continuing)
* Non-Linear analysis for Reinforced concrete Shells (1990 – continuing)
* Parallel Processing for solving Complex and Large Sized Structural Engineering Problems (1990 – continuing)
* Standardization of Test Procedures for Evaluation of Corrosion Damage in Concrete Structures (1991 – continuing)
* Full-Scale Dynamic Testing of Turbo Generator Pedestal (1992)
* Setting up of World Class Atmospheric Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Test Facility and Wind Tunnel Tests on Models of Buildings and Structures (1992 – continuing)
* Risk and Vulnerability Analysis for Natural Disaster Mitigation including Earthquakes and Cyclones using Expert Systems and Artificial Neural Network and Stochastic Finite Element Analysis (1992 – continuing)
* Lowering of In-service Gas Pipe Line (1994)
* Aerodynamically Shaped Cyclone Shelters (1997)

THE NEW MILLENNIUM
* Development of Bubble Shaped Dome for Parliament Library Building in Fibre Reinforced High Performance Concrete (2001)
* Controlled Blasting for Blast Foundation (2002)
* Fibre Optic Sensors in Civil engineering Applications (2002)
* Development of Support Towers for Wind Energy Generators (2003)
* Teaching Manual for Steel Structures (2004)
* FINite element Engineering analysis of structures using Adaptive Refinement Techniques (FINEART) (2004)
* Seismic Base Isolation and Development of Passive Energy Dissipation Devices (2004)
* High Performance Concretes (HVFC, HPC, SCC) (2004)
* Damage Tolerant Design of Critical Components of SARAS (2005)
* Full Scale Testing and Evaluation of Railway Bridges (2005)
* Seismic Evaluation and Retrofit of Multi-storeyed RC Buildings (2005)
* Setting up of world class Advanced Seismic Testing and Research Laboratory (2007)
* Soil Structure Interaction Studies of Massive RC Island Structure (2007)
* Re-engineering of Navigational Span of Pamban Railway Bridge (2007)
* Remote health monitoring scheme for civil engineering structures (2007)
* Use of SIFCON for Blast Resistant Design
* LRC based Blast-Resistant Design of IGLOO (2009)
* Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis (2009)


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