Emerging Trends of Advanced Composite Materials in Structural Applications

Study of the Composite Action of FRP Floor Beams and RC Slab under Flexural Loading.- Material Characterization of GFRP-CFRP Hybrid Rebars.- FRP Truss Bridge Fabrication and Response .- Structural Response of FRP Bunkers under Projectile Impact.- Study of  the Structural Response of FRP Bunkers under Blast Loading.- Post-buckling Behaviour of Functionally Graded Composite Plates with Perforations under Uniaxial In-plane Compression.- Postbuckling Study of Functionally Graded Composite Plates under In-plane Shear Loading.- Buckling and Post-buckling Behaviour of Functionally Graded Composite Plates under Combined In-plane Loads.- Effect of Size and Shape of Perforations on the Post-buckling Response of Functionally Graded Composite Plates.- Micromechanics Based Design Approach for Reinforced Engineered Cementitious Composite Beams.- Performance of Reinforced Engineered Cementitious Composite Frames Under Flexural Loading.- Review on natural fibre composites for load carrying infrastructural applications.- Dynamic Buckling of Laminated Composite Plates Subjected to Impulsive Compression Loads.- Parametric Instability of Randomly Distributed CNT Composite Plates under Different types of Non-uniform In-plane Loads.

Dr. S.B. Singh is P.E. (Civil) from state of Michigan, USA and Post-doctorate (LTU), USA, Chartered Engineer (INDIA), fellow of Institution of Engineers (FIE), PhD (IIT Kanpur), and currently Professor of Civil Engineering Department at Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani. His current areas of research are development of design guidelines for Functionally Graded Composite materials and Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) reinforced prestressed concrete structures in particular and composite materials & structures in general including nonlinear finite element modeling. Prof. Singh is also the member of ICI, ACI, ASCE, and ISTE in addition to being Associate Member of ACI-440 committee on FRP as member of ACI. He has 32 years of teaching and research experience. He has been Indian Team Leader for prestigious UKIERI (UK-India Education Research Initiatives) collaborative research project involving 10 institutions (eight from India and two from UK) on sustainable concrete Infrastructure.  He is also member of various committees and serving as editorial board member of 4 Journals. He is representing BITS Pilani on committee of Ireland-India Concrete Research Initiatives (IICRI). He has 222 publications to his credit which include more than 183 research papers (91 Journals plus 93 conference papers), 5 books [two text books, one online book, and two edited books], 13 research reports and 14 book chapters, 02 theses in addition to being Who is Who of various organizations. Prof. Singh has also filed 03 Indian patents. Furthermore, Prof. Singh has had an opportunity to teach in some of the best universities in India and USA such as at MNNIT Allahabad, NIT Warangal, BITS Pilani, and Lawrence Technological University (LTU), Southfield, Michigan, USA. Prof. Singh has delivered many Keynote lectures at national and International conferences and seminar along with helping the other technical educations as advisory member for their professional