Recycled Waste Materials

Evaluation of Compressibility and Drainage Characteristics of Highly Plastic clay stabilized with Fly ash and Stone quarry dust.- Strength Characteristics of Clayey Soil Stabilized with Nano - Silica.- Chemical Analysis Procedures for Determining the Dispersion Behaviour of Red Mud.- Study and Analysis of Characteristics of Construction and Demolition Waste in Highway Pavements.- Effect of Cement Kiln Dust and RBI Grade 81 on Engineering Properties of Plastic Clay.- Stabilization of silty soil with marble dust and sugarcane bagasse ash.- Strength Improvement of Silt Loam using Egg Shell Powder and Quarry Dust.- Enhancement of Shearing Strength of Poorly Graded Sand by Using Surface Modified Waste Rubber Tyre Fibres.- Effects of granulated ground blast furnaceslag and fly ash on stabilization of soil.- Soil Stabilization Using Plastic Waste.- Effect of fly ash on permeability of soil.- Influence of Waste Marble Powder and Metakaolin on Strength Properties of Concrete: A Short Review.- Review paper on partial replacement of cement and aggregates with various sindustrial waste material and its effect on concrete properties.

Arvind Kumar Agnihotri is Professor of Civil Engineering at NIT Jalandhar. He completed his PhD from University of Roorkee (1998), M Tech from NIT Kurukshetra (1989) and BE from Panjab University Chandigarh (1987). He possesses a work experience of around 29 years in research, teaching and academic administration, with several years spent holding key leadership positions. His areas of interest are Geotechnical and Geo-Environmental Engineering, Reinforced Earth (Geo-Synthetics and Geofibers), Ground Improvement and Soil-Structure-interaction. He has supervised 9 PhD Thesis and 7 more are in progress. He has guided 45 M Tech dissertations. He has published more than 100 papers in international and National journals and conferences.  He served as Head of Civil Engineering, Dean Academic, Dean (Planning and Development) at prestigious Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar.  He is fellow/member of many professional organizations like ASCE, IGS, ISTE, Institution of Engineers, International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering and Indian Roads Congress. He is reviewer of many international journals of repute. Krishna R. Reddy is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Director of Sustainable Engineering Research Laboratory and also the Director of the Geotechnical and Geo-Environmental Engineering Laboratory in the Department of Civil and Materials Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  He is the author of 3 books: (1) Geo-Environmental Engineering: Site Remediation, Waste Containment, and Emerging Waste Management Technologies, (2) Electrochemical Remediation Technologies for Polluted Soils, Sediments and Groundwater, and (3) Sustainable Remediation of Contaminated Sites. He is also author of 182 journal papers, 15 edited books, 10 book chapters, and 170 full conference papers. Dr.Reddy has given 160 invited presentations in the U.S.A. and 15 other countries.