Academic Profile

Yuvaraj Dhandapani is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Leeds, UK. I am actively engaged in several EPSRC and industry-funded projects dealing with low CO2 cements, Concrete durability, and sustainable construction. 

Prior to joining Leeds, Yuvaraj obtained his PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. His PhD work was a part of the Limestone Calcined Clay Cement (LC3) funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).

A touch of history to do concrete research in Leeds

Dr. Yuvaraj Dhandapani holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), Chennai, India. His PhD thesis work, titled ‘Composite cement with limestone additions – microstructure and transport properties’, was a part of the global low carbon cement project (Limestone Calcined Clay Cement, LC3) funded by Swiss council for development and cooperation. The thesis was supervised by Prof. Manu Santhanam, IIT Madras. His dissertation encompasses fundamental and applied investigation on sustainable low energy binders based on aluminosilicates-limestone composites with focus on conceptualising the mechanism related to physical structure development in cementitious systems. 

Dr. Yuvaraj Dhandapani is an active member of RILEM from 2016 and has been actively involved in several technical committees, including RILEM TC-SCM, TC-CCL, TC-CCC, and TC-TRM. He has also actively contributed to different working groups and round robin testing programs as a part of RILEM TCs.

Qualifications

·        PhD (Civil Engineering), IIT Madras (2015-2020)

·        M.S. (Civil Engineering), IIT Madras (2014-2015)

Professional Activities

• Member, RILEM (2017- till date)

• Associate member, ASCE

• Student member, ACI

• Reviewer for 3rd Calcined Clay Conference, New Delhi, 2019

• Scientific committee member, 3rd International Conference on Innovative Technologies for Clean and Sustainable Development, Chandigarh, India. Reviewer for the conference’s Materials Today: Proceedings, Elsevier, 2019)

• Reviewer for major cement and concrete journals, including Cement and Concrete Research, Cement and Concrete Composites, Advances in Cement Research, ASCE - JMCE,  Materials and Structures, Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure and Indian Concrete Journal

Industry internactions and internships:

1. L&T constructions – CTS, siruseri project site from 05.06.12 to 16.06.12.

2.  B&B developers & builders pvt ltd, Field work (VIT University site) from 18.06.12 to 20.06.12.

3.  PWD- Buildings Department, Ponneri from 22.06.12 to 27.06.12.

4.  JAYASHREE CONSULTANT- Project Student Trainee from 03.06.2013 to 02.07.2013.

5. Trainer, Civil Simplied, April 2014-July 2014. 

6. Summer Research fellow, EPFL, May 2016-Aug 2016.