Dr. S Thirumalini

Designation : Professor Grade 1
School / Centre : School of Civil Engineering
Department : Structural & Geotechnical Engineering

Educational Details

Madras University

B.E.

Civil Engineering

Graduated in 1995

Anna University

M.E.

Environmental Engineering

Graduated in 2007

Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore

Ph.D.

Structural Engineering

Graduated in 2015

Research Details

Areas of Specialization

Heritage materials and structures
Damage Assessment of Historic constructions
Studies on excavated material
Conservation
Preservation and Restoration
Supplementary Cementious Materials ( SCMs)

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On-going Consultancy Project Details

Title	Funding Agency
Damage Assessment of Dwarka Temple and Gandhi House, Porbandur ,Gujarat	Heritage India Pvt Ltd
Shale as Supplementary cementious material – Phase 2	FLSmidth Pvt Ltd, Denmark

Completed Consultancy Project Details

Title	Funding Agency
Mineralogical studies on clay shale as supplementary cementing material: Investigation of thermal treatment, grinding, pigmentation, pozzolanic activity and strength	FLSmidth Pvt Ltd, Denmark

Completed Funded Project Details

Title	Funding Agency
Protection of heritage monuments & land mark of National and International importance in India and Srilanka due to direct lightning strikes, Traditional & Scientific Methods	Indo – Srilankan Project, DST, India

Patent Granted Details

Title	Application No.
Development of Eco bacterial lime mortar using Kadukai and Jaggery	372595
Aloe vera in Lime mortars	361574

Books / Book Chapters Published Details

Title	Publisher	Published Year
Identification of Crystalline Mineral Phases of Ornamental Latticed Jallies of Madras High Court Building, Tamil Nadu.	Springer	2021
Recent advances and trends in structural health monitoring. In Structural health monitoring of biocomposites, fibre-reinforced composites and hybrid composites	Woodhead Publishing	2019
Structural health monitoring of aerospace composites. In Structural Health Monitoring of Biocomposites, Fibre- Reinforced Composites and Hybrid Composites	Woodhead Publishing	2019
Production of Organic Lime Mortar to Adapt CO2 for Construction of Scared Groves @ Auroville, Puducherry, India	RILEM book series	2019

Awards & Recognitions Details

Visiting Research Fellowship – Slovenian National Building and Civil engineering Institute ( 2022)
DUO fellowship , (Sponsorship amount : 3000 Euro)
Research fellowship at University of Pisa, Italy,2019 ( Sponsorship amount : 8500 Euro)
Research award 2018: INTACH – New Delhi – (1 lakh)

International Collaborations

Department of Cultural Heritage ,University of Padavo, Italy
Research center for lime technologies , Czech Academy of science, Czech Republic
Department of Restoration , University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Technical University of Munich , Germany
University of Minho, Portugal

Industry Collaborations

FLSmidth Pvt Ltd
Heritage India Pvt Ltd
State Archeology Departments ( TN, Kerala , Karnataka etc)
Central Archeological Survey of India (ASI)
National Research laboratory on conservation of Cultural Property(NRLC)