Last name

Talakokula

Gender

Female

First name

Visalakshi

Title

Professor

Date of birth

17 July 1977

Tel.

09871857979

Country

India

E-mail

basavishali@gmail.com

Organization

Bennett University

Address

Tech Zone IV, Greater Noida, India

Brief Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Visalakshi Talakokula is currently Professor and head at the Department of Civil Engineering, Bennett University, Gr. Noida. She is an executive member of professional bodies such as Indian Concrete Institute, WISE India, Governing council member of Indian Association of Structural engineers. She is technical member of international committees of Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures (RILEM) for (i) Characteristics of the steel/concrete interface and their effect on initiation of chloride-induced reinforcement corrosion (TC SCI) and (ii) Stress Corrosion Cracking and Hydrogen Embrittlement of Concrete-Reinforcing Steels (TC CCH). Technical Member of Indian Concrete Institute (ICI) for framing guidelines of water proofing systems. Her research has been published in peer reviewed international and national journals, She has also co-authored a book “Piezoelectric Materials, Application in SHM, Energy harvesting and Bio Mechanics” (Wiley publication). She is Editorial board member of International Journal of Concrete Technology, International Journal of Construction Engineering and Planning and International Journal of Geological and Geotechnical Engineering. She is Academic member of Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER), Athens, Greece and reviewer of various journals such as Journal of Inst. of Smart Structures and Systems, Construction and Building Materials (Elsevier), Sensors & Actuators: A. Physical (Elsevier), Athens Journal of Technology & Engineering, Non-Destructive Techniques and Evaluation (Elsevier), Indian Concrete Institute. She has received various awards, among them include Best Paper award at Corrosion conf. and Expo. CORCON 2012, Best Paper award at Nation Civil Engineers Symposium (IIT Bombay) 2013, Best poster award at ICTRAM 2012.

She has a total experience of over 15 years in academic serving at various positions in the Civil engineering department, presently working as founding head of the department at Bennet University. During her brief tenure as Head, she has developed a new curriculum for the implementation of choice based credit system (CBCS) for B. Tech (Civil Engineering) stream, wherein the students could take courses of their choice, learn at their own pace, undergo additional courses and acquire more than the required credits, coupled with an interdisciplinary approach. Introduced blended MOOCS as a part of curriculum. She has started student chapters of professional bodies such as Indian Concrete Institute (ICI) and Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS) for benefit of undergraduate students to meet and learn from fellow students, as well as faculty members and professionals in the field. She has founded the Material Research Lab (MRL) to carry out research in the areas of concrete, its constituents and other construction materials. She has also been instrumental in setting an in house software training centre dealing with Civil Engineering design software’s such as STAAD, eTabs, SAP, Rivet, Primavera, Ms Project etc. She also played pivotal role in preparation of documentation for accreditation process such as NBA and NAAC. She has introduced peer learning among the students wherein academically good student will teach slow learners during their leisure and mentor them, thus enhancing direct interaction among students to promote active learning.

Research interests related to the TC 281-CCC WG4

My expertise is in non-destructive testing using piezo sensors, most of my work is related to corrosion detection and assessment using these sensors. It would be really interesting to work on combined environmental and mechanical load and see how the sensor signature changes due to these combined loads.

Already starting setting up the experiments for the combined carbonation and mechanical load with the help of Prof. Wang ling and Li juan, CBMA.

Can contribute in determining the deterioration in stiffness and mass due to the combined load using piezo sensor through the identifies equivalent system parameters.

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