Prof. K. Balaji Rao

CSIR-Structural Engineering Research Centre, Chennai, India

Email: balaji@serc.res.in

Qualifications

1990 Ph.D., Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

1984 M.Sc.,  Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

1977 B.Sc., Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University College of Engineering, Anantapur, India

Publications (Selected)

1. Balaji Rao, K. and Appa Rao, T.V.S.R., Stochastic modelling of crackwidth in reinforced concrete beams subjected to fatigue loading, Engineering Structures, Vol. 26, No. 5, 2004, pp. 665-673.
2. Balaji Rao, K., Anoop, M.B., Lakshmanan, N., Gopalakrishnan, S. and Appa Rao, T.V.S.R., Application of Brunswikian theory for corrosion damage assessment of reinforced concrete structural members, The Brunswikian Society Newsletter, November 2004, pp. 4-5.
3. Priya, C., Balaji Rao, K., Anoop, M.B., Lakshmanan, N., Gopika Vinod, Kushwaha, H.S. and Saraf, R.K., Probabilistic failure analysis of austenitic nuclear pipelines against stress corrosion cracking, Proceedings of Institution of Mechanical Engineers (UK) - Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, Vol. 219, No. 7, July 2005, pp. 607-626.
4. Priya, C., Balaji Rao, K., Anoop, M.B., and Lakshmanan, N., Some case studies on probabilistic failure analysis of un-reinforced brick masonry structures in india against earthquakes, Masonry International, Journal of British Masonry Society, Vol. 20, No. 1, Spring 2007, pp. 35-54.
5. Anoop, M.B., Balaji Rao, K. and Lakshmanan, N., An algorithm for detection of change point in on-line monitoring data, Journal of Infrastructure Systems, ASCE, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2008, pp. 33-41.
6. Balaji Rao, K., Markov chain modeling for reliability estimation of engineering systems at different scales – Some considerations, Research Journal of Engineering and Technology, An International Research Journal of Engineering Science and Technology, Vol. 3, No. 1, Jan-Mar 2010, pp.15-19. (also arxiv.org/pdf/0708.1566)
7. Balaji Rao, K., Anoop, M.B., Sreeshylam, P., Sridhar, S., Kesavan, K., and Ravisankar, K., Assessment of prestress losses in instrumented prestressed concrete beams using stochastic analysis, Strain, Vol. 47, 2011, pp. e175–e188.
8. Daniel Ronald Joseph, J., Balaji Rao, K. and Anoop, M.B., A study on clustered and de-clustered world-wide earthquake data using G-R recurrence law, International Journal of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 6, 2011, pp. 178-182.
9. Kamatchi, P., Balaji Rao, K., Arunachalam, S. and Nagesh R. Iyer, Methodologies for vulnerability assessment of built- environment subjected to earthquakes, International Journal of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 6, 2011, pp. 183-188.
10. Balaji Rao, K., Anoop, M.B., Kamatchi, P., Balasubramanian, S.R., Daniel Ronald Joseph, J. and Nagesh R. Iyer, Stochastic response analysis and development of fragility curves of reinforced concrete chimneys subject to stochastic seismic excitations, International Journal of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 6, 2011, pp. 565-570.
11. Anoop, M.B., Prabhu, G. and Balaji Rao, K., Probabilistic analysis of shear fatigue life of steel plate girders using fracture mechanics approach, Proceedings of Institution of Mechanical Engineers (UK) - Journal of Risk and Reliability, Vol. 225, No. 4, 2011, pp. 389 – 398.
12. Balaji Rao, K., Bhaskar Desai, V., Jagan Mohan D., Probabilistic analysis of Mode II fracture of concrete with crushed granite stone fine aggregate replacing sand, Construction and Building Materials, Vol. 27, No. 1, 2012, pp. 319 - 330.
13. Anoop, M.B., Balaji Rao, K., Lakshmanan, N., Raghuprasad B.K., Markov chain modeling of evolution of strains in reinforced concrete flexural beams, Materiales de Construcción, Vol. 61, No. 307, 2012, pp. 443 - 453.
14. Balaji Rao, K., Bhaskar Desai V, Jagan Mohan D, Experimental investigations on Mode II fracture of concrete with stone dust, Materials Research, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2012, pp. 41 - 50.
15. K.V. Venkatesha; K. Balaji Rao,; S.V. Dinesh; B.H. Bharathkumar; M.B. Anoop; S.R. Balasubramanian; Nagesh R Iyer., Experimental Investigation on Reinforced Concrete Beams without and with CFRP Wrapping, Slovak Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol. XX, No.3, 2012, pp. 15 – 26.
16. Kamatchi, P., K. Balaji Rao, K., Nagesh R. Iyer, and Arunachalam, S., Neural network-based methodology for inter-arrival times of earthquakes, Natural Hazards, Vol. 64, 2012, pp. 1291 – 1303.
17. K. Balaji Rao and M.B. Anoop, Condition assessment of structures-some issues related to handling uncertainties, International Journal of Forensic Engineering (accepted for publication).
18. K. Balaji Rao and M.B. Anoop, Performability analysis of reinforced concrete bridge girders in corrosive environments using Markov chains with fuzzy states, SRESA Journal of Life Cycle Reliability and Safety Engineering (accepted for publication).
19. Balaji Rao, K., Anoop, M. B., Kesavan, K., Balasubramanian, S.R., Ravisankar, K and Nagesh R. Iyer., Modelling of Strains in Reinforced Concrete Flexural Members using Alpha-Stable Distribution, Computers and Concrete, An International Journal (accepted for publication).
20. Balaji Rao, K. and Anoop, M.B., Stochastic Analysis of RC Beams with Corroded Reinforcement, Construction Materials, Proceedings of ICE, (U.K), Accepted for Publication.