Announcement:

Dr.N Suresh

Professor

Department of Civil Engineering

Email: suresh61.nie@gmail.com
Phone No: 9448356009
About Me:

My primary research interests are in Building Fire Safety, Behaviour of building materials under elevated temperature, and Repair and rehabilitation of buildings. I am involved in several major research and consultancy works at Department of Civil Engineering. Founder Director of Building Fire Research Center (BFRC), this center is recognised as NABL Accredited Laboratory for testing fire extinguishers, doors, and so on. It’s the South India’s only fire testing laboratory. Some of the academic responsibilities such as Head of Department, Dean (Academics), and Principal were successfully completed at NIE. Also involves in several major Research and Consultancy works at Department of Civil Engineering. Project Investigator (PI) for on-going project “Software tool for Fire Safety Audit to Quantify the Fire Safety Index of any Building” funded by Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS). I am recognised as research supervisor in VTU and AICTE. I have guided 4PhD students and 4 on-going doctoral students under VTU.  Three Indian patents have been applied on various concrete material technologies
  • B.E. (Mysore Univ.)
  • M.Tech., (IITB)
  • Ph.D. (Anna University)
  • Effects of refractory chemical on concrete subjected to elevated temperature
  • Development of refractory chemicals to sustain the elevated temperature in concrete structures
  • Development of refractory coatings for buildings
  • Post-fire residual strength of Portland cement concrete with copper slag as fine aggregate
  • Engineers Day award by Institute of Engineers in 2013
  • Honored by NIEMC & Teachers Association, NIE on 15th Sept 2014
  • TCS Best Project award for ‘A Study on the partial replacement of cement with fly ash and quarry dust at elevated temperature’ in 2017
  • Outstanding contribution in reviewing award for ‘Journal of Building Engineering’ in February 2018
Journal Publications
  1. Sachin B. P., N. Suresh, (2019), “Performance of Hybrid fibres on mechanical properties of self-compacting concrete at elevated temperature”, Journal of structures fire engineering.
  2. N. Suresh, Sachin B.P., (2019) “An experimental investigation on flexural behaviour of reinforced self-compacting concrete beams at elevated temperatures”, The Indian Concrete Journal.
  3. N. Suresh & Sachin B. P., (2018) “Coupled effect of temperature and duration on the mechanical properties of self-compacting concrete”, International Journal of Civil Engineering and Technology (IJCIET), Vol.9, Issue 2, 606-616. 
  4. Narayana Suresh, Vivke Bindiganavile and Manjunath M., “Effect of high temperature on the mechanical properties of concrete with manufactured sand”, The Indian concrete journal, September 2017, vol.91, issue 9, 55-64 
  5. Parisa Setayesh Gar, Narayana Suresh, Vivek Bindiganavile, (2017) “Sugar cane bagasse ash as a pozzolanic admixture in concrete for resistance to sustained elevated temperatures “, Construction and Building materials 153, 929-936. 
  6. Vivek Bindiganavile, Md.Toihidul Islam and Narayana Suresh, (2016) “Evaluation of water permeability in fibre reinforced hydraulic lime mortar intended for conservation”, Key Engineering Materials, ISSN 1662 -9795, Vol. 711, 630-637.
  7. N. Suresh, S. Dilip and A. Chaitanya, (2016) "Collapse Mechanism of RC Structures subjected to Fire Load", International conference on Advanced Materials & Technology,  26th to 28th May 2016. 
  8. Narayana Suresh, Vivek Bindiganavile and Mahesh Prabhu, (2016) “Effect of polyester fibre on strength of concrete subjected to elevated temperature”, The Indian concrete Journal, Vol 90, issue2, 27-33
  9. N. Suresh, (2015) “Fire Loads in Heritage Buildings”, International Journal of Business from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s M.P.Birla Institute of Management, Bengaluru, Vo. 9, No. 1, 17-21, ISSN 0974-0082.
  10. N. Suresh, (2014) “Fire Safety Management in Construction” DHARANA, An International Journal of business from M.P. Birla Institute of management, Associate : Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bengaluru, Vol.8 (2), 65-67, ISSN 0974-0082
  11. Uma Suresh, R. Jeyalakshmi and N. Suresh, (2014) “Studies on changes in microstructure and thermal conductivity of cement mortar blended with refractory chemical at elevated temperature”, Indian concrete Journal, Vol 88, issue no.9
  12. Narayana Suresh, Vivek Bindiganavile, Mahesh Prabhu, (2014) “Compressive behaviour of polyester fibre reinforced concrete subjected to sustained elevated temperature”, International Journal of Emerging technology and advanced engineering, vol 4, issue no.8. 
  13. Uma Suresh, R. Jeyalakshmi and N. Suresh , (2014) “Effect of elevated temperature on the micro structure of cement mortar blended with fly ash and zirconium dioxide”, International Journal of earth sciences and engineering, Vol 7, issue No.3. 
  14. Y.M.Manjunath, N.Suresh, D.S.Prakash and V.Bindiganavile, (2014) “Influence of coarse aggregate type on the compressive response of concrete subjected to sustained elevated temperature”, Indian Concrete Institute, Journal, Vol14, Issue no.4.
  15. Vevek Bindiganavile, Narayana Suresh and Toihidul Islam (2013) “Characteristics of early 20th century lime mortars from Mysore, The Indian Concrete Journal, Vol. 87, No. 8. 13-19.
  16. Vivek Bindiganavile, Farnaz Batool and Narayana Suresh, (2012) “ Effect of fly ash on thermal properties of cement based foams evaluated by transient plane heat source” The Indian concrete journal, Vol.86, No.11, 7-14
  17. K.N.Vishwanath & N. Suresh, (2012) “Fly ash composite concrete under sustained elevated temperature”, International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology (IJERT), ISSN: 2278-0181, Vol.1 Issue 5.
  18. K.N.Vishwanath, N.Suresh & V.Bindiganavile, (2012) “Concrete blended with fly ash and subjected to sustained elevated temperature” The Indian Concrete Journal, Vol. 87, No. 5.
  19. N. Suresh, R. Jeyalakshmi, Uma Suresh, (2011) “Studies on effect of refractory chemicals on cement mortar at Protect - 2011 held at Congress Palace of Lugano, Southern Canton of Switzerland on 30th August to 1st September 2011, Vol.82 of Applied Mechanics & Materials Journal
  20. N. Suresh, (2011) “Fire protection of structures – an overview” National Journal of fire &    security association of India, Hyderabad.
  21. Abdoullah Namdar & N.Suresh (2011) “Bentonite Thermal Behaviour in Geotechnical Engineering” International Journal of Engineering –Hunedoara, Romania
  22. N.Suresh, M.Lakshmipathy, & P.Devadas Manoharan, (2002) “Flexural Strength of Concrete subjected to sustained elevated temperature”, Indian Concrete Institute Journal.
  Conference Proceedings
  1. N.Suresh, (2016) “Assessment of Fire Damaged Structures A review”, Proceedings of the International conference on Forensic Civil Engineering, Nagpur, India.
  2. Narayana Suresh, Mahesh Prabhu and Vivek Bindiganavile, (2015) “Assessment of Residual strength in steel Fiber Reinforced concrete at various elevated temperature”, Fifth international workshop on Performance, protection & strengthening of structures  under Extreme Loading, June 28-30,2015, East Lansing MI, USA.
  3. N.Suresh & Vijaykumar D.K., (2013) “Structural behavior of RCC beams subjected to fire –A Review”, International seminar on sustainable development, BUILD TECH -2013 held on  14th & 15th December 2013 at Senate Bhavan, Manasagangothri, Mysore. 
  4. N.Suresh & Arjun, (2013) “A review on seismic performance of irregular building ( Plan and elevation)”, International seminar on sustainable development, BUILD TECH -2013 held on  14th & 15th December 2013 at Senate Bhavan, Manasagangothri, Mysore. 
  5. Mahesh Prabhu, Narayana Suresh, Vivek Bindiganavile, (2013) “Effect of fiber reinforcement on mechanical properties of normal concrete” , International seminar on sustainable development, BUILD TECH -2013 held on  14th & 15th December 2013 at Senate Bhavan, Manasagangothri, Mysore. 
  6. Sindhu S, K.M.Ananthu, N.Suresh, (2013) “Impact of smoke propagation on buildings under fire”, International conference on performance, Protection & strengthening of structures undr extreme loading (PROTECT -2013) August 26th & 27th, 2013, UBC& BFRC - NIE, Mysore. 
  7. N.Suresh, (2013) “Fire Resistance of steel structures” in National seminar on steel structures, STEELCON-2013 held on 26th & 27th April 2013 at SJCE, Mysore. 
  8. Mahesh Prabhu K., N.Suresh, Vivek Bindiganavile and Munirudrappa N., (2013) “Behavior of high strength reinforced concrete bridge pier subjected to seismic excitation”, International conference on performance, Protection & strengthening of structures undr extreme loading (PROTECT -2013) August 26th & 27th , 2013, UBC& BFRC - NIE, Mysore.
  9. K.N.Vishwanath, N.Suresh, & V.Bindiganavile, (2013) “Influence of sustained elevated temperature on fly ash concrete”, International conference on performance, Protection & strengthening of structures undr extreme loading (PROTECT -2013) August 26th & 27th, 2013, UBC& BFRC - NIE, Mysore.
  10. Chandrahasa Raja & N.Suresh (2013) “Carbon Nanotubes for the Reinforcement of cement Matrix- A review “ proceedings of the first –canadian symposium on Nano – Science & technology: on 20th &21st February 2013.
  11. N.Suresh, Navaneeth L.R. & Nikhil Jagadish, (2012) “Fire Safety Management in Construction in International Technical Seminar on Emerging Trends in Construction Technology and Housing for all held on 8th & 9th December 2012. (IC)
  12. Narayan Suresh, Vivek Bindiganavile, Mahesh Prabhu K., (2012) “Polyester fibre reinforced concrete subjected to sustained elevated temperature” International conference on Fidcon organized by Indian Concrete Institute, Nagpur, India on 13th & 14th February 2012 
  13. N.Suresh, (2011) “Quality stratagies to mitigation disaster in structures”, National seminar on engineers preparedness for disaster mitigation, Septermber 15th, 2011, Dept. of Civil Engineering Dayanand sagar college, Bangalore.
  14. Uma Suresh, R.Jayalakshmi, & N.Suresh, (2011) “Effect of refractory chemicals on cement” National Conference on Recent Developments in Civil Engineering, Vidya Vikas Institute of  Engineering & Technology at Mysore, Karnataka on 8th and 9th of April 2011.
  15. N.Suresh, K.N.Vishwanth, (2011) “Effect of sustained temperature on compressive strength of flyash composite concrete” National Conference on Recent Developments in Civil Engineering, Vidya Vikas Institute of  Engineering & Technology at Mysore, Karnataka on 8th and 9th of April 2011.
  16. N.Suresh, Ramaswamy Jeyalakshmi, (2011) “Studies on effect of refactory chemicals on cement mortar” International workshop –PROTECT -2011, on Perfromance, Protection & Strengthening of strucctures under extreme loading,  30th August to 1st September 2011, Lugano Switzerland
  17. N.Suresh & K.N.Vishwanath (2011) “Fly ash composite concrete under sustained elevated temperature” published by excel publishers in proceedings of International conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering,” ICSEE-2011, pp.95-103, Tiruchengode, Tamil Nadu. (Feb18th &19th , 2011) 
  18. N.Suresh (2011) “Behaviour of fly ash composite under sustained elevated temperature in compression” – paper accepted for 20th Canadian Hydro technical conference to be held at Ottawa, Ontario, Canada –June 14th to 17th, 2011.
  19. N.Suresh, (2007) “Guidelines for fire safety of buildings” National workshop on fire safety in buildings, 2008, Indian concrete institute, Hyderabad ACCE, Hyderabad Earthquake Engg research centre, Hyderabad 
  20. N.Suresh, (2007) “Fire hazards due to earthquake”, National conference on Earthquake engineering, NCEE2007, December 18th & 19th 2007, Dept. of Civil Engineering Thiagaraja College of engineering, Madurai. 
  21. N.Suresh, M.R.Rajesh & B.G.Govindaraju (2007) “Estimation of Fire Loads in Building” in the International Conference on ‘Structural Engineers World Congress – SEWC 2007’  at The Grand Ashok Hotel, Bangalore, from 2nd Nov’ 2007 to 7th November 2007 (TEQIP).
  22. N.Suresh, (2007) ‘Strengthening of RC Beams subjected to Sustained Elevated Temperature’ at International Workshop – PROTECT 2007, on Performance, Protection & Strengthening of Structures under Extreme Loading, at Whistler, Canada, from August 20-22, 2007. 
  23. N.Suresh, (2007) “Assessment of fire affected structures using NDT techniques”, National workshop on ‘Non-Destructive Testing of Concrete Structures (NWNDT-2007)’ on 9th & 10th March 2007, as a resource person at School of Civil Engg., SASTRA University, Thanjavur, Tamilnadu.
  24. Y.M.Manjunath, N.Suresh, & D.S.Prakash, (2007) “Studies on behaviour of multiblended cement concrete subjected to elevated temperature” National Conference on Theoretical & Experimental Advances in Civil Engineering (TEACE – 2007) to be held at Dept. of Civil Engineering, SRM Institute of Science & Technology, Kattankolathur, Kancheepuram Dist., Tamilnadu from 8th to 9th February 2007(TEQIP).
  25. N.Suresh, (2007) ‘Fire Resistance of Structures’, at National Conference on ‘Recent Trends in Infrastructure Development, Concept, Design and Execution’, held by ACCE (I), at PGS College of Technology, Coimbatore, on 24th and 25th January 2007.
  26. Y.M.Manjunath, N.Suresh & D.S.Prakash, (2006) “Studies on the effect of W/c ratio on concrete subjected to sustained elevated temperature” in the National Conference on Fire affected concrete structures on 24th Nov’06 at Dept. of Civil Engineering, Gandhi Institute of Technology & Management, Visakapatnam, under TEQIP.
  27. N.Suresh (2006) ‘‘Studies on Impact Strength of Concrete Subjected to Sustained Elevated Temperature’ at International Conference on ‘Structural Engineering and Construction’, Aug 3-5, 2006, Bangkok, Thailand.
  28. N.Suresh,  Y.M.Manjunath & D.S.Prakash, (2005) “Studies on the Compressive Strength of Concrete subjected to Sustained elevated temperature” at International Conference on Advances in Concrete Composites & Structures (ICACS-2005), 6-8 Jan 2005, SERC, Chennai.
  29. N.Suresh & Praveen Kamath, (2006) “Fire Hazards Due to earthquakes”, International Conference on Earthquake Engineering ICEE 2006 held on 25th and 26th February 2006, at SASTRA, Thanjavar, Tamil Nadu.
  30. N.Suresh, Y.M.Manjunath & D.S.Prakash, (2005) “Studies on Compressive Strength of Concrete subjected to cyclic heating” at International Conference on Recent Advances in Concrete & Construction Technology (INCRAC & CT 2005).  7-9 Dec, 2005, SRM Engg. College, SRM Institute of Science & Technology, Chennai. (IC)
  31. N.Suresh, Y.M.Manjunath & D.S.Prakash, (2005) ‘Influence of aggregates on compression strength of concrete subjected to elevated temperature’ at 2nd national conference - on ‘Advances in Materials & Mechanics of Concrete Structures held at IIT Madras (12th & 13th Aug 2005).
  32. N.Suresh & G.S.Suresh (2004) “Study of the Behaviour of the interface layer between two time lag concretes”, National workshop on recent trends in civil engineering on 14th June 2004, Dept. of Civil Engineering Bharath Instiute of Higher Education and research, Chennai.
  33. N.Suresh & M.Lakshmipathy, (2001) “Effect of elevated temperature on compressive strength of cement mortar, National workshop on advances in structural Engg., december 21-22nd 2001, Dept of civil engieering Sri. Venkateshwara University,Tirupathi.
  34. N.Suresh, & M.Lakshmipathy, (2001) ‘Studies on the young’s modulus of elasticity on plain concrete subjected to elevated temperature’, Structural Engineering Convention, An International meet on 4-6 October, 2001, Civil Engineering Department, University of Roorkee.
  35. N.Suresh,  M.Lakshmipathy,  P.Devadas Manoharan, (2001) ‘Studies on the flexural strength of concrete subjected to elevated temperature’, International Conference on Civil Engineering 23-25 July, 2001, Institute of Science, Bangalore.
  36. M.Lakshmipathy, N.Suresh & P.Devadas Manoharan, (2001) “Effect of thermal shock on concrete subject to sustained elevated temperature”, National conference on concrete technology for 21st century, February 9-10, 2001, Dept. of Structural Engg Annnmalai university, Annamalinagar.
  37. M.Lakshmipathy, N.Suresh, P.Devadas Manoharan,  (2001) ‘Size effect of Concrete Cubes subjected to sustained elevated temperature’, National Workshop on Rehabilitation / Refrofitting of Buildings, February 26, 2001, Indian Concrete Institute, Roorkee.
  38. M.Lakshmipathy, P.Devadas Manoharan, & N.Suresh,  (2000) ‘Studies on the effect of sustained elevated temperature on plain and reinforced concrete reinforced concrete’ Seventh International Seminar on Cement and Building Materials, 21-24 November 2000 by National Council of Cement and Building Materials, New Delhi, India.
  39. M.Lakshmipathy & N.Suresh ‘Performance of Concrete at elevated temperatures – state of art’ at National Conference on Advances on Cement and Concrete.  Bundelkhand, Institute of Engg. and Tech., Jhansi. 
  40. G.S.Suresh & N.Suresh, ‘Ultimate moment capacity of ferrocement:  Discrete element technique’ at National seminar on materials and structures, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
  41. M.Lakshmipathy & N.Suresh (2000) ‘The necessity of the awareness of developments in construction industry to rural techniques’ - Third National Conference on construction globalisation challenges for the Indian Construction Industry, February 10 and 11th 2000.  Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi by construction Industry Development Council, Planning Commission and University of Surface Transports (Govt. of India )
  • Refractory material composition with bagasse ash for cement and concrete mixtures.
  • Refractory material composition for cement and concrete and a method for synthesizing the same.
  • Experimental evaluation of flexural toughness of fiber reinforced concrete subjected to sustained elevated temperature.
Undergraduate Courses
  • Strength of Materials
  • Structural Analysis 
  • Concrete Technology 
  • Pre-stressed Concrete   
  • Special Concrete
  • Fire Resistance of Structures 
  • Repair & Rehabilitation of Structures
Postgraduate Courses
  • Fire Resistance of Structures 
  • Repair, Rehabilitation and Maintenance of Structures