Polish version  Shriram Marathe, Ph.D.  shriram.marathe@pwr.edu.pl, building C-7, room 709. Web pages:

Summary:

Shriram Marathe is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland. He is a scholarship holder of the ULAM NAWA programme numbered 39/2022. The duration of his ULAM scholarship is 24 months (01-08-2023 to 31-07-2025). He received a funding aid of 0.31 million PLN for the research topic entitled ‘Engineering of a novel environmentally-friendly alkali activated pervious concrete pavements for effective storm water management’.

Shriram obtained a PhD in Civil Engineering Sciences from the Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belagavi (India); a Master degree in Transportation Engineering from National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal (India), a Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering from the Visvesvaraya Technological University (India). He also completed Master Facilitator Degree (MFLHRD) in Human Resources Development from College of Leadership and Human Resource Development, Mangalore (India). Earlier, he was working as an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Civil Engineering NMAM Institute of Technology Nitte (NITTE Deemed to be University, Mangalore, India). He has authored over 30 scientific papers and edited 3 books (with Springer Nature), exposed to both academic research environments for the past 07 years, and has about 10 years of teaching experience at Post Graduate and Under Graduate curriculum. He has guided over 40 projects in Post Graduate and Under Graduate level; and, currently guiding a PhD research scholar at NITTE (DU) for the research on Fiber-reinforced Alkali Activated Nano Concretes for Pavements.

Research Interests:

Alkali-activated Concretes for Pavement Applications, , Road Safety, Pavement Material characterization (Sub-grade soil, bituminous materials, and pavement quality concretes), Pavement Design of Highway and Airfield Pavements.

Key Achievements:

• Granted with a patent on the invention entitled, "Sustainable Pervious Alkali Activated Concrete Paver Block Pavement for Ground water Recharge" from very reputed IP India.
• Granted with INR 1,50,000/- under NUFR1 scheme of NITTE (DU) for the research project entitled, " Performance studies on eco-friendly alkali activated fibre-reinforced nano-concretes using industry waste materials " during 2022 (N/RG/NUFR1/NMAMIT/2022/09).
• Granted with INR 4,95,000/- under NMAMIT Research Grant for the research project entitled, "Study and to Develop Cost Effective and Green Masonry Block Using Industrial Waste Materials" (NMAMIT/RF/2017/08)
• Granted with a study tour fund of INR 2,00,000/- by AICTE New Delhi- India under YUVAK scheme to visit ATAL tunnel situated at Rotang pass of Himachal Pradesh state and successfully completed the project as a team leader (STDC-AICTE-ST-AT/266/2020-2021/24).
• Worked as the Organizing Secretary for the very reputed 12th International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering- ICETE 2022 at NITTE University which was held at NMAMIT campus in December 2022.
• Worked as the Conference Secretary for two times and successfully organized International Conference on Civil Engineering Trends and Challenges for Sustainability- CTCS (2020 and 2021) at NMAMIT Nitte campus.
• Served as the co-ordinator at the Department Level for Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC), National Assessment and Accreditation Counci (NAAC), National Board of Accreditation (NBA), Board of Studies (BoS)...etc., at NMAMIT Nitte (DU).
• Serving as reviewer for reputed international journals such as Construction and Building Materials, Case Studies in Construction Materials, Road Materials and Pavement Design, Materials Today, Resources, Environment and Sustainability, Journal of Materials, Journal of Sustainability...etc.

Key Research Publications:

• Shriram Marathe, I R Mithanthaya Rahul Yekkar Shenoy (2021) "Durability and Microstructure Studies on Slag-Fly Ash-Glass Powder Based Alkali Activated Pavement Quality Concrete Mixes" Construction and Building Materials, Elsevier BV. Volume 287, 14 June 2021, 123047;
• P.K.Akarsh, Shriram Marathe, Arun Kumar Bhat "Influence of graphene oxide on properties of concrete in the presence of silica fumes and M-sand", Construction and Building Materials, Elsevier BV;
• Shriram Marathe, Thushar S Shetty, Mithun B M , Ranjith A, (2021) " Strength and Durability Studies on Air Cured Alkali Activated Pavement Quality Concrete Mixes Incorporating Recycled Aggregates" Case Studies in Construction Materials, Elsevier BV;
• Shriram Marathe, Mithanthaya, I.R., Mithun, B.M. et al. Performance of slag-fly ash based alkali activated concrete for paver applications utilizing powdered waste glass as a binding ingredient. Int. J. Pavement Res. Technol. (2020).
• Shriram Marathe, I R Mithanthaya (2022) " Investigations on Eco-friendly Masonry Structural Elements Developed using Slag-Fly Ash-Glass Powder Based Alkali Activated Concrete" Int. J. of Masonry Research and Innovation. Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Vol 3; No.03; DoI: 10.1504/IJMRI.2021.10038417;
• Anusha Jain, Shriram Marathe, Akhila S (2023) "Soft Computing Modeling on Air cured Slag-Fly Ash-Glass Powder Based Alkali Activated Masonry Elements Developed using Different Industrial Waste Aggregates",Asian Journal of Civil Engineering, Springer nature, 10.1007/s42107-023-00584-7.
• Roshan Fernandes, Shriram Marathe, Anisha P Rodrigues, Łukasz Sadowski, Akhila S (2023) "Smart Modeling System for Alkali Activated Concrete Pavements using Machine Learning Techniques", Asian Journal of Civil Engineering,, Springer nature (SCOPUS INDEXED, IF:1.6), https://doi.org/10.1007/s42107-023-00635-z
• Shriram Marathe, Arun Kumar Bhat, Ashmitha N M, Akarsh P K (2023) " Stabilized Lithomargic Soil Subgrades for Low Volume Road Design Using Industrial Wastes ", International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology, ISSN:1997-1400,; Springer Nature, Singapore.
• Pushparaj A. Naik, Shriram Marathe, Akhila S, Megha Mayuri (2023) " Properties of WFS Incorporated Cement Stabilized Lateritic Soil Subgrades for Rural Pavement Applications", International Journal of Geosynthetics and Ground Engineering, Springer nature, 10.1007/s40891-023-00460-z
• P.K.Akarsh, G.O.Ganesh, Shriram Marathe, RoshanRai (2022) "Incorporation of Sugarcane Bagasse Ash to investigate the mechanical behavior of Stone Mastic Asphalt" Construction and Building Materials, Elsevier BV. Vol. 353, 24 October 2022, 129089

Edited Books:

Ecological and Health Effects of Building Materials
Trends in Civil Engineering and Challenges for sustainability- Select proceedings of CTCS-2020
Recent Advances in Civil Engineering - Select proceedings of CTCS-2021