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Dr. Prasad Rao Rangaraju
Office: 220 Lowry Hall
Phone: (864) 656-1241
FAX: (864) 656-2670
email Dr. Rangaraju
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering
Areas of Interest:
Cement, Concrete, Aggregates and Supplementary Materials
Microscopy and Petrography of Cement Based Composites, Aggregates
Durability of Cementitious Systems
Concrete Pavements: Design, Construction and Rehabilitation
Education:
B. Tech., Civil Engineering, 1991, Jawaharlal Nehru Technical University, India
M.S., Civil Engineering, 1993, Iowa State University
Ph.D., Civil Engineering, 1997, Purdue University
Classes typically taught:
CE 351 Civil Engineering Material
CE 826 Properties of Portland Cement Concrete
CE 893 Special Cements and Concretes
CE 893 Repair and Rehabilitation of Concrete Structures
ENGR 120 Engineering Problem Solving and Design
Professional Registration:
Professional Engineer in Minnesota
Professional Society Membership:
American Society of Civil Engineers
American Concrete Institute
American Society of Testing Materials
Transportation Research Board
Sample Publications:
Rangaraju, P.R. and Desai, J. "Effectiveness of Fly Ash and Slag in Mitigating ASR in Presence of Deicing Chemicals" ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, Vol. 21, No. 1, January 2009, pp. 19-31.
Davis, J.M., NewBury D.E. Rangaraju, P.R., Soundarapandian, S. Giebson, C. "Milli X-Ray Fluorescence X-Ray Spectrum Imaging for Measurement of Potassium Ion Intrusion into Concrete Pavements", Cement and Concrete Composites, Vol. 31, Issue 3, 2009, pp. 171-175.
Rangaraju, P.R. "A Case Study of HPC Pavement with Slag Cement" ACI-SP, American Concrete Institute, Detroit, 2009 (Accepted).
Rangaraju, P.R. and Edlinski, J. "Comparative Evaluation of Aggregate Toughness/Abrasion Resistance and Soundness Tests Using South Carolina Aggregates" Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 20, No. 5, May 2008, p. 343-351.
Pattnaik, R.P. and Rangaraju, P.R. "Analysis of Compatibility between Repair Material and Substrate Concrete Using Simple Beam with Third Point Loading" Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 19, No. 12, 2007, p. 1060-1069.
Rangaraju, P.R., Sompura, K. and Olek, J. "Investigation of Influence of Potassium Acetate Deicer in Inducing ASR Using a Modified Concrete Prism Test" Journal of Transportation Research Board, Transportation Research Record 2020, 2007, p. 50-59.
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