Advances in Construction Materials and Sustainable Environment

Use of Biochar for Sustainable Environmental Remediation.- Macro-and Micro-Scale Engineering Response of Rigid-Soft Gra-vel-Rubber Inclusions: Insights from Detailed Laboratory and DEM Numerical Investigations.- Structural Health Monitoring of Heritage Structures Using Geotechnical Instruments.- Zinc Based Anodes for Cathodic Protection of Reinforced Concrete Structures.- An Overview: Supplementary Cementitious Materials.- Application of Fe-Tio2 Hybrid Technology (Photo-Fenton and Pho-tocatalysis) in Fixed-Mode for Degradation and Decolorization of RB5 Dye.- Study on Concrete Developed with Recycled Fine Aggregate.- Examination of Platooning Variables on Two-Lane Highways hav-ing Mixed Traffic Situation.  

Dr. Ashok Kumar Gupta is currently a Professor of Civil Engineering and Dean(Academics and Research), Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, Solan, Himachal Pradesh, India. He obtained his B.E. (Civil) with honours and M. E. (Geotechnical Engineering) from University of Roorkee which is now Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. He completed his Ph.D. from Indian institute of Technology, Delhi. His major areas of research includes testing and modeling of geotechnical materials, finite element method and its applications to geotechnical engineering, continuum damage mechanics and its application to rockfill materials modeling, and environmental geotechnique. He has published 57 papers in international journals of repute and co-authored 2 books and 7 book chapters. He is also a reviewer for the Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE and International Journal of Geomechanics, ASCE for which he has been awarded the 'Best Reviewer Award' forthree consecutive years. Prof. Gupta is also the Founder Chairman, Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS) Shimla Chapter. He is a lifetime member of Indian Geotechnical Society, Indian Society of Rock Mechanics and Tunneling Technology (ISRMTT) and Indian Society of Technical Education (ISTE).

Sanjay Kumar Shukla is Founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Geosynthetics and Ground Engineering, Springer Nature, Switzerland. He is Founding Research Group Leader (Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering) at the School of Engineering, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Perth, Australia. He holds the Distinguished Professorship in Civil Engineering at Delhi Technological University, Delhi, VIT University, Vellore, Chitkara University, Solan, Himachal Pradesh, VR Siddhartha Engineering College, Vijayawada, Amity University, Noida, and Amrita University, Coimbatore, India. He has over 25 years of experience in teaching, research and consultancy in the field of