Dr. K. Balaji Rao
Scientist Gr IV(6), Head, Risk and Reliability of Structures Group
CSIR-Structural Engineering Research Centre
CSIR Campus, Taramani, Chennai 600113
Email: balaji@serc.res.in
Qualifications
1990
Ph.D., Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore, India
1984
M. E,
Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore, India
1977
B.Tech,
Jawaharlal
Nehru
Technological
University
College
of
Engineering, Anantapur, India
Publications (Selected)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
arxiv.org/pdf/0708.1566)
(also
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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).
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).
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.