Reinforced Concrete Design Is 456 2000 Principles And Practice By N Krishna Raju

N Krishna Raju, Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering, M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, earned his PhD degree from the University of Leeds, UK. He has taught at the College of Engineering, Guindy, Chennai; Regional Engineering College, Calicut; Lanchester College of Technology, Coventry, UK; Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and the Karnataka Regional Engineering College, Surathkal. He was also Visiting Professor at the University of Basra, Iraq, during 1979–82.

Dr. Raju is the recipient of several awards, prominent among them being the Sir Bowen Memorial Prize, Garudacharya and Krishna Iyengar Gold Medals, UP Govt. National Award, Birla Super Endowment Award, Eminent Civil Engineers Award, George Oomen Memorial Prize, Institution of Engineers Prize, Naghadi Award and the ICI Silver Jubilee Award.

Dr. Raju has published over 60 research papers in reputed journals and is the author of Design of Concrete Mixes, Prestressed Concrete, Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures, Advanced Reinforced Concrete Design, Design of Bridges, Design and Drawing of Reinforced Concrete and Steel Structures, Numerical Methods for Engineering Problems, Structural Design and Drawing, Prestressed Concrete (Problems and Solutions), Advanced Mechanics of Solids and Structures and Prestressed Concrete Bridges.

The textbook Prestressed Concrete has been translated in the Indonesian Language and published by M/s. Penerbet Erlangga, Jakarta in 1986. Another manograph entitled Advanced Reinforced Concrete Design has been translated in Arabic language and published by the Razi University Press, Iran. He is also a Member of the Institution of Structural Engineers, London, UK, the Institution of Engineers, India, the Indian Concrete Institute and he is socially active serving as the President of the Vijayanagar Senior Citizen’s Forum and an active anchor of Jai Maruthi Laughter Club at Vijayanagar, Bangalore.


R. N. Pranesh is currently Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering, M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore. He earned his B. E. degree from the University of Mysore and M. E. degree in Structures from the University of Bangalore. He is actively involved in design and rehabilitation of buildings, research on high performance concrete, fly ash concrete and innovative and low-cost construction technology. He is a member of the Indian Concrete Institute and the Indian Society for Technical Education.