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EDITORIAL BOARD EDITORIAL

Editor-in-Chief 04
Prof. Dr Vasant Matsagar
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, India
Associate Editors
Prof. Dr Manu Santhanam PART I : FEATURES
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, India
Prof. Dr Valdir Pignatta e Silva 07 NEWS AND EVENTS
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Prof. Dr-Ing Akanshu Sharma
University of Stuttgart, Germany /
Purdue University, USA
PART II : TECHNICAL PAPERS
Mr Umesh Soni
Head - Technical Services : ACC and Ambuja Cement 100 Years of concrete materials science
(Adani Group) 09 Bishwajit Bhattacharjee
Editorial Board Members
Mr Christophe Levy
Scientific Director, LafargeHolcim
Innovation Center Lyon, France
Dr Subramanian Narayanan 49 Rational mixture design methods for special concrete
Consulting Engineer, Gaithersburg, USA Manu Santhanam
Dr David Lange
University of Queensland, Australia
Dr Saverio Spadea
University of Dundee, UK
Prof. Dr Ghani Razaqpur 60 Era from pozzolanic to super pozzolanic materials: The science
McMaster University, Canada / behind the inclusion of nano-silica in the cementitious composites
Nankai University, China
Biibhuti Bhusan Das
Prof. Dr Abass Braimah
Vice Chancellor (VC),
Tamale Technical University, Ghana
Prof. Dr Esayas Gebre-Youhannes Impacting construction through concrete science focused on
Addis Ababa Institute of Technology (AAiT), 66 sustainable and robust translational research
Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
Prof. Dr S. Suriya Prakash Sandeep Chaudhary
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)
Hyderabad, India
Prof. Dr Vistasp Karbhari
The University of Texas at Arlington, USA 83 Research contributions of national council for cement and building
Production Editor materials in the research-driven evolution of Indian Standards
Ms Priti Saldanha P. N. Ojha
Editorial Curator
Dr Pravin Jagtap
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