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design, PhD thesis, Department of Civil Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai.

RAVINDRA GETTU is the V. S. Raju Chair Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, at the
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai. He obtained his PhD degree in Structural Engineering
from Northwestern University. In 1990, he moved to Barcelona, Spain, and later became the Director of the
Structural Technology Laboratory of the Technical University of Catalonia, in Barcelona. He returned to India
in 2004 to join the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras.
The areas of research of Dr Gettu have been fracture mechanics of concrete and rock; nonlinear behaviour
of cement-based materials; high strength, textile- and fibre-reinforced, and self-compacting concretes;
sustainability assessment, effective use of chemical admixtures and alternative binders, concrete tunnel
lining, and prefabrication for housing. His research has been funded by public organizations, as well as
the construction industry, helping him focus on applied research, technology transfer and technology
implementation. He has co-authored more than 550 publications, of which more than 140 are peer-reviewed
journal papers.
He was elected as a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2018. He is a Past President,
Honorary Member and Fellow of RILEM, the International Union of Laboratories and Experts in construction
materials, structures and systems, based in France. He has been honoured for Lifetime Achievements by
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the Indian Cement Review in March 2025, and earlier at the 1 Interdisciplinary Symposium on Smart &
Sustainable Infrastructures with 8 Special Sessions, during September 2023, in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. He
was elected as a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Engineering in 2019. Earlier, his outstanding
contributions have been recognized through the Gettu-Kodur Symposium on Advances in Science &
Technology of Concrete, organized by the India Chapter of the American Concrete Institute, Mumbai,
in 2018. He was Co-Chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Advanced Materials for Sustainable
Infrastructure Development Cement Based Materials, Ventura Beach, California, 2024.
Email: gettu@iitm.ac.in

Cite this article: Gettu, R. (2026). “Fracture mechanics as the basis for structural design of fibre and textile reinforced concrete”, The
Indian Concrete Journal, Vol. 100, No. 2, pp. 42-54.

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