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Visalakshi Talakokula

Professor
visalakshi.talakokula@mahindrauniversity.edu.in

Dr. Visalakshi Talakokula is presently working as professor at Mahindra Ecole Centrale School of Engineering, Mahindra University, prior to this, she was the founding head of the Department of Civil Engineering, Bennett University. She is honorary secretary of Indian Association of Structural Engineers (IAStrucE) and executive member of Indian concrete institute (ICI), Governing council member of Women in Science and Engineering (STEM) India. She has a rich academic experience of more than 18 years and 5 years with industry. Her research interests lie primarily in structural health monitoring using piezo sensors, development of sustainable building materials, she is working on durability aspects of sustainable and green concretes such as “GEOPLOLYMER CONCRTE” which is a cement free concrete and Lime stone Calcined Clay Concretes (LC3) for the Indian environments. Her work also includes green wall panels and future house building materials using straw, bamboo to reduce the environmental pollution as a part of the ongoing DST- IMPRINT 2 project tiled” Development of Engineered Bamboo Structures Technology For Modular Rural Housing Towards Sustainable Built Environment”.

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Her research has been published in peer reviewed international and national journals, She has also co-authored a book “Piezoelectric Materials, Application in SHM, Energy harvesting and Bio Mechanics” (Wiley publication). She has received various awards, among them include Best Paper award at Corrosion conf. and Expo. CORCON 2012, Best Paper award at National Civil Engineers Symposium (IIT Bombay) 2013, Best poster award at ICTRAM 2012. She is contributing as an active technical member in international committees of Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures (RILEM) for (i) Carbonation of concrete with supplementary cementitious materials Calcined Clays as Supplementary Cementitious Materials, Chloride transport in alkali-activated materials.

Ph.D, (Structures)

Indian Institute of Delhi, New Delhi
Ph. D Thesis Title: Corrosion Assessment in Rebars of RC Structures Using Equivalent Parameters Extracted from Piezo-Patches
Supervisors: Prof. Suresh Bhalla & Prof. Ashok Gupta    

B.E. (Civil Engineering)

Osmania University, Telangana (India).

2021-Till date

Feb 2021-Till date, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Mahindra University, Hyderabad

2017-2021

June 2017-2021, Professor and Head,Department of Civil Engineering, Bennett University, Gr. Noida.

2003-2017

2003-2017, worked as head at ABES Engg college and at various positions in private universities such as Amity and Galgotia’s University

1995-2000

1995-2000, worked as Consultant (Engineering), CSR Consultants, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Books:

2017

  • Bhalla, S., Moharana, S., Talakokula, V. And Kaur, N. (2017) “Piezoelectric Materials: Applications In Structural Health Monitoring, Energy Harvesting And Bio-Mechanics”, Ane-Wiley, Print ISBN:9781119265092, |Online ISBN:9781119265139 |DOI:10.1002/9781119265139.

2020

  • Talakokula.V and Bansal , T. (2020a) “Study of Durability Aspects of Limestone Calcined Clay Cement Using Different Piezo-Sensor Configurations”, Rilem Bookseries, Vol. 25, Calcined Clays For Sustainable Concrete, 978-981-15-2805-7, 480517_1_En, (80)
  • Bansal , T and Talakokula.V. (2020b) “Monitoring of Strength Development of Cement Substituted by Limestone Calcined Clay Using Different Piezo Configurations”, Rilem Bookseries, Vol. 25, Calcined Clays For Sustainable Concrete, 978-981-15-2805-7, 480517_1_En, (60)

Journals

Hanne Vanoutrive

  • Hanne Vanoutrive…..Talakokula Visalakshi… (In Press), "Report of RILEM TC 281-CCC: Outcomes of a round robin on the resistance to accelerated carbonation of Portland, Portland-fly ash and blast-furnace blended cements", Materials and Structures journal, Impact Factor: 3.427

2021

  • Bansal, T., Talakokula, V., M. Kaliyan. (2021), “Equivalent structural parameters based non-destructive prediction of sustainable concrete strength using machine learning models Via piezo sensor”, Measurement, Impact Factor: 3.927
  • Bansal, T., Talakokula, V., S. Prabhakar. (2021) “A Machine learning approach for predicting the electro-mechanical impedance data of blended RC structures subjected to chloride laden environment”,Journal of Smart Materials and Structures, I mpact factor: 3.585
  • Bhansal. T and Talakokula. V, (2021) "Deterioration of structural parameters due to corrosion in prestressed concrete identified by smart probe-based piezo sensor", Engineering Research Express, 2021, 3(1), 015011

2020

  • Jayalakshmi Raju, Bhalla. S. Talakokula. V, (2020), Pipeline Corrosion Assessment using Piezo-Sensors in Reusable Non-Bonded Configuration, NDT & E International, Volume 111 , April 2020, 10.1016/j.ndteint.2020.102220, Impact Factor 3.461

2019

  • Bansal, T., Talakokula ,V., Bhalla, S. (2019), “Model Based Corrosion Assessment in Rebars of Different Fly Ash Blended Concrete Using Piezo Sensors”, E-journal of Non-Destructive Testing, pg-991-1002, Issue No: 2019-04, ISBN: 978-3-00-060359-4.
  • Bansal, T., Talakokula ,V., Bhalla, S. (2019), “Rebar Corrosion Assessment Comparison of Different Piezo Configurations in Blended Concrete”, E-journal of Non-Destructive Testing, 2018, pg-1003-1014, Issue No: 2019-04, ISBN: 978-3-00-060359-4.

2018

  • Talakokula. V, Bhalla. S and Gupta. A, (2018), Monitoring Early Hydration of Reinforced Concrete Structures Using Structural Parameters Identified By Piezo Sensors Via Electromechanical Impedance Technique”, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 99:129-141, DOI: 10.1016/j.ymssp.2017.05.042, Impact Factor 4.84

2017

  • Talakokula. V, S. Bhalla, R.J. Ball, C.R. Bowen, G.L. Pesce, R. Kurchania, B. Bhattacharjee, A. Gupta, K. Paine. (2017), “Diagnosis of carbonation induced corrosion initiation and progression in reinforced concrete structures using piezo-impedance transducers”, Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, Vol. (242), pp79-91, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sna.2016.02.033 Impact Factor 2.499

2016

2015

  • Talakokula, V. and Bhalla, S. (2015) “Reinforcement Corrosion Assessment Capability of Surface Bonded and Embedded Piezo Sensors for RC Structures”, Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, Volume 26 (17), pp 2304-2013, https://doi.org/10.1177/1045389X14554133 , Impact Factor 2.172
  • Talakokula, V., Bhalla, S., Gupta A. and Bhattacharjee, B. (2015), “Non-Destructive Assessment of Rebar Corrosion Using Piezo-Transducers Via Equivalent Structural Parameters”, Current Science, Vol. 108 (10), pp1890-1900, Impact Factor 0.843
  • Talakokula. V, R. Singh and K. Vysakh, (2015), “Effect Of Delay Time And Duration Of Steam Curing On Compressive Strength And Microstructure Of Geopolymer Concrete”, The Indian Concrete Journal, Vol. 89 (1), pp 69-72.
  • Talakokula, V., Bhalla (2015), “Smart Materials and Systems for Smart Cities”, Journal of Indian Building Congress, Vol 22(1), pp27-31.

2014

  • Talakokula. V, Bhalla. S and Gupta. A, (2014) “Corrosion Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Structures Based on Equivalent Parameters Using Electro-Mechanical Impedance Technique”, Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, Volume 25 (4), pp 484-500, https://doi.org/10.1177/1045389X13498317 , Impact Factor 2.172
  • Bhandari. S, Talakokula. V and Kavya. S (2014), “Design of High Rise Buildings With Extended 3D Analysis Of Building Systems (Etabs)”, Journal of Indian Building Congress.30 (3), pp 100-112.

2013

  • Talakokula. V, R. Singh and K. Vysakh, (2013), “Compressive Strength And Workability Characteristics of Concrete using Fly Ash in Various Replacement of Ordinary Portland Cement and its Correlation with the Micro structural Properties”, Journal of Indian Building Congress, 20(2), pp 151-158.

2011

  • Talakokula. V and Bhalla. S. (2011) “Detection and quantification of Rebar corrosion using Impedance method” International Journal of Earth Sciences and Engineering, ISSN0974-5904, Volume 04, No 06SPL, pp 889-891.

CONFERENCES:

2021

  • Bansal, T., Talakokula ,V., (2021),“Image Processing Approach for Corrosion Detection and Quantification in Reinforced Concrete Structures”, F-EIR Conference 2021, to be held on 18 to 22 October, 2021.
  • Bansal, T., Talakokula ,V., (2021),“Durability of Concrete Systems Under Combined Loading Using Piezo Sensor”, 75th RILEM annual week, to be held on 31 st August – 4th September 2020 at Mexico, Merida. (RILEM Ph.D. Grant Award received by Bansal)

2020

  • Bansal, T., Talakokula ,V., (2020),“Monitoring and Prediction of Service Life and Durability of Concrete Systems using Piezo Sensor and Machine Learning Approach”, 74th RILEM annual week and 40th Cement and Concrete Science Conference, held at 31st August – 4th September 2020 at University of Sheffield. . (RILEM Ph.D. Grant Award received by Bansal)

2019

  • Bansal, T., Talakokula ,V., Bhalla, S. (2019), “Model Based Corrosion Assessment in Rebars of Different Fly Ash Blended Concrete Using Piezo Sensors”, Proceedings of the 7th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, pg-991-1002, Issue No: 2019-04, ISBN: 978-3-00-060359-4
  • Bansal, T., Talakokula ,V., Bhalla, S. (2019), “Rebar Corrosion Assessment Comparison of Different Piezo Configurations in Blended Concrete”, Proceedings of the 7th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, pg-1003-1014, Issue No: 2019-04, ISBN: 978-3-00-060359-4

2018

  • Bansal, T., Talakokula ,V., Shubhransu., Bahri, S., Pal, S. (2018), “Corrosion Assessment in Rebars of Normal and Geopolymer Concrete using Piezo Sensors”, Proceedings of the International Corrosion Conference and Expo-2018, (CORCON-2018) , 30 Sept-3 Oct, Jaipur, 2018, RCC-26
  • Talakokula Visalakshi and Maheshwari (2018), Study of Recycled Aggregate COncrete Using Fibres, Proceedings of Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Service Life Design for Infrastructures (SLD4), Held at TU Delft, 26-29 August 2018.
  • 2. Jayalakshmi Raju , Prateek Negi , Suresh Bhalla and Talakokula Visalakshi, Applications of piezo Sensors for Damage Detection, CORCON to be held on 31-03 Oct 2018 at Jaipur.
  • Sahil Bahri, Shubhransu, Shilpa Pal, Talakokula Visalakshi, Tushar Bansal, Corrosion Assessment In Rebars Of Normal And Geopolymer Concrete Structures Using Piezo Sensors, CORCON to be held on 31-03 Oct 2018 at Jaipur.
  • Tushar Bansal , Visalakshi Talakokula and Suresh Bhalla (2018), Rebar Corrosion Assessment Comparison Of Different Piezo Configurations In Blended Concrete, 7th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, November 12-15, 2018 Hong Kong SAR, P.R. China, Harbour Grand Kowloon
  • Tushar Bansal , Visalakshi Talakokula and Suresh Bhalla (2018), Model Based Corrosion Assessment In Rebars Of Different Fly Ash Blended Concrete Using Piezo Sensors, 7th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, November 12-15, 2018 Hong Kong SAR, P.R. China, Harbour Grand Kowloon
  • Talakokula.V, S. Pal and R. Gupta (2018) (Keynote Address), “Experimental Investigation of Fly Ash Blended Concrete with Recycled Coarse Aggregate”, International Conference on Advances in Concrete, Structural & Geotechnical Engineering (ACSGE - 2018), BITS Pilani, 26-28 Feb 2018.

2017

  • Talakokula.V, S. Godara and S. Bhalla (2017) (Keynote Address), “A Reusable Non Bonded Peizo Sensor For Assessment Of Rebar Corrosion”, Eighth ISSS International Conference on Smart Materials, Structures & Systems, July 5-7, 2017, IISc Bangalore, India.
  • J. Raju, S. B. Thakuri, V. Talakokula and Bhalla. S. (2017) “Piezo sensors for corrosion damage assessments of reinforced concrete structures” Proceedings of Eighth ISSS International Conference on Smart Materials, Structures & Systems, July 5-7, 2017, IISc Bangalore, India.
  • J. Raju, Bhalla S., V. Talakokula. (2017), “Corrosion assessment and damage detection in pipelines using piezoelectric transducers” Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Vibration Problems, 29th November-2nd December 2017, IIT Guwahati, India.

2016

  • Talakokula.V Bhalla. S and Gupta. A, (KEYNOTE ADDRESS, 2016), “Non Destructive diagnosis of Chloride and carbonation induced corrosion in Reinforced Concrete structures using Piezo Sensors”, International Conference on Advances in Concrete Technology, Materials and Construction Practices, Goa Engineering College, June 2016.
  • Talakokula. V, Vaibhav and Bhalla. S, (2016), “Non-Destructive Strength Evaluation of Fly ash Based Geopolymer Concrete Using Piezo Sensors”, Accepted for presentation at International Conference on Sustainable Design, Engineering and Construction to be held at Arizona State University, Tempe AZ, Volume 145, 2016, PP 1029–1035.
  • Bhalla S. and Talakokula, V. (KEYNOTE ADDRESS, 2016), “Piezo Transducers for Diagnosis of Chloride and Carbonation Induced Rebar Corrosion in RC Structures”, , Workshop on Structural Rehabilitation and Retrofitting of Structures” (WSRR’16), 14-15 March Mumbai
  • Bhalla S. and Talakokula, V. (KEYNOTE ADDRESS, 2016), “Piezo Transducers for Diagnosis of Chloride and Carbonation Induced Rebar Corrosion in RC Structures”, National Workshop on Seismic Safety of Structures” 23 March, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU).

2015

  • Talakokula. V and Majid. R (2015), "Effect of Using Recycled Aggregate Along with Steel Fibers as Reinforcement on the Mechanical Properties of concrete" Proceedings of International Conference on Innovations in Concrete Construction, Jhalandhar March, 2015, pp 912-918.
  • Bhalla, S., Suresh, R., Moharana, S., Visalakshi, T., Kaur, N. and Naskar, S. (2015), “Multi-Disciplinary Applications Of Piezo-Sensors: Structural Health Monitoring, Bio-Mechanics And Energy Harvesting”, SPIE International Conference on Smart Structures NDE, March 8th-12th, San Diego, California.

2014

  • Talakokula. V , R. Singh and K. Vysakh, (KEYNOTE ADDRESS, 2014) “Effect Of Delay Time And Duration Of Steam Curing On Compressive Strength And Microstructure Of Geopolymer Concrete”, Proceedings of 9th Biennial Conference on Structural Engineering Convention (SEC 2014), 22-24 December, New Delhi, pp. 1635.
  • Talakokula.V Bhalla. S, Gupta. A and Bhattacharjee. B (2014) “Diagnosis of Corrosion in Steel Rebars Using Piezo-Impedance Transducers”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Corrosion, CORCON 2014, Mumbai, Nov 2014. RC 12
  • Talakokula. V, Bhalla. S and Gupta. A, (2014) “Detection of Chloride and Carbonation Induced Corrosion in RC Structures Using Piezo Sensors via EMI Technique”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Concrete Solutions, Queen’s University, Belfast, September 1-3, pp 201.
  • Talakokula. V, Bhalla. S and Gupta. A, (2014) “Recent Trends in Reinforcement Corrosion Assessment Using Piezo Sensors via Electro Mechanical Impedance Technique”, International Conference on Smart Structures/NDE, held at Sandiego, California, US, March 9-13, 2014. Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2014, edited by Jerome P. Lynch, Kon-Well Wang, Hoon Sohn, Proc. of SPIE Vol. 9061, 906139, doi: 10.1117/12.2041654

2013

  • Talakokula. V, Rahul Singh and Vysakh (2013), “Microstructural Study of Hydration In Fly Ash Concrete” Aakaar 2013, 9 March, IIT Bombay. (Awarded best paper).
  • Talakokula. V, Bhalla. S and Gupta. A, (2013) “Detection Of Chloride And Carbonation Induced Corrosion In RC Structures Using Piezo Sensors Via EMI Technique”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Trends and Challenges in Concrete structures, Ghaziabad, UP, India, December 19-21, 2013, pp 590-597. 22.
  • Talakokula.V and Bhalla. S, (2013) “Carbonation Corrosion Assessment in Reinforcement of Normal and Fly ash Concrete Using Piezo Sensors, Proceedings of the International Conference on Corrosion, CORCON 2013, Delhi, Oct 2013. RC 23.
  • Talakokula. V and Bhalla.S. (2013), “Experimental Study to Detect Corrosion in RC Structures Using Piezo-Ceramic Sensors”, Proceedings of International Conference on Innovations in Concrete Construction, Jhalandhar March, 2013, pp 1454-1461.
  • Talakokula. V., Suresh Bhalla and Ashok Gupta. (2012) “Development of New Corrosion Assessment Technique Based on Piezo-Transducers” National Science Day, IIT Delhi.

2012

  • Talakokula. V (2012), “Straw as a Sustainable and Future House Building Material: A Review”, Proceedings of the National Conference on Trends & Recent Advances in Civil Engineering-2012, Amity University, Noida, Sept-27, 2012, pp 30-36.
  • R. Rastogi., A. Malhotra., Talakokula. V. (2012), “Bamboo Reinforced Concrete Wall As A Replacement To Brick And Mud Wall”, Proceedings of the National Conference on Trends & Recent Advances in Civil Engineering-2012, Amity University, Noida, Sept-27, 2012, pp 40-47.
  • Talakokula. V and Bhalla.S. (2012), “Early Detection Of Corrosion In Rc Structures Using Emi Technique”, Proceedings of the International Corrosion Conference and Expo-2012, Goa, Sept-26-29, 2012, R113. (Awarded best paper).
  • Talakokula. V (2012) “Piezo Ceramic Transducers for Reinforcement Corrosion Monitoring in RCC Structures Using Electro-Mechanical Impedance Technique”. ICRTAM-(20-22 Feb), VIT University, Vellore 2012. (Awarded best poster).
  • Harmohan. S, Mansi. J, Talakokula. V (2012) “Use of Electro-Mechanical Impedance Technique to Detect Damage” Proceedings of the International Conference on Manufacturing Excellence, Amity University, 28-30 March 2012, pp 32-38 (Design and Development section).
  • Sindhu. R. G, Nitya. J, Talakokula. V, (2012) “A Review On Use Of Smart Materials To Detect Damage” Proceedings of the International Conference on Manufacturing Excellence, Amity University, 28-30 March 2012, pp 32-38 (Diversified Fields of Mechanical Engineering section).

2011

  • Talakokula. V and Bhalla. S. (2011) “Detection and quantification of Rebar corrosion using Impedance method” Proceedings of International conference on Advances in Civil Engineering ACE-2011, 21-23 October 2011, pp 889-891.

2010

  • Talakokula. V and Bhalla. S. (2010) “Review of Impedance based Structural Health Monitoring” Proceedings of the international conference on Vibration engineering and Technology of Machines, IIT Delhi 13-15 December 2010, pp 550-557.
S. No PROJECT TITLE FUNDING AGENCY POSITION OTHER INVESTIGATORS Status
1 Interactive Systems and Coatings for a Sustainable Built Environment, Collaborative Project under UK India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI) British Council

UKIERI

 Co-Investigator Dr. Suresh Bhalla (IIT Delhi)

Prof. Richard Ball (University of Bath, UK )

Prof. Kevin Paine (University of Bath, UK) Prof. Rajnish Kurchania (MANIT)

 31.23 lakh (GBP 40000)

completed
2 “Development

Of Engineered Bamboo Structures Technology For Modular

Rural Housing Towards Sustainable Built Environment”

 DST IMPRINT 2 Co-PI Dr. Suresh Bhalla(IIT Delhi)

Dr. Diwakar Bhagat (DST, Bihar)

Mr. Sudhakar (Industrial Partner, Sudha Technical Consultants)

 19 Lakh (Ongoing)
3 Development of Economical and Sustainable Building Products for Non-Structural Application Smart Infra Pvt Ltd Co-PI Dr. Kalyana Rama 10 Lakh (Ongoing)
4 Development of High Capacity Bamboo Composite Multi-Storey

Framed Structures for Sustainable Housing in High-Intensity

Earthquake/ Wind Zones

 DST-SUPRA Co-PI Dr. Suresh Bhalla(IIT Delhi)

Dr. Diwakar Bhagat (DST, Bihar)

Mr. Sudhakar (Industrial Partner, Sudha Technical Consultants)

 49 Lakh (Submitted)
5 TECHNOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS AND CAPACITY

BUILDING FOR WIDESPREAD AGRICULTURAL

PRODUCTION AND USAGE OF TRADITIONAL

BAMBOO TECHNOLOGY IN CONSTRUCTION, BIOTECHNOLOGY

AND ALLIED INDUSTRIES

 Science and Heritage Research Initiative

SHRI

 Co-PI Dr. Suresh Bhalla(IIT Delhi)

Dr. Diwakar Bhagat (DST, Bihar)

Dr. Kalyana Rama

 16.7 Crore (Submitted)
6 Compatibility of Sustainable Precursors and Activators for 3D Printed Alkali Activated Material SERB-Power Research Grant PI Dr. Kalyana Rama 24.24 Lakh (Submitted)