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Prof. P Ratish Kumar

PhD (National Institute of Technology Warangal and Kitami Institute of Technology Japan)

Professor

Department of Civil Engineering

Room No: CED-27/1   +91-870-2462136
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Research Areas

 Durability and Microstructure Analysis of Concrete 

 Earthquake Engineering, Health Monitoring of Structures 

 High Performance Mortars/Concrete 

 Low Cost/Alternate building Materials, Composite Materials 

 Repair and Rehabilitation of Heritage Structures 

 Repair & Rehabilitation of buildings & bridges 

 Self Compacting Concrete, Recycled Aggregate Concrete 

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  • Selected Publications
  • Project/Consultancy
  • Current PhD Students
  • Awards and Accolades
  • Additional Responsibilities
  • Applied Stress Analysis(CE411)
  • Theory of Elasticity(CE26001)
  • Design Thinking(CE1101)
  • Repair and Rehabilitation of Structures(CE27026)
  • Theory of Elasticity(CE5201)
  • Repair and Rehabilitation of Structures(CE5263)
  • ORC ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0587-4535
  • SCOPUS ID: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=56727099400
  • Google Scholar ID: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QsMJZJMAAAAJ&hl=en


  • Performance, microstructure and carbon sequestration potential of agro biochar based cement mortars, By Tadi Sunil Bhagat, Rathish Kumar Pancharathi, Elsevier, Cement and Concrete Composites, vol.156, pp.105867, 2025
  • Image based analysis for optimising coarse aggregate gradation and comparison with particle packing theories, By Y Achyuth Kumar Reddy, Swamy Naga Ratna Giri Pallapothu, Rathish Kumar Pancharathi, Chandra Sekhar Karadumpa, Sri Rama Chand Madduru, Elsevier, Construction and Building Materials, vol.486, pp.141917, 2025
  • Optimizing multi-recycled concrete for sustainability: Aggregate gradation, surface treatment methods and life cycle impact assessment, By Madhavi Latha Kasulanati, Rathish Kumar Pancharathi, Elsevier, Construction and Building Materials, vol.449, pp.138510, 2024
  • Harnessing biochar for green construction: A review of its applications in cement and concrete, By Valluru Usha Rani, P Rathish Kumar, R Ramesh Nayaka, ELSEVIER, JOURNAL OF BUILDING ENGINEERING, vol.105, pp.112462, 2025
  • Integrating particle packing approach with ML techniques to optimise the compressive strength of RCA based concrete mixes, By Swamy Naga Ratna Giri Pallapothu, Rathish Kumar Pancharathi, Layasri Midathada, Elsevier, Journal of Building Engineering, vol.94, pp.109994, 2024
  • Inelastic reserve strength of CFS sections subjected to unsymmetrical centroidal axis bending, By Bapu Reddy Jaidi, Rathish Kumar Pancharathi, Elsevier, Journal of Constructional Steel Research, vol.230, pp.109546, 2025
  • Machine learning techniques for damage assessment and classification: a synergistic approach, By Sathish Polu, MVN Sivakumar, Rathish Kumar Pancharathi, Taylor & Francis, Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation, vol., pp.1-26, 2025
  • A study on the strength and microstructure properties of high strength geopolymer concrete (HSGPC), By Padakanti Rakesh, Sarella Venkateswara Rao, Pancharathi Rathish Kumar, Jorge De Brito, Springer International Publishing, Innovative Infrastructure Solutions, vol.10, pp.240, 2025
  • Machine learning-driven advancements in structural health monitoring: comprehensive multi-state classification for three-dimensional structures, By Sathish Polu, MVN Sivakumar, Rathish Kumar Pancharathi, Springer International Publishing, Asian Journal of Civil Engineering, vol.26, pp.341-356, 2025
  • Valorizing smelted waste printed circuit board (wpcb) slag powder for cement mortars: A Particle packing approach, By Hajarath Katukuri, Rathish Kumar Pancharathi, Pallapothu Swamy Naga Ratna Giri, Sustainable Building Research Center (Erc) Innovative Durable Building And Infrastructure Research Center, International Journal of Sustainable Building Technology and Urban Development, vol.16, pp.193-207, 2025

Inspiring the researchers of tomorrow in sustainable concrete construction

  • Role Co-Principal Investigator
  • Type SPARC Project
  • Sponsor SPARC UKEIRI, MHRD, GoI
  • Duration 24 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 4920000
  • Status Ongoing

Testing of Eco house made of Interlocking wall block and other ash products at NTPC Sipat

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Consultancy
  • Sponsor National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC)
  • Duration 6 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 975000
  • Status Ongoing

Use of Fungi as a Construction Component for Pre-Fabrication and Surface Treatment in the Built Environment

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type SPARC Project
  • Sponsor MOE, GoI
  • Duration 32 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 4385000
  • Status Ongoing

Development of Geopolymer Aggregates from Ash (Dry and Pond) for applications in Bio-Bricks, Low grade Payments, and Precast Elements

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor DAMODAR VALLEY CORPORATION
  • Duration 13 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 1656000
  • Status Ongoing

"Construction of Modern Bus Terminal at the existing bus terminal location at Warangal

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Consultancy
  • Sponsor Telangana State Government
  • Duration 10 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 1500000
  • Status Completed

Quality Control works of the ongoing renovation of Kaloji Kalakshetra, Cultural Center at Warangal

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Consultancy
  • Sponsor KUDA-WARANGAL,TELANGANA
  • Duration 7 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 1000000
  • Status Completed

Vetting of Design Drawings of Multispeciality Hospital Building in Warangal

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Consultancy
  • Sponsor L&T-Constructions
  • Duration 36 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 3600000
  • Status Completed

Inspection testing of columns/pedestals at the construction site.

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Consultancy
  • Sponsor Dr. V. Bala Bhaskara Rao, Chief Coordinator, GMCAN, Guntur
  • Duration 3 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 531000
  • Status Completed

Advanced Non-Destructive Testing Methods for Condition Assessment of Materials and Structures

  • Role Principal Developer
  • Type GIAN Course
  • Sponsor MOE, India
  • Duration 0 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 500000
  • Status Completed

A Simple and robust non-contact method for rapid structural health monitoring of critical infrastructure using digital image correlation

  • Role Co-Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor MHRD-IMPRINT, GoI
  • Duration 55 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 3850000
  • Status Completed

Effective Management of Process Slag from PCB Smelting

  • Role Co-Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor CMET, Hyderabad
  • Duration 11 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 1000000
  • Status Completed

Structural soundness of human habitation in respect of ESI buildings located in telangana

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Consultancy
  • Sponsor ESI Buildings Telangana State Government
  • Duration 12 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 1416000
  • Status Completed

Construction of proposed Government Medical College, Anantpur District, AP

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Consultancy
  • Sponsor Mr.N. Niroop Kumar Reddy, Managing Partner, NA Architects Pv
  • Duration 7 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 1601850
  • Status Completed

Vetting of Structural Design and Drawings- Government Medical College Campus, Bapatla, AP

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Consultancy
  • Sponsor Govt of Andhra Pradesh
  • Duration 13 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 1569400
  • Status Completed

Third-party quality assurance services for construction and development of Kendriya Vidyalaya

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Consultancy
  • Sponsor NPCC Ltd. Hyderabad
  • Duration 12 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 667703
  • Status Completed

Vetting of Design drawings for Structural Platform at Sricity, Andhra Pradesh

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Consultancy
  • Sponsor Govt. of Andhra Pradesh
  • Duration 6 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 15000
  • Status Completed

Superintendent Engineer, R&B, National Highway Circle, Karimnagar

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Consultancy
  • Sponsor NHA-Karimnagar Circle
  • Duration 5 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 620680
  • Status Completed

Vetting of Design drawings- HAL – TEST RIG Facility Building

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Consultancy
  • Sponsor L& T
  • Duration 7 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 1200000
  • Status Completed

FRP Technology for Strengthening and Rehabilitation of Structures

  • Role Principal Developer
  • Type GIAN Course
  • Sponsor MOE, INDIA
  • Duration 0 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 800000
  • Status Completed

Dynamic Material Failure

  • Role CO-Principal Developer
  • Type GIAN Course
  • Sponsor MHRD, GoI
  • Duration 0 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 1000000
  • Status Completed

Preparation of Test Beds for conducting Vibration Based Monitoring Tests

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor JISTEC and Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS
  • Duration 8 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 1100000
  • Status Completed

Retrofitting of R.C bridges using Ferrocement

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor Hokkaido University, Japan, Yamagami Material Technologies
  • Duration 10 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 1200000
  • Status Completed

Rehabilitation of bridges subjected to seismic damage using Ferrocement technique-Experiments

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor Kitami Institute of Technology, Takenaka Corporation, Japan
  • Duration 11 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 1500000
  • Status Completed


Mr. Ahamed Sharif

  • Area of Research: Performance of raw clay and calcined clay based AAC

Mr. G. Swamy Yadav

  • Area of Research: A study on constitutive behaviour of tie confined EGC

Mr. J Bapu Reddy

  • Area of Research: A Study on inelastic reserve strength of CF steel sections

Mr. K.Hajarath

  • Area of Research: Performance and Microstructure Behaviour of SWPCB based AAC

Mr. Nenavath Ashok

  • Area of Research: Development of sustainable interlocking AAC brick

Mr. P. Sathish

  • Area of Research: Damage detection of CE infrastructure using ML Techniques

Mr. Tadi Sunil Bhagat

  • Area of Research: accelerated carbonation curing on conventional and biochar

Ms. V Usha Rani

  • Area of Research: Studies on Performance and LCA of Biochar based AAC
  • Best Engineering Faculty Award
  • Best Engineering Researcher Award
  • Heritage Scholarship
  • Monbukagakusho- Mext Japanese Government
  • Post-Doctoral Fellowship
  • Chairperson of the scrutiny Committee for screening of applications for the post of Executive Engineer (Continuing from September, 2025)
  • Member of Committee to formalize MoU with Bajaj Group (Continuing from August, 2025)
  • Chairperson of committee to appraise the Government of Telangana for allotment of Land to establish second campus of NITW (Continuing from August, 2025)
  • Chairperson for Institute Infrastructure Committee (Continuing from May, 2025)
  • Chairman of Technical Evaluation Committee for Procurement of Furniture items (Continuing from April, 2025)
  • Chairman of Committee to Scrutinize the applications for the post of Superintending Engineer (March, 2025 - March, 2025)
  • Member of Ash Audit Engagements Committee (Continuing from March, 2025)
  • Member of Institute Affairs committee (Continuing from March, 2025)
  • Member of Committee to recommend the procedure for establishing Department of Computational and Data Sciences (Continuing from March, 2025)
  • Member of Committee to recommend the procedure for establishing the Centre for Materials and Manufacturing (Continuing from March, 2025)
  • Member of Committee to Draft the Vision Document 2047 for Infrastructure and Sustainability (Continuing from February, 2025)
  • Chairman for Air Conditioner Procurement Committee (Continuing from February, 2025)
  • Front Lead with responsibility of drafting the final agenda of Institute Infrastructure committee (Continuing from November, 2024)
  • Lead or Chairman of Building works committee (Continuing from November, 2024)
  • Chairman of Infrastructure Committee for Implementation of Strategic plans for Institute Development (Continuing from November, 2024)
  • Member of Coordinating Committee for Bajaj Auto's CSR activities (September, 2024 - December, 2024)
  • Chairperson for HEFA Loan Application Committee (Continuing from September, 2024)
  • Member of 22nd Convocation Core Committee (August, 2024 - December, 2024)
  • Chairman for Interface Committee with Government of Telangana (Continuing from July, 2024)
  • Chairperson of Committee to review the Tariffs of Institute Guest House Accomodation (April, 2024 - May, 2024)
  • Chairman of Scrutiny Committee for the post of Assistant Engineer ( on Deputation ISTC basis) (February, 2024 - March, 2024)
  • Committee to coordinate the inauguration event of Weather and Air monitoring station at NITW (February, 2024 - February, 2024)
  • Coordinator, monitoring of slow learners (Continuing from January, 2024)
  • Chairman of Departmental Purchase Committee (Continuing from October, 2023)
  • Member of Annual Report Committee (October, 2023 - February, 2024)
  • Member of Departmental Promotion Committee - Hostel Office (October, 2023 - December, 2023)
  • Chairman of the committee for preparation of Tender Document for availing Facility Management Services in Guest House (September, 2023 - December, 2023)
  • Member, Institute Affairs Committee (August, 2023 - September, 2025)
  • Chairman of Institute Furniture Committee (Continuing from August, 2023)
  • Member of Research and Development Committee (August, 2023 - June, 2024)
  • Chairman, Drainage Network Committee (August, 2023 - September, 2025)
  • Chairman of Committee to finalize the security Services Tender (August, 2023 - December, 2023)
  • Chairman, Institute Infrastructure Committee (July, 2023 - September, 2025)
  • Dean, Planning & Development (Continuing from July, 2023)
  • Member, Building Assessment Committee (June, 2023 - September, 2025)
  • Member of Advisory Committee for organizing R and D Conclave (May, 2023 - July, 2023)
  • Member of Section committee for faculty positions (June, 2022 - June, 2022)
  • Head, Department of Civil Engineering (December, 2021 - August, 2022)
  • Head, Department of Civil Engineering (August, 2020 - August, 2022)
  • Executive Council Member of the Siemens Center of Excellence(CoE) (August, 2020 - March, 2023)
  • Member of the Infrastructure Committee of Dept (April, 2018 - January, 2020)
  • Faculty In-Charge, E and MU (August, 2017 - August, 2019)
  • Member of Committee to prepare the master plan for NIT Warangal (July, 2017 - September, 2017)
  • Nodal Officer(Academic) TEQIP-III (May, 2017 - September, 2020)
  • Member of Board of Governors -NIT Andhra Pradesh (March, 2017 - March, 2019)
  • Professor In-charge Engineering and Maintenance Unit (March, 2017 - March, 2018)
  • Associate Dean , Planning and Development (November, 2014 - November, 2016)
  • Member, BIS CED 4 Committee (Continuing from October, 2014)
  • Head, Structures Division-Civil Engineering Department (November, 2013 - April, 2016)
  • Associate Dean , Admissions (April, 2013 - November, 2014)
  • Faculty In-charge of Project Engineer's Office (October, 2012 - April, 2013)
  • Faculty Coordinator of Training and Placement (October, 2011 - October, 2012)