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Prof. Vishnu R

PhD (IIT Kharagpur)

Assistant Professor Gr-I

Department of Civil Engineering

Room No: 2153   +91-870-2464258
vsr@nitw.ac.in
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Research Areas

 Pavement Forensics 

 Pavement Management Systems 

 Pavement Recycling 

 Rheology of Bituminous binders and Mixes 

  • Courses Handled
  • Research IDs
  • Selected Publications
  • Project/Consultancy
  • Current PhD Students
  • Awards and Accolades
  • Additional Responsibilities
  • Transportation Engineering-2(CE305)
  • Characterisation of Pavement Materials(CE66021)
  • Transportation Analytics Laboratory(CE66009)
  • Pavement Management System(CE66038)
  • Pavement Management System(CE314)
  • Pavement Materials and Evaluation Laboratory(CE66006)
  • Characterization of Pavement Materials(CE5603)
  • Pavement Materials and Evaluation Laboratory(CE5655)
  • Highway Construction Practices(CE5613)
  • ORC ID: 0000-0002-7910-224X


  • Development of Performance based blending charts for recycled binder blends, By Harshvardhan Goud, Vishnu Radhakrishnan, Venkiah Chowdary, Bharath G, ASCE, Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, vol., pp., 2024
  • Effect of RAP dissociation and agglomeration on recycled binder availability, By Aravind Manikantan, Vishnu Radhakrishnan, Bharat G, ASCE, Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, vol., pp., 2024
  • Ground Granulated Blast Furnace Slag as a Partial Replacement of Cement in Open Graded Cement Stabilized Macadam., By Sharanya Ullas, Bindu C.S., Vishnu Radhakrishnan, ASCE, Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, vol., pp., 2024
  • Evaluation of Deflection Bowl Parameters in Low volume roads, By Jithin Kurien., Radhakrishnan Vishnu., Reebu Z, ASCE, Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part B Pavements, vol., pp., 2023
  • Field investigation of material layer properties for emulsion treated base layers, By Jithin Kurien Andrews., Radhakrishnan Vishnu., Reebu Zachariah Koshy., Subhash T.K., & Venkaiah Chowdary, Taylor and Francis, International Journal of Pavement Engineering, vol., pp., 2023
  • Quantifying the degree of binder availability in recycled asphalt mix design using white and black rock mixes, By Maheswara Raju., Radhakrishnan Vishnu., Venkaiah Chowdary, ASCE, Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, vol., pp., 2023
  • Laboratory evaluation of emulsion treated base layer mixes incorporating recycled asphalt pavement materials, By Jithin Kurien Andrews., Radhakrishnan Vishnu., Reebu Zachariah Koshy , ASCE, Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, vol., pp., 2023
  • Performance evaluation of rejuvenated recycled asphalt blends at high and intermediatepavement temperatures, By Ansari M T., Khailesh Khatri., Radhakrishnan Vishnu., & Venkaiah Chowdary, Taylor and Francis, International Journal of Pavement Engineering, vol., pp., 2021
  • Radhakrishnan Vishnu., Chowdari, G. S., Reddy, K. S., & Chattaraj, R, By Evaluation of wheel tracking and field rutting susceptibility of dense bituminous mixes, Taylor and Francis, Road Material and Pavement Design, vol., pp., 2017
  • Evaluation of asphalt binder rutting parameters, By Radhakrishnan Vishnu., Ramya Sri, M., & Reddy, K. S, Elsevier, Construction and Building Materials, vol., pp., 2018

Laboratory Performance Evaluation of Cementitious Full Depth Reclamation Mixes

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor NRIDA, Ministry of Rural Development
  • Duration 18 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 2700000
  • Status Completed

Strength and Durability Assessment of Full Depth Reclamation Mixes

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor Vasu Enterprises, Kolkata
  • Duration 12 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 1820445
  • Status Completed

Development of Guidelines for Dense Graded Bituminous mix as Thin Surface Course Layer for Low Volume Roads

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor NRIDA, Ministry of Rural Development
  • Duration 6 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 2820000
  • Status Completed

Performance evaluation of different surface course mixes in low volume roads

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor Local self government department, LSGD
  • Duration 36 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 2500000
  • Status Completed

Evaluation of PAMA modified bituminous mixes

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor Raeun Mercentile Pvt Ltd
  • Duration 12 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 638000
  • Status Completed


Ammu B C

  • Area of Research: Full depth reclamation mixes

Anusree Mohan

  • Area of Research: Benchmarking of Balanced Mix Design

B Sravanti

  • Area of Research: Geopolymer stabilized base layers for pavements

G Deepchand

  • Area of Research: Evaluation of interface bond strength of bituminous mixes
  • Lab in charge, Transportation Engineering (Continuing from January, 2023)