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by Animesh Das (Author)
This second edition includes new chapter on numerical implementation (using FEM) of pavement analysis along with topics as mechanical modeling of granular materials, applications of convolution theorems in visco-elasticity, visco-elastic Poisson's ratio, concepts of fracture mechanics in relation to fatigue of asphalt mix and so forth.
Author Biography
Animesh Das, Ph.D., is presently working as Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He received his Ph.D. degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Dr. Das's area of interest is pavement material characterization, pavement analysis, pavement design and pavement maintenance. He has many technical publications in various journals of repute and in conference proceedings. He has co-authored a text book titled Principles of Transportation Engineering published by the Prentice-Hall of India (currently, PHI learning).
He has received a number of awards in recognition to his contribution in the field, including Indian National Academy of Engineers Young Engineer award (2004) and Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellowship (2012-13). Details of his works can be found on his webpage: http: //home.iitk.ac.in/□adas.
