Rate My Professor Anitha Priyadharshani

Dr. S. Anitha Priyadharshani is an Assistant Professor Grade-I in the Department of Civil Engineering at the National Institute of Technology, Warangal. She obtained her Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. Her academic and research interests center on advanced materials in structural engineering, particularly FRP composites, concrete-filled steel and FRP tubes, GFRP and steel reinforcement bond performance, steel fiber optimization in concrete, and durability under acidic environments. With 37 publications documented in academic repositories, her work contributes significantly to sustainable and high-performance concrete structures.

Priyadharshani's career at NIT Warangal includes supervision of Ph.D. students, such as one who completed in December 2025, and serving as Principal Investigator for the Science and Engineering Research Board funded project "Braided Fiber reinforced polymeric rebars for concrete structures." Key publications include "Bond Performance of Steel, GFRP and Glass Fiber Roving Wrapped Steel Reinforcement in Normal and Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete" (Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series A, 2026), co-authored with Sarella Venkateswara Rao; "A comparative study of concrete columns reinforced with steel and GFRP bars" (2026); "Durability and structural integrity of columns reinforced with various combinations of steel and GFRP bars" (2024); "Influence of Concrete Type and Acidic Environment on the Behaviour of Concrete Filled Steel and FRP Tubes" (2024); "Numerical analysis of concrete filled steel tube columns using Abaqus" (2022); "Numerical Analysis of Concrete filled Steel tube columns" (Materials Today Proceedings, 2023); "Experimental And Numerical Study On Concrete Cylinders For Finding Optimum Percentage Of Crimped Steel Fibers With Different Aspect Ratios" (2023); and "A study on strength of concrete with partial replacement of cement and fine aggregate with metakaolin and quarry dust" (IOP Conference Series, 2024). Her Google Scholar profile reports 88 citations, underscoring her influence in the field. She has also contributed to conference proceedings, such as Recent Trends in Construction Technology and Management, and participated in organizing events like the National Conference on Advances in Construction Materials & Management.