Venkatesh Kodur
University Distinguished Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), College of Engineering
Engineering Bldg, 428 S Shaw Ln Room 3574
Biography
Dr. Venkatesh Kodur is a University Distinguished Professor of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Michigan State University. He also serves as Director of the Centre on Structural Fire Engineering and Diagnostics at Michigan State University. His research interests include: Evaluation of fire resistance of structural systems through large scale fire experiments and numerical modeling
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and characterization of materials under high temperature. His research contributions have lead to the development of fundamental understanding on the fire behavior of material and structural systems and also resulted in numerous design approaches and innovative and cost-effective solutions for enhancing fire-resistance of structural systems. He has published over 350 peer-reviewed papers in journals and conferences, and has given numerous invited key-note presentations. He is one of the highly cited authors in Civil Engineering and as per Google Scholar, he has more than 7000 citations with an "h" index of 48.
Prof. Kodur is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and a Foreign Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering. He is a professional engineer, Fellow of American Society of Civil Engineers, Fellow of Structural Engineering Institute, Society of Civil Engineers, Fellow of American Concrete Institute, Associate Editor of Journal of Structural Engineering, Chairman of ACI Fire Protection Committee, Chairman of ASCE-29 (Fire) Standards Committee and a member of UK-EPSRC College of Reviewers. He has won many awards including MSU University Distinguished Professor, AISC Faculty Fellowship Award, MSU Distinguished Faculty Award, NRCC (Government of Canada) Outstanding Achievement Award and NATO Award for collaborative research. Dr. Kodur was part of the FEMA/ASCE Building Performance Assessment Team that studied the collapse of WTC buildings as a result of September 11 incidents.
Education
Ph.D., Structural Engineering, Queen's University, Canada 1992
M.Sc., Structural Engineering, Queen's University, Canada 1988
B.Sc., Civil Engineering, Bangalore University, India 1985
Awards
Selected for "MSU President's report" (2016)
Elected "Fellow" of 'Structural Engineering Institute' 2013
Outstanding Public Awareness Award National Research Council Canada (2003)
The Lorne W Gold "Best Publication (Research Paper)" Award National Research Council Canada (2002)
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Naser M.Z., Kodur V.K.R. "Comparative fire behavior of composite steel girders under flexural and shear loading." J. of Thin Walled Structures, 116, pp. 82-90, 2017.
Kodur, V.K.R., Yu, B., and Solmirzei R. "A simplified approach for predicting temperatures in insulated RC members exposed to standard fire": Fire Safety Journal, 92, pp. 82-90, 2017.
Kodur, V.K.R., Khaliq, W. and Raut, N. "An approach to account for tie configuration in predicting fire resistance of reinforced concrete columns", J. of Engineering Structures, Vol. 56, August 2013, Pages 1976-1985, 2013.
Kodur V.K.R., and Naser, M. "Importance factor for design of bridges against fire hazard", J. of Engineering Structures, 54, pp. 207-220, 2013.
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