Building and Construction Materials: Testing and Quality Control, 1e (Lab Manual) (Lab Manual Series)

Dr M L Gambhir was Professor and Head of Civil Engineering Department, and Dean Planning & Resource Generation at the Thapar University, Patiala (previously Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala). He obtained his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from University of Roorkee (presently Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee) and PhD from Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada.
His major research interests were in the areas of structural engineering particu¬larly in structural failures and rehabilitation of structures; vibration-based health monitoring of structures; structural reliability; structural stability and dynamics; high performance concrete; steel and reinforced concrete design. He had wide ex¬perience in structural design of diverse types of structures in structural steel and reinforced concrete.
Dr Gambhir had over 65 technical papers in archival refereed journals and international conferences to his credit and had authored with reputed publishers.

Mrs Neha Jamwal is currently working with Santos Ltd, Australia as Contracts Engineer (Contracts & Procurement); formerly Contracts Engineer with QGC Pty Ltd- a BG Group Company, Australia. Prior to QGC she has worked as Project Engineer (Engineering- Projects) with John Holland Pty Ltd, Australia, fol¬lowing on from Deputy Manager (Engineering & Coordination- Projects) with Punj Lloyd Ltd (Middle East Operations, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, UAE) & Senior Engineer (Engineering- Projects) with Punj Lloyd Ltd (New Delhi, India).
She obtained her Master’s Degree in Structural Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India in 2006, and Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering from Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar, India in 2002. Her major research interests are theoretical and experimental structural engineering. She evolved a unified design approach for reinforced concrete members.
Throughout her professional career she has been involved in Engineering Design & Coordination, Front End Engineering Design, Contracts & Procurement, and Project Engineering & Execution. In recent years, she has been involved in a number of prestigious projects in India, Middle East and now Australia. She has worked on prestigious projects like GLNG & QCLNG which involves extraction of coal seam gas, conver¬sion to LNG & transporting it to global market. She is member of CIPSA (Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply, Australia) and Engineers Australia.