Narayanan Neithalath
Assistant Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering
126 Rowley Laboratories
Clarkson University
PO Box 5710
Potsdam, NY 13699-5710
Phone: 315-268-1261
FAX: 315-268-7985
E-mail: nneithal@clarkson.edu
Department Web site
Research Web site
Education
B.S., University of Calicut, India (1996)
M.S., Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras (1999)
Ph.D., Purdue University (2004)
Teaching Interests
Materials science, Engineering Materials, Properties and performance of cement and concrete materials, Repair and Rehabilitation of infrastructure facilities
Research Interests
General area of research includes the characterization, performance evaluation, and modeling of the behavior of special cement based materials. Specific areas of interest are multi-functional cement based materials, sustainable concretes, very high porosity cementitious systems, and techniques for performance enhancement of special cement based systems.
Professional Affiliations
- American Concrete Institute (ACI) - Member
Committee 123 - Research and Current Development
Committee 236 - Materials Science of Concrete
Committee 522 - Pervious Concretes
Committee 232 - Fly ash and Natural Pozzolans in Concrete
- American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) - Member
- American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) - Member
- International Center for Fiber Reinforced Concretes (ICFRC) - Life Member
Professional Experience
Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN (2004-2005) Assistant Professor, College of Basic and Applied Sciences
Cera-Chem Limted (India) – (2000-2001) Concrete Admixtures and Specialty Repairs Division - High performance concrete mixture proportioning, repair applications
Grasim Industries Limited (India) – (1999-2000) Cement quality control, technical services for cement and concrete use, training and technology dissemination
Honors
- NSF CAREER Award (2008) for the proposal titled "Linking Pore Structure, Performance and Material Design of a Sustainable Macroporous Concrete for Multifunctional applications"
- Bengt Friberg Award (2005) for the Best Paper by a Young Author - 8th International Conference on Concrete Pavements, Colorado Springs, CO, for the paper "Tire-Pavement Interaction Noise: Recent research on concrete pavement surface type and texture"
- Member of Faculty Leadership Academy, Middle Tennessee State University (2004)
- Fellowship of the Portland Cement Association (PCA), 2003
- Best Paper Award, Indian Society for Construction Materials and Structures, 2001, for the paper "Influence of composition and curing on the drying shrinkage of Aerated Concrete," Materials and Structures, RILEM, Vol.33, pp 243-250.
Selected Publications
Schwarz, N., and Neithalath, N., (2008). "Influence of a fine glass powder on the durability characteristics of concrete and its comparison to fly ash", Cement and Concrete Composites, accepted for publication
Schwarz, N., and Neithalath, N., (2008). "Influence of a fine glass powder on cement hydration: Comparison to fly ash and modeling the degree of hydration", Cement and Concrete Research, in press.
Schwarz, N., DuBois, M., and Neithalath, N., (2007). "Electrical conductivity based characterization of plain and coarse glass powder modified cement pastes", Cement and Concrete Composites, Vol. 29, No.9, September 2007, pp. 656-666.
Neithalath, N., (2007). "Evaluating the short-term and long-term moisture transport phenomena in lightweight aggregate concretes", Magazine of Concrete Research, Vol. 59, No.6, August 2007, pp. 435-445.
Neithalath, N., (2007). "Extracting the performance predictors of Enhanced Porosity Concretes from electrical conductivity spectra", Cement and Concrete Research, Vol. 37, January 2007, pp. 796-804.
Neithalath, N., Weiss, J., and Olek, J., (2006). "Characterizing enhanced porosity concrete using electrical impedance to predict its acoustic and hydraulic performance", Cement and Concrete Research, Vol. 36, Issue 11, November 2006, pp. 2074-2085.
Neithalath, N., (2006). "Damage assessment in cellulose-cement composites using dynamic mechanical characteristics", Cement and Concrete Composites, Vol. 28, Issue 7, August 2006, pp. 658-667.
Neithalath, N., (2006). "Analysis of moisture transport in mortars and concrete using sorption-diffusion approach", ACI Materials Journal, Vol. 103, No.3, May-June 2006, pp. 209-217
Neithalath, N., Garcia, R., Weiss, J., and Olek, J., (2005). "Tire-pavement interaction noise: Recent research on concrete pavement surface type and texture", International Journal of Concrete Pavements (IJCP), Vol.1, No.1, December 2005, pp. 88-105 (selected for publication in the Journal based on the best paper award received at the 8th International conference on concrete pavements)
Neithalath, N., Weiss, J., and Olek, J., (2005). “Modeling the effects of pore structure on the acoustic absorption of Enhanced Porosity Concrete”, Journal of Advanced Concrete Technology, Japan Concrete Institute, Vol.3, No.1, February 2005, pp. 29-40
Neithalath, N., Weiss, J., and Olek, J., (2004). “Acoustic performance and damping behavior of cellulose-cement composites”, Cement and Concrete Composites, Vol. 26, pp 359-370
Marolf, A., Neithalath, N., Sell, E., Wegner, K., Weiss, J., and Olek, J., (2004). “The influence of aggregate gradation on the acoustic absorption of Enhanced Porosity Concrete”, ACI Materials Journal, January – February 2004
Narayanan, N., and Ramamurthy, K., (2001). Reply to discussions by Vaupel, H., and Odler, I on the paper “Microstructural investigations on Aerated Concrete”, Cement and Concrete Research, Vol.31, pp 155
Narayanan, N., and Ramamurthy, K., (2000). “Prediction relations for compressive strength of Aerated Concrete”, ACI Materials Journal, May-June 2000, pp 367-373
Narayanan, N., and Ramamurthy, K., (2000). “Structure and properties of Aerated Concrete – A review”, Cement and Concrete Composites, Vol.22, pp 321-329
Narayanan, N., and Ramamurthy, K., (2000). “Microstructural investigations on Aerated Concrete”, Cement and Concrete Research, Vol.30, pp 457-464
Narayanan, N., and Ramamurthy, K., (2000). “Prediction relations based on gel-pore parameters for the compressive strength of Aerated Concrete”, Concrete Science and Engineering, RILEM, Vol.2, pp 206-212
Ramamurthy, K., and Narayanan, N., (2000). “Influence of composition and curing on the drying shrinkage of Aerated Concrete”, Materials and Structures, RILEM, Vol.33, pp 243-250
Ramamurthy, K., and Narayanan, N., (2000). “Factors influencing the density and compressive strength of Aerated Concrete”, Magazine of Concrete Research, Vol.52, No.3, pp 163-168
Narayanan, N., Ramamurthy, K., and Ambalavanan, R., (2000). “Cost-effectiveness analysis of two-way filler slabs with Mangalore-pattern tiles”, Indian Concrete Journal, Vol.74, No.3, pp 145-149
Ambalavanan, R., Narayanan, N., and Ramamurthy, K., (1999). “Cost-effectiveness Analysis of alternate one-way filler slabs”, Indian Concrete Journal, Vol.73, No.3, pp 171-177
