Civil Faculty USHA S

Civil Faculty Profile

USHA S

Associate Professor

Name of the faculty: Dr. USHA S

Designation: Associate Professor

Qualifications: BE, Mtech, P.hd

Area of specialization: Construction Materials

Email id: ushas@ssit.edu.in

Contact no.: 9739283718

Experience in years: 09

Papers published in Journals:

  • Usha S, & Dr. T. V. Mallesh. (2024). Strength and Durability Assessment of Concrete Bricks Enhanced by Construction & Demolition Waste Integration. Applied Science and Engineering Journal for Advanced Research, 3(1), 14–19. https://doi.org/10.54741/asejar.3.1.3
  • Usha S, & Dr. T. V Mallesh. (2023). Analytical Modeling of Eco-Friendly Concrete Blocks from Construction and Demolition Waste using ANSYS. International Journal of Engineering and Management Research, 13(6), 165–171. https://doi.org/10.31033/ijemr.13.6.20
  • Thanu, Ms GD. “Shivaraju, & S, Usha.(2022). Study on effect of curing for red soil based geopolymer bricks.” International Research Journal of Innovations in Engineering and Technology 9: 554-563.
  • Roopakala, A., and G. D. Shivaraju. “S, Usha.(2021).” Experimental study on properties of self-curing concrete incorporated with PEG and PVA.
  • Kumbar, Prakash, G. D. Shivaraju, and S. Usha. “Seismic behavior of rc flat slab with and without shear wall technique by using response spectrum analysis.” (2008).
  • Usha, S., and G. D. Shivaraju. “Evaluating the strength and durable parameters of c&d waste replaced bricks.” The International Journal of Analytical and Experimental Modal Analysis 14 (2022): 86-93.
  • Ranjini, B. S., and S. Usha. “Experimental study on strength properties of graphene oxide concrete with the partial cement replacement by wollastonite.” (2023).
  • Usha, S., Shivaraju, G. D., Mallesh, T. V., Prathibha, R. T., & Navya, S. M. (2022). Performance assessment of fly-ash aggregates in concrete. International Journal of Health Sciences, 6(S9), 3858–3864. https://sciencescholar.us/journal/index.php/ijhs/article/view/13494.
  • Usha S, Jayalakshmi Raju (April 2015) “Finite Element Analysis of Underground Water Tank with different Safe Bearing Values of Soil”, International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology (IJETT), Vol 24, Issue 4, Pg No205-210, ISSN 2231 – 5318.
  • Shivaraju G D, Usha S, Kumbar Bhanu Prakash (June 2019) “Study of Seismic Behavior of RC Flat Slab with and without Shear Wall Technique” International Journal of Scientific Research in Engineering and Management (IJSREM), Vol: 03 Issue: 06, Pg No1668-1675, ISSN 2590 – 1892.
  • Shivaraju G D, Usha S, Kumbar Bhanu Prakash (June 2019) “Seismic Behavior of RC Flat Slab with and without Shear Wall Technique by using Response Spectrum Analysis” International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET), Vol 06, Issue 06, eISSN 2395 –0056.

PAPERS PUBLISHED IN NATIONAL / INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

  • Usha S, Dr. T. V Mallesh, Shivaraju G D “Sustainable Development of Carbon Negative Concrete using Ferrock” in the National Conference on Recent Advances in Material Science in Engineering(RAME), 978-81-965079-2-3, on 26 – 27th July 2023 at East Point College of Engineering and Technology, Bengaluru.
  • Usha S, Dr. T. V Mallesh “Utilization of Construction and Demolition waste as coarse aggregate in building units” in the International conference on Sustainbale Experimentation and Modeling in Civil Engineering (SEMCE – 2023) on 10 -11th August 2023 at Lovely Professional university, Punjab.
  • Usha S, Dr. T. V Mallesh “Fly Ash based solutions for treating construction and demolition waste: An in – depth analysis” in the International conference on Modern Trends in Civil Engineering infrastructure Development and Management (MTCEIDM) on 8 – 10th December, 2023 at BMS College of Engineering, Bengaluru.

Other achievements:

  • Best Paper Award presented during the International Conference on Recent Advances in Science, Technology, Engineering and Management (ICRASTEM -2022): “Performance Assessment of fly ash Aggregates in concrete” held at Brindvan College of Engineering, Bengaluru on 29th and 30th April 2022.
  • Participated in one day FDP on New Generation Concrete conducted on 16th September 2017 at CIT Gubbi.
  • Participated in five days FDP on “Repair, Rehabilitation and Retrofitting of Concrete Structures” held between 6th to 10th February 2018 at Brindavan College of Engineering.