Deepti Avirneni

Dr. Deepti Avirneni is currently working as Associate Professor, in the department of Civil engineering, Mahindra University, Hyderabad. Her expertise and research interests are in the area of sustainable pavement materials, and pavement design. She has graduated from Acharya Nagarjuna University in 2006 and earned her masters from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee in 2008. She was awarded doctorate from Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad. Prior to joining Mahindra Ecole Centrale Hyderabad in 2017, she worked as Associate Professor at VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, during 2016-2017.

• 2016 Jun: Ph.D. in Civil Engineering,Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India.

• 2008 Jun: M.Tech in Transportation Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India.

• 2006 Jun: B.Tech. SVH College of Engineering, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Machilipatnam, India.

• 2006 Jun: Sri Chaitanya Mahila Kalasala, Vijayawada, India.

Book Chapters

• Saride S., Umashankar B., Avirneni D. (eds) Advances in Geotechnical and Transportation Engineering. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 71. (2020) Springer, Singapore. Print ISBN 978-981-15-3661-8, Online ISBN 978-981-15-3662-5
• Sireesh, S., Deepti, A. (2019). Development of fly ash stabilized recycled base material for Indian highways, Geotechnical design & practice, 137-147.
• Sireesh, S., Deepti, A. (2017). Strength characteristics of geopolymer fly ash stabilized reclaimed asphalt pavement base courses, Geoenvironmental practices & sustainability, 267-275.
• S., Anu, M. George., Deepti, A., Munwar Bhasha. (2016). Sustainable design of India rural roads with reclaimed asphalt pavements, Sustainable issues in civil engineering, 73-90.

International Journals

• Lakshmi Thotakura, Ganesh Babu Kodeboyina and Deepti Avirneni, “Efficacy of Silica Fume in Non-Proprietary Ultra-High Performance Sustainable Cementitious Compositions”, International Journal of Civil Engineering, Springer. (Paper under review) – SCI Indexed
• Harish Gangaraju, Keerthi Chandramalla, Deepti Avirneni “Effect of Plastic Fibers and Aggregate Gradation on the Mechanical and Hydraulic Properties of Porous Concrete” Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering. (under review).
• Ganesh Babu Kodeboyina, Lakshmi Thotakura and Deepti Avirneni, “Material Sustainability Rating of Ultra High Performance Concrete Composites”, Advances in concrete Construction, Techno Press. (Paper under review) – SCI Indexed
• Sireesh, S., Deepti, A., & Subrahmanyam, Ch. (2016). Micro-mechanical interaction of activated fly ash mortar and reclaimed asphalt pavement materials, Construction and Building Materials, (123), 424–435
• Deepti, A., Pranav, P.R.T., & Sireesh, S. (2016). Durability and long-term performance of geopolymer stabilized reclaimed asphalt pavement base courses, Construction and Building Materials (121), 198–209
• Sireesh, S., Deepti, A., Sarath Chandra Prasad, J. (2015). Utilization of reclaimed asphalt pavements in indian low volume roads, Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, ASCE (28), Issue 2, 10.1061/(ASCE)MT.1943-5533.0001374, 04015107.
• Sireesh, S., Deepti, A., Sarath Chandra Prasad, J., Puppala Anand, & Hoyos L.R (2015). Evaluation of fly-ash-treated reclaimed asphalt pavement for base/sub-base application, Indian Geotechnical Journal, (45), Issue 4, 401- 411.

Special Publications (International)

• Avirneni, D., Bondada Ch., A.K., Bommu, S.R. (2023). Investigating Mechanical and Hydraulic Properties of Porous Concrete Pavements. In: Rastogi, R., Bharath, G., Singh, D. (eds) Recent Trends in Transportation Infrastructure, Volume 1. TIPCE 2022. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 354. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3142-2_16
• Ganesh Babu Kodeboyina, Lakshmi Thotakura, Deepti Avirneni, and Chandrasekhar Bhojaraju. (2023) “Ultra-high Performance Concrete as a Sustainable Structural Composite.” In IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, vol. 1149, no. 1, p. 012002. IOP Publishing, 2023.IOP Publishing. 10.1088/1755-1315/1149/1/012002
• Lakshmi Thotakura, Ganesh Babu Kodeboyina, Deepti Avirneni and Sankar Kumar Reddy Pullalacheruvu (2022), “Sustainability of Infrastructure – The Need for A Reassessment”, The 1st International Online Conference on Infrastructures, IOCC, MDPI. (Proof checking was done and will be available online very soon)
• Saladi S. V. Subbarao, A. Deepti, H. Amit, A. Akshay, and S. K. Charan (2022), Emission Modelling of Passenger Cars in India: A Case of Hyderabad City, Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, Proc. of the Fifth International Conference of Transportation Research Group of India, 5th CTRG, Vol 3
• Deepti, A., and Sireesh, S., (2015). durability studies on fly ash stabilized reclaimed asphalt pavement materials, Geochicago.
• Sireesh, S., Deepti, A., Someswar Rao, T., Sarath Chandra Prasad, J., and Dayakar babu, R. (2014). Evaluation of fly-ash-treated reclaimed asphalt pavement for design of sustainable pavement bases – An Indian perspective, Geo Congress 2014, Atlanta, USA, GSP 234:3676-3685.

International Conference

• Deepti, A., (2019). “Mechanical behavior of ferro-fibrocrete pavements”, Proc., of 15th World Conference on Transportation Research (WCTR), 26-31 May 2019, Mumbai
• Ramesh, A., and Deepti, A. (2010). Analysis and development of road accident models for Hyderabad metropolitan city in India, Recent Issues and Solution Methodologies in Transportation Engineering and Planning, Srinagar, India.

National Conference

• Subbarao, SSV., Deepti, A., Akshay, A., Amit, H. and Charan, SK. (2019) “Emission modeling of Passenger cars in India: A case of Hyderabad city”, Proc., of 5th Conference of Transportation Research Group of India (CTRG – 2019), 18-21 December 2019, Bhopal
• Deepti A, Pranav P. R. T and Sireesh S (2017) Correlations to Predict Resilient Modulus of Stabilised Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement Materials, Indian Geotechnical Conference-2017, Guwahati, India.
• Deepti A (2016) Application of Geopolymer Fly ash Stabilized Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement Material in Pavement Base Courses, VNRVJIET, Hyderabad, India.
• Deepti A and Sireesh S (2016) Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement Materials In Indian Rural Roads, FPMGSY, IIT Roorkee, India.
• Deepti A, Pranav P. R. T and Sireesh S (2015) Durability of Fly ash Treated Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement Materials, Indian Geotechnical Conference-2015, Pune, India.
• Sireesh S, and Deepti A (2014) Reclaimed Asphalt Pavements in Flexible Pavement Applications, Indian Geotechnical Conference-2014, Kakinada, India.
• Deepti A and Sireesh S (2012) Micro-mechanical behaviour of reclaimed asphalt pavements – A review, Proceedings of 1st young geotechnical conference of AP, India.
• Kumar Praveen, Deepti A and Gupta Ankit, Effect of Various Parameters over Cost of Rural Roads, National Conference on Infrastructure Development in Civil Engineering (IDCE-2008), Hamirpur, May 16-17, 2008.

Patents

• Patent Application Number: 20241074645 (Published on January 10, 2025) Title: Engineered Super High Strength High Performance Sustainable Cementitious Composites

Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zedu-rAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

• Assistant Professor Mahindra University, Ecole Centrale College of Engineering, Hyderabad, (2017 Jul – Present)
  Courses: Construction planning & management, Engineering Geology, Concrete technology, Transportation engineering, Transport & Environment, Construction technology & drawing, Railway & Airport engineering, Pavement analysis & design

• Associate Professor VNRVJIET, Hyderabad, (2016 Mar – 2017 Jul)
  Courses: Surveying, Transportation engineering, Pavement analysis & design, Transportation engineering laboratory, Surveying laboratory

• Research Scholar Jun Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, (2011 Aug – 2016)
  Courses: Geotechnical engineering laboratory

• Assistant Professor VNRVJIET, Hyderabad, (2009 Aug – 2011 Aug)
  Courses: Surveying, Transportation engineering, Pavement analysis & design

Industrial Work Experience

• Organization: Meltech Infra, (Jul 2008 – Jul 2009)

Research: Her areas of research include

• Sustainable Pavement Materials: Including the utilization of reclaimed asphalt pavements (RAP) and fly ash for base courses in roads, particularly in low-volume roads, Porous Asphalt Pavements, Emission Measurement & Mitigation Technologies