Surendra P. Shah
Surendra P. Shah
Walter P. Murphy Professor
A134 Technological Institute
2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208-3109
E-mail address: s-shah@northwestern.edu
Phone: (847) 491-3858
Fax: (847) 491-4011
Website: ACBM Web Site
Education
- B.E., B.V.M. College, Bombay
- M.S., Lehigh University
- Ph.D., Cornell University
Research
Professor Shah’s research involves connecting microscopic behavior to structural response of concrete. Such bridging of scales is important to develop improved materials, which are tougher, greener and more durable. He has developed innovative nondestructive tools to detect fracture. These include Electronic Laser Specle Interferometry, and Digital Image Correlation. He has done pioneering research in fiber reinforced concrete, high performance concrete, and fracture mechanics of quasi-brittle materials. Current research projects include: carbon nanotube fiber reinforced cement based composites, monitoring in-site properties of concrete at early age using ultrasonic method, computational model for fatigue fracture, utilization of waste material, early age cracking of high performance concrete, innovative processing and nanotechnology, rheology, and self compacting concrete. The Center for Advanced Cement based Materials is sponsored by an industrial consortium and conducts interdisciplinary research in conjunction with five other institutions (see ACBM web-site).
Teaching Activities
- CIV_ENG 321 Properties of Concrete
Honors and Awards
- Member, National Academy of Engineering
- Fellow, Indian Academy of Engineering
- Honorary Professor at the University of L'Aquilla and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Fulbright Award, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India
- Della Roy Lecture, American Ceramic Society
- Selected to the 'Top Ten Most Influential Persons in the Concrete Industry,' by Concrete Construction
- Modeling, Measuring, and Monitoring Concrete Properties, Organized in Honor of Surendra P. Shah, Greece
Selected Publications
Professor Shah has published more than 400 publications and co-edited more than dozen proceedings. He is currently the editor in chief of the Journal Concrete Science and Engineering. The co-authored books:
S.P. Shah, S.E. Swartz, and C.Ouyang, Fracture Mechanics of Concrete, John Wiley & Sons, 1994.
S.P. Shah and S.H. Ahmad, High Performance Concrete and Applications, Edward Arnold, 1994
P. Balaguru and S.P. Shah, Fiber Reinforced Cement Composites, McGraw Hill, 1992.
- Gregori, A., Ferron, R., Sun, Z., and Shah, S.P., "Experimental simulation of SCC formwork pressure," ACI Materials Journal, 2008. 105(1): p. 97-104.
- Mondal, P., Marks, L., and Shah, S.P., "A reliable technique to determine the local mechanical properties at the nanoscale of cemenetitious materials," Cement and Concrete Research, 2007. 37(10): p. 1440-1444..
- Ozyurt, N., Mason, T.O., and Shah, S.P., "Correlation of fiber dispersion, rheology and mechanical performance of FRCs," Cement and Concrete Composites, 2007. 29(2): p. 70-79.
- Kuder, K., Ozyurt, N., Mu, E., and Shah, S.P., "Rheology of fiber-reinforced cementitious materials," Cement and Concrete Research, 2007. 37(2): p. 191-199.
- Voigt, T., Ye, Z., Sun, Z., van Breugel, K., and Shah, S.P., "Early age microstructure of Portland cement mortar investigated by ultrasonic shear waves and numerical simulations," Cement and Concrete Research, 2005. 35(5), p. 858-866.
