Dr. Prasanna Kumar Behera

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest

• Durability of concrete structures
• Corrosion of reinforcing steel
• Concrete
• Reinforcing steel
• Steel-concrete interface
• Material characterization
• Service life of reinforced concrete structures
• Infrastructure Management

Education

• Ph. D., Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
• M. Tech., Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
• B. Tech., University College of Engineering, JNTU Kakinada

Latest Publications

• P.K. Behera, S. Misra, and K. Mondal, “Corrosion of strained plain rebar in chloride-contaminated mortar and novel approach to estimate the corrosion amount from rust characterization,” Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, 2021, v.33, n.10, 04021283/1-12.
• P.K. Behera, P.K. Katiyar, S. Misra, and K. Mondal, “Effect of pre-induced plastic strains on the corrosion behavior of reinforcing bar in 3.5% NaCl solution,” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 2021, v. 52, pp. 605-626.
• P.K. Behera, S. Misra, and K. Mondal, “Corrosion behavior of strained rebar in simulated concrete pore solution,” Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, 2020, v. 29, n. 3, pp. 1939-1954.
• P.K. Behera, K. Mondal, and S. Misra, “Simulating reinforcement corrosion-induced strain in concrete using expansive grout,” Current Science, 2020, v. 118, n. 3, pp. 401-410.
• P.K. Katiyar, P.K. Behera, S. Misra, and K. Mondal, “Comparative Corrosion Behavior of Five Different Microstructures of Rebar Steels in Simulated Concrete Pore Solution with and Without Chloride Addition,” Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, 2019, v. 28, n. 10, pp. 6275-6286.