A.       Patents

Patent Application Number: "4414/CHE/2015" dated "24/08/2015

Title: "MEASUREMENT OF VISCOSITY OF BITUMINOUS BINDERS IN ROTATIONAL MODE THROUGH INDIRECT MEASUREMENT OF TORQUE"

Inventors: Mr. V Venkata Ramayya, Asst. Professor, MGIT, Hyderabad, Dr. V Vinayaka Ram, Associate Professor, BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus, Dr. S Krishnayya, Professor & Registrar, JNTU, Anantapur 

Status: Granted

B.      Awards Received

Received National Level Commendation Certificate Award from the Indian Roads Congress, New Delhi for a research paper published in the Highway Research Bulletin (Traffic), Highway Research Board, Indian Roads Congress during 59th Annual Session of IRC

C.      Technical Committee Member for BIS Code of Practice

Appointed as a technical committee member the following BIS code of Practice

Method for testing tar and bituminous materials: Determination of saturates Naphthene aromatics polar aromatics and Asphaltenes (New Indian Standard Code)

D.      Advisory Board Member

Advisory Board Member of Indian Road Safety Campaign, run by IIT, Delhi under the Government of India's “Transport Research Injury Prevention (TRIPP) Programme”

Advisory Board Member Link: http://road-safety.co.in/advisory.html 

E.     Editorial Board Member

• Green Building and Construction Economics - Universal Wiser Publisher
• Energies - MDPI - Guest editor for a special publication "Special Issue: Advances in Thermal Energy Storage Systems for Buildings"

F.     Journal Reviewer

• Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews (Elsevier)
• ACI Materials Journal - American Concrete Institute
• Results in Engineering, Science Direct
• International Journal of Engineering
• Sustainable Cities and Society (Elsevier) 
• Journal of Building Engineering (Elsevier)
• Journal of the Institution of Engineers (India): Series A (Springer)
• Materials Letters (Elsevier)
• Journal of Water and Climate Change, IWA Publishing
• Sustainability, MDPI Publishers
• Construction and Building Materials (Elsevier)
• Materials (MDPI)
• Buildings (MDPI)
• TRB annual meetings Reviewer 
• Indian Concrete Journal
• Ain Shams Engineering Journal
  
• Journal of Ecological Indicators
• Green Buildings and Construction Economics
• Journal of Environmental and Chemical Engineering (Elsevier) 
• Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering - English edition (Elsevier)
• Materials Today Communications (Elsevier)

 G.      Member of board of studies:

• Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU) Hyderabad for the UG (Civil Engineering) Programs
• Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU) College of Engineering for the PG (Transportation Engineering) program
• Osmania University College of Engineering, Hyderabad for the UG (Civil Engineering) Programs
• Vasavi College of Engineering (Autonomous), Ibrahim Bagh, Hyderabad for UG (Civil Engineering)
• VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Technology (VNRVJIT), Hyderabad for UG & PG (Civil Engineering)
• CVR College of Engineering, Ibrahimpatnam, RR District for both UG and PG programs
• QIS College of Engineering & Technology, Vengamukkapalem, Ongole for both UG and PG programs

 H.      Member of board of Examination:

• MIT World Peace University, Pune for all the examinations conducted by the university