PhD Research Scholar, Civil
- BTech: DCRUST, Murthal, 2016
- MTech: Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, 2020
- Joined: JRF, IIT Gandhinagar, 2020
- Joined: PhD, IIT Gandhinagar, India, 2021
Email: sheikh.m@iitgn.ac.in
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sheikh_Mayesser
Area: Concrete technology and Sustainable concrete development, High-performance fibre-reinforced concrete.
The material most widely used for construction around the globe is concrete which is only second to water. Each of the primary constituents of concrete has an environmental impact to a different extent. The production of ordinary Portland cement accounts for up to 5% of total CO 2 emission and is considered as one of the main sources of CO2. Due to rapid growth of industries and increasing urbanization, there has been over-exploitation of natural resources like river sand and gravels which gives rise to sustainability issues. The extensive utilization of concrete has resulted in the over-extraction of river sand from the river bed consequently leading to several economic and environmental issues. Hence, it has gotten basic to search for an option as a substitute to these constituents in concrete. On another note, expanding populace and advancing technologies have also prompted an increase in waste generation. Several researchers and scientists around the globe are trying to find out better approaches to reduce these wastes or as a superior choice to utilize them as assets with added benefits. Different industrial wastes are already being studied since recent decades to use them in concrete as a substitute for cement, coarse aggregate and fine aggregate. It has also been found that both mechanical and durability properties of concrete improve with the utilization of some of these waste materials. So, it seems interesting to study the ways in which these wastes can be used as a substitute material in concrete and adopting this practice can lead to the sustainable concrete development.
Publications:
- Mushtaq, S. M., Rajput, T., Basu, D. (2022). “Cement-superplasticizer compatibility and flow properties of binder paste and mortar using marsh cone and flow table method”, The Indian Concrete Journal, Vol. 96, No. 9, pp. 20-33.
