Ravi Ranade
PhD, PE
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies, Civil Engineering
Professional Engineer
State of Michigan
Research Topics
Advanced cementitious materials; Performance-based design of materials; Infrastructure
Research
- Performance-based design and investigation of advanced concrete materials
- Reinforcement corrosion and rehabilitation of reinforced concrete structures
- Impact, blast, and thermal effects on material and structural performance
- Integrated resilience-sustainability assessments of infrastructure
- 3D printing of concrete and application of machine learning to accelerate materials innovation
Current and recent projects
- Seismic vulnerability assessment of deteriorated bridges (USDOT UTC Region 2)
- Structural hardening utilizing advanced materials (US Army Corps ERDC)
- Sustainable, rapid repair utilizing advanced cementitious materials (US DOT UTC Region 2)
- Developing novel methods for detecting corrosion initiation in cementitious composites (UB IBE)
- Application of ductile concretes in thin-walled concrete filled steel tubes (ASCE SEI)
- Development of penetration-resistant ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) with low-cost, local materials (Sandia National Labs, US Army Corps ERDC)
- Self-consolidating fiber reinforced concrete (FRC) in the deployable flood walls (NSF)