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Dr. Swapnasarit Kar

Sr. Assistant Professor

Department of Civil Engineering

School of Engineering

  swapnasarit.kar@opju.ac.in

Academic Profile

  •  PhD (Structural Engineering), National Institute of Technology, Rourkela.
  •  B. Tech in Civil Engineering from Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, Sarang, Odisha - 2013.

Work Experience

  •  Working as an Assistant Professor in OP Jindal University, Raigarh (C.G), from September 2021 to till date.
  •  Worked as a Teaching Assistant in National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, from January 2015 to December 2020.
  •  Worked as a Graduate Trainee Engineer in Gannon Dunkerley & Co. Ltd., Kolkata, India, from Jul 2013 to Dec 2014.

Area of Research

  •  Reinforced Concrete Structures
  •  Application of FRP composites in construction
  •  Rehabilitation of RC members
  •  Soft computing tools

International / National Journals

  •   Swapnasarit Kar, and K. C. Biswal. “Rehabilitation of RC flexural members in shear with externally bonded fiber-reinforced polymer composites: present status and future need”. Archives of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, (2021). DOI:10.1007/s43452-021-00274-8.
  •   Swapnasarit Kar, Amiya R. Pandit and K. C. Biswal. “Prediction of FRP shear contribution for wrapped shear deficient RC beams using adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS)”. Structures, 23, (2020) 702-717. DOI: 10.1016/j.istruc.2019.10.022.
  •   Swapnasarit Kar and K. C. Biswal. “FRP shear contribution prediction for U-wrapped RC T-beams using a soft computing tool”. Structures, 27, (2020) 1093-1104. DOI: 10.1016/j.istruc.2020.06.023.
  •   S. Kar and K. C. Biswal. “Shear strengthening of RC beams with Basalt Fiber Reinforced Polymer (BFRP) composites”. Advances in Concrete Construction, 10 (2), (2020) 93-104. DOI: 10.12989/acc.2020.10.2.093.
  •   Swapnasarit Kar and K. C. Biswal. “Shear Strengthening of Reinforced Concrete T-Beams by Using Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites: A Data Analysis”. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 45, (2020) 4203–4234. DOI: 10.1007/s13369-020- 04412-x.
  •   Swapnasarit Kar and K. C. Biswal. “A neuro-fuzzy approach to predict the shear contribution of end-anchored FRP U-jackets”. Computers and Concrete, 26 (5), (2020) 397-409. DOI: 10.12989/cac.2020.26.5.397.
  •   Swapnasarit Kar and K. C. Biswal. “External Shear Strengthening of RC Beams with Basalt Fiber Sheets: An Experimental Study”. Structures, 31, (2021) 305-315. DOI: 10.1016/j.istruc.2021.01.094.
  •   Swapnasarit Kar, A. R. Pandit and K. C. Biswal. “A neuro fuzzy approach to estimate the shear contribution of externally bonded FRP composites”. Asian Journal of Civil Engineering, 22, (2021) 351-367. DOI: 10.1007/s42107-020-00318-z.

International / National Conferences

  •  Swapnasarit Kar and K. C. Biswal. “Shear strengthening of RC T-beams with externally bonded BFRP sheet”. Sustainable Materials and Technology for Better Future (SMTBF-2017), National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha, India, 2017.
  •  Swapnasarit Kar and K. C. Biswal. “Strengthening of shear deficient reinforced concrete T-beams using BFRP composites”. 2nd International Conference on Processing and Characterization of Materials (ICPCM-2019), National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha, India, 2019.

Workshops / Seminars / Short Term Course

Sponsored Projects

Invited Talks

Awards and Honors

  •  Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) qualified in Civil Engineering, 2013

Editor / Reviewer

  •  Reviewer - Artificial Intelligence Review
  •  Reviewer – Measurement
  •  Reviewer - Structures
  •  Reviewer - Advances in Structural Engineering
  •  Reviewer – Advances in Concrete Construction
  •  Reviewer - Emerging Materials Research
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