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<h4 style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="color:#FF0000"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif">Honours and Awards</span></span></strong></h4>

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	<li style="text-align: justify;"><strong>2012</strong>-<strong>Certificate of Merit</strong>&rdquo; was awarded during CSIR foundation day,&nbsp; for the paper &rdquo;<span style="color:#000000"> </span><a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263823111001509"><span style="color:#000000">Prediction of the tensile capacity of cold- formed angles experiencing shear lag</span></a>&rdquo;, published in the International Journal of Thin Walled Structures</li>
	<li style="text-align: justify;"><strong>2008</strong>-<strong>Certificate of Merit</strong>&rdquo; was awarded during CSIR foundation day, September 2008, for the paper &rdquo;Simple formulation for the flexure of plates on nonlinear foundation&rdquo;, published in the International Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, Vol.134, No.1, January 2008, pp. 110-115.</li>
	<li style="text-align: justify;"><strong>2008</strong> - <strong>Special Certificate of Merit</strong> was awarded by Dr.Samir Brahmachary, Director General, CSIR, for officiating as a Co-tutor along with Dr.Ian Dean, Groman Consulting, South Africa, during CSIR &ndash; Leadership Development Program, LDP-08-02, May 2008.</li>
	<li style="text-align: justify;"><strong>2008 -Certificate of Merit</strong> was awarded by Dr.Samir Brahmachary, Director General, CSIR, during CSIR &ndash; Advanced Leadership Development Program LDP-07-01, March 2008.</li>
	<li style="text-align: justify;"><strong>2007 </strong>&ndash; <strong>Invited to Chair</strong> session no. - V on &lsquo;Steel Structures&rsquo; during <em>Fifth International&nbsp; Conference on Advances in Steel Structures ICASS-07</em>, National University of Singapore, Dec. 5-7, 2007.</li>
	<li style="text-align: justify;"><strong>2006 </strong>&ndash; <strong>Elected to the Editorial Board</strong> of International Journal of Advanced Steel Construction, Prof.WF Chen(USA), Prof.S.L.Chan (HongKong) and Prof.Zandononi (Italy) &ndash; Chief Editors - Published from Hong Kong.</li>
	<li style="text-align: justify;"><strong>2005 </strong>&ndash; <strong>Elected as a Life Educator member</strong> of American Institute of Steel Construction, Chicago, USA.</li>
	<li style="text-align: justify;"><strong>2005</strong>- <strong>Awarded the Raman Research fellowship</strong> by CSIR to carry out research in the area of &ldquo;Advanced technology of steel frames&ldquo; at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA as a <strong>Visiting Associate Professor</strong> during the period May 2005- October 2005.</li>
	<li style="text-align: justify;"><strong>2005</strong>-<strong>Certificate of Appreciation</strong> by Prof. Joseph Hughes, Chair, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA for the work on &ldquo;Advanced computational methods for the analysis of steel structures&rdquo; during May 2005 -October 2005 at Georgia Tech., USA.</li>
	<li style="text-align: justify;"><strong>2001- Dr. Ramaiah prize </strong>for the paper &lsquo;Explicit incremental matrices for the postbuckling analysis of thin plates with small initial curvature&rsquo;, International<em> Journal of Struct. Engg. and Mechanics</em>, 12(3), 283-295 which was adjudged as the best paper amongst the papers published by the scientists of Structural Engineering Research Centre, CSIR Campus, Chennai.</li>
	<li style="text-align: justify;"><strong>2000</strong>-Received a S<strong>pecial prize</strong> from Hon. Union Minister for Iron and Steel Shri.B.K. Tripathy for &ldquo;efforts to popularize of steel construction in India&rdquo;, during National seminar on Pre-engineered buildings, Chennai.</li>
	<li style="text-align: justify;"><strong>1999</strong>-Received the <strong>CSIR Technology Prize</strong> as a member of the SERC, Chennai,&nbsp; team for their contribution towards Advanced analysis of complex structures</li>
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