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Dr. Sivakumar Palaniappan Assistant Professor BSB 215A, Building Technology and
Construction Management Department of Civil Engineering IIT Madras, Chennai – 600 036 Phone: (91) 44 2257 4258 |
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Education
Ph.D., Civil & Environmental Engineering, Arizona State
University
M.S., Building Tech. and Construction Management, IIT Madras
B.E., Civil Engineering, Madurai Kamaraj
University
Research Interests
Planning and control of construction projects
Sustainable construction
Simulation based analysis of construction operations
Construction informatics and automation
JOURNAL ARTICLES
1. Sivakumar, PL., Varghese, K., and
Ramesh Babu, N. (2003). “Automated path planning of
cooperative crane lifts using heuristic search.” Journal of Computing in Civil
Engineering, ASCE, 17(3), 197-207.
2. Sawhney, A., Walsh, K.D., Bashford,
H.H., and Palaniappan, S. (2009). “Impact of
inspected buffers on production parameters of construction processes.” Journal
of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, 135(4), 319-329.
3. Palaniappan, S., Bashford, H. H., Li,
K., Fafitis, A., and Stecker,
L. (2009). “Carbon emissions based on transportation for post-tensioned slab
foundation construction: A production home building study in the Greater
Phoenix Arizona area.” International Journal of Construction Education and
Research, Taylor and Francis, 5(4), 236-260.
4. L. Pinky Devi and Sivakumar Palaniappan (2014) “A case study on life cycle energy use
of residential building in Southern India”, Energy and Buildings, 80, 247-259.
5. Anna George Nellickal and Sivakumar Palaniappan (2015)
Built Environment Sustainability: Review of Key Concepts, NICMAR Journal of
Construction Management, 30(1), 5-18.
CONFERENCE ARTICLES
1. Sivakumar, PL., Varghese, K., and
Ramesh Babu, N. (1999). “Path planning of
construction manipulators using genetic algorithms.” Proc., 16th International
Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction, 555-560.
2. Sivakumar, PL., Varghese, K., and
Ramesh Babu, N. (2000). “Path planning of cooperative
construction manipulators using genetic algorithms.” Proc., 17th International
Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction, 439-444.
3. Sivakumar, PL., Varghese, K., and
Ramesh Babu, N. (2000). “Automated path planning of
two 3-DOF planar cooperative manipulators using genetic algorithms.” Proc.,
19th All India Manufacturing Technology and Design Research Conference,
445-450.
4. Sawhney, A., Bashford, H.H., Palaniappan, S., Walsh, K.D., and Thompson. J. (2005). “A
discrete event simulation model to analyze the residential construction
inspection process.” Proc., Int. Conf. on Computing in Civil Eng., ASCE,
Reston, Va.
5. Palaniappan, S., and Sawhney, A. (2006). “Standard template library based
discrete event simulation engine.” Symposium on Research in Engineering and
Applied Sciences, Fulton Graduate Student Association, Ira A. Fulton School of
Engineering, ASU, Tempe, AZ.
6. Palaniappan, S., Sawhney,
A., and Sarjoughian, H.S. (2006). “Application of
DEVS framework in construction simulation.” Proc., Winter Simulation
Conference, Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Piscataway,
N.J., 2077-2086.
7. Mahalingam, A., Varghese, K., Sawhney, A., Palaniappan, S., and
Walsh, K.D. (2007). “An integrated project planning system for tsunami mass
housing in India.” Proc., Construction Research Congress, ASCE, Reston, Va.
8. Palaniappan, S., Sawhney,
A., Janssen, M.A., and Walsh. K.D. (2007). “Modeling construction safety as an
agent based emergent phenomenon.” Proc., 24th International Symposium on
Automation and Robotics in Construction, 375-382.
9. Palaniappan, S., Sawhney,
A., Bashford, H.H., and Walsh, K.D. (2007). “Special purpose simulation
template for workflow analysis in construction.” Proc., Winter Simulation
Conf., Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Piscataway, N.J.,
2090-2098.
10. Palaniappan, S., Bashford, H. H., Fafitis, A., Li, K., and Stecker,
L. (2009). “Carbon emissions based on ready-mix concrete transportation: A
production home building case study in the Greater Phoenix Arizona area.”
Proc., Associated Schools of Construction 45th Annual International Conference,
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
11. Palaniappan, S., Bashford, H., Li,
K., Crittenden, J., Fafitis, A., Stecker,
L. and Hay, S. (2012) "Carbon emissions of on-site equipment use in
post-tensioned slab foundation construction", Proceedings of ASCE
Construction Research Congress, May 21-23, 1662-1671.
12. Pinky L. , Reddy, S.M. and Palaniappan, S. (2012) “Application of life cycle
assessment for a residential building construction”, Proceedings of the
International Symposium on Life Cycle Assessment and Construction, July 10-12,
213-222.
13. L. Pinky Devi, S. Aysha and S. Palaniappan (2014) Comparision of
life cycle energy use of high-rise residential buildings, 13th International
Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (SET2014), 1-11, Aug 25-28.
14. Anna George Nellickal, A. Vijaya Rajendra, and Sivakumar Palaniappan (2015) A
conceptual lean-based framework for improving the environmental performance of
ready-mixed concrete production processes, Proceedings of the 4th World
Construction Symposium, June 12-14, 2015, Colombo.
Courses
CE 5020 Construction Planning and Control
CE 5130 Construction Quality and Safety Management
CE 5014 Sustainable Construction
CE 3241 Approaches for Sustainable Infrastructure and
Environmental Systems
CE 5100 Construction Software Lab
CE 2330 Building Materials and Construction