Dr. Ramanjaneyulu graduated in Civil Engineering from the Regional Engineering College, Warangal (NIT, Warangal), and obtained postgraduate degree in Structural Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He was awarded doctoral degree in Structural Engineering on “stability behaviour of wind loaded natural draught cooling tower shells” by Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 1992. He joined Structural Engineering Research Centre, Chennai, as a scientist in 1989 and rose to the position of chief scientist in 2011. He was head of Advanced Concrete Testing & Evaluation Laboratory for 9 years. He was Director (Additional Charge) of CSIR-SERC from 30th December 2020 till his superannuation on 30th April 2021. He has joined as Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Anurag University, Hyderabad, on 10th August 2022.
He has 32 years of research experience and was also a professor of Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) from 2014 to 2021. He had guided two doctoral students during this period and were awarded Ph.D. degrees. He was also a co-guide of two Ph.D Scholars, – one was awarded Ph.D by Annamalai University, Chidambaram and the other was awarded Ph.D. by Anna University, Chennai. He has also guided dissertation projects of 30 M.Tech students.
He is a Fellow of The Institution of Engineers (I) and life member of several professional bodies. He has published more than 95 papers in indexed international and National journals, around 100 papers in conferences/seminars and 190 technical reports based on the in-house R&D and externally funded research projects. The papers authored by him were awarded prizes by Institution of Engineers (India), ING-IABSE, and CSIR-SERC.
His areas of expertise include, reinforced concrete structures, prestressed concrete structures, bridge engineering, finite element analysis, plates and shells, earthquake engineering, analysis and design of special structures such as, bridges and Cooling tower shells, blast resistant design of structures, Structural health assessment and upgradation of bridges, and repair and rehabilitation of structures.
He had served as a member of code committees of Bureau of Indian Standards. He was the leader of an international collaborative project on “Development of fatigue and seismic resistant design and management of concrete structures”, between SERC, Chennai, and ILEK, University of Stuttgart, Germany, during 2006-2009. He was the nodal officer for twelfth five-year plan network project entitled “Innovative Technologies for Health Assessment and Damage Mitigation of Structures (I-HEAL)”, by partnering with other CSIR Laboratories of Engineering Cluster.