1. Dr. Puttagunta Sudhakar Specialized in Green Materials and Sustainable Development
Dr. Sudhakar started his career as a researcher in electronics at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IITD) in 1972 and spent one year as a post doctoral fellow in Paris during 1979-80 at University of Pierre et Marie Curie. He quit the research faculty of IIT Delhi in 1984 and founded Haritha Association for Learning from Environment where he endeavors to use day to day productive activities as experiments in teaching at least some concepts in the current main stream school education. He also founded Haritha Eco Trust to develop green technologies. He developed the bamboo bow as a structural load bearing element in 1989 that has eventually lead to development of a technology using bamboo as a modern green engineering material.
During 2006 to 2011, he worked at Centre Rural Development and Technology of IITD exploring and validating the bamboo technology for which the name ‘Haritha IITD Bamcrete (HIB) technology has been suggested in one of the two graduate theses submitted to IITD. While at IITD, together with Haritha Eco Trust, he developed cost effective test equipments including the hydraulics based ones, for evaluating static and dynamic performance, including creep and fatigue by cyclic loading, of bamboo and its life size structural elements. The said equipments are very simple to operate, requiring a few orders of magnitude less power compared to the ones currently available, all of which makes field level testing of bamboo affordable, a long felt need , considering the large variation in the mechanical properties of bamboo, but neglected by the researchers all along. He has specialized in green materials, houses and life styles and sustainable development. Some of his notable projects include 8 bamboo houses in AP under innovative stream of rural housing in Khammam, NMBA project on engineering validation of bamboo bow technology, NAIP bamboo project at IITD, Bamboo project at IITD from MoRD.
Contact Details:
Haritha Ecological Institute
Harithapuri, Bcm. Road, New Paloncha – 507115
Khammam Dist., AP, India
Email: sudhakar.puttagunta@gmail.com
Dr. Sudhakar started his career as a researcher in electronics at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IITD) in 1972 and spent one year as a post doctoral fellow in Paris during 1979-80 at University of Pierre et Marie Curie. He quit the research faculty of IIT Delhi in 1984 and founded Haritha Association for Learning from Environment where he endeavors to use day to day productive activities as experiments in teaching at least some concepts in the current main stream school education. He also founded Haritha Eco Trust to develop green technologies. He developed the bamboo bow as a structural load bearing element in 1989 that has eventually lead to development of a technology using bamboo as a modern green engineering material.
During 2006 to 2011, he worked at Centre Rural Development and Technology of IITD exploring and validating the bamboo technology for which the name ‘Haritha IITD Bamcrete (HIB) technology has been suggested in one of the two graduate theses submitted to IITD. While at IITD, together with Haritha Eco Trust, he developed cost effective test equipments including the hydraulics based ones, for evaluating static and dynamic performance, including creep and fatigue by cyclic loading, of bamboo and its life size structural elements. The said equipments are very simple to operate, requiring a few orders of magnitude less power compared to the ones currently available, all of which makes field level testing of bamboo affordable, a long felt need , considering the large variation in the mechanical properties of bamboo, but neglected by the researchers all along. He has specialized in green materials, houses and life styles and sustainable development. Some of his notable projects include 8 bamboo houses in AP under innovative stream of rural housing in Khammam, NMBA project on engineering validation of bamboo bow technology, NAIP bamboo project at IITD, Bamboo project at IITD from MoRD.
Contact Details:
Haritha Ecological Institute
Harithapuri, Bcm. Road, New Paloncha – 507115
Khammam Dist., AP, India
Email: sudhakar.puttagunta@gmail.com