Venkatasalam K L

Address: G3, JV Paradise, Pak

Subramani st, Ambattur, Chennai-53
E-mail: venkatasalamkl@gmail.com
Mobile: +91-8015515182

WORK EXPERIENCE

LERA Consulting Structural Engineers – Design Engineer – Mumbai, India Apr 2020 –Till Date
Work Responsibilities:
• Modelling, analyzing and designing of structures in ETABS, SAFE, CSI Col, SAP2000.
• Producing GFC drawings for concrete and steel structures,
• Preparing detailed calculation and DBR for steel and concrete structures.
• Shop drawing review.

Projects Worked on:

• Lusail Towers - G+70 Building, Qatar, UAE - Involved in Detailed design stage. Have involved in design of slab,
beams, podium columns and walls.
• Lodha Dattaraya - G+40 Building, Mumbai, India - Involved in Schematic design stage.
• Skycity Borivali - G+70 Building, A peer review project where I was involved in reviewing shear walls and slabs.
• Capx - USA. G+11 Building. Involved in design of steel transfer girders, RCC columns and shear walls.

THORNTON TOMASETTI - Engineer - Mumbai, India Jan 2018 – Mar 2020

Work Responsibilities:
• Modelling, analyzing and designing of structures in ETABS, SAFE, CSI-Column, Ram Concept.
• Documentation of design calculation and DBR preparation.
• Detailed review of submittals.

Projects Worked on:

• Naman Xana - G+46 Building - A 500m2 raft which was already casted and checked for additional loads and retrofit
method was suggested to improve its capacity. Also, designed link beams, frame beams, gravity beams and slabs.
• CSULB Student housing - USA - G+4 Student housing of 40,000 ft2. Analyzed and designed slabs (flat panel),
columns and isolated footings. Slabs were designed in safe using Non-linear cracked analysis.
• Revanta - Delhi, India - G+35 Building - Designed structural elements for entrance lobby (G+3) - RC Building.
• 110 North Wacker St. - Chicago, USA - G+40 office building - Verified steel shop drawing.
• UIC, Berkley - Chicago, USA - G+11 institutional building with PT slabs - Verified concrete shop drawings.

SKILLS
• Analysis/Designing Tools : ETABS, STAAD-Pro, ABAQUS, SAFE, CSI-COL.
• Drafting Tools : REVIT ARCHITECTURE, AUTOCAD
• Programming Tools : MATLAB, MATHCAD.

EDUCATION
Course Specialization Institute/College University/Board % CGPA Year
M.E Structures BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus BITS Pilani 9.75 2018
B.E Civil Velammal Engineering College Anna University 8.42 2016
XII Science Golden Gates MHSS State Board 89.5 2012
X General Glaze Brooke MHSS Matriculation 88.8 2010

INTERNSHIP AND TRAINING

• Gijigaadu Design Studios, Vijayawada (Aug - Oct 2017)
Analysis and design of open-air auditorium which is located at Vizianagaram as a part of consultancy project
• L & T Construction (May – Jun 2017)
Assigned as a Project Trainee in Buildings and Factories IC, Chennai
• Palamuru Lift Irrigation Scheme and Dindi Lift Irrigation Scheme (Jan – Apr 2017)
Soil samples from different locations were tested for its liquid limit and plastic limit
• CSIR - Structural Engineering Research Centre, Chennai (Jun 2014)
Worked in Advanced Seismic Testing and Research Laboratory
MEMBERSHIP & POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY
• American Society of Civil Engineers (May 2019 – Till Present)
Affiliated Member of ASCE, M.ASCE
• BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus (Aug 2016 – Nov 2017)
Worked as a Teaching Assistant under Civil Department
• Association of Consulting Civil Engineers (Sep 2015 – Sep 2016)
Executive member, Student Chapter VEC CE

POSTGRADUATE DETAILS

Advanced Structural Analysis Dynamics of Structures Structural Optimization

Major Courses Advanced Steel Structures Finite Element Method Ad. Str. Mech. & Stability
Theory of Plates and Shells Earthquake Engineering Advanced Concrete Tech.

Projects:
Optimal Location and Parameters of the Damper in a given Building using HSA, (Jul - Sep 2017)
Generalized code for finding optimal location and optimal parameters of the damper for the given building using
ETABS Application Programming Interface (API) and MATLAB

Optimal Design Strategy for Coupled Control Method for Dynamically Similar Building with use of Lateral Stiffeners,
(Jan - May 2017)
Dynamically similar buildings was considered for the study. The optimal damper parameters along with the optimal
location of the damper was obtained for the proposed building using Harmony Search Algorithm

Drag Force Coefficient for Various Shapes of Cooling Tower Subjected to Wind Loads, (Aug - Dec 2016)
Three different shapes of cooling tower was considered for the study and the drag force coefficients for those shapes
were obtained and compared using Ansys Computational Fluid Dynamics module

Comparative Study on Seismic Response of the Building with and without Base Isolation, (Aug - Dec 2016)
Generalized MATLAB Code has been developed to get the inputs from SAP 2000 and for analyzing the structure.
The results obtained was compared with obtained from MATLAB coding and comparative study was done

UNDERGRADUATE DETAILS
Projects:
Design of Earthquake Resistant School Building, (Jul - Dec 2015)
A school building was drafted in AUTOCAD as per IS Codal provisions. Building was analyzed and designed using
STAAD Pro. 3D model was also made using Revit Architecture

SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENTS

• Class Topper in M.E in Structural Engineering in BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus.

• Qualified GATE with rank 7,455 out of 1,19,873. Feb 2016
• Runner up in “Bridge Design and Fabrication” conducted by IBCC India, NIT Trichy, 2015
• Finalist in India’s Biggest Civil Championship IIT Bombay, 2015
• Won 2nd prize in inter college Model Competition, 2015
• Won 2nd prize in “Concrete Challenge” at IIT Madras, 2014

EXTRA & CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

• Event organizer for technical fest at Anna University, Guindy Campus
• Actively participated in Blood Donation Camps

DECLARATION
I VENKATASALAM K L, hereby declare that the information furnished above is true to the best of my knowledge.