Faculty
Dr. Vishakha Vijay Sakhare
Assistant Professor
Bio
Dr. Vishakha V. Sakhare is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at MIT World Peace University, Pune, starting from August 2022. She graduated from the University of Amravati, India, with a degree in Civil Engineering in 2010. She holds a post-graduation degree (2012) and a Ph.D. (2016) in Construction Technology & Management from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India. Her research interests include green building, indoor environment, use of agro-industrial residues for construction materials, geo polymeric building materials, 3D printing.
Dr. Sakhare has over 7 years of teaching and research experience. She has worked as an Assistant Professor at Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani Campus, and Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI), Mumbai. She has also worked as a Senior Research Fellow at Jawaharlal Nehru Aluminium Research Development and Design Centre (JNARDDC), Nagpur, Maharashtra, and a Senior Engineer at Energetic Consulting Pvt. Ltd. Mumbai.
Dr. Sakhare has an impressive research record with 1 granted Indian patent, 3 international book chapters, 25 international journal publications (Scopus/SCI), and 15 papers published in international and national conferences. She has completed a research initiation grant, funded by Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani. She has also been awarded prestigious fellowships, including the Building Energy Efficiency Higher & Advanced Network (BHAVAN) Fellowship Program (2018), supported by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, and the Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF), CSIR foreign travel grant, and first prize for her model in “Colloquium on green building concepts”, a competition which intended to stimulate the minds of students.
Dr. Sakhare has actively reviewed several research papers in journals such as Construction & Building Materials, Elsevier; Resources, Conservation & Recycling, Elsevier; Sustainable Cities and Societies, Elsevier; Indoor and Built Environment, SAGE; Technical Sciences, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn (Poland). She is also actively involved in the Geopolymer-based project funded by the Ministry of Mines and the Fast Track Project sponsored by the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India.
Research Papers
1. Sakhare, Vishakha, Mohamed Najar, and Sachin Deshpande. "Printing performance of 3D-printed geopolymer through pumpability–extrudability–buildability properties–a review." Architectural Science Review (2024): 1-25.
2. P A Mohamed Najar, Amrita Karn, V. V. Sakhare, M J Chaddha and A Agnihotri, Value Addition of Alumino- silicates: Consolidation of Mining Rejects and Industrial Slag by Geo polymerisation” Book Title: Innovations in Sustainable Mining - Balancing Environment, Ecology, and Economy; Springer-Nature. 2021, pg. 57-70. ISBN: 978-3-030-73796-2, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-73796
3. Deshpande, S., Sakhare, V. Mechanical, microstructural, durability, and energy analysis of fly ash geopolymer modified with autoclaved aerated concrete block waste. emergent mater. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42247-024-00899-4
Patents
Granted Indian Patent: 381608 (Application No.- 2055/MUM/2015) entitled “Replacement of sand using bio- briquette ash and method of making the bricks”. Date of filing: 25/05/2015 Publication Journal No.: 24/2015.
Research Area
Sustainable construction materials, Geopolymer, Green building
Publication
1. Internation Journals: 14 (Scopus and SCI indexed)
2. Internation Conferences: 11
3. N. Mohamed, V.V. Sakhare, A. Karn, M Chaddha, A Agnihotri, Value added geopolymer product to offset expenditure on waste management and sustainability, Journal of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy, 2022, 57(1), 141-152.
4. N. Mohamed, V.V. Sakhare, A. Karn, M Chaddha, A Agnihotri, A study on the impact of material synergy ingeopolymer adobe: Emphasis on utilizing overburden laterite of aluminium industry, Open ceramics, 2021, Vol. 7, 100163.(doi.org/10.1016/j.oceram.2021.100163)
5. V. V. Sakhare, and R. V. Ralegaonkar, Effect of alternative walling material on indoor temperature, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers-Engineering Sustainability, ICE publishing, February 2019, 172(1), 24-31. ( doi.org/10.1680/jensu.17.00018).
6. V. V. Sakhare, and R. V. Ralegaonkar, Strategy to control indoor temperature for redevelopment of slum dwellings, Indoor and Built Environment, 2018, 27(9), 1203-1215. (doi.org/10.1177/1420326X17712107).
7. V. V. Sakhare and R. V. Ralegaonkar. Development and investigation of cellular light weight bio-briquette ash bricks. Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, Springer, 2017, 19(1), 235–242 (10.1007/s10098-016-1200-5).
8. V. V. Sakhare and R. V. Ralegaonkar. Use of bio-briquette ash for the development of bricks. Journal of Cleaner Production, Elsevier, 2016, 112, 684-689. (10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.07.088).
9. R. V. Ralegaonkar and V. V. Sakhare. Development of multi-parametric functional index model for evaluating the indoor comfort in built environment. Indoor and Built Environment, Sage Publication, 2014, 23(4), 615–621.( 10.1177/1420326X13480515).
Google Scholar Link https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yRY2cX0AAAAJ
Scopus Link https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=56020849800
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