ABOUT US
The Firm
When you hire a geotechnical engineer, you look for someone who can drill soil borings, run laboratory tests and deliver a report within a reasonable time frame. You expect field and laboratory data delivered along with the engineer’s site preparation and foundation design opinions.We strive to accomplish these needs of yours and your clients.
To ensure today’s buildings and infrastructure perform adequately during long time periods, proper selection, quality and workmanship of materials is vital. You need a trusted and reliable partner for construction materials inspections with construction materials testing laboratories.
We are a consulting engineering firm providing quality services to clients in the following fields
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- Geotechnical investigation and foundation design
- Structural consultancy
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- Construction Materials Testing services
We strive to provide innovative, accurate, reliable and prompt services in above-mentioned domains.
Over the years we have performed over 10,000 soil investigations throughout India starting from Kanyakumari upto Rajasthan
Completed over 100 structural designing projects.
Our Clientele
Beginning
Time institute for materials testing was established by Dr. B.N Krishnaswami a former faculty of NIT Trichy around 14 years back in Trichy, Tamilnadu with a vision to provide accurate, reliable testing facilities, it has evolved over the years from its humble beginning to provide service throughout India
Founder
Dr B. N. Krishnaswami,
Graduated in Civil Engineering from Annamalai University
Completed his post-graduation from University of Madras
Pursued his PhD. from Anna University, Chennai
Faculty, Department of Civil Engineering, (NIT), Trichy
30 years of academic experience at various levels from NIT, Trichy
His major research and publications :
Krishnaswami B.N. and Saikala L. (2003), ‘High Performance Concrete using Fumed Silica as a Durable Repair Material for Concrete Structures’, Concrete solutions 1st International Conference on Concrete Repair, St.Malo, France, 15 – 17, Vol. II, pp. 633 - 644, organized by G.R. Technologies Ltd, London, UK .
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Krishnaswami B.N. Dattatreya J.K., Jeyabalan P. and Neelamegam M. (2007), ‘Durability Aspect of High Performance Concrete’, Indian Concrete institute Journal Vol. 7, No.4, pp. 31- 39.
Krishnaswami B.N. Natarajan P., Neelamegam M. and Dattatreya J.K., ‘Effect of Triple Blend Binders on Electrical Resistance Characteristics of Concrete Mixtures’, Indian Concrete institute Journal.
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Krishnaswami B.N. and Jeyabalan P (2004), ‘High performance concrete using Fumed silica’, proceeding of Intrnational conference on Advances in concrete and construction, ICACC-2004, 16-18, Hyderabad, India, Vol. II, pp. 667-678
His major presentation's :
On ‘Study on chloride diffusion in Ternery Binder Concrete using Rapid Chloride Permeability Test’, paper presented at 3rd fib International Congress 2010 held at Washington DC, USA during 29th May – 2nd June 2010 .
On "Transport properties of High-Performance Concrete", in the National conference on ‘Modern Trend in Concrete Technology’, (2005).
Delivered a series of lectures in Technical seminar's organized by the Grasim Industries Limited for field Engineers at over 30 locations in Tamil Nadu from 2002- 2006
On "Durability of High-Performance Concrete", in the National Conference on Recent Development in Concrete Technology (2006)
Delivered a lecture on ''Concrete mix design programme organized by the Builders Association of India, October 2002
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Member - Board of Governors
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Member - Academic Council
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Member - Selection Committee – M.E.
Member - Board of Studies – Undergraduates
Member - Board of Studies - Postgraduates
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Chairman - Performance Analysis Committee
Key position's held in NIT
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Deep Foundation Institute (USA)
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Geotechnical society of India
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Indian Society for Technical Education
Indian Institute of public administration
Institution of Engineers​
Indian Welding Institute
Memberships in professional organisations