Thainswemong ChoudhuryThainswemong Choudhury currently works as an assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, at SRM University-AP, India. He completed his masters and Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Guwahati. His research areas bradly cover the assessment and retrofitting of masonry wall components and buildings using surface mounted steel bands. He also has extensive experience using real time experimental and full-scale wall and building models and numerical simulation of unstrengthened and strengthened masonry buildings using modified discretization techniques. He is a member of the Institute of Engineers (IEI), India. Read More Read Less