T. D. Gunneswara Rao is a Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India. He has more than twenty years of teaching and research experience and has published more than fifty papers in journals of national and international repute. His research interest includes fracture mechanics of concrete structures and fiber reinforced structures. He has taught courses including strength of materials, theory of structures and theory of plates and shells at undergraduate and graduate level. He has served at the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok as a visiting faculty member. Mudimby Andal is an Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Kakatiya Institute of Technology and Science, Warangal, India. She received her Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad. She has taught courses including strength of materials, engineering mechanics, highway and railway engineering and geotechnical engineering at undergraduate and graduate level.