Associate Professor Department of Civil Engineering
structural engineering, Structural Dynamics; Earthquake & Vibration Control of Structures, Structural Health Monitoring, Computational Cost Reduction, Development of low cost base-isolation systems for low raised RC and masonry buildings, Seismic response reduction of similar adjacent buildings using connected control Technique, Development of methodology to reduce the torsional vibration of plan asymmetric and vertically irregular buildings, Numerical model updating of experimented structure, Development of numerical models of structures to reduce computational cost
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
Hyderabad Campus Jawahar Nagar, Kapra Mandal Dist.-Medchal-500 078 Telangana, India
Incharge, Advanced Structural Engineering laboratory at BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus (Nov 2015 – Till date)
Successfully implimented lab equipments (50kN MTS actuator and other setup )under DST-FIST project worth 1.4 crore partially funded by institute.
Established shake table (3m x 2m) test setup from DST funding for earthquake simulation.
Established an base isolator test arrangement with cyclic horizontal loading and vertical load on specimen from DST funding.
Established Strong floor and wall support from Steel structure for Quasi-static testing of prototype and scaled building models from institute funding.
Procured various sensors such as accelerometers, potensiometers, non-contact lasor sensors, extensiometers, etc., from DST funding.
Procured Mini APS113 shake table, DAQ, accelerometers, force sensing hammer, etc., from institute funding.
Modification and hight increase in the lab, and procurement of 10 ton capacity A-Frame crane for handling heavy equipments and test specimens.
SKILLS
Experimental Equipment handling: INSTRAN based UTM, Shake table, Actuator, accelerometers, strain gauges, load cells and impulsive force hammer.