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Cluster CE36, Room # CE 36/4, Department of Civil Engineering
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kgopi@nitw.ac.in
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Bio Sketch
Key Notes
- Journal(s): 14
- Conference(s): 23
- Book Chapter(s): 5
- Text Book(s): 1
- PhD: Current - 5 Awarded - 1
- Event(s) Organized: Conference - 1 Workshop - 4 Short Term Course - 2
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PUBLICATIONS6
DOCTORAL STUDENTS9
PROJECTS1
PATENTResearch Areas
Fire load assessment and performance evaluation of structure
Fragility Analysis of RC buildings under Earthquakes
Reliability Analysis of Structures
Seismic Performance of existing Multistoreyed RC buildings
Seismic performance of Highway Bridges
Sustainable building materials
Wavelet FEM for
structural Dynamics
Problems
EDUCATION QUALIFICATION
| Degree | Institute | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Doctor of Philosophy | Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee | 2008 |
| Master of Technology | SJCE Mysore, V T U | 2000 |
| Bachelor of Engineering | Osmania University | 1998 |
COURSES HANDLED
| Course | L-T-P | Credit | Degree Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| Structural Dynamics(CE26005) | 3-0-0 | 3 | PG |
| Reliability Analysis of Structures(CE27024) | 3-0-0 | 3 | PG |
| Engineering Mechanics(CE1102) | 3-0-0 | 3 | UG |
| Engineering Mechanics(CE101) | 3-0-0 | 3 | UG |
| Structural Dynamics(CE5203) | 3-0-0 | 3 | UG, PG |
| Vulnerability and Risk Analysis(CE5262) | 3-0-0 | 3 | UG, PG |
| Reliability Analysis of Structures(CE5212) | 3-0-0 | 3 | PG |
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ORC ID
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PUBLICATIONS
Journal(s)
Fire load assessment and thermo-mechanical analysis of RC buildings,
By SarmiliSwain and K. Gopikrishna,
Emerald Insight,
Structural Fire Engineering,
vol.,
pp.1-24,
2025
Effect of repeated earthquakes on multi‐storied RC buildings using IDA,
By K.Gopikrishna, G. Srinath,
Elsevier,
Structures,
vol.79,
pp.109475,
2025
Progressive Collapse Analysis of RC building due to Fire load,
By Swain, Sarmili, Srinath, G,K Gopikrishna, Akkaladevi, Rohith ,
Elsevier,
Procedia Structural Integrity,
vol.60,
pp.553-563,
2024
Influence of Repeated Earthquake events on Structural Response of Multi‐storeyed RC buildings,
By Srinath G. and Gopikrishna .K.,
Elsevier,
Structures ,
vol.67,
pp.,
2024
Seismic capacity estimation for composite multi-storeyed RC buildings,
By G.Srinath, Sarmili Swain, K.Gopikrishna,
Elsevier,
Materials today: proceedings,
vol.93,
pp.362-369,
2023
Effect of sequential earthquakes on evaluation of non linear response of 3D RC MRFs,
By PraveenOggu, and GopikrishnaK,
Techno-Press,
Earthquakes and Structures,
vol.20 (3),
pp.279-293,
2021
Seismic behavior and response reduction factors for concrete moment-resisting frames,
By PraveenOggu, Gopikrishna K. and Ayur Nagariya,
Springer,
Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering,
vol.19,
pp.5643-5663,
2021
Assessment of three-dimensional RC moment-resisting frames under repeated earthquakes,
By PraveenOggu, and GopikrishnaK,
Elsevier,
Structures,
vol.26,
pp.6-23,
2020
Seismic assessment of existing gravity load-designed RC framed building: a case study from Warangal, India,
By Oggu, P., Gopikrishna, K. & Sewaiwar, S,
Springer,
SN Appl. Sci,
vol.2,
pp.945,
2020
Importance of ‘DAF’ in evaluating structural adequacy of gravity load designed RC buildings,
By Praveen Oggu, Gopikrishna K. and Saptadwipa Jha,
Elsevier,
Materials today: proceedings,
vol.32 (9),
pp.810-818,
2020
Influence of Real Ground Motion Records in Performance Assessment of RC Buildings,
By PraveenOggu, Mehulkumar Pithadiya and Gopikrishna K,
Materials and Energy Research Center,
International Journal of Engineering (IJE), TRANSACTIONS C: Aspects,
vol.32(12),
pp.1696-1813,
2019
QR code as speckle pattern for reinforced concrete beams using digital image correlation,
By B Murali Krishna, T.P.Tezeswi, P Rathish kumar, K Gopikrishna, M.V.N. Sivakumar and M.Shashi,
Techno-Press,
Structural Monitoring and Maintenance,
vol.6,
pp.67-84,
2019
Fragility Analysis- A tool to Assess Seismic performance of structural Systems,
By Gautham A, K. Gopikrishna,
Elsevier,
Materials today: proceedings,
vol.4,
pp.10565-10569,
2017
Wavelet basis finite element solution of structural dynamics problems,
By Gopikrishna, K. and Shrikhande, M,
Emerald Group Publishing Limited,
Engineering Computations,
vol.28,
pp.275-286,
2011
Conference(s)
Seismic Performance Assessment of Multi Storied - Hybrid RC Buildings
By Mudavath Mothilal, K. Gopi Krishna,
ICWEES -2025 (International Conference on Water, Environment, Energy & Society),
2025
Thermo-mechanical analysis for Evaluation of Fire vulnerability assessment of existing RC buildings
By S. Sarmili, K. Gopi Krishna,
4th R. N. Raikar Memorial International Conference and 'Ghosh-Mukharjee' International Symposium on ‘Advances in Science & Technology of Concrete, sponsored by ACI,
2024
Seismic Behaviour Assessment of Conventional and Hybrid Reinforced Concrete Buildings
By Mudavath Mothilal, G Srinath, K. Gopi Krishna ,
39th Indian Engineering Congress,
2024
Seismic Structural Integrity Evaluation of Existing Reinforced Concrete Buildings
By G Srinath, K. Gopi Krishna,
4th R. N. Raikar Memorial International Conference and 'Ghosh-Mukharjee' International Symposium on ‘Advances in Science & Technology of Concrete, sponsored by ACI,
2024
“Structural Integrity Assessment of Reinforced Concrete (RC) building due to Fire Hazard
By S. Sarmili, G. Srinath, K. Gopi Krishna, Rohith. A,
13th Structural Engineering Convention (SEC-2023),
2023
“Progressive Collapse Assessment of Reinforced Concrete (RC) building due to Fire Load
By S. Sarmili, G. Srinath, K. Gopi Krishna, Rohith. A,
3rd International Conference on Structural Integrity(ICONS-2023),
2023
Seismic capacity estimation for composite multi-storeyed RC buildings
By G.Srinath, Sarmili Swain, K.Gopikrishna,
UKIERI Concrete Congress on Sustainable Concrete Infrastructure,Virtual Mode,
2023
“Comparative Structural Reliability Assessment of Old Existing Reinforced Concrete Buildings Using IS: 1893 -2002 and IS: 1893 - 2016
By G Srinath, K Gopi Krishna, E. Madhu,
13th Structural Engineering Convention (SEC-2023),
2023
“Influence of soil-structure interaction on fragility curves and ductility demands of 3D RC moment-resisting frames” (Received Best paper Award)
By Praveen Oggu, Gopikrishna K., and Ashok A,
International Conference On Education 5.0- Role Of Institution, Industry and Society (ERIIS-2022),
2022
Analytical Evaluation of RFactor for Composite Multi-storeyed Buildings
By G.Srinath, K.Gopikrishna, E.Madhu and S.Shubham,
International Conference On Education 5.0- Role Of Institution, Industry and Society (ERIIS-2022),
2022
Structural Behaviour Assessment of Existing Reinforced Concrete (RC) buildings under Earthquakes
By NagapurnaChandhan.T, Gopikrishna K.,
17th symposium on earthquake Engineering (17 SEE 2022),
2022
Influence of Structural Utilisation on Seismic design & Performance of Multi-storeyed Reinforced Concrete (RC) Buildings
By G.Srinath,,K.Gopikrishna,,Shivam Swami ,
Socio-Technological Aspects of Seismic Disaster and its Mitigation (STASDM-2022),
2022
Comparison of Critical Bending Moment in a Bridge Based on Influence Line Diagram (ILD), FOSM Method and Optimization
By K Gopi Krishna,T.D. Gunneswara Rao and Chandrasekhar Putcha,
Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS) 2020,
2020
Sensitivity Analysis for uncertainty estimation in the seismic performance of reinforced concrete frame structures
By Praveen Oggu, K. Gopikrishna,
11th Structural Engineering convention (SEC 2018),
2018
Seismic behaviour of horizontally Irregular RC buildings
By Kartik Suresh Mahajan, K.Gopikrishna,
International Conference on Emerging technology in Structural engineering (ICETSE-2017),
2017
Seismic Behaviour and its influence on Damage Probabilities of Irregular R.C Buildings
By K. Gopikrishna, Praveen Oggu,
International Conference on Composite Materials and Structures (ICCMS 2017),
2017
Seismic fragility analysis of Vertical Setback RC Structures
By Vennela kiran kumar, PraveenOggu and K. Gopikrishna,
e International Conference on the Trends and Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (TRACE-2016),
2016
Seismic Risk and loss assessment of open ground storey RC structures
By Gautham A, K. Gopikrishna,
“International Conference on Computational Mechanics (ICCMS 2016),
2016
Seismic behaviour of Open ground storey RC buildings
By Gautham A, K. Gopikrishna,
International conference on Innovations in Structural Engineering (IC-ISE 2015),
2015
“Enriched Wavelet Galerkin Method for Dynamic Fracture”
By K.GopiKrishna and Amirtham .R,
5th International Conference on Theoretical,Applied,Computational and Experimental Mechanics(ICTACEM2010),
2010
Wavelet Basis Finite Element Solution for Transient Problems
By Gopikrishna, K. and Shrikhande, M,
Indo-Russian Workshop on topical problems in solid mechanics,
2008
Wavelet Basis Finite Element Method For Solution of Engineering Problems
By K. GopiKrishna and Manish Shrikhande ,
2nd International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation (ICCMS-06),
2006
Wavelet applications in engineering
By Gopikrishna K,
Recent advances in Structural engineering (RDSE-2005),
2005
Text Book(s)
Wavelet basis Finite Element Approach for Structural Dynamics problems
By Gopikrishna, K
(Published by: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing),
Monograph,
2011
Book Chapter(s)
Comparative Structural Reliability Assessment of Old Existing Reinforced Concrete Buildings Using IS: 1893–2002 and IS: 1893–2016
By Srinath, G., Krishna, K.G., Madhu, E in
In: Kumar, R., Bakre, S.V., Goel, M.D. (eds) Recent Developments in Structural Engineering, (Volume 2. SEC 2023),
Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 543. Springer, Singapore,
Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-6067-1_26,
2025
Structural Integrity Assessment of Reinforced Concrete (RC) Building Due to Fire Hazard.
By Sarmili, S., Srinath, G., Gopi Krishna, K., Akkaladevi, R in
In: Goel, M.D., Vyvahare, A.Y., Khatri, A.P. (eds) Recent Developments in Structural Engineering, (Volume 4. SEC 2023). ,
Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 549. Springer, Singapore,
Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-6603-1_14,
2024
Effect of Fire Hazard on Seismic Capacity of RC Frame Building
By Oggu, P., Raman, S., Gopikrishna, K in
Recent Advances in Earthquake Engineering ,
Springer, Singapore,
Lecture notes in Civil Engineering (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4617-1_18),
2022
Structural Behavior Assessment of Existing Reinforced Concrete (RC) Buildings Under Earthquakes
By Thammishetti, N.C., Gopi Krishna, K. in
Proceedings of 17th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering (Vol. 2). SEE 2022,
Springer, Singapore,
Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-1604-7_6.),
2022
Wavelet basis finite element solution for Transient Problems
By Gopikrishna, K. and Shrikhande in
Topical Problems in Solid Mechanics,
Elite Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi,
international Conference (N.K. Gupta and A.V. Manzhirov, editors),
2008
Patent(s)
DIC based Rapid Condition Assessment System for Structural health Monitoring using QR Code based speckle pattern (522148)
PROJECT / CONSULTANCY
Proof Chccking of dcsign and drawing of Screw classifier building
Role:
Principal Investigator
Type: Consultancy
Sponsor: ARDEE Engineering Limited, Hyderabad
Project Cost (INR): 352820
Date of Commencement: 10-04-2025 Date of Completion: 10-06-2025
Duration: 2 Months
Status: Completed
Type: Consultancy
Sponsor: ARDEE Engineering Limited, Hyderabad
Project Cost (INR): 352820
Date of Commencement: 10-04-2025 Date of Completion: 10-06-2025
Duration: 2 Months
Status: Completed
Structural inspection Report on soundness of ELSR tanks (1000KLD & 600KLD) situated at korutla town, Telangana
Role:
Co-Principal Investigator
Type: Consultancy
Sponsor: Commissioner, Korutla Municipality,Telangana.
Project Cost (INR): 306000
Date of Commencement: 04-05-2025 Date of Completion: 30-05-2025
Duration: 0 Months
Status: Completed
Type: Consultancy
Sponsor: Commissioner, Korutla Municipality,Telangana.
Project Cost (INR): 306000
Date of Commencement: 04-05-2025 Date of Completion: 30-05-2025
Duration: 0 Months
Status: Completed
Training on Seismic Vulnerability, Risk and Resilience Assessment of RC buildings utilizing Software tools
Role:
Principal Investigator
Type: Research
Sponsor: Accelerate Vigyan scheme (AV), SERB
Project Cost (INR): 500000
Date of Commencement: 19-02-2024 Date of Completion: 25-02-2025
Duration: 12 Months
Status: Completed
Type: Research
Sponsor: Accelerate Vigyan scheme (AV), SERB
Project Cost (INR): 500000
Date of Commencement: 19-02-2024 Date of Completion: 25-02-2025
Duration: 12 Months
Status: Completed
A Simple and Robust non-contact method for rapid structural health monitoring of critical infrastructure using digital image correlation
Role:
Co-Principal Investigator
Type: Research
Sponsor: DST-IMPRINT
Project Cost (INR): 3850000
Date of Commencement: 15-02-2017 Date of Completion: 15-03-2021
Duration: 49 Months
Status: Completed
Type: Research
Sponsor: DST-IMPRINT
Project Cost (INR): 3850000
Date of Commencement: 15-02-2017 Date of Completion: 15-03-2021
Duration: 49 Months
Status: Completed
Proof checking for Major Bridge at Ghaziapur Bhalia in Uttar Pradesh/ Bihar Section
Role:
Principal Investigator
Type: Consultancy
Sponsor: NHA, India
Project Cost (INR): 350000
Date of Commencement: 28-09-2020 Date of Completion: 06-11-2020
Duration: 2 Months
Status: Completed
Type: Consultancy
Sponsor: NHA, India
Project Cost (INR): 350000
Date of Commencement: 28-09-2020 Date of Completion: 06-11-2020
Duration: 2 Months
Status: Completed
Proof checking for structural stability of the SS Shapurji Complex
Role:
Principal Investigator
Type: Consultancy
Sponsor: M/s Sri Sai Kakatiya Developers
Project Cost (INR): 944000
Date of Commencement: 01-02-2019 Date of Completion: 07-07-2019
Duration: 5 Months
Status: Completed
Type: Consultancy
Sponsor: M/s Sri Sai Kakatiya Developers
Project Cost (INR): 944000
Date of Commencement: 01-02-2019 Date of Completion: 07-07-2019
Duration: 5 Months
Status: Completed
Application of Principles of Reliability and Risk Analysis to various sub-disciplines of Civil Engineering
Role:
Joint-Principal Investigator
Type: GIAN Course
Sponsor: MHRD, GoI
Project Cost (INR): 544000
Date of Commencement: 31-12-2018 Date of Completion: 04-01-2019
Duration: 1 Months
Status: Completed
Type: GIAN Course
Sponsor: MHRD, GoI
Project Cost (INR): 544000
Date of Commencement: 31-12-2018 Date of Completion: 04-01-2019
Duration: 1 Months
Status: Completed
Proof checking of administrative block, Hitech City, Hyderabad
Role:
Principal Investigator
Type: Consultancy
Sponsor: NATIONAL BUILDINGS CONSTRUCTION CORPORATION LIMITED, Hyd.
Project Cost (INR): 45800
Date of Commencement: 11-05-2016 Date of Completion: 20-06-2016
Duration: 1 Months
Status: Completed
Type: Consultancy
Sponsor: NATIONAL BUILDINGS CONSTRUCTION CORPORATION LIMITED, Hyd.
Project Cost (INR): 45800
Date of Commencement: 11-05-2016 Date of Completion: 20-06-2016
Duration: 1 Months
Status: Completed
Fragility Analysis- A Tool to measure Seismic Performance
Role:
Principal Investigator
Type: Research
Sponsor: MHRD
Project Cost (INR): 370000
Date of Commencement: 03-08-2012 Date of Completion: 05-07-2013
Duration: 11 Months
Status: Completed
Type: Research
Sponsor: MHRD
Project Cost (INR): 370000
Date of Commencement: 03-08-2012 Date of Completion: 05-07-2013
Duration: 11 Months
Status: Completed
RESEARCH FELLOWS / PhD STUDENTS
Current PhD Students
Gundogi Srinath
Area of Research:
Seismic Demand characterisation, Vulnerability Assessment & Performance evaluation of 3D Multi-storeyed RC buildings under simultaneous bidirectional individual and repeated earthquake events.
Jagadeeshwer K.
Area of Research:
Seismic performance of Highway Bridges
MUDHAVATH MOTHILAL
Area of Research:
Performance Assessment and seismic demand characterisation of Mixed/Hybrid functional Modified Buildings
Sai Padmaja
Area of Research:
Limestone Calcined Clay Concrete
SARMILISWAIN
Area of Research:
Buildings Fire load assessment to check adequacy of standard fire curves in their performance evaluation. Importance of Compartment specific FLD to assess structural integrity under fire progressions
Previous PhD Students
Praveen OGGU
(2021)
Area of Research:
Non-linear analysis to assess adequacy of R factor and evaluation of performance of regular and vertically irregular 3D Multi-storeyed buildings under bidirectional individual & sequential earthquakes
CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP / SYMPOSIUM / SHORT TERM COURSE / FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
Indo Norway Collaborative workshop on Seismic design of Multi-storied Buildings through ICT at NIT Warangal
07-Dec-2014
→
09-Dec-2014
Event Type:
Workshop
Role: Warangal Center Coordinator
Funding Agency: TEQIP II
Role: Warangal Center Coordinator
Funding Agency: TEQIP II
3 day workshop on “Finite Element Applications in engineering analysis”
10-Mar-2017
→
12-Mar-2017
Event Type:
Workshop
Role: Coordinator
Funding Agency: TEQIP II
Role: Coordinator
Funding Agency: TEQIP II
“Advances in structural health Monitoring for Civil infrastructure”
22-Mar-2017
→
24-Mar-2017
Event Type:
Workshop
Role: Coordinator
Funding Agency: TEQIP II
Role: Coordinator
Funding Agency: TEQIP II
3 day workshop on “Bio-inspired materials by design-Issues & Challenges”
19-Nov-2018
→
21-Nov-2018
Event Type:
Workshop
Role: Coordinator
Funding Agency: TEQIP III
Role: Coordinator
Funding Agency: TEQIP III
10 day FDP On Modelling & seismic analysis of RC Buildings
21-Mar-2022
→
31-Mar-2022
Event Type:
Short Term Course
Role: Coordinator
Funding Agency: Electronics and ICT Academy
Role: Coordinator
Funding Agency: Electronics and ICT Academy
Collaborative online FDP on “Integrating AI and ML into Civil Engineering Applications”
28-Apr-2025
→
03-May-2025
Event Type:
Short Term Course
Role: Co‑coordinator
Funding Agency: SIDDHARTHA ACADEMY OF HIGHER EDUCATION, Vijayawada,
Role: Co‑coordinator
Funding Agency: SIDDHARTHA ACADEMY OF HIGHER EDUCATION, Vijayawada,
National conference on Green Building Practices and its Impact on Economic performance
23-Oct-2010
→
23-Oct-2010
Event Type:
Conference
Role: Coordinator
Funding Agency: BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
Role: Coordinator
Funding Agency: BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
AWARDS AND ACCOLADES
2024
EVC member-AICTE
2022
Best paper Award at International Conference On Education 5.0- Role Of Institution, Industry and Society (ERIIS-2022),
Reviewer for proposals related to Earthquake Engineering in Engineering & Technology Program
2009
GE Six sigma Green belt Award
2003
Scholarship for Doctoral Studies in engineering (2003)
1998
Scholarship for postgraduate studies in engineering (GATE-1998)
ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- Member Institute safety Committee (Continuing from November, 2025)
- Electrical Department Purchase committee member (September, 2023 - July, 2025)
- Chairperson for Physical assests verification Directors bunglow/Institute Guest House (September, 2023 - November, 2023)
- Institute Ranking subcommittee member (June, 2023 - July, 2024)
- Warden 1K hostel (November, 2020 - December, 2022)
- Team member Admissions CCMT2019 (May, 2019 - July, 2019)
Last updated on December 3, 2025