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Prof. Umesh Basappa

PhD (Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad)

Assistant Professor Gr-I

Department of Civil Engineering

Room No:   +91-870-2462157
umeshb@nitw.ac.in
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Research Areas

 Classical and Non-Classical Continuum Mechanics 

 Damage and Fracture Mechanics to study the crack propagation 

 Non-local & Strain Gradient Theories  

 Numerical Methods in Civil Engineering: FEM, FEA, IGA  

  • Courses Handled
  • Research IDs
  • Selected Publications
  • Project/Consultancy
  • Current PhD Students
  • Awards and Accolades
  • Additional Responsibilities
  • Computer Aided Design Laboratory(CE26009)
  • Theory of Structures-2(CE301)
  • Basic Engineering Mechanics(CE1164)
  • Basic Engineering Mechanics(CE181)
  • Minor Project(CE26096)
  • Computer Aided Design Laboratory(CE5205)
  • Structures and Dynamics Laboratory(CE5204)
  • Advanced Reinforced Concrete Design(CE318)
  • Engineering Mechanics(CE101)
  • ORC ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2139-5625
  • Google Scholar ID: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?hl=en&user=5pGBAMUAAAAJ


  • Understanding the differential influence of thermal and mechanical on the electro-mechanical admittance response of cementitious materials, By Tejas Shelgaonkar, Umesh Basappa, Arun Narayanan, Elsevier, Construction and Building Materials, vol.475, pp.1-15, 2025
  • Effect of Polypropylene and Brass-coated Steel fibres on bond behaviour of GFRP bars in normal and high strength geopolymer concrete, By Niyazuddin, Umesh B, Wiley, Structural Concrete, vol., pp.1-20, 2024
  • Experimental investigation on bond behaviour of the GFRP bars with normal and high strength geopolymer concrete, By Niyazuddin, Umesh B, Elsevier, Construction and Building Materials, vol.429, pp.136395, 2024
  • Mechanical and durability properties of standard and high strength geopolymer concrete using particle packing theory, By Niyazuddin, Umesh B, Elsevier, Construction and Building Materials, vol.400, pp.132722, 2023
  • Analytical load-moment (P-M) interaction diagram for GFRP-reinforced rectangular concrete column in uniaxial bending, By Niyazuddin, B. Umesh, Elsevier, Materials Today: Proceedings, vol., pp., 2023
  • Experimental study on shear reinforced and shear deficient RC beams subjected to preloading and wrapping with CFRP sheets, By MH Prashanth, R Manjunath, Abhilash Koppad, B Umesh, Imran Kuttagola, Elsevier, Materials Today: Proceedings, vol., pp., 2023
  • The use of contravariant tensor invariants to model damage in anisotropic soft tissues, By Arthesh Basak, Rajagopal Amirtham, Umesh Basappa, Taylor & Francis, Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, vol.29, pp.5714–5725, 2022
  • Contravariant tensor algebra for anisotropic hyperelasticity, By Arthesh Basak, Amirtham Rajagopal, Umesh Basappa, IOP Publishing Ltd., Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS), vol.2070, pp., 2021
  • Impact of social lockdown due to COVID-19 on environmental and health risk indices in India, By Selvaraj Ambika, Umesh Basappa, Ananya Singh, Vijaya Gonugade, Rajveer Tholiya, Elsevier, Environmental Research, vol.196, pp.110932, 2021
  • The use of contravariant tensors to model anisotropic soft tissues, By Arthesh Basak, Amirtham Rajagopal, Umesh Basappa, Mokarram Hossain, World Scientific Publishing Company, International Journal of Applied Mechanics, vol.13, pp.2150039, 2021

Determining JH2 constants for UHPC using SHPB

  • Role Co-Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor CARS Project DRDO-ER&D(E)
  • Duration 15 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 1770000
  • Status Completed

Bending Analysis of functionally graded materials using iso-geometric analysis

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor Research Seed Grant, MHRD
  • Duration 24 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 500000
  • Status Completed


Nagaraj T

  • Area of Research: High strain rate response characterization of UHPC

Niyazuddin

  • Area of Research: Bond Behavior on FRP reinforced Concrete Structure

Tejas S. Shelgaonkar

  • Area of Research: Structural Health Monitoring
  • Fist Class & Gold Medal
  • MHRD scholarship
  • ERP Coordinator, Department of Civil Engineering (Continuing from May, 2023)
  • Hostel Warden (November, 2020 - December, 2022)
  • Faculty Advisor (Continuing from April, 2018)