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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
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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  

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  • Current PhD Students
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  • Additional Responsibilities
  • Theory of Structures-2(CE301)
  • Seminar and Technical Writing(CE26089)
  • Computer Aided Design Laboratory(CE26009)
  • 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


  • “Correlating the evolution of temperature and load induced damage in concrete subgrade using piezoelectric sensors, By Tejas Shelgaonkar, Arun Narayanan, Umesh Basappa, ASCE, ” Journal of Structural Design and Construction Practice, vol., pp., 2025
  • Influence of hybrid fibres on bond characteristics of the GFRP bars with standard and high strength geopolymer concrete, By Niyazuddin, Umesh B, ASTM, Journal of Testing and Evaluation, vol., pp., 2025
  • A Review on the Impact of Thermal Effects on Electro-Mechanical Impedance Technique-Based Structural Health Monitoring, By Tejas Shelgaonkar, Arun Narayanan, Umesh Basappa, Springer Nature Link, Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation, vol., pp., 2025
  • 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

"Determination of Strength and Damage Parameters for Metals and Ceramics and High Strain Rate Characterization of Foams

  • Role Co-Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor DRDO-CARS scheme
  • Duration 42 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 23938000
  • Status Ongoing

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


Kothakonda Ramesh

  • Area of Research: Plasticity based damage modeling for UHPCC under dynamic loading

Nagaraj T

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

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)