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Key Notes
- Journal(s): 21
- Conference(s): 15
- PhD: Current - 3 Awarded - 1
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PUBLICATIONS4
DOCTORAL STUDENTS3
PROJECTSResearch 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
EDUCATION QUALIFICATION
| Degree | Institute | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Doctor of Philosophy | Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad | 2016 |
| Master of Technology | Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering (SJCE), Mysore | 2011 |
| Bachelor of Engineering | University B.D.T. College of Engineering (UBDTCE), Davangere | 2007 |
COURSES HANDLED
| Course | L-T-P | Credit | Degree Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| Theory of Structures-2(CE301) | 3-0-0 | 3 | UG |
| Finite Element Methods(CE466) | 3-0-0 | 3 | UG |
| Basic Engineering Mechanics(CE1164) | 3-0-0 | 3 | UG |
| Basic Engineering Mechanics(CE181) | 2-0-0 | 2 | UG |
| Advanced Reinforced Concrete Design(CE318) | 3-0-0 | 3 | UG |
| Engineering Mechanics(CE101) | 3-0-0 | 3 | UG |
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PUBLICATIONS
Journal(s)
A novel hybrid approach for monitoring temperature-induced damage in cementitious materials through the coupled electro-mechanical response of PZT sensors,
By Shelgaonkar T, Narayanan A and Basappa Umesh. ,
Wiley Online Library,
Structural Concrete,
vol.,
pp.1-25,
2026
Progressive monitoring of temperature and stress induced damages in fiber-reinforced cementitious composites through electrical admittance response of coupled piezoelectric sensors,
By Tejas Shelgaonkar, Umesh Basappa and Arun Narayanan,
Taylor and Francis,
Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures,
vol.,
pp.1-24,
2026
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
“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
Effect of surface configurations on the bond performance of GFRP bars in geopolymer concrete,
By Niyazuddin, and Umesh Basappa,
Sage,
Advances in Structural Engineering,
vol.0,
pp.1-18,
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
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
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
One dimensional nonlocal integro-differential model & gradient elasticity model : Approximate solutions and size effects,
By B. Umesh, A. Rajagopal, J. N. Reddy,
Taylor & Francis,
Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures,
vol.26,
pp.260-273,
2019
Higher order continuous approximation for the assessment of nonlocal-gradient based damage model,
By B. Umesh, A. Rajagopal,
Taylor & Francis,
Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures,
vol.26,
pp.1671-1682,
2019
Adaptive Isogeometric Analysis Based on a Combined r-h Strategy,
By Umesh Basappa, Amirtham Rajagopal and J N Reddy, 17(2):73-92, 2016, (IF - 1.60),
Taylor and Francis Ltd.,
International Journal for Computational Methods in Engineering Science and Mechanics,
vol.17(2),
pp.73-92,
2016
Fatigue damage of railway plate girder bridges a case study,
By G. Ravi, S. Raviraj and B. Umesh,
CSIR,
Journal of Structural Engineering,
vol.39(6),
pp.695-700,
2013
Modeling of CFRP strengthened RCC Beam using the Nonlinear Finite Element method,
By Umesh Basappa and Amirtham Rajagopal,
CSIR,
Journal of Structural Engineering,
vol.40(2),
pp.169-184,
2013
Conference(s)
Analytical Solutions for functionally graded nano-beams
By Gajula Supriya and Umesh B,
International Conference on Thermal Sciences and Sustainable Energy (ICTSE-2026),
2026
Study on various grip technique to determine the ultimate tensile strength of glass fiber reinforced polymer bar
By Moodu Sevya and Umesh B,
International Conference on Materials Innovation and Sustainable Infrastructure (ICMISI-2026),
2026
Analytical and numerical study on earthquake resistant RC structures subjected to blast loadings
By Lekkala Demudu Naidu and Umesh B,
International Conference on Materials Innovation and Sustainable Infrastructure (ICMISI-2026),
2026
Exact Solution for Post-Buckling Analysis of Imperfect Porous Plate under Uniaxial Compression
By Gayathri Velishala, Umesh B,
1st International Conference and Exhibition on Advanced Materials and Structures (ICEAMS 2025),
2025
Understanding the temperature effects on PZT-based embeddable transducers
By Tejas S and Umesh B,
34th annual conference and exhibition on non-destructive evaluation and enabling technologies (NDE 2024),
2024
Finite element approach for structural health monitoring of truss structure with impedance based method
By Tejas Shelgaonkar, Umesh B, A.S.Harshita Kalyani,
Sustainable Infrastructure: Innovations, Opportunities and Challenges,
2024
Numerical application of local and global structural health monitoring for dynamically active structural frame with multiple piezosensor configurations
By Tejas Shelgaonkar, Umesh B, Harshit Bhardwaj,
Sustainable Infrastructure: Innovations, Opportunities and Challenges,
2024
Analytical load-moment (P-M) interaction diagram for GFRP-reinforced rectangular concrete column in uniaxial bending
By Niyazuddin, Umesh B,
Advances in Construction Materials & Management (ACMM),
2022
Experimental Study on Shear Reinforced and Shear Deficient RC Beams Subjected to Preloading and Wrapping with CFRP Sheets
By Manjunath R, Imran Kuttagola, Abhilash Koppad, Umesh B, Prashanth M H,
4th Conference on Recent Advances in Materials and Manufacturing (ICRAMM 2022),
2022
Contravariant tensor algebra for anisotropic hyperelasticity
By Arthesh Basak, Amirtham Rajagopal, Umesh Basappa,
International Conference on Advances in Physical Sciences and Materials (ICAPSM 2021),
2021
Analytical Solution for Nonlinear Static Bending Analysis of Functionally Graded Nanobeams
By Veldhandi Saisanjay, Umesh Basappa,
Virtual International Conference on Sustainable Building Materials and Construction (ICSBMC-2021),
2021
Experimental Study on Shear of RC Beams under Preloading and CFRP strengthening
By Abhilash Koppad, Prashanth M H and Umesh B,
7th International Engineering Symposium (IES),
2018
An Adaptive Isogeometric Analysis for Solving Plane Problems
By Umesh Basappa and Amirtham Rajagopal”, , Italy 2015.,
eXtended Discretization MethodS (X-DMS 2015),
2015
Optimal Parameterization for Isogeometic Analysis
By Umesh Basappa and Amirtham Rajagopal,
Proceedings of Asia Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics (APCOM-2013),
2013
Higher Order Natural Element Analysis of the Cahn-Hilliard Phase-Field Model for Strongly Anisotropic Systems
By Umesh Basappa and Amirtham Rajagopal,
10th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM-2012) ,
2012
PROJECT / CONSULTANCY
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
Project Cost (INR): 23938000
Date of Commencement: 03-06-2025
Duration: 42 Months
Status: Ongoing
Type: Research
Sponsor: DRDO-CARS scheme
Project Cost (INR): 23938000
Date of Commencement: 03-06-2025
Duration: 42 Months
Status: Ongoing
Determining JH2 constants for UHPC using SHPB
Role:
Co-Principal Investigator
Type: Research
Sponsor: CARS Project DRDO-ER&D(E)
Project Cost (INR): 1770000
Date of Commencement: 30-06-2022 Date of Completion: 30-09-2023
Duration: 15 Months
Status: Completed
Type: Research
Sponsor: CARS Project DRDO-ER&D(E)
Project Cost (INR): 1770000
Date of Commencement: 30-06-2022 Date of Completion: 30-09-2023
Duration: 15 Months
Status: Completed
Bending Analysis of functionally graded materials using iso-geometric analysis
Role:
Principal Investigator
Type: Research
Sponsor: Research Seed Grant, MHRD
Project Cost (INR): 500000
Date of Commencement: 01-07-2018 Date of Completion: 01-07-2020
Duration: 24 Months
Status: Completed
Type: Research
Sponsor: Research Seed Grant, MHRD
Project Cost (INR): 500000
Date of Commencement: 01-07-2018 Date of Completion: 01-07-2020
Duration: 24 Months
Status: Completed
RESEARCH FELLOWS / PhD STUDENTS
Current PhD Students
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
Previous PhD Students
Niyazuddin
(2024)
Area of Research:
Bond Characterization of Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer Rebar with Various Surface Configurations in Fibre-Reinforced Geopolymer Concrete
CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP / SYMPOSIUM / SHORT TERM COURSE / FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME / GIAN
AWARDS AND ACCOLADES
2012
MHRD scholarship
2007
Fist Class & Gold Medal
ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- ERP Coordinator, Department of Civil Engineering (Continuing from May, 2023)
- Hostel Warden (November, 2020 - December, 2022)
- Faculty Advisor (Continuing from April, 2018)
Last updated on June 9, 2026