Dynamics of Structures

Prof. Manish Kumar is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at IIT Bombay in Mumbai, India. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from IIT Kanpur, and Master’s and Ph.D. degrees from State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo in USA. He has worked in Australia and USA as a civil engineer and is a certified professional engineer (P.E.) in the state of California, USA. His research areas include analysis and design of structures subject to earthquake, blast and impact loads. He focusses on seismic response control of structures using seismic isolation and energy dissipation devices. He has extensive experience in conducting large scale experiments to characterize static and dynamic behavior of structures. He has authored several technical papers and reports on dynamic response control of structures. He has also developed several software modules to model seismic isolators in a wide range of open-source (e.g, OpenSees) and commercial software platforms (ABAQUS, LS-DYNA). His work on seismic isolation of nuclear structures has contributed to the development of a NUREG guide on seismic isolation. He has received STSI award by Hokkaido University in Japan and was a visiting research scholar to Beijing University of Technology. He has delivered several keynote lectures in Indian conferences and workshops in the area of seismic isolation. His recently lead the efforts organize an US-Indo international workshop on seismic safety of nuclear structures. He is a currently a working group member of the BIS code committee (CED39) on seismic isolation and assisting with the efforts to develop codes and guidelines on safety of structures against extreme loads.