Dr T Venkatesh Varma
Venkatesh is currently pursuing his postdoctoral research at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel. He defended his PhD thesis in the Department of Civil Engineering at IIT Indore.
Thesis title: "Studies on the effect of internal geometry in the macroscopic deformation of solids." (Sole supervisor)
Educational Background
Ph.D. (Structural Engineering): Indian Institute of Technology Indore (2023)
M. Tech. (Structural Engineering): Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneshwar (2019)
B.Tech. (Civil Engineering): Odisha University of Technology and Research (2015)
Publications
Journal Publications
Fishman, A., Elbaz, G., Varma, T. V., & Shmuel, G. (2024). Third-order exceptional points and frozen modes in planar elastic laminates. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 105590. Ref
Kumar, G.S., Varma, T.V., Ghosh, A. et al. "Effect of Crystal Orientation and Crystallographic Anisotropy on Shear Band Formation During Ductile Fracture in Fe Single Crystals." Metall Mater Trans A 55, 598–606 (2024). Ref
Varma, T.V., Rahaman, M.M. & Sarkar, S. "A numerical study to assess the role of pre-stressed inclusions on enhancing fracture toughness and strength of periodic composites." Int J Fract 239, 69–85 (2023) . Ref
Varma, T.V., et al. "The Influence of Clamping, Structure Geometry, and Material on Seismic Metamaterial Performance." Front. Mater. 8:603820 (2021) Ref
Varma, T.V., Sarkar, S. "Designing polymer metamaterial for protective armor: a coarse-grained formulation." Meccanica 56, 383–392 (2021) . Ref
Varma, T.V., Sarkar S, and Mondal G. "Buckling Restrained Sizing and Shape Optimization of Truss Structures." Journal of Structural Engineering 146, no. 5 (2020): 04020048. Ref
Varma, T.V., et al. "Reinforcement Learning-Guided Crack Propagation" (2023) .Ref
