Venkatesh is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Madanapalle Institute of Technology and Science. He pursued 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)
Ph.D.
M.Tech.
B.Tech.
Structural Engineering
Structural Engineering
Civil Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Indore
Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneshwar
Odisha University of Technology and Research
2019 - 2023
2017 - 2019
2011 - 2015
Assistant Professor
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Civil Engineering
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Madanapalle Institute of Technology and Science
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
2016 - Present
2023 - 2026
Fishman, A., Lustig, B., Elbaz, G., Muhafra, A., Varma, V., & Shmuel, G. (2025, January). Distinct Exceptional Points in Hermitian Phononic Laminates. In International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics (pp. 828-829). META Conference.
Sinha, R., Varma, T. V., & Sarkar, S. (2024). Effect of nonlocality on the dispersion relations of mechanical metamaterials. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 109489. Ref
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, 186, 105590. Ref
Kumar, G. S., Varma, T. V., Ghosh, A., & Sarkar, S. (2024). Effect of Crystal Orientation and Crystallographic Anisotropy on Shear Band Formation During Ductile Fracture in Fe Single Crystals. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 55(2), 598-606. Ref
Varma, T. V., Rahaman, M. M., & Sarkar, S. (2023). A numerical study to assess the role of pre-stressed inclusions on enhancing fracture toughness and strength of periodic composites. International Journal of Fracture, 239(1), 69-85. Ref
Varma, T. V., Ungureanu, B., Sarkar, S., Craster, R., Guenneau, S., & Brûlé, S. (2021). The influence of clamping, structure geometry, and material on seismic metamaterial performance. Frontiers in Materials, 8, 603820. Ref
Varma, T. V., & Sarkar, S. (2021). Designing polymer metamaterial for protective armor: a coarse-grained formulation. Meccanica, 56(2), 383-392. Ref
Venkatesh Varma, T., Sarkar, S., & Mondal, G. (2020). Buckling restrained sizing and shape optimization of truss structures. Journal of Structural Engineering, 146(5), 04020048. Ref
Varma, T. V., Ramani, R., Dutta, R., Jayavelu, S., & Sarkar, S. Reinforcement Learning-Guided Crack Propagation. Available at SSRN 4532642. Ref