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Prof. Mohan S C

Associate Professor
Department of Civil Engineering

structural engineering, Structural Dynamics; Earthquake & Vibration Control of Structures, Structural Health Monitoring, Computational Cost Reduction, Development of low cost base-isolation systems for low raised RC and masonry buildings, Seismic response reduction of similar adjacent buildings using connected control Technique, Development of methodology to reduce the torsional vibration of plan asymmetric and vertically irregular buildings, Numerical model updating of experimented structure, Development of numerical models of structures to reduce computational cost
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
Hyderabad Campus
Jawahar Nagar, Kapra Mandal
Dist.-Medchal-500 078
Telangana, India

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
  • Master of Technology, Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India 
  • Bachelor of of Engineering, Civil Engineering, Visvesvaraya Technological University, MCE Hassan, India

Research Interest

    • Low Cost Base Isolation Systems
    • Earthquake and Vibration Control of Structures
    • Structural Health Monitoring
    • Fatigue and fracture mechanics
    • Smart structures
    • Computational cost reduction

Professional experience and skills

RESEARCH

  • Associate professor, BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Campus, India    (March 2023 – Till date)
  • Assistant professor, BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Campus, India    (May 2015 – Feb 2023)
  • Visitor, University of California, Berkeley, USA   (June 2019 – July 2019)
  • Research Scholar, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India    (July 2010 – Aug 2014)
  • Research Assistant, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India  (July 2006 – June 2008)
 
TEACHING
  • Associate professor, BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Campus, India    (March 2023 – Till date)
  • Assistant professor, BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Campus, India    (May 2015 – Feb 2023)
  • Assistant Professor, National Institute of Technology Sikkim, India  (Sept 2014 – April 2015)
  • Teaching Assistant, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India  (July 2010 – Dec 2013)
  • Lecturer, Indian Institute of Aeronautical Engineering and Information Technology, Pune, India (Aug 2009 – June 2010)
 
INDUSTRY
  • Technical Associate, Tata Consultancy Services, Mumbai, India (Aug 2008 –July 2009)
  • Intern, General Electric India Technology Centre Private. Limited, Bangalore, India (Oct 2007 – Apr 2008)
ADMINISTRATION:
  • Warden, Vishwakarma Bhavan, BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Campus, India (Oct 2019 – Till date)
  • Convener, DRC, Civil Dept., BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Campus, India (Dec 2022 – Till date)
  • Non Resident Warden, Gandhi Bhavan, BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Campus, India (July 2017 – Oct 2019)
  • Convener, DST FIST program, Civil Dept., BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Campus, India (Mar 2016 – Aug 2022)
  • DRC member, Civil Dept., BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Campus, India (Dec 2016 – Nov 2020)
  • Works committee member, BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Campus, India (Nov 2018 – Nov 2019)
  • Library Committee member, BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Campus (Dec 2016 – Dec 2017)
LABORATORY
  • Incharge, Advanced Structural Engineering laboratory at BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus  (Nov 2015 – Till date)
    • Successfully implimented lab equipments (50kN MTS actuator and other setup )under DST-FIST project worth 1.4 crore partially funded by institute.
    • Established shake table (3m x 2m) test setup from DST funding for earthquake simulation.
    • Established an base isolator test arrangement with cyclic horizontal loading and vertical load on specimen from DST funding.
    • Established Strong floor and wall support from Steel structure for Quasi-static testing of prototype and scaled building models from institute funding.
    • Procured various sensors such as accelerometers, potensiometers, non-contact lasor sensors, extensiometers, etc., from DST funding.
    • Procured Mini APS113 shake table, DAQ, accelerometers, force sensing hammer, etc., from institute funding.
    • Modification and hight increase in the lab, and procurement of 10 ton capacity A-Frame crane for handling heavy equipments and test specimens. 
SKILLS
  • Experimental Equipment handling: INSTRAN based UTM, Shake table, Actuator, accelerometers, strain gauges, load cells and impulsive force hammer.
  • Modeling &Analysis Packages: ANSYS, MSC-NASTRAN, STAAD-PRO., AUTO-CAD
  • Optimization Techniques: Genetic Algorithm, Particle Swarm Optimization, Neural Network, Fuzzy Logic theory
  • Programming Languages: C, C++, and MATLAB.
  • Statistics analysis tool: MINITAB