Vivek Padmanabha is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Civil Engineering (Geotechnical Division) at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He holds a Ph.D. (2018) degree in Civil Engineering from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India. He obtained his Master degree, M.Tech. (2011) in Geotechnical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK), India, and the Bachelor degree, B.E. (2008) in Civil Engineering from BMS College of Engineering, Bengaluru, India.
Before joining the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher from April 2019 to Dec 2021 in Department of General Geology and Structural Geology at Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany. During the above mentioned period, he also served as an academic scientist at Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics, Freiburg, Germany or popularly known as Ernst Mach Institute (EMI). From Mar 2018 - Mar 2019, he was as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Indian Institute of Science, on an industry collaborative project with Sarathy Geotech And Engineering Services Pvt. Ltd, Bengaluru, India.
Early in his career, he worked as a Research Assistant for short-term at BMS College of Engineering, India (2008) and University of Illinois, Chicago,, USA (2011).
Vivek's research mentors at different stages of his research career include Prof. TG Sitharam, Prof. Frank Schäfer, Prof. Thomas Kenkmann, Prof. Priyanka Ghosh, and Prof. S Raghunath.
Research Interests : Understanding the High strain-rate behavior of materials, particularly geomaterials like soil, rock, and concrete; Shock phenomena (attenuation) through granular and porous materials, which includes sand particles, porous rocks, synthetic geotextile materials and others ; Fracture and Fragmentation of rocks subjected to different loading rate from quasi-static events to very high velocity impacts. Adaptive mitigation strategies against extreme events and disasters like blast during war & terrorist attacks, chemical & nuclear explosion, landslides & debris flow, asteroid impacts etc. »
High speed flow inside a shock tube
