Prof. Gopal Madabhushi

Professor Gopal Madabhushi leads a research group on geotechnical earthquake engineering. Professor Madabhushi has wide-ranging interests in this field from post earthquake field investigations to experimental and numerical investigations of liquefaction induced failure mechanisms of civil engineering structures. He served as the chairman of EEFIT (Earthquake Engineering Field Investigation Team) that operates under the auspices of Institution of Structural Engineers, London and continues as the member of the Missions Expert Group (MEG). He is a member of the Research and Education sub-committee of SECED. He is also a member of the Technical Committee TC2 of ISSMGE and heads the sub-committee on Teaching Resources. He is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and serves as the Editorial Board member of Geo-mechanics Engineering (GAE) Journal. Professor Madabhushi’s research has been funded by EPSRC, EU, NSF USA, Newton Trust, Santa Clara University, USA, Mott MacDonald, UK, Shimizu Corporation, Japan. Many boundary value problems have been studied ranging from liquefaction induced lateral flow past piles supported by Shimizu Corporation, plastic buckling of piles, liquefaction-induced settlement of rock fill dams etc. In a recent project the dynamic soil-structure interaction of foundations of heavy structures such as Nuclear Reactor Buildings that are founded on stratified soil. Professor Madabhushi has a strong interest in Finite Element analyses of liquefaction problems. The FEA have been used to investigate many boundary value problems including the sheet pile walls, dynamic SSI problems with heavy foundations etc.