Dr Gopal Madabhushi
Dr. Madabhushi graduated from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University in Civil
Engineering in 1985 and obtained his Master's from the same university in 1987. He has
worked as a Research Fellow at Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay on problems of
Soil-Structure Interaction subjected to blast loading. Following this he was awarded a
Nehru Fellowship and an ORS award to pursue his doctoral studies at Cambridge University
and was affliated to Churchill College. On completion of his Ph.D work on "Response of
Tower Structures subjected to Earthquake Perturbations", he worked on the development of a new
Stored Angular Momentum (SAM) based earthquake actuator for use on a Geotechnical
Centrifuge. He also carried out research into the dynamic behaviour of gravity walls
under earthquake loading and the seismic stability of embankments with confined
liquefiable soil deposits. The experimental data of these centrifuge tests was used to
validate Finite Element Codes and to improve the numerical predictions by developing
non-reflecting boundaries and correctly simulating the initial velocity and displacement
conditions during numerical analyses. He was elected as a Research Fellow of Wolfson
College for the period 1993-96. He is also a Fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical
Society and Cambridge Commonwealth Society.
After working for a year as a Lecturer in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department of the University of Edinburgh, he rejoined the Soil Mechanics group at Cambridge University as a University Lecturer, becoming a Reader in Geotechnical Engineering in May 2006. During his stay at Edinburgh he has developed an interest in Biomechanics and is strongly involved in the experimental and numerical evaluation of the current surgical procedures employed in Total Hip Replacement Revision Arthoplasties. He is also a Fellow of Girton College and Director of Studies for Part IB Engineering Tripos.
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Courses currently taught include
In addition Dr. Madabhushi is in-charge of Seepage Experiment for Part IB course and demonstrates for Survey courses for Professional Group Activity and Field Work Projects for Part IIA students.
Dr. Madabhushi is a member of the Earthquake Engineering Field Investigation Team run under the auspicies of Institution of Structural Engineers, London, which organises visits to earthquake hit areas and was part of the British Teams which visited Los Angeles following the Northridge earthquake in 1994, Taiwan after the Ji-Ji earthquake in 1999 & Bhuj in 2001.
He is also the Asst.Director of The Schofield Centre and is in-charge of day to day running of the various geotechnical centrifuges at this Centre for various research activities.
See my publications list.
[Cambridge University | CUED | Geotechnical Group
Updated 13th November 2006
mspg1@eng.cam.ac.uk