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Dr. Mahendra Kumar Pal

Assistant Professor
Department of Civil Engg., IIT(BHU)
Phone No(s): +91- 542-716-529
Email: mahendra.civ[at]iitbhu.ac.in
Area of Interest: Computational Solid Mechanics, Concrete Constitutive Modeling, Non-linear Dynamic Analysis, Large-Scale Numerical Simulation
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  • PhD, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 2012-2015
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  • M.Tech, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) HYDERABAD, Telangana, India, 2010-2012
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  • B. Tech, Bundelkhand Institute of Engineering and Technology(B.I.E.T),  JHANSI, Uttar Pradesh, INDIA, 2006-2010
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  • 10+2th Std (UP Board), Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyay Sanatan Dharm Vidyalay KANPUR, Uttar Pradesh, INDIA, 2006
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  • 10th Std (UP Board), Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyay Sanatan Dharm Vidyalay KANPUR, Uttar Pradesh, INDIA, 2004
  1. Assistant Professor, GLA University, Mathura, UP, India (2021)
  2. Associate Research Fellow, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, Japan  (2015-2021)
  3. Assistant Professor, Allenhouse Institute of Technology, Rooma, Kanpur, UP, India, (2012)
  • Alumni Award 2021-"Excellence in Alumni Relation" by IIT Hyderabad
  • Recipient of JICA-IITH Friendship Scholarship for doctorate course in the University of Tokyo – (2012-2015)
  • Selected for Todai-IIT Scholarship for doctorate course in the University of Tokyo-2012
  • Silver Medal for scoring highest CGPA in department for M. Tech in 2012.
  • Academic Excellence Award for M. Tech 1st year in 2011.
  • Recipient of MHRD, India Scholarship for Master’s course in IIT Hyderabad (2010-2012)

Journal Articles 

  1. Mohd Akram, Mahendra Kumar Pal, Lalith Maddegedara and Muneo Hori,“Modeling of thermal shrinkage induced cracking in brittle material using Higher order PDS-FEM”,  Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser.A2 (Applied Mechanics (AM)), 77(2) pp. 205-215, 2021 
  2. Mahendra Kumar Pal, Takuzo Yamashita, Tomoshi Miyamura, Makoto Ohsaki, “A comprehensive numerical simulation of steel-concrete composite beam incorporating compression failure of concrete”, International Journal of Computational Methods (world-scientific) Vol 16 (6),1840028, 2019
  3. Mahendra Kumar Pal, Maddegedara L.L. Wijerathne and Muneo Hori, “Numerical modeling of brittle cracks using Higher Order Particle Discretization Scheme-FEM”, International Journal of Computational Methods (world-scientific) Vol 16 (4),1843006, 2019
  4. Mahendra Kumar Pal and Takuzo Yamashita, “Construction of high-fidelity finite element model for large-scale parallel seismic analysis of Soil-underground structure”, Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser.A2 (Applied Mechanics (AM)), 73(2) pp. 729-738, 2017
  5. Takuzo Yamashita, Mahendra Kumar Pal, Kazutoshi Matsuzaki and Hiromitsu Tomozawa, “Development of Virtual Reality Experience System of Interior Damage due to Earthquake Utilizing E-Defense Shake Table Test”, Journal of Disaster Research, 12(5), pp. 882-890, 2017
  6. Mahendra Kumar Pal, Lalith Wijerathne, Muneo Hori, Tsyushi Ichimura, “Simulation of cracks in linear elastic solids using higher order Particle Discretization Scheme-FEM”, Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser.A2 (Applied Mechanics (AM)), 71(2) pp. 327-337, 2015
  7. Mahendra Kumar Pal, Lalith Wijerathne, Muneo Hori, Tsyushi Ichimura, Seizo Tanaka, “Implementation of Finite Element Method with higher order Particle Discretization Scheme”, Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser.A2 (Applied Mechanics (AM)),70(2), pp. 297-305, 2014
  8. Mahendra Kumar Pal, and Amirtham Rajagopal, “Sensitivity analysis of linear elastic cracked structures using Generalized Finite Element”, International journal for computational methods in engineering science and mechanics, 15(5), pp.422-437, 2014
  9. Mahendra Kumar Pal, and Amirtham Rajagopal, “Multiscale failure modeling of composites using generalized finite element method”, PAMM proceedings of applied mathematics and mechanics, 12, pp. 453-454, 2012

Conference Proceedings 

  1. Maddegedara Lalith, Mohd. Akram, Mahendra Kumar Pal, Elia Nicolin, Yosuke Kawahito, Toshihiro Kameda and Muneo Hori, “Application of PDS-FEM to simulate high-power LASER induced cracking”,  Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Methods, Vol.9, pp. 172-185, 2022.
  2. Mahendra Kumar Pal,  Lalith Wijerathne and Gaurav Singh “Investigation on imposing essential boundary conditions in Higher Order Particle Discretization Scheme ”, AIP Conference Proceedings, FSAET-2021.
  3. Mahendra Kumar Pal, Takuzo Yamashita and Jun Fujiwara, “Validation of tensile crack model for concrete subjected to cyclic loading”, In Proceedings of Computational Engineering Conference Vol 25, June, 2020.
  4. Mahendra Kumar Pal, Takuzo Yamashita, Shintaro Ohno and Atsushi Iizuka, “Reproduction simulation of Large-scale E-Defense shake table test of soil-underground structure specimen”, In the proceedings of Supercomputing in Nuclear Application + Monte Carlo, 2020.
  5. Mahendra Kumar Pal, Takuzo Yamashita, Shintaro Ohno and Atsushi Iizuka, “Modeling of laminar soil container for numerical simulation of large-scale shake table test on soil underground structure, In Proceedings of Computational Engineering Conference Vol 24, May, 2019.
  6. Mahendra Kumar Pal, Takuzo Yamashita, Takoya Toyoshi, “Reproduction simulation of the shake table test for the reduced-scale steel frame”, In Proceedings of Computational Engineering Conference Vol 23, May 2018.
  7. Jun Fujiwara, Takuzo Yamashita, Mahendra Kumar Pal, Makoto Ohsaki and Tomoshi Miyamura, “Implicit Updating Algorithm of Damage Variable of Concrete Elastoplastic Constitutive Model with Considering Compressive Damage”, In Proceedings of Computational Engineering Conference Vol 23, May 2018.
  8. M.L.L. Wijerathne, M.K. Pal and M Hori, “Higher order extension of PDS-FEM and simulating brittle cracks”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Methods, Vol.4, pp. 1132-1142, 2017.
  9. Mahendra Kumar Pal, Takuzo Yamashita, Shintaro Ohno and Atsushi Iizuka, “Detailed FE Analysis of E-Defense Shake Table Test on Soil-Underground Structure”, In Proceedings of Computational Engineering Conference Vol 22, May 2017.
  10. Takuya Toyoshi, Takuzo Yamashita, Tomohiro Sasaki and Pal Mahendra Kumar, “Displacement and strain field measurement for steel structure under seismic load”, In Proceedings of Computational Engineering Conference Vol 22, May 2017(in Japanese)
  11. Mahendra Kumar Pal, Lalith Wijerathne, Muneo Hori, Tsyushi Ichimura, Seizo Tanaka, “Development of higher order particle discretization scheme for analysis of failure phenomena”, Proceeding of PARTICLE-2015, 933-944, 2015

International Conferences:

  1. Mahendra Kumar Pal, Muhammad Naveed AKRAM, Lalith MADDEGEDARA, "Modeling thermal induced cracking in brittle materials", 8th International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation (ICCMS 2022), 09-11 December 2022, IIT Indore, India
  2. Maddegedara Lalith, Mohd. Akram, Mahendra Kumar Pal, Elia Nicolin, Yosuke Kawahito, Toshihiro Kameda and Muneo Hori, “Application of PDS-FEM to simulate high-power LASER induced cracking”, 13th International Conference on Computational Methods (ICCM),  July 25th-28th, 2022, at the Cloud
  3. Mahendra Kumar Pal, Mohd. Akram, Maddegedara Lalith, Yosuke Kawahito, Toshihiro Kameda and Muneo Hori, “Thermo-mechanical Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Under Extreme Temperature to Assess the Fire Safety of Structures”, 15th World Congress on Computational Mechanics & 8th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics, 31 July–5 August 2022, Yokohama, Japan
  4. Mahendra Kumar Pal, Takuzo Yamashita and Jun Fujiwara, “Compressive damage model of concrete using Ottosen failure criterion for seismic response analyses”, 14th World Congress in Computational Mechanics and ECCOMAS Congress-2020, 11-15 Jan. 2021, Paris, France (virtual congress).
  5. Mahendra Kumar Pal, Takuzo Yamashita and Jun Fujiwara, “Validation studies of concrete constitutive rule considering compressive and tensile failure under cyclic loading”, 3rd International Conference on Computational Engineering and Science for Safety and Environment Problems (COMPSAFE)-2020, 8-11 Dec. 2020, Kobe Japan
  6. Mahendra Kumar Pal, Takuzo Yamashita, Shintaro Ohno and Atsushi Iizuka, “Reproduction simulation of Large-scale E-Defense shake table test of soil-underground structure specimen”, Supercomputing in Nuclear Application + Monte Carlo 18-22 May 2020, Chiba, Japan
  7. Mahendra Kumar Pal, “Seismic performance assessment of high-rise buildings exposed to long-period pulse-like strong ground motion”, Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics (APCOM)-2019, 18-21 December, 2019, Taipei, Taiwan.
  8. Mahendra Kumar Pal, Takuzo Yamashita, Shintaro Ohno and Atsushi Iizuka, “An elasto-plastic dynamic response analysis of E-Defense large scale experiment on soil-underground structure interaction”, 13th World congress on computational mechanics, 22-27 July 2018, New York USA
  9. Takuzo Yamashita, Mahendra Kumar Pal, Kazutoshi Matsuzaki, Hiromitsu Tomozawa, Toru Hagiwara, and Yuji Mori, “Generation of Three-Dimensional Video Image of Interior Damage Due to an Earthquake Using Point Cloud”, 13th World congress on computational mechanics, 22-27 July 2018, New York USA
  10. Mahendra Kumar Pal, Takuzo Yamashita, Shintaro Ohno and Atsushi Iizuka, “Validation of numerical simulation results of E-Défense large scale experiment on soil-underground structure interaction” 14th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics 17-21 July 2017, Montreal, Canada
  11. Mahendra Kumar Pal, Takuzo Yamashita, Tomoshi Miyamura, Makoto Ohsaki, “A comprehensive numerical simulation of steel-concrete composite beam incorporating compression failure of concrete”, 7th International Conference on Computational Methods (ICCM) 1 -4 August 2016, University of California Berkeley, USA
  12. Mahendra Kumar Pal, Lalith Wijerathne, Muneo Hori, “Numerical simulations of cracking phenomena using Higher Order Particle Discretization Scheme (HO-PDS)”, 12th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XII) & 6th Asia-Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics (APCOM VI), 24-29 July 2016, Seoul, Korea  
  13. Mahendra Kumar Pal, Maddegedara L.L. Wijerathne, Muneo Hori, Tsyushi Ichimura, “Implementation of Higher Order PDS-FEM and Application for Modeling Brittle Cracks”, 2nd Australian Conference on Computational Mechanics (ACCM), Nov. 30-Dec 1, 2015, Brisbane, Australia
  14. Mahendra Kumar Pal, Lalith Wijerathne, Muneo Hori, Tsyushi Ichimura, Seizo Tanaka, “Development of higher order particle discretization scheme for analysis of failure phenomena”, IV International conference on Particle-Based Methods, Fundamentals and Applications, PARTICLE 2015, 28-30 September 2015, Bercelona, Spain
  15. Mahendra Kumar Pal, and Amirtham Rajagopal,” Multiscale failure modeling of composites using generalized finite element method”, GAMM 83rd Annual Scientific Conference, March 26-30, 2012, Darmstadt, Germany   

National Conferences:

  1. Mahendra Kumar Pal, Saqulain Sayeed, Gaurav Singh, "Fundamental studies on seismic response of high-rise buildings exposed to long-period seismic waves", 3rd International Conference on Futuristic and Sustainable Aspects in Engineering and Technology (FSAET)-2022, 11-13 Nov  2021, GLA Mathura, UP,  India
  2. Priya Singh, Mahendra Kumar PAL, and  Prabhat Kumar Singh Dikshit, "Experimental Investigation on Tertiary Treatment of Secondary Treated Wastewater Using Zetag-4120 Coagulant", 3rd International Conference on Futuristic and Sustainable Aspects in Engineering and Technology (FSAET)-2022, 11-13 Nov  2021, GLA Mathura, UP,  India  
  3. Mahendra Kumar Pal, Lalith Wijerathne and Gaurav Singh “Investigation on imposing essential boundary conditions in Higher Order Particle Discretization Scheme ”, 2nd International Conference on Futuristic and Sustainable Aspects in Engineering and Technology (FSAET)-2021, 11 13 Nov  2021, GLA Mathura, UP,  India
  4. Mahendra Kumar Pal, Mohd Akram, Lalith Maddegedara, Muneo Hori,“Modeling of thermal shrinkage induced cracking in brittle material using Higher order PDS-FEM, 24th, Applied Mechanics Symposium of JSCE, - 14-15 May 2021, Japan
  5. Mahendra Kumar Pal, Takuzo Yamashita and Jun Fujiwara, “Validation of tensile crack model for concrete subjected to cyclic loading”, 25th Annual meeting of JSCES, 6-10 June 2020, Kita Kyushu, Japan
  6. Pengxiang Wang, Mahendra Kumar Pal, Lalith Maddegedara, Muneo Hori, “Investigation on imposing essential boundary conditions in Higher order PDS-FEM”, 22nd Applied Mechanics Symposium of JSCE, - 28-30 June 2019, Hokkaido, Japan
  7. Mahendra Kumar Pal, “Elasto-plastic analysis of shake table test for reduced-scale steel frame”, 22nd Applied Mechanics Symposium of JSCE, - 28-30 June 2019, Hokkaido, Japan
  8. Mahendra Kumar Pal, Takuzo Yamashita, Shintaro Ohno and Atsushi Iizuka, “Modeling of laminar soil container for numerical simulation of large-scale shake table test on soil underground structure”, 24th Annual meeting of JSCES, 29-31 May 2019, Saitama, Japan
  9. Mahendra Kumar Pal, Takuzo Yamashita, Takoya Toyoshi, “Reproduction simulation of the shake table test for the reduced-scale steel frame”, 23rd Annual meeting of JSCES, 6-8 June 2018, Nagoya, Japan
  10. Jun Fujiwara, Takuzo Yamashita, Mahendra Kumar Pal, Makoto Ohsaki and Tomoshi Miyamura, “Implicit Updating Algorithm of Damage Variable of Concrete Elastoplastic Constitutive Model with Considering Compressive Damage”, 23rd Annual meeting of JSCES, 6-8 June 2018, Nagoya, Japan
  11. Mahendra Kumar Pal, Takuzo Yamashita, Shintaro Ohno and Atsushi Iizuka, “Seismic response analysis of soil-underground structure using high-fidelity finite element model with elasto-plastic soil constitutive relation”, 21st Applied Mechanics Symposium of JSCE, - 19-20 May 2018, Nagoya, Japan
  12. Mahendra Kumar Pal, Takuzo Yamashita, Shintaro Ohno and Atsushi Iizuka, “Detailed FE Analysis of E-Defense Shake Table Test on Soil-Underground Structure” 22nd Annual meeting of JSCES, 31 May-2 June 2017, Saitama, Japan
  13. Takuya Toyoshi,Takuzo Yamashita, Pal Mahendra Kumar, Fundamental Study on displacement measurement for seismic motion analysis, 30th Computational Mechanics Annual Meeting of JSME (CMD2017), 16 -18 September 2017, Kindai University, Osaka, Japan.
  14. Takuya Toyoshi, Takuzo Yamashita, Tomohiro Sasaki and Pal Mahendra Kumar, “Displacement and strain field measurement for steel structure under seismic load”, 22nd Annual meeting of JSCES, 31 May-2 June 2017, Saitama, Japan
  15. Mahendra Kumar Pal and Takuzo Yamashita,” Construction of high-fidelity finite element model for large-scale parallel seismic analysis of Soil-underground structure”, 20th Applied Mechanics Symposium of JSCE, - 20-21 May 2017, Kyoto, Japan
  16. M.L.L. Wijerathne, Mahendra Kumar Pal, Muneo Hori, Tsyushi Ichimura, “Higher order Extension of PDS-FEM”, 3rd international conference on Sri Lanka-Japan Collobrative Research-2015, 18-20 September 2015, Sri Lanka
  17. Mahendra Kumar Pal, Lalith Wijerathne, Muneo Hori, Tsyushi Ichimura, Seizo Tanaka, “Simulation of cracks in linear elastic solids using higher order Particle Discretization Scheme-FEM”, 18th Applied Mechanics Symposium of JSCE, - 16-17th May 2015, Kanazawa, Japan
  18. Mahendra Kumar Pal, Lalith Wijerathne, Tsyushi Ichimura, Muneo Hori, Seizo Tanaka, “Implementation of Finite Element Method with higher order Particle Discretization Scheme”, 17th Applied Mechanics Symposium of JSCE, - 10-11th May 2014, Okinawa, Japan
  19. Mahendra Kumar Pal, and Amirtham Rajagopal, “Two scale Generalized Finite Element Method for fracture analysis”, ICCMS 2012, Conference 10-12 December 2012, IIT Hyderabad, India
  1. Mahendra Kumar Pal, Development of Higher Order Particle Discretization Scheme and its Applications, International Symposium on Nonlocal Mechanics Approaches for Modeling Localized Deformations (NMAMLD), 07th -08th  June, 2022, IIT Hyderabad, Telangana India
  2. Mahendra Kumar Pal, Post Earth Quake fire effects on RCC structures - Experimental Studies and Computational Modeling, India-Japan Workshop on “Computational Modeling of Damage and Seismic Vulnerability Assessment during Earthquakes in Building Systems”, 12th-13th May, 2022, IIT Hyderabad, Telangana India
  3. Mahendra Kumar Pal, Understanding seismic resilience of buildings and civil structures using high performance computing, DAILAB CAFE Series 59, AIST, Tsukuba Japan, 12th March, 2021 (Online talk)
  4. Mahendra Kumar Pal, Dynamic Response Analysis of Soil Underground Structure Specimen Tested at E-Defense, Faculty Development Program Organized by GB Pant Institute of Engineering and technology, Pauri, 3rd September 2020 (online talk)
  5. Mahendra Kumar Pal, Seismic Resilience Assessment of Building Structures Using High-Performance Computing, JK Cements’ UP's online session for Tech Talk, 2nd May 2020 (online talk)
  6. Mahendra Kumar Pal, Seismic response analysis of full-scale E-Defense shake table test specimen using high-performance computing, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India, 27th Feb 2020
  7. Mahendra Kumar Pal, Seismic response analysis of full-scale E-Defense shake table test specimen using high-performance computing, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, 24th Feb 2020
  8. Mahendra Kumar Pal, Seismic response analysis of full-scale E-Defense shake table test specimen using high-performance computing, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India, 18th Feb 2020
  9. Mahendra Kumar Pal, E-Simulator: A high-performance simulation tool for seismic analysis and resilience assessment, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India, 26th April 2019
  10. Mahendra Kumar Pal, “Past, present and future of Earthquake Engineering”, Bundelkhand Institute for Engineering and Technology, Jhansi India, 8th May 2017
  11. Mahendra Kumar Pal, “Extension of Particle Discretization Scheme (PDS) for failure analysis” Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, (India) 3rd October 2013
  12. Mahendra Kumar Pal, “Mathematical modeling and numerical simulation”, Allenhouse Institute of Technology, Rooma Kanpur (India), 3rd September 2012 

Odd Semester 

UG Courses 

  1. Fluid Mechanics (CHO-102) 
  2. Concrete Technology Lab (CE-204)
  3. RCC Design and Drawing (CE-333) as co-teacher 

PG Course

  1.  Advance Concrete Technology (CE-557)
  2. Optimization Method (CE-565)Unknown Object

Even Semester 

UG Courses

  1. Building Planning, Drawing and Estimation (CE-206) as co-teacher
  2. Disaster Mitigation and Earthquake Engineering (CE-462)
  3. Plastic Analysis of Structures (CE-436) 

PG Course

  1. Plastic Analysis of Structures (CE-564)
  2. Optimization Method (CE-565)
  3. Numerical methods for WRE (CE-527)

PhD Students

S. No. Name  Roll Number Joining Year Topic Status
1 Mr. Adarsh Srivastava 22061504 Dec 2022 [Tentative] Dam Break Analysis Ongoing
2 Priya Singh 16061504 Dec 2016 Tertiary treatment of secondary treated wastewater for different application and its cost implications Withdrawn 
3 Jangam Vinod Kumar 18061507 Dec 2018 Application of SBR for treatment of wastewater of individual houses of Varanasi city Withdrawn 

 

M.Tech Students

S. No. Name  Roll Number Joining Year Topic Status
1 Mr. Ashwani Sharma 19064012 July 2021 [Tentative] Dynamic analysis of railway steel girder bridge subjected to multiple axle load moving at high speed Ongoing
2 Mr. Shivani Lamba 18064003 July 2020 Seismic performance assessment of BHU campus using HPC Completed

 

IDD Students

S. No. Name  Roll Number Joining Year Topic Status
1 Ms. Movva Naga Akshaya 19064012 July 2019 [Tentative] Ongoing
2 Mr. Ajay Vashisth 18064003 July 2018 Investigation of torsion mode failure in High rise buildings subjected to strong ground motion Completed
3 Mr. Karan Raj 18064009 July 2018 Study of a cumulative damage in High rise buildings subjected to a series of strong ground motion Completed
4 Mr. Shubham Srivastava 18064016 July 2018 Automated Object Detection in Civil Structures Completed

 

  1. Title: Training Program for Department Engineers and Officers of Tribal Affairs Department Government of Madhya Pradesh,Under CM Rise Yojna
    1. Duration: 15/05/2023 - 21/05/2023
    2. Venue: Seminar Room, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT(BHU)
    3. Discerption: Funded by Tribal Affairs Department Government of Madhya Pradesh
  2. Title:  India-Japan Workshop on Assessment during Earthquakes in Building Systems
    1. Duration: 12th-13th May, 2022
    2. Venue: Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Hyderabad
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TBD