Gopal S P Madabhushi

Professor Madabhushi’s research focuses on earthquake risk mitigation of geotechnical and structural systems. His research has led to a better understanding of the response of these systems under extreme earthquake loading and soil liquefaction. He has participated in many post-earthquake missions to observe and understand the failures of structural and geotechnical systems. His passion is to use the following modelling techniques to develop a fundamental understanding of the failure mechanisms. He has published to date 3 books, 105 journal papers and 245 papers in international conferences and workshops. Centrifuge Modelling Professor Madabhushi developed several earthquake actuators that simulate earthquake loading on centrifuge models in-flight. He as an active interest in developing specialist model containers, data acquisitions systems, imaging techniques to decipher the soil behaviour during and after earthquake loading. Using these, a wide variety of problems from pile foundations to underground structures were investigated over the course of nearly two decades. Numerical Modelling Professor Madabhushi has an active interest in using finite element based numerical methods to simulate earthquake related problems. He has investigated the behaviour of various types of retaining walls, tunnels and other structures and compared the numerical predictions with the centrifuge test data.