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Swetha Veeraraghavan

Assistant Professor

Department of Civil Engineering

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Ph: +91-80-2293-2325

Email: swethav@iisc.ac.in

Research Interests

Computational mechanics, earthquake engineering, wave propagation, nonlinear soil-structure interaction

Education

  • Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (2015), California Institute of Technology
  • M.S. in Civil Engineering (2010), California Institute of Technology
  • B.Tech in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering (2009), Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Experience

  • Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Banglore, 2020-
  • Computational Research Scientist, Idaho National Laboratory, 2017-2019
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Idaho National Laboratory, 2015-2017
  • Research Assistant, California Institute of Technology, 2010-2015
  • Teaching Assistant, California Institute of Technology

Publications

Journals

  • Veeraraghavan, S. , Bolisetti, C., Slaughter, A. E., Coleman, J., Dhulipala, S., Hoffman, W. M., Kim, K., Kurt, E., Spears, R., and Munday, L. (2020). MASTODON: An open-source software for seismic analysis and risk assessment of critical infrastructure. Nuclear Technology. [link]
  • Veeraraghavan, S. , Hall, J. F., & Krishnan, S. (2020). Modeling the rocking and sliding of free-standing objects using rigid body dynamics. ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 146(6). [link]
  • Veeraraghavan, S. , Coleman, J. & Bielak, J. (2019). Simulation of site and topographic effects on ground motion in Los Alamos, NM mesas. Geophysical Journal International, 220 (3), 1504-1520. [link]
  • Veeraraghavan, S., Heaton, T., & Krishnan, S. (2019). Lower bounds on ground motion at Point Reyes during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake from train toppling analysis. Seismological Research Letters, 90(2A), 683-691. [link]
  • Veeraraghavan, S., Spears, R., & Coleman, J. (2019). High frequency content in nonlinear soil response: A numerical artifact or a reality? Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering , 116C, 185-191. [link]
  • Spears, R., Veeraraghavan, S., & Coleman, J. (2019). Nonlinear modeling of ground motions at Lotung LSST site with nested surface soil constitutive model.Nuclear Technology, 205(9), 1205-1218. [link]
  • Veeraraghavan, S., Hudnut, K., & Krishnan S. (2016). Toppling analysis of the Echo Cliff precariously balanced rock. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 107(1). [link]

Conference proceedings

  • Veeraraghavan, S., Casagranda, A., & Spencer, B. W. (2019). Modeling fuel assembly distortion in light water reactors using BISON. Proceedings of the TopFuel Light Water Reactor Fuel Performance Conference, Seattle, Washington, USA.
  • Veeraraghavan, S., & Coleman, J. L. (2019). Effect of non-vertically propagating earthquake waves and nonlinear soil-structure interaction on nuclear facility response. Proceedings of the 25th International Conference in Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
  • Veeraraghavan, S., Bielak, J. & Coleman, J. L. (2017). Effect of inclined waves on deeply embedded nuclear facilities. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference in Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology, Busan, South Korea.
  • Baltaji, O., Numanoglu, O. A., Veeraraghavan, S., Hashash, Y. M. A., Coleman, J. L. & Bolisetti, C. (2017). Non-linear time domain site response and soil structure analyses for nuclear facilities using MASTODON. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference in Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology, Busan, South Korea.
  • Veeraraghavan, S. & Krishnan, S. (2012). 3-D dynamic analysis of precariously balanced rocks under earthquake excitation. Proceedings of the 15th World Conference in Earthquake Engineering, Lisbon, Portugal.

Conference Talks

  • Veeraraghavan, S. (2019). Seismic site-reponse and soil-structure interaction analysis in MASTODON. 25th International Conference in Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology, Charlotte, NorthCarolina, USA.
  • Veeraraghavan, S., & Coleman, J. L. (2019). Effect of non-vertically propagating earthquake waves and nonlinear soil-structure interaction on nuclear facility response. 25th International Conference in Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
  • Veeraraghavan, S., Bielak, J. & Coleman, J. L. (2018). Impact of topographic effects on site response at nuclear facility sites. 2018 DOE-NRC Natural Phenomena Hazards meeting, Maryland.
  • Veeraraghavan, S., Bielak, J. & Coleman, J. L. (2018). Effect of inclined waves on deeply embedded nuclear facilities. Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference, Boston.
  • Veeraraghavan, S., Bielak, J. & Coleman, J. L. (2017). Effect of inclined waves on deeply embedded nuclear facilities. 24th International Conference in Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology, Busan, South Korea.
  • Baltaji, O., Numanoglu, O. A., Veeraraghavan, S., Hashash, Y. M. A., Coleman, J. L. & Bolisetti, C. (2017). Non-linear time domain site response and soil structure analyses for nuclear facilities using MASTODON. 24th International Conference in Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology, Busan, South Korea.
  • Veeraraghavan, S. , Coleman, J. & Bielak, J. (2016). Effect of inclined waves on deeply embedded nuclear facilities. Natural Phenomena Hazards meeting , Germantown.
  • Veeraraghavan, S. , Coleman, J. & Spencer, B. (2016). Effect of Soil Heterogeneity on Nuclear Facility Soil-Foundation Interaction. Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference, Nashville.
  • Veeraraghavan, S. & Krishnan, S. (2013). 3-D Dynamic Analysis of Precariously Balanced Rocks Under Earthquake Excitation. Seismological Society of America Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City.

Teaching

  • Computational Geotechnics (CE 279) Jan-May 2020

Awards & Honors

  • MASTODON: Selected as a finalist for the R&D 100 award 2018.
  • Nuclear Science and Technology Recognition Award in recognition of contributions supporting INL’s strategic mission objectives in 2017.
  • Exceptional Contributions Program Award in 2017 for making the software quality assessment of MASTODON a success.
  • Exceptional Contributions Program Award in 2015 for great software contributions in support of dynamic analysis.
  • Civil Engineering Option Fellowship for graduate study towards M.S. in Civil Engineering at the California Institute of Technology during 2009-2010.
  • American Bureau Of Shipping Prize for best overall academic record in Naval Architecture at IIT Madras.
  • ClassNK-100 Prize for the second best individual B.Tech. Project during 2008-2009 at IIT Madras.
  • Institute Merit Prize (twice) for best academic performances in Naval Architecture at IIT Madras. [for 2006-2007 & 2007-2008 academic years]

Team

Extramural Funding

  • SERB Start-up Research Grant
    Project title: Assessing seismic safety of tunnels under near-fault ground motion
    Role: PI (no Co-PIs)
    Duration: December 2020 - December 2022