Tejas Gorur Murthy

Department of Civil Engineering

Indian Institute of Science

Bangalore 560012, INDIA

Ph: +91-80-2293-3125

Email: tejasATiisc.ac.in

image segmentation and deformation measurements.

Current group:

 Manasa Bhat

 Sudhanshu Rathore

 Bhupendra Chand

 Abrar Naseer

 Mohd Ilyas Bhat

 Aman Kushwaha

 Abhijit Hegde – now Postdoctoral fellow at Ecological Sciences

Journal Publications

 Hegde A., and Murthy T.G. (2022) “Experimental studies on deformation of granular materials

during orthogonal cutting”, Granular Matter (accepted – in print queue)

 Sarate P., Murthy, T.G., and Sharma P. (2022) “Column to pile transition in quasi static

deposition of granular chains”, Soft Matter, 18, 2054-2059

24(1), pp1-20.

 Martinez A. et al (2021) “Bio-inspired geotechnical engineering : principles current work,

opportunities and challenges”, Geotechnique, 71, 5, 2

 Beleyur T., Uma D., Singh S., Somanathan H., and Murthy T.G., (2021) “The architecture,

dynamics, and silk investment in social spider, Stegodyphus sarasinorum”, Animal

Behaviour,179, pp 139-146.

 Kandasami R. K., Singh S. and Murthy T.G. (2021) “Experimental investigations on stress

 Zachariah N., Murthy T.G. and Borges R.M. (2020) “Moisture alone is sufficient to impart

strength but not weathering resistance to termite mound soil”, Royal Society Open Science,

7:200485.

 Zachariah N., Singh S., Murthy T.G. and Borges R.M. (2020) “Bi-layered architecture

facilitates high strength and ventilation in nest mounds of fungus-farming termites”, Scientific

Reports 10:13157.

 Qiao H., Murthy T.G. and Saldana C. (2019) “Structure and deformation of gradient metal

foams produced by machining”, Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, 141,

 Wang Z., Basu S., Murthy T.G. and Saldana C. (2018) “Gradient microstructure and texture in

wedge- based severe plastic burnishing of copper”, Journal of Materials Research, 33, 8,

1046-1056.

 Yadav S., Saldana C., and Murthy T.G. (2018) “Experimental investigations on deformation of

soft rock during cutting”, International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, 105,

123-132.

 Zachariah N., Das A., Murthy T. G. and Borges R M (2017) “Building mud castles: a

perspective from brick laying termites”, Scientific Reports , 7:4692.

Structures, 97, 129-136.

 Kundanati L., Singh S., Mandal B., Murthy T. G., Gundiah N. and Pugno N. M. (2016)

“Fabrication and Mechanical Characterization of Hydrogel Infused Network Silk Scaffolds”,

International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 17 (10) 1631.

 Yadav S., Saldana C., and Murthy T. G. (2016) “Porosity and geometry control ductile to

brittle deformation in indentation of porous solids”, International Journal of Solids and

Structures, 88, 11-16.

strength and stability of termite mounds”, Environmental Geotechnics, 3, 2, 99-113.

 Murthy T.G., and Das A. (2019) “Constitutive modelling of geomaterials”, Indian Geotechnical

Journal, 49(4), 367-368.

 Singh S, Kandasami R K and Murthy T. G. (2017) “Prediction of mechanical response of

geomaterials using an advanced elasto-plastic constitutive model”, Proceedia Engineering,

173, 793-799.

 Vishwanathan K, Mahato A, Murthy T.G., Koziara T and Chandrasekar S (2015) “Kinematic

intermediate principal stress and inclination on the mechanical behaviour of angular sands”,

Granular Matter, 17, 217-230.

portable compliant device for estimating the failure-load of mesoscale cemented sand

specimens”, ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, 137, 065001.

and temperature profile of the lubricant film at chip-tool interface during machining process

using luminescent sensors”, Proceedia Engineering, 79, 9-16.

heterogeneity in punch indentation”, Proceedings of the Royal Society A : Mathematical,

 Du F., Yadav S., Moreno C.,Murthy T.G., and Saldana C. (2014) “Incipient straining in severe

plastic deformation methods”, Journal of Materials Research, 29,5, 718-728.

 Gourvenec, S. M., Vulpe C., and Murthy T.G. (2014) “A method for predicting the

consolidated undrained bearing capacity of shallow foundations”, Geotechnique,64,3, 215-

225.

 Mahato A., Guo Y., Sundaram N., Murthy T.G., Saldana C., Chandrasekar S., (2013)

 Murthy T.G., Gnanamanickam E., and Chandrasekar S. (2012) “Deformation field in

Drag”, Applied Physics Letters, 94, 021910.

 Calistes R., Swaminathan S., Murthy T. G., Shankar M.R., and Chandrasekar S. (2009)

Scripta Materialia, 60,1,17-20.

 Huang C., Murthy T. G., Shankar M. R., Saoubi R. M. and Chandrasekar S. (2008)

 Murthy T. G., Huang C., Shankar M. R., Chandrasekar S. and Sullivan J. P. (2008)

 Murthy T. G., Huang C. and Chandrasekar S. (2008) “Characterization of deformation fields in

plane strain indentation of metals”, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 41, 074026.

 Murthy T. G., Loukidis D., Carraro J. A. H., Prezzi M. and Salgado R. (2008) “Closure to the

discussion on the Undrained monotonic response of clean and silty sands”, Geotechnique,

58,6, 536- 538.

 Murthy T. G., Loukidis D., Carraro J. A. H., Prezzi M. and Salgado R. (2007) “Undrained

monotonic response of clean and silty sands”, Geotechnique, 57,3, 273-288.

Refereed conference publications (2016-now)

 Singh S. and Murthy T. G., (2022) “Structure of cemented granular materials”, 20th

International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, 20th ICSMGE,

Sydney, Australia.

 Hegde A., and Murthy T.G. (2021) “An experimental study on shear bands in sand using the

solids”, Biot-Bazant Conference 2021.

 Yadav S., Murthy T. G., and Sagapuram D. (2018) An experimental study of wedge

indentation of porous solids: Implications for cutting and drilling processes, Proceedings of the

ASME 2018 13th International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference,

MSEC2018-6629, V002T04A030.

 Yadav S., Sagapuram D. and Murthy T.G. (2017) A comparative study of indentation

deformation fields in porous ductile and brittle solids, Sixth Biot conference on

Poromechanics, ASCE, 945-951. doi.org/10.1061/9780784480779.117