Mahesh Varma
Qualification: B. E. Civil, M.Tech (Aero - Structures) – IIT Bombay, Ph.D. - IIT Bombay, Post-Doc - Politecnico Di Milano
Current Position: Director, Nandadeep Designers and Valuers Pvt Ltd.
Past position: Postdoctoral research position at Politecnico di Milano
Experience: He is the director of Nandadeep Designers and Valuers Pvt. Ltd, Aurangabad. He has experience of over 20 years in the field of structural engineering. He has remained key analyst behind the success of Global Pagoda.
He is member of syllabus committee to Dr. BAM University, Government Engineering Collage (Autonomous Institute) Aurangabad and Government polytechnic, Aurangabad. He is member of scientific committee, domes in the world for the international conference held at Florence Italy. He was member of structural stability committee for the stability study of ‘Jalbhavan’, the official residence of Honorable Governor of Maharashtra.
He has remained responsible for many research publications in the field of structural engineering by Nandadeep Designers and Valuers Pvt. Ltd. He has designed PSC (spun concrete) high mast of upto 35 meter for new Mumbai region. He has worked for KEC international and Beton concrete for many Prestress spun concrete (PSC) products for projects in India and abroad. He has also remained associated with RDB, Italy for their precast housing product designs.
He has expertise in research, design and development of construction methodology for un-reinforced stone (or brick) masonry arches, vaults and domes.
Research/ Publications:
1. ‘Finite element thrust line analysis of axisymmetric masonry domes’, Int. Journal of Masonry Research and Innovation, 2016 Vol.1, No.1, pp.59 - 73, 2016.
2. ‘Alternative construction materials/ methods using lime and stone’, 49th Engineers day issue, The Institute of Engineers (Qatar Chapter), 2016.
3. ‘Effect of tension rings on the stability of axisymmetric masonry domes’, Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing (Civil-Comp 2015), Prague, Czech Republic, September 2015.
4. 'Grand Pagoda: world’s largest span masonry dome', Domes in the World - International Scientific Congress, Florence, 19 – 23 March 2012.
5. ‘Thrust Line Using Linear Elastic Finite Element Analysis for Masonry Structures’, Advanced Materials Research, Vols. 133-134, pp. 503-508, 2010.
6. ‘Tension Ring in Masonry Dome’, International Conference on Structural Analysis of Historical Construction, New Delhi, Volume 2, Pg 1187 -1193, December 2006.
7. ‘Stability of Masonry dome- Special emphasis on Gol Ghumbaz’, International Conference on Structural Analysis of Historical Construction, New Dehli, Volume 3, Pg 1789 – 1794, December 2006.
8. ‘External node in finite element method’, ICTACEM 2004 [International conference on Theoretical, Applied, Computational and Experimental Mechanics], Pg 91, December 2004.
9. ‘Intricacies in construction of Grand Pagoda in stone masonry’, Concrete India, Journal of Indian chapter of American Concrete Institute [ACI], volume 19 No.1, Pg 8-11, Jan/Mar-2004.
10. ‘High Grade PSC piles for fast track construction’, National seminar, CEMON 2004, Conference on Fast track construction technology, Pg 71-74, 2004.
11. ‘Monumental Shell structures using stone masonry: some aspects’, International Symposium on new Perspectives on for Shell and Spatial structures, Taipei, Taiwan, Pg 176-177, Oct 2003.
12. ‘Grand pagoda at Gorai creek (Design features)’, Structural engineering quarterly journal of Indian Society of Structural Engineers [ISSE], volume 3-4, Pg 6-11, December 2001.
Contact details
Email: mnvarma@nandadeep.org ,
Mobile: 9326 204 205