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Amit H. Varma

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Research Area

Civil Engineering

Institution

Purdue University

Dr. Varma is originally from Mumbai, India. He received his B.Tech in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) – Bombay in 1994. He received his M.S. in civil engineering (structures) from the University of Oklahoma (OU) in 1996. He completed his Ph.D. in civil engineering (structures) from Lehigh Univerisity in 2000. He joined Michigan State University as an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Civil and Env. Eng. in 2001.  He joined Purdue University as an Assistant Professor in the School of Civil Engineeing in August 2004.

He has conducted fundamental experimental and analytical research on the behavior of structural components and systems under various loading conditions. His areas of research interest include: (1) fire behavior, analysis and design of structures; (2) seismic behavior, analysis, and design of structures; (3) design, analysis, and testing of structures for safety-related nuclear facilities, (4) fatigue and fracture behavior of bridge structures; (5) Repair, retrofit, and rehabilitation of damaged or deteriorating transportation structures. 

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