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Tezeswi Tadepalli

National Institute of Technology Warangal, University of Mississippi

ORCID iD 0000-0001-6967-2065
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Tezeswi Tadepalli, MS, Ph.D (UoMS, USA), M-INAE, FCVS
Dr. Tezeswi Tadepalli is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the National Institute of Technology Warangal (NIT Warangal), India. He received his B.E. in Civil Engineering from Karnataka University, Dharwad in 2000 and his MS in Structural Mechanics and Earthquake Engineering from the University of Mississippi, USA in 2003, where he developed MATLAB-based Finite Element software for composite structures. He earned his PhD in 2009 from the University of Mississippi, focusing on the blast resistance and performance assessment of seismically designed RC frame structures. Dr. Tadepalli completed post-doctoral research at UC San Diego and the University of Mississippi during 2009 to 2012.
Prof. Tadepalli has over two decades of professional experience in structural engineering, computational mechanics, and advanced materials. His research focuses on the behaviour of materials, structures, and infrastructure systems subjected to natural and man-made hazards. His expertise includes constitutive modelling, high strain-rate mechanics, blast and impact engineering, DIC, SHM, multiscale modelling of cementitious and composite materials, MD simulation, deterioration assessment, and AI-enabled infrastructure diagnostics. His work integrates advanced experimentation, computational modelling, and data-driven approaches for resilient infrastructure subjected to blast, seismic, wind, impact, and environmental deterioration.
Prof. Tadepalli’s professional background includes significant roles in industry and academia. He served as a Senior Engineer at Hinman Consulting Engineers in San Francisco, where he worked on blast vulnerability assessments and hazard mitigation strategies. He also worked as a Postdoc cum Project Engineer at NEESiT, UCSD, managing multi-institutional earthquake engineering testing facilities and data. During his tenure as an Assistant Professor at the University of Mississippi, he established a Shock Tube Blast Testing Simulator and a Split Hopkinson Bar system and developed innovative computational models for defense-related sandwich composites and cementitious materials subjected to extreme loading conditions.
His scholarly contributions include more than 45 journal articles in high impact journals, 36 international and national peer reviewed conference papers, 2 books published by Springer, and 4 book chapters, and 4 patents (including a granted U.S. patent and Indian patents). Prof. Tadepalli successfully guided 6 PhDs, 49 MTech, and 41 BTech students.
He has secured over ₹7 crore in competitive research funding as Principal Investigator and additional funding as Co-Principal Investigator from agencies including DRDO, ANRF, SERB, DST, and MHRD. His major projects include MHRD IMPRINT-1, SERB IMPRINT-2, DRDO-AR&DB, DRDO-CARS, DRDO-ARMREB, and ANRF-CRG, spanning defense materials, high strain-rate characterization, structural health monitoring, AI-enabled diagnostics, constitutive modelling, and resilient infrastructure systems. He has also served as Co-Principal Investigator of a DST-FIST proposal for strengthening advanced research infrastructure. In addition, he has completed structural engineering consultancy projects generating more than ₹1.15 crore in internal revenue.
He established the structures and dynamics laboratory at NITW and has researched novel methods for imaging-based condition assessment such as Digital Image Correlation and colorimetry as well as tomography-based characterization of materials. He actively collaborates with researchers worldwide, has delivered invited lectures at premier universities, DRDO laboratories, and professional conferences, and has organized several national and international conferences and workshops, including two GIAN programs and INCAM 2024.
Prof. Tadepalli is a Fellow of the Council for Vibration Specialists, a Senior Individual Member of INAE, a Life Member of the Indian Society for Applied Mechanics (ISAM) and the Pre-Engineered Structures Society of India (PSI), and a member of the Chi Epsilon Honor Society, USA. He is also certified as an EIT (Michigan). He has been awarded various scholarships and accolades from the University of Mississippi and University of Texas at Brownsville and the Research Excellence Award 2024 (Senior Category-Engineering) at NIT Warangal.
He is a reviewer for several prestigious journals and serves on various Academic and National committees, as well as on the peer review committees for DRDO (VRDE, R&DE, DMRL) and grant proposal reviews for SERB-IMPRINT-II and CSIR-FIRST schemes.

Employment

  • National Institute of Technology Warangal Professor
    2014 - Present
  • University of Mississippi Assistant Professor (Research)

Education

  • University of Mississippi Ph.D
    2005 - 2009

Projects & Funding

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Publications (73)