About Me

Dr. Gur is an assistant professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Patna. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics (Major: Engineering Mechanics and Minor: Mechanical Engineering) from the University of Arizona (2017). He got his Master of Technology in Civil Engineering (Major: Structures Engineering) from IIT Kanpur (2011), and Bachelor of Engineering (First Class with Honours) in Civil Engineering from Jadavpur University (2009). Prior to joining IIT Patna,

he was a Civil (Structural) Engineer at Array Technologies Inc. (2018-2019), and a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Rice University (2017-2018). Before starting his doctoral study, he worked as a Trainee Engineer (Civil) at Paul Builders PVT. LTD., Kolkata, WB, India (2013) and as Senior Project Assistant in the Department the Civil and Environmental Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, Kanpur, UP, India (2011 – 2012). At IIT Patna he teaches both undergraduate and graduate-level courses (CE218: Infrastructure Drawing and Estimation, CE318: Construction Planning and Management, and CE512: Finite Element Methods). At the University of Arizona, he taught different undergraduate courses (CE214: Statics, CE215: Mechanics of Solids, and CE218: Mechanics of Fluids). His research interests in the structural engineering field are passive vibration control under extreme loads, structural optimization, optimal system design under stochastic excitation, failure and risk assessment of structures, and application of smart material. In the area of computational mechanics of material, his research interests are Multiscale/ Multiphysics (MSMP) modeling of material from nano to continuum length and time scales (phase transformation, fracture mechanics, heterogeneous catalysis process), multiscale modeling of the energy storage system (Li-ion battery).

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RESEARCH INTERESTS

Structural Engineering

Failure and safety assessment of structures: under wind and earthquake

Passive structural vibration control
Stochastic structural optimization and uncertainty quantification
Application of smart material

Nanoscale Mechanics of Material

Surface and Length scale effect
Phase transformation and microstructure evolution
Effect of grain size and grain boundaries on fracture
Mechanics of Lithium (Li) ion battery

MultiScale/ MultiPhysics (MSMP) Modeling

Bridging Length and Time Scales
Mechanics of materials and fracture mechanics
Flow over the reactive surface and heterogeneous catalysis process
Energy storage system (Li-ion battery)

Mathematical modeling and Computation

Multiscale modeling: Wavelet base method, Machine learning
Nanoscale method: Atomistic simulation, Peridynamics simulation
Mesoscale method: Phase filed modeling, kinetic Monte Carlo method, Lattice Boltzmann method
Continuum method: Finite element method