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Arun Prakash is an Associate Professor in the Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering at Purdue University. He specializes in Structural Engineering and is affiliated with Bowen Laboratory. Dr. Prakash has earned his PhD and MS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his B Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi. His research interests encompass Computational Mechanics, Structural Dynamics, and Finite Element & Meshfree methods, focusing on multi-scale mechanics and modeling of cellular heterogeneous materials. He also investigates multi-physics problems related to fluid-structure interactions, soil-structure dynamics, and the impact of extreme loads on structures, including aspects of fracture, fragmentation, and blast effects.
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