Dr. Sonal Dhanvijay

Brief Bio

Brief Bio
Dr. Sonal Dhanvijay is currently serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Mechanics at VNIT Nagpur. Her academic journey commenced at VNIT Nagpur, where she earned her Bachelors of Engineering degree in 2010. She pursued higher education at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore, culminating in the successful completion of her doctoral studies. Dr. Dhanvijay transitioned to the industry, working as a software designer for mechanical testing equipment at ITW India Pvt Limited, BiSS Division, Bangalore, from 2019 to 2020. In 2020, she returned to academia and assumed therole of Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Mechanics at VNIT Nagpur. Her research interests encompass Experimental Structural Dynamics, Random Vibration Analysis, and Hybrid Simulation. She has conducted an SERB-sponsored High end workshop (KARYASHALA) on Introduction to Random Vibrations and Structural Reliability and is currently engaged in a project titled Real-Time Hybrid Simulation using Shake Table system," sponsored by SERB. Dr. Dhanvijay was awarded the IASSAR Scholarship, enabling her attendance at the 12th International Conference on Structural Safetyand Reliability (ICOSSAR 2017) held at TU Wein, Vienna, Austria. She is a life member of the Association for Consulting Civil Engineers and the Indian Concrete Institute,

Dr. Sonal Dhanvijay is currently serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Mechanics at VNIT Nagpur. Her academic journey commenced at VNIT Nagpur, where she earned her Bachelors of Engineering degree in 2010. She pursued higher education at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore, culminating in the successful completion of her doctoral studies. Dr. Dhanvijay transitioned to the industry, working as a software designer for mechanical testing equipment at ITW India Pvt Limited, BiSS Division, Bangalore, from 2019 to 2020. In 2020, she returned to academia and assumed therole of Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Mechanics at VNIT Nagpur. Her research interests encompass Experimental Structural Dynamics, Random Vibration Analysis, and Hybrid Simulation. She has conducted an SERB-sponsored High end workshop (KARYASHALA) on Introduction to Random Vibrations and Structural Reliability and is currently engaged in a project titled Real-Time Hybrid Simulation using Shake Table system," sponsored by SERB. Dr. Dhanvijay was awarded the IASSAR Scholarship, enabling her attendance at the 12th International Conference on Structural Safetyand Reliability (ICOSSAR 2017) held at TU Wein, Vienna, Austria. She is a life member of the Association for Consulting Civil Engineers and the Indian Concrete Institute,

Education

Sr. No.	Degree	Year	Specialization	University
1	B.Tech	2010	Civil Engineering	VNIT Nagpur
2	M.E	2012	Structural Engineering	IISc Bangalore
3	PhD	2018	Structural Engineering	IISc Bangalore

Contact Details

Name:	Phone:	Email:	Address:
Sonal Dhanvijay	7122801906	sonaldhanvijay@vnit.ac.in	Department of Applied Mechanics VNIT Nagpur

Research Area

Research Interest
Exprimental Structural Dynamics
Hybrid Simulation
Random Vibration
Structural Reliability

Sr. No.	Title	Funding Agency	Role	Year	Amount (in Lakhs INR)
1	Real Time Hybrid Simulation using Shake Table System	SERB	Principal Investigator	2023	40.18

Sr. No.	Title	Funding Agency	Role	Year	Amount (in Lakhs INR)

Description	Author(s)	Publisher	ISBN	Year
Vibration- Based Structural Health Monitoring using Bayesian Model Updating	Nihal Khaimee & S. D. Sonal	Springer, Singapore	978-981-97-9884-1	2025
Real Time Hybrid Simulation of One Bay Frame Using OpenFresco	Bharati Changhode & S. D. Sonal	Springer, Singapore	978-981-99-9624-7	2024
Recent Developments in Structural Engineering, Volume 5 Select Proceedings of 13th Structural Engineering Convention (SEC)	Editors:Manmohan Dass Goel, Rahul Biswas, Sonal Dhanvijay	Springer, Singapore	978-981-97-7043-4	2024

Sr. No.	Patent Title	Application No.	Date	Present Staus

Sr. No.	Title
1	Fundamentals of Structural Dynamics – Experiments and Theory during 13th to 17th January, 2025
2	Analysis and Design of Low-Rise RC Building during 22nd to 26th October 2024.
3	Introduction to Random Vibrations and Structural Reliability sponsored by SERB under the scheme Karyashsla during 11th to 15th July 2022.
4	Analysis and Design of Bridges using MIDAS Software during 17th to 21st May 2022.

Sr. No.	Responsibility	Institute	Year
1	Warden, Dr. Anandi Joshi Hostel	VNIT Nagpur	2024-2025
2	Member Awards Committee 21st Convocation	VNIT Nagpur	2023-2024
3	Departmental Coordinator for “M.Tech. Admissions for Institute spot round” in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering	VNIT Nagpur	2023
4	Faculty Advisor, PG Course on “Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (SDEE)”	VNIT Nagpur	2023-2025
5	Faculty Advisor, UG Course on “BTech in Civil Engineering”	VNIT Nagpur	2020-2024
6	Department Examination Coordinator (DEC)	VNIT Nagpur	2021-2022
7	Faculty Mentor – 1st Year Students	VNIT Nagpur	2021-2022
8	Lab In Charge – Earthquake Engineering Lab	VNIT Nagpur	2021 onwards
9	Lab In Charge – Structural Dynamics Lab	VNIT Nagpur	2022 onwards

Sr. No.	Awards
1	Awarded IASSAR scholarship by International Association for Structural Safety and Reliabilty for attending 12th International Conference on Structrual Safety and Reliability at Technical University of Vienna duing 6th to 10th August 2017

S.No.	Paper Citation
1	Bharati Changhode and S. D. Sonal, “Effect of scaling on seismic performance of unbraced and concentrically braced steel frame”, 10th International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation, Bhubaneswar, India, 17 – 19 Dec 2025.`
2	Animesh Kumar, Sonal, S. D, O. R. Jaiswal (2024). “Analytical and experimental studies on structures with particle tuned mass dampers” Proceedings of 14th Structural Engineering Convention, Tiruchirappalli, India
3	Changhode, B., Sonal, S.D. (2024). “Virtual hybrid simulation on a uniaxial shake table using Openfresco” Proceedings of 18th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (WCEE 2024), Milan, Italy
4	Changhode, B., Sonal, S.D. (2024). Real Time Hybrid Simulation of One Bay Frame Using OpenFresco. In: Goel, M.D., Kumar, R., Gadve, S.S. (eds) Recent Developments in Structural Engineering, Volume 1. SEC 2023. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 52. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-9625-4_49
5	Khaimee, N., Sonal, S. D. (2025). Vibration-Based Structural Health Monitoring Using Bayesian Model Updating. In: Goel, M.D., Gupta, L.M., Jaiswal, O.R. (eds) Recent Developments in Structural Engineering, Volume 3. SEC 2023. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 548. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-9885-8_47
6	Sonal, S. D., and Manohar, C. S. (2017). “Markov chain splitting methods in structural dynamic testing for estimating time variant reliability.” Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Structural Safety & Reliability (ICOSSAR), Tu Wein, Vienna, Austria, 3354-3363.
7	Sonal, S. D., and Manohar, C. S. (2016). “Experimental estimation of time variant structural reliability via intelligent sampling.” Proceedings of the 10th Structural Engineering Convention (SEC), SERC, Chennai, India, 592-597.`

S.No.	Paper Citation
1	Sonal, S. D., Ammanagi, S., Kanjilal, O., and Manohar, C. S. (2018). “Experimental estimation of time variant system reliability of vibrating structures based on subset simulation with Markov chain splitting.” Reliability Engineering & System Safety, Elsevier, 178, 55-68.
2	Sonal, S. D., and Manohar, C. S. (2017). “Experimental estimation of time variant structural reliability via intelligent sampling.” Journal of Structural Engineering, CSIR-SERC, 44(3), 246-255.