About

Hi! I’m glad you’re here.

This blog is a documentation of my learning journey. Through involvement in various research projects, I’ve had the opportunity to explore many ideas beyond academic coursework.

Over time, I realized that many engineering concepts make more sense through simple and logical explanations rather than only through complex equations and technical terminology. Engineering is fundamentally built on mathematics, but I donot believe every idea needs to be explained in an overly complicated way.

Most articles here focus on clarity, logic, and simplified explanations so that even readers from non-engineering backgrounds can understand concepts that are often presented through dense mathematical formulations.

This platform is also a continuation of my writing journey. Since being involved in research projects is not always consistently feasible, writing allows me to continue learning, organizing ideas, and sharing knowledge.

Having learned so much from the internet myself, this is my small attempt to give something back to others who may find it useful.

Talking about myself, I’m Magnus Upadhyay from Nepal, a civil engineering graduate with a growing interest in research, structural engineering, and learning things apart from academic courses.

Although I had occasionally written informally before, my academic and professional journey truly began with my final-year research project. After graduation, I had the opportunity to be involved in several research projects focused on earthquake engineering, fragility analysis, nonlinear static and dynamic analysis, and masonry structures.

These experiences exposed me to many ideas beyond conventional coursework and gradually shaped the way I approach engineering problems, research, and learning itself.

Publications:

  1. Upadhyay, M., Kafle, P., Ban, S., & Khakurel, S. (2026). Seismic enhancement of community housings in Nepal’s mid-Himalayas: Retrofitting and reconstruction scenarios. Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering.
  2. Upadhyay, M., Kafle, P., Ban, S., & Khakurel, S. (2026). Effect of Rayleigh damping variation on the seismic fragility of masonry structures. Journal of Engineering Issues and Solutions.
  3. Upadhyay, M., Budhathoki, P., Dhakal, N., Tiwari, L., Pun, S., Barma, R., & Khakurel, S. (2024). Seismic vulnerability assessment of historic masonry structure: A case study of Bindhyabasini temple. In 15th IOE Graduate Conference.
  4. Kafle, P., Upadhyay, M., & Khakurel, S. (2024). Vulnerability assessment of touristic village in Nepal Himalayas: A case study of Lwang village. Journal of Engineering Issues and Solutions.
  5. Ongoing: Enhancing Seismic Resilience: A Numerical Study on Evaluation and Retrofitting of a Hindu Temple.