My research interests are mainly in the areas of computational structural mechanics. I am working in areas like stochastic mechanics, structural reliability, fracture and damage mechanics, fragility analysis etc.
CE 1020- Engineering Mechanics
MS Scholars
Mr. Safwan N K (Regular, Joined on August 2023; Co-Guide: Dr. Gokulnath, IITPkd)
Broad Area: Effect of Wind loads on Floating Photovoltaic Systems
PhD Scholars
Ongoing:
IIT Pkd
Mr. Ezhilarasan T (Regular, Joined on August 2023; Guide: Dr. Gokulnath, IITPkd)
Broad Area: Analytical and Experimental Study of Structural Members using Bamboo.
Ms. Sruthi Jayadeep (Regular Joined on January 2023; Co Guide, Dr. Robin Davis, NIT Calicut)
Broad Area: Seismic Fragility Analysis of Dams
Mr. Amish Kumar Aman (Regular Joined on January 2023)
Broad Area: Damage Growth Studies using Peridynamic Simulations.
Completed:
IIST
Dr. Aswathy M - Thesis: Development of Novel Stochastic Meshless methods for Linear and non-Linear Problems in Structural Mechanics (2018-2023) - Post Doctoral Fellow at IIT Delhi {Website: https://sites.google.com/view/aswathym?pli=1}
Dr. Shashank Vadlamani- Thesis: A Stochastic Wavelet Finite Element method using B-Spline Wavelet on the Interval for Problems in Structural Mechanics (2015-2019) - Assistant Professor, School of Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru University {Website: https://www.jnu.ac.in/content/shashankv}
MTech
IIST
Mr. Rajesh Takkur- (2021) Biomechanics of Atalanto-axial complex for Various Posterior Fixation Techniques {Co-guide: Dr. Shrijith M B, AIIMS- New Delhi}
Mr. Vinay Narayan – (2021) Phase Field Modelling of Fracture
Mr. Raj Teja- (2021) Friction Induced Damping in Bolted Lap Joint {Co-guide: Dr. Praveenkrishna I R, IIST}
Mr. A Sreekumar- (2019) Analysis of Filament Wound Composite Pressure Vessels using Element free Galerkin method
Mr. Girish Kumar S.-(2019) Seismic Fragility Analysis of Concrete Gravity Dams using HDMR {Co-guide: Dr. Robin Davis, NIT Calicut}
Mr. Vikas Sharma- (2018) Development and Validation of a Simple Two Degree of Freedom Model for Predicting Maximum Sloshing Wave Height in a Cylindrical Tank {Co-guide: Dr. Praveenkrishna I R, IIST}
Mr. Unnikrishnan K R- (2017) Wrinkling and Vibration Analysis of Pre-stressed Membranes using Element Free Galerkin Method {Co-guide: Dr. Praveenkrishna I R, IIST}
Mr. M. SyamKumar- (2016) Application of Element Free Galerkin Method in 2D Nonlinear Static Problems {Co-guide: Dr. Praveenkrishna I R, IIST}
Ms. Pallavi Singh- (2015) Investigations on Wrinkling Characteristics of Thin Plates Subjected to Tensile Loading
NIT Warangal
Ms. Ch. Sankeerthi- (2013) A Study on Effect of Shear Lag on Bolted Steel Tension Members
BTech
Completed
IIT Pkd
Mr. Nikhil Rajan Pottu (2023) Seismic Analysis of Gravity Dams Considering the Fluid Structure Interaction
Mr. Gudi Ram Charandeep (2022) Fracture Simulations using GraFEA
Mr. Sayandip Chaudhuri (2022) Analysis of Sandwich Honeycomb Composite Structures
Mr. Nishant Singh (2022) Topology Optimisation
IIST
Mr. Gnani Ankathi - (2021) Analysis Simulation of Crack Initiation and Propagation in Different Applications using Graphical Finite Element Analysis
Mr. Dheeraj Kumar - (2021) Stochastic Kinematic Modeling and Simulation of Cylindrical Grinding Process {Co-guide: Dr. Sooraj V S}
Ms Anjumol K S – (2020) Solution of Large Deformation in Thin Plates {Co-guide: Dr. Praveenkrishna I R}
Mr. Subham Nandi - (2019) A B-Spline Wavelet on the Interval Based Finite Element Formulation for Material Nonlinearity
Mr. Waris Khan- (2019) Study of Sloshing in Rectangular Tanks {Co-guide: Dr. Praveenkrishna I R}
Mr. Akash Sharma – (2019) Stochastic Surface Modelling and Grinding Process incorporating Straightness Error {Co-guide: Dr. Sooraj V S}
Mr. Jitendra Kumar Kumawat – (2018) Stochastic Modelling and Predictive Generation of Engineering Surfaces {Co-guide: Dr. Sooraj V S}
Mr. Uttam Singh – (2019) Probabilistic Analysis of Piezoelectric Harvesters with Electrostatically Adjustable Resonance Frequency {Co-guide: Dr. Bijudas C R}
Ms. D Pavani - (2018) Nonlinear Beam Analysis using Element Free Galerkin Method {Co-guide: Dr. Praveenkrishna I R}
Mr. Mohammed Afzal Rafiq- (2018) Boundary Node Method for Solving Interior and Exterior Problems in Acoustics{Co-guide: Dr. Praveenkrishna I R}
Mr. Souvik Das – (2018) Dynamic Analysis of Euler-Bernoulli Beam using Wavelet FEM
Mr. Venkata Reghu G. - (2018) Stochastic Analysis of Piezoelectric Harvester{Co-guide: Dr. Bijudas C R}
Ms. Jesna Rose K A - (2018) Stochastic Fracture Mechanics Based Design of Bio-inspired Composites {Co-guide: Dr. Anup S}
Ms. Ananti Saroj- (2017) Design of Bio-inspired Composite using Probabilistic Fracture Mechanics {Co-guide: Dr. Anup S}
Mr. Aman Gupta – (2016) Stochastic Meshfree Method for Elastic Buckling Analysis of Columns
NITW
Mr. Deepak kumar, Mr.Subham Gupta, Mr.Chandan Tiwari, Mr.Ravi Kumar – (2013) Reliability Analysis of Laterally Supported Steel Beams
SVCE
Mr. S.Kasi Viswanathan, Ms K.Nethra, Mr. V.Prasanna, Mr. A.Syed Mohamed- (2012) Towards an Eco-Friendly Concrete with Waste Glass and Rice Husk Ash
Structural mechanics, Computational Mechanics, Stochastic mechanics, Meshfree methods, Finite element method, Structural reliability, Damage mechanics, Fracture mechanics, Sloshing, Fragility analysis etc.