Education qualifications:

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) (2011)

B.E., Mechanical Engineering, Maharashtra Institute of Technology (University of Pune) (2001)

Research experience:

Associate Professor (October 2019 - till date), Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras

Assistant Professor (May 2014 - September 2019), Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras

Postdoctoral Fellow (April 2012 - March 2014), University of Liège, Belgium (ULg)

Postdoctoral associate (April 2011 - March 2012), Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, Singapore (SMART)

Research Engineer (August 2010 - April 2011), SMART

Graduate student (January 2007 - August 2010), NTU

Research interests:

• Continuum damage mechanics, elasticity, continuum mechanics, large deformation of materials, fracture mechanics, and plasticity
• Multi-physics and multi-scale modelling of materials, micro-macro transition
• Finite Element Analysis, Meshless methods.

Current research fields:

• Constitutive modelling and the fracture studies of textile composites.
• Multi-scale modelling of granular materials.
• Multi-physics modelling of soft materials.
• Computation of the macroscopic material constants based on the prescribed motion of the solid.
• Fusion of soil mechanics with the continuum mechanics.

Current specific research opportunities

• Viscoelastic material modelling
• Multi-scale modelling of granular and polymeric materials
• Mathematical modelling of soft materials
• Fracture mechanics of textile composites (damage and failure modes)
• Modelling and simulation of textile composites

Funded research projects:

• Studies on improved low temperature strain capability in advanced energetic solid propellants, HEMRL, 2017-2020.
• Development of the coupled field theory for the large deformation of hydrogels with focus on the fusion of electromagnetics with mechanics and thermodynamics, SERB (DST), 2016-2019.
• Development of the multiscale modelling framework for the fracture studies of textile composites, ISRO (VSSC), 2015-2018.
• Multi-scale modelling of granular materials, ICSR, IITM, 2014-2016.

Teaching experience:

• AS5900 Elasticity (July-Nov. 2014)
• AS5850 Finite element analysis (Jan.-May 2015, Jan.- May 2016, Jan.- May 2017)
• AS2010 Basic strength of materials (July-Nov. 2015, July-Nov. 2019)
• AS5880 Mechanics of damage tolerance (July-Nov. 2016, July-Nov. 2018)
• AS3520 Aero Lab 2 (Jan.- May 2017)
• AS3510 Aero Lab 1 (July- Nov. 2017, July-Nov. 2018)
• AS6000 Introduction to aerospace engineering (structures module) (July- Nov. 2017)
• AS2070 Aerospace Structural Mechanics (Jan. -July 2019)