
Teaching Experience
- Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Palakkad, Kerala [February 2022-Till date]
- Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala [January 2020- February 2022]
- Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala [October 2013- December 2019]
- Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Warangal, Telangana. [June 2012-October2013]
- Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Sriperumbadur, Tamil Nadu. [June 2011-May 2012]
- Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Amrita Viswa Vidyapetham, Coimbatore [October 2009- May 2011]
Education
- Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Dissertation Title: Stochastic Meshfree Method for Elasto–Plastic Damage Analysis [2010]
- m.Tech in Structural Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Calicut. [2004]
- b.Tech in Civil Engineering from T K M College of Engineering, Kollam, Kerala University [2001]
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
PhD Scholars @ IIST
Ongoing:
Ms. Aswathy M - Area: Stochastic Meshless methods for linear and nonlinear problems in Structural Mechanics ( July 2018- )
Completed:
Dr. Shashank Vadlamani- Thesis: A Stochastic Wavelet Finite Element method using B-Spline Wavelet on the Interval for Problems in Structural Mechanics (2015-2019)
MTech
Completed:
@ 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
@ 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