Dr. Arun C O
Associate Professor
Department
arunco@iitpkd.ac.in
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Biosketch
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]
Research
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.
Teaching
CE 1020- Engineering Mechanics
Research Group
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
Research Area
Structural mechanics, Computational Mechanics, Stochastic mechanics, Meshfree methods, Finite element method, Structural reliability, Damage mechanics, Fracture mechanics, Sloshing, Fragility analysis etc.
Additional Information
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