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

CE 2010 - Strength of Materials

CE 5515 - Advanced Mechanics of Structures

CE 5011 -  Finite Element Methods in Structural Mechanics

CE 5625 - Structural Reliability

CE 6005 - Nonlinear Analysis of Structures

MS Scholars 

1. Mr. Safwan N K         (2023-2025); Co-Guide: Dr. Gokulnath, IITPkd)
   • Thesis: Numerical study on the effects of wind load on floating solar panel arrays
     • Current Position:  Research Engineer-1, Saint Gobain India Pvt. Ltd. (R&D)

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

1.     Dr. Aswathy M (2018-2023)
   • Thesis:  Development of Novel Stochastic Meshless methods for Linear and non-Linear Problems in Structural Mechanics   
     • Current Position: Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Continuum Mechanics and Structural Analysis,  Universidad Carlos III de Madrid{Website: https://sites.google.com/view/aswathym?pli=1}                                 
2.     Dr. Shashank Vadlamani (2015-2019)  
   • Thesis: A Stochastic Wavelet Finite Element method using B-Spline Wavelet on the Interval for Problems in Structural Mechanics  
     • Current Position: 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