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No. Title Period Funding Agency (lakhs of Rs.)Amount Co-ordinators
1 Modelling and Experimental Investigation
of Magnetostrictive Thin Films DMRL, Hyderabad 22.44 A. Arokiarajan 2 Studies on a Scanning Probe Based
Fluorescence Imaging System for Quantifi cation of Biomarkers in Multilayered Tissue Phantoms
DST 13.5 N. Sujatha
3 Development of a Navier Stokes Solver for Simulating Fluid Flow Past a Rectangular Cylinder to Study the Effect of Flow Induced Vibrations
4 An Experimental Characterization on Fatigue Behavior of Piezoelectric Materials
2012–2014 NRB 44.184 A. Arockiarajan, M.S. Sivakumar 5 Buckling Control of Cylindrical/Conical
Shells for Aerospace Applications Using PZT Actuators
2010–2013 ISRO 29.48 C. Lakshmana Rao 6 Characterization of Polymeric
Piezoelectric Thin Films Used as Sensors in Aerospace Applications, sponsored by Aeronautical Research and Development Board, 2007–2009, Rs. 23.37 lakhs (ongoing).
2011–2013 ARDB 17.296 C. Lakshmana Rao
7 Blast Mitigation Through Fluid–Structure
Interaction 2011–2013 DRDO 21.6 C. Lakshmana Rao 8 Development of Structural Health
Monitoring Schemes for Indian Civil Engineering Infrastructure Using Smart Sensing Technologies
Ongoing NPMASS 231.52 Sayan Gupta
9 Extreme Value Distribution for Stochastic
Loads Modeled as LMA Processes Ongoing NRB 11.412 Sayan Gupta 10 Performance of Newly Developed
Nonlinear Turbulence Model in CFD Simulation of Low and High Speed Underwater Vehicles
Ongoing NRB 28 S. Vengadesan, S.K. Bhattacharyya (OE)
Research publications
Total numer of papers published in refereed national journals: 2 Total number of papers published in refereed international journals: 25 Total number of papers presented at international conferences: 1
(a) Refereed national journals
1. Rajesh P. Nair and C. Lakshmana Rao. 2013. Simulation of depth of penetration during ballistic impact on thick targets using a 1-D discrete element model. Sadhana 37: 261–279.
2. Sayan Gupta and N. Ganesh. Estimating the rain-fl ow fatigue damage in wind turbine blades using poly- nomial chaos. Life Cycle Reliability and Safety Engineering 1(4): 17–25.
(b) Refereed international journals
1. A. Arockiarajan and Naresh Pakam. 2012. An analytical model for predicting the effective properties of magneto-electro-elastic (MEE) composites. Computational Materials Science 65: 19–28.
2. A. Arockiarajan, R. Palaninathan, B. Santhosh, K.M. Usha and K. Senthil. 2013. Experimental and numerical studies on adhesively bonded CFRP laminates with closed debonds. Composite Structures 95: 598–606.
3. A. Arockiarajan and R. Jayendiran. 2013. Experimental and theoretical studies on ferroelastic switching of 1–3 type piezocomposites. European Journal of Mechanics A/Solids 38: 48–58.
4. A. Arockiarajan and R. Jayendiran. 2012. Modelling of dielectric and piezoelectric response of 1–3 type piezocomposites. Journal of Applied Physics 112: 044107. Impact factor 2.1.
5. A. Arockiarajan, S. Skatulla and C. Sansour. 2012. A multiplicative approach for nonlinear electro-elas- ticity. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics Engineering 245: 243–255.
6. S. Kalyanaraman, K. Arul Prakaksh and S. Vengadesan. 2012. Numerical study of mixed convection around an elliptic cylinder using immersed boundary method. Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A 3(62): 639–658.
7. N. Shajil, S.M. Srinivasan and M. Santhanam. August 2012. Self centering of shape memory alloy
fi bre reinforced cement mortar members subjected to strong cyclic loading. Materials and Structures Journal.
8. R.S. Priyadarsini, V. Kalyanaraman and S.M. Srinivasan. July 2012. Numerical and experimental study of buckling of advanced fi bre composite cylinders under axial compression. International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics.
9. Sunir Hassan, C. Lakshmana Rao and K. Ganesh Babu. 2012. Script enhanced unit cell approach for the simulation of compressive behaviour in fi ber reinforced cement composites. International Journal of Computer Applications 44: 32–37.
10. K. Chinnaraj, M. Sathya Prasad and C. Lakshmana Rao. 2012. Experimental analysis of residual stresses in cold formed truck frame side rail structures. Advanced Materials Research 418–420: 1107–1113.
11. K. Chinnaraj, M. Sathya Prasad and C. Lakshmana Rao. 2012. Characterization of bolt hole residual stresses for assessing structural behavior of truck frame rails. Advanced Materials Research 418–420: 1124–1131.
12. K. Chinnaraj, M. Sathya Prasad and C. Lakshmana Rao. 2013. Effect of bolt hole residual stresses on the fatigue performance of truck frame rail sections. Applied Mechanics and Materials 301: 1089–1098.
13. Sayan Gupta, Jithin Jith and Igor Rychlik. 2013. Crossing statistics of quadratic transformation of LMA processes. Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics 9–17.
14. M.S. Raghuprasad, S. Purswany and M. Manivannan. 2013. Force JND for right index fi nger using contra- lateral force matching paradigm. ICoRD’13, Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering 365–375.
15. M.S. Raghuprasad, P. Sunny and M. Manivannan. 2013. Modeling of human hand force-based tasks using Fitts’s law. ICoRD’13, Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering 377–386.
16. G. Singh and.M. Manivannan. 2013. Drowsiness detection system for pilots. ICoRD’13, Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering 991–1003.
17. S. Wills, G. Mathew, M. Manivannan and S. Devasahayam. 2012. A comparison of pinch force between
fi nger and palm grasp techniques in laparoscopic grasping. Engineering 4(108): 46–49.
18. K. Kanakapriya and M. Manivannan. 2012. Blood pressure measurement with sphygmomanometer in high fi delity mannequins. International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering 2(9): 533–537.
19. M. Manivannan and P.K. Suresh. 2012. On the somatosensation of vision. Annals of Neurosciences 19(1): 31–39.
20. Ranjith S. Kumar, B.S.V. Patnaik and S. Vedantam. 2013. Hydrodynamics of the developing region in hydrophobic microchannels: A dissipative particle dynamics study. Physical Review E 87: 033303. 21. M.S. Reddy, S. Muddada and B.S.V. Patnaik. 2013. Flow past a circular cylinder with momentum injec-
tion: Optimal control cylinder design. Fluid Dynamics Research 45: 015501.
22. K. Satpathy, K. Velusamy, B.S.V. Patnaik and P. Chellapandi. 2013. Numerical simulation of liquid fall induced gas entrainment and its mitigation. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 60: 392–405.
23. Ranjith S. Kumar, B.S.V. Patnaik and S. Vedantam. 2013. No-slip boundary condition in fi nite-size dissi- pative particle dynamics. Journal of Computational Physics 232: 174–188.
24. K. Muralidharan, S. Muddada and B.S.V. Patnaik. 2013. Numerical simulation of vortex induced vibra- tions and its control by suction and blowing. Applied Mathematical Modeling 37: 284–307.
25. V. Anand, B.S.V. Patnaik and B.N. Rao. 2012. Effi cient extraction of vortex structures by coupling Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) and High Dimensional Model Representation (HDMR) techniques. Numerical Heat Transfer B – Fundamentals 61: 229–257.
(c) Proceedings of international conferences
1. N. Kunju, G. Tharion, S. Devasahayam and M. Manivannan. 2012. Muscle activation pattern and weight bearing of limbs during wheelchair transfers in normal individuals: A step towards lower limb FES assisted transfer for paraplegics. International Conference on Neuro-Rehabilitation, ICNR2012, Toledo, Spain.
Distinguished visitors
Sl. No. Name of the Visitor and Designation Date of Visit Purpose of Visit
1 Dr. Sundarajan Natarajan, Cardiff Unversity, UK 10 April 2012 Guest lecture, Next Generation Computational Methods: Achieve More with Less
2 Prof. Ashoke Sen, Harish-Chandra Research Institute,
Other activities of the department/centre
1. Dr. Pijush Ghosh. Has taken a ‘Socially Relevant Project’ on ‘A Student in Teacher’s Role in Rural Schools: A Pilot Study on the (C minus 4) Model’ for one year, funded by IIT Madras.
2. Dr. Ramakrishnan and Dr. Ramasubba Reddy. An international conference was held at IIT Madras on ‘Biomedical Signals, Systems and Imaging’ from 28 November to 1 December 2012.
3. Dr. M.S. Sivakumar. Took over as Coordinator ARDB Structures Panel during the panel meeting held at Leh, Ladakh, on 16 August 2012.
4. Dr. S. Vengadesan. Interim progress presentation on RBIC, NPOL, Kochi, July 2012; project proposal defence presentation, NAL, Bangalore, October 2012.