Research Publications 

Journal Publications (31)

2025

• Aman Khurana, S. Naskar, M. M. Joglekar, and T. Mukhopadhyay. "Multi-scale non-affine mechanics of electro-magneto-active elastomers: Taut domain exploitable convolution of polymer chain crosslinks, entanglements and finite extensibility" International Journal of Engineering Science, 217, 104378.  [Impact Factor: 5.7]

• Ankush Agrawal, and Aman Khurana. "Stretch-dependent electromagnetic properties of circular membrane: A dynamic analysis" International Journal of Solids and Structures, 318, 113429.  [Impact Factor: 3.8]

• A.S. Gangwar, Aman Khurana, and Atul Kumar Sharma. "Stability of hard-magnetic soft materials under bi-axial compression" International Journal of Applied Mechanics. [Impact Factor: 3.5]

• Ankush Agrawal, and Aman Khurana. "Taut domains in particle-reinforced electro-magneto-active thin circular membrane" ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics,  2025, 92(11): 111002 . [Impact Factor: 2.8]

• Sankalp Gour, Deepak Kumar, and  Aman Khurana."Unequal-biaxial taut states of functionally graded dielectric elastomers" International Journal of Engineering Science, 214, 104291.  [Impact Factor: 5.7]

• A.S. Gangwar, Aman Khurana, and Atul Kumar Sharma. "Wrinkling stability in soft dielectric elastomers: The role of strain stiffening and stretch-dependent permittivity" International Journal of Solids and Structures, 318, 113429.  [Impact Factor: 3.8]

• Sankalp Gour, Deepak Kumar, Aman Khurana, and M. M. Joglekar. "Thermo-electro-magnetostrictive unequal-biaxial taut states in thin elastomeric membranes" Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 481, 2311. [Impact Factor: 2.9]

• Ankush Agrawal, and Aman Khurana. "Unveiling the dynamics of particle-reinforced electro-magneto-active circular membrane" International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics,  2025, 105064. [Impact Factor: 3.2]

• Ankush Agrawal, Aman Khurana, and Deepak Kumar. "Dynamics of an electric field vulnerable morpho-elastic biological membranes" ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics,  2025, 92(4): 041006. [Impact Factor: 2.8]

2024

• A.K. Patra, Aman Khurana, Deepak Kumar, and Prashant Saxena. "Impact of compliant electrodes on the dynamics of electromagnetoactive membranes" International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics,  2024, 104906. [Impact Factor: 3.2]

• Aman Khurana, M. M. Joglekar, Paul Motzki,  S. Seelecke. "Compliant frame geometry for DEMES-based gripper and flapping wing actuators: A comprehensive design study" International Journal of Solids and Structures, 2024, 302, 112969 [Impact Factor: 3.8]

• Aman Khurana, S. Naskar, R. K. Varma, and T. Mukhopadhyay. "Smart electro-magneto-viscoelastomer minimum energy structures with particle-reinforcements: Theoretical equilibrium and actuated configurations" International Journal of Engineering Science, 194, 103974.  [Impact Factor: 5.7]

• Amit Pandey, Aman Khurana, and Atul Kumar Sharma. "Thermo-electro-mechanical effects on nonlinear dynamics of smart dielectric elastomer minimum energy structures" European Journal of Mechanics / A Solids,  100, 104971.  [Impact Factor: 4.2]

2023

• Amit Pandey, Aman Khurana, and Atul Kumar Sharma. "Dynamic modeling and residual vibration suppression of electrostatically driven soft dielectric elastomer minimum energy structures" European Journal of Mechanics / A Solids,  100, 104971.  [Impact Factor: 4.2]

• Ajay Kumar, Aman Khurana, Asesh Kumar Patra, Yamnesh Agrawal, and M. M. Joglekar. "Electromechanical performance of dielectric elastomer composites: Modeling and experimental characterization" Composite Structures, 320, 117130. [Impact Factor: 7.1]

• Aman Khurana, Asesh kumar Patra, and M. M. Joglekar. "An energy-based model of dielectric elastomer minimum energy structures with stiffeners: Equilibrium configuration and the electromechanical response" Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, 30(13), pp.2574-2592.  [Impact Factor: 3.6]

• Asesh Kumar Patra, Aman Khurana, and Deepak Kumar. "Modeling and analysis of a thermo-electro-magneto-viscoelastic actuator" International Journal of Applied Mechanics. [Impact Factor: 3.5]

2022

• Aman Khurana, Giuseppe Zurlo, and M. M. Joglekar. "Electromechanical stability of wrinkled dielectric elastomers" International Journal of Solids and Structures, 246, 111613.  [Impact Factor: 3.8]

• Aman Khurana, Deepak Kumar, Atul Kumar Sharma, Giuseppe Zurlo and M. M. Joglekar. "Taut domains in transversely isotropic electro-magneto-active thin membranes" International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics,  147, 104228. [Impact Factor: 3.2]

• Aman Khurana, Deepak Kumar, Atul Kumar Sharma, and M. M. Joglekar. "Static and dynamic instability modeling of electro-magneto-active polymers with various entanglements and crosslinks" International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 139, 103865. [Impact Factor: 3.2]

• Aman Khurana, Ajay Kumar, Atul Kumar Sharma, and M. M. Joglekar. "Dynamic modeling of dielectric elastomer-based minimum energy structures with membrane entanglements and finite extensibility" Sādhanā, 47, 152.  [Impact Factor: 1.4]

• Subramaniya Siva T S, Aman Khurana, Atul Kumar Sharma, and M. M. Joglekar. "Effect of Geometrical Parameters on the Nonlinear Behavior of DE-based Minimum Energy Structures: Numerical Modeling and Experimental Investigation" Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures. [Impact Factor: 3.6]

• Ajay Kumar, Aman Khurana, Atul Kumar Sharma, and M. M. Joglekar. "An equivalent spring-based model to couple the motion of visco-hyperelastic dielectric elastomer with the confined compressible fluid/air mass" International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics,  147, 104232. [Impact Factor: 3.2]

• Sankalp Gour, Deepak Kumar, and Aman Khurana. "Constitutive modeling for the tear fracture of artificial tissues in human-like soft robots" European Journal of Mechanics / A Solids, 96, 104672.  [Impact Factor: 4.2]

• Ajay Kumar, Aman Khurana, Atul Kumar Sharma, and M. M. Joglekar. "Dynamic analysis of anisotropic dielectric viscoelastomers incorporating humidity effect" Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, 44, 348. [Impact Factor: 2.1]

• Ajay Kumar, Aman Khurana, Atul Kumar Sharma, and M. M. Joglekar. "Dynamics of Pneumatically Coupled Visco-hyperelastic Dielectric Elastomer Actuators: Theoretical Modeling and Experimental Investigation" European Journal of Mechanics / A Solids, 95, 104636.  [Impact Factor: 4.2]

2021

• Aman Khurana, Deepak Kumar, Atul Kumar Sharma, and M. M. Joglekar. "Nonlinear oscillations of particle-reinforced electro-magneto-viscoelastomer actuators" ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics, 88(12).  [Impact Factor: 2.8]

• Aman Khurana, Atul Kumar Sharma, and M. M. Joglekar. "Nonlinear oscillations of electrically driven aniso-visco-hyperelastic dielectric elastomer minimum energy structures" Nonlinear Dynamics, 104(3), 1991-2013.  [Impact Factor: 6.0]

• Aman Khurana, Ajay Kumar, Atul Kumar Sharma, and M. M. Joglekar. "Effect of polymer chains entanglements, crosslinks and finite extensibility on the nonlinear dynamic oscillations of dielectric viscoelastomer actuators" Nonlinear Dynamics, 104(2), 1227-1251.  [Impact Factor: 6.0]

• Aman Khurana, Ajay Kumar, Santosh Kumar Raut, Atul Kumar Sharma, and M. M. Joglekar. "Effect of viscoelasticity on the nonlinear dynamic behavior of dielectric elastomer minimum energy structures" International Journal of Solids and Structures, 208, 141-153.  [Impact Factor: 3.8]

• Atul Kumar Sharma, Aman Khurana, and M. M. Joglekar. "A finite element model for investigating the thermo- electro-mechanical response of inhomogeneously deforming dielectric elastomer actuators" European Journal of Computational Mechanics,  30, 387-408.  [ESCI]

Papers in Conference Proceedings

2022

• Aman Khurana, Giuseppe Zurlo, and MM Joglekar,. “Taut domain analysis of transversely isotropic dielectric elastomer membranes,” ECCOMAS Congress 2022-8th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering, June 05- 09, 2022, Oslo, Norway.

2017

• Aman Khurana, T. Sharma and K. K. Shukla, “Optimization of parameters affecting the performance of wind turbine blade using grey relational analysis,” International conference on advances in mechanical, industrial, automation and management systems (AMIAMS), Allahabad, India, 2017, pp. 88-93, doi: 10.1109/AMIAMS.2017.8069194.