Research Areas

Research Areas

My research interests span the broad area of Soft Materials Mechanics, Electro-magneto-elasticity, Electro-magneto-rheology.  The specific research interests include:

• Mechanics of Soft Active Materials

• Finite Element Methods for Coupled Field Problems

• Stability Analysis and Control  of Electrically Driven Mechanical Structures

• Nonlinear Dynamics

• Stable Wrinkling Patterns in Dielectric Elastomer  

Sponsored Research/Ongoing Projects

• Dec 2023: Dec 2028: Engineered Wrinkles: Toward Harnessing the Wrinkling Instabilities in Soft Active Materials.

Funding Agency: Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, India.

Amount: INR 35 Lakhs. 

• Feb 2024: Feb 2026: Modelling and Experimental Characterization of the Nonlinear Dynamic Behaviour of Electro- Magneto-Active Polymers 

Funding Agency: Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India.

Amount: INR 10 Lakhs.