Fatigue and Fracture Group
Current Students
Deepak Kumar (PhD and MS)
Rajat Pratap Singh Parihar (MS)
Aquib Anis (PhD)
Subrat Senapati (PhD)
Subham Chakraborty (Direct PhD) (Co-guide: Prof. Shyam Keralaverma)
Past students
PhD students
Nijin I. S. (MTech and PhD) (Recipient of Institute Research award 2021) Role of stress-state on fatigue damage growth: experiments and simulations 2021 (Post PhD: Modelling and simulation engineer, Schlumberger)
S. M. Satheesh (PhD), Statistical Aspects of Fracture and Failure of Polysilicon MEMs: Experiments and Simulations 2021 (Co-guide: Prof. Enakkshi Bhattacharya) (Post PhD: Assistant Professor, Jain University, Bangalore)
Ashwij Mayya (MS and PhD) (Recipient of Institute Research award 2018, Prof. V. Ramamurti award for best PhD thesis in Applied Mechanics, Prof. S. Radhakrishnan award for best PhD in bio-medical related thesis of Applied Mechanics), Role of microstructure on compressive fracture of cortical bone: experiments and modelling 2018 (Co-guide: Prof. R. Rajesh, IMSc)
Faizan Mohd. Rashid (MS and PhD), Cohesive zone modeling of ductile fracture at different stress-states 2016 (Post PhD: Tech lead in Honeywell Tech. Solns. Bangalore)
Dhatreyi Boyina (PhD), Translaminar fracture of plain-weave composite laminates 2015 (Co-guide: Prof. R. Velmurugan) (Post PhD: Faculty in NIT, Andhra Pradesh)
R. Manivasagam (PhD), Triaxiality dependent cohesive zone model- formulation and simulation 2014 ( Post PhD: FADT Engineer in Bombardier Aerospace India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore)
MS students
Shravan Kumar Remma, Effect of stress-state on fracture of adhesive bonded joints under mode-I loading 2021
Rakesh Kumar Mourya, Effect of creep on gasket failure in bolted flange joints 2013
R. Rangaraj, Identification of fatigue cracks in vibrating beams using particle filtering algorithms 2012 (Co-guide: Prof. Sayan Gupta)
Deepak Kumar Jha, Cohesive model in prediction of multi-axial fatigue failure 2011
MTech and DD students
Dhiwakar V. M., Role of microstructure in fracture behaviour of plain weave composites 2017
Sankar V., Fracture behaviour of bulk metallic glasses - MD simulations 2016
Sonu Krishna, 2015
Kirubakaran T., Mode-I translaminar fracture of unidirectional composite materials 2015
Praveen, Simulation of compressive failure in brittle cellular solids 2015
Rajkumar G., Implementation and validation of cohesive model for fatigue failure 2014
Manvendra Singh Tomar, Influence of crack tip constraint on crack propagation in metals 2014
Nishant Kanhurkar, Simulation of crack growth resistance curves in a ductile solid 2013
K. Sagar, Mixed mode fracture using XFEM 2012
I. R. Ajayraj, Brittle to ductile transition using simulations of spring network model 2012
Jyotsna Yerra, Mechanical behaviour and failure response of orthotropic materials 2011
V. Amol, Simulation of mechanical response of ZrO2/NiCr FGM 2010
M. Rajendran, A cohesive element for fracture of thin-walled structures 2009
K. Sasidhar, Effect of disorder on brittle failure of heterogeneous materials 2009
Ashwath Nayaka, Bond thickness effects in mode-I fracture of adhesive joints 2008
R. Amirthraj, Fracture mechanics of adhesive joints 2007