Departmental Research

The Department has been involved in the following broad areas of research:

• Elasticity, Plasticity, Large Deformations, Manufacturing Analysis, Impact and Crash worthiness, Composite Materials, Composite Plates and Shells, Off-shore Structures, Smart Structures, Snow Mechanics, Computational Methods for Stress Analysis and Structures, Structural Optimization, Finite Element Method, Seismic analysis of Tall structures, Parallel Computing, Non-linear Dynamics and Chaos, Stability and bifurcation theory, Nano-mechanics, Bio-mechanics, Impact mechanics, Continuum Damage mechanics, Probabilistic Mechanics, Structural Health Monitoring and Fracture Mechanics.

• Hydrodynamic Stability Theory and Turbulence, (Theory Computation and Experimental), Low Dimensional Modelling, Computational Fluid Dynamics; Compressible flows; Industrial Aerodynamics and Pollution Dispersion, wind effects on structures, Diffusers, Impellers, Combustors, Hypersonic Flows, Renewable Energy.

• Computer Aided Design, Design Engineering, Reliability Engineering.

Doctoral research is currently being carried out in:

Large Deformations, Impact Mechanics, Plasticity, Analysis of Manufacturing Processes, Composite Materials, Composite Plates and Shells, Non-linear Dynamics and Chaos, Off-shore Structures, Smart Structures, Snow Mechanics, Stress analysis and finite element application, Damage mechanics, Computational Methods for Fluid Flows, Pollution dispersion, Flow through Fluid Machines, Pipeline Engineering, Wind Engineering, Hydrodynamic Stability, Transition, Turbulence, Bio-fluid Dynamics, Computer Aided Design, Design Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Availability and Maintainability Engineering, Metal Foams, Nanocomposites, Friction Stir Welding, Pattern Formation in Granular Materials, Fracture Mechanics, Fatigue Crack Propagation, Environmental Cracking, Failure analysis and Mechanical Properties of Solids, Nano-mechanics etc.