RESEARCH THEMES

Patents

1. Design Patent Application No: 372333-001, Filing Date-10/10/2022, Publication Date-27/01/2023 “BIAXIAL STRETCHING DEVICE FOR SOFT MATERIALS” Design Granted on 23/01/2023 with Design No: 372333-001

2. Design Patent Application No: 412108-001, Filing Date-30/03/2024, “BIAXIAL TESTING MACHINE” Design Granted on 10/05/2024 with Design No: 412108-001

3. Design Patent Application No: 411019-00, Filing Date-19/03/2024, “AUTOMATED DRAINAGE CLEANING SYSTEM” on 16/05/2024 Design Granted with Design No: 411019-001

4. Design Patent Application No: 419383-01, Filing Date-06/06/2024, “DUAL AXIS SOLAR TRACKER WITH LIFTING MECHANISM” 

5. Utility Patent Application No: 202321014425, Filing Date-03/03/2023, Publication Date-17/03/2023 "AUTOMATED BIAXIAL STRETCHING DEVICE WITH SCISSOR MECHANISM"  

6. Utility Patent Application No: 202421006974, Filing Date-02/02/2024, "CALF STIMULATION AND FOOT-DROP EXERCISE MACHINE"  

Funded Research Projects/Consultancy:

Completed

• "Deformation Mechanics of Electro-magneto-active Polymers: Modeling with Experimental Validation", sponsored by MANIT Bhopal Govt. of India, Under Seed Money Grant,  PI:   Dr. Deepak kumar, June 2020-June 2022. 

• "Evaluation of 120 Semi Low Floor Buses", sponsored by Bhopal City Link Limited (BCLL) Bhopal Govt. of Madhya-Pradesh,  CONSULTANCY PROJECT, Aug 2020-Nov 2020. 

• "Proof Checking of Structural Design of Solar Module Mounting Structure for PM KUSUM Component-B Project Pan India", sponsored by Dynamech Electropower Pvt. Ltd. Bhopal,  CONSULTANCY PROJECT, Feb 2022-Feb 2022.

• "Proof Checking of Structural Design of Solar Module Mounting Structure for PM KUSUM Component-B Project Pan India", sponsored by Veracity Energy and Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd. Bhopal,  CONSULTANCY PROJECT, Feb 2022-March 2022.

• "Vetting of the DPR of water supply system under AMRUT 2.0", sponsored by Cantonment Board, Saugor, Govt. of Madhya-Pradesh,  CONSULTANCY PROJECT, Oct 2022-Nov 2022. 

Ongoing

• "Programmable Automated Field Deployable High-Frequency Rainwater Sampler", sponsored by Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Govt. of India, Under Space Technology Incubation Centre (STIC) Scheme,  PI: Dr. Akhilesh Barve,  Co-PI:   Dr. Deepak Kumar and Dr. Ravi Kumar Mandava, Dec 2021-Dec 2023

• "Indigenously Developed Ankle CPM", sponsored by BIRAC Govt. of India (BT/EF0362/2.0/24), Under E-Yuva Fellow Scheme,  PIs:  Dr. Deepak Kumar, Dr. Vinod Yadav, Dr. Akhilesh Barve June 2024-May 2025

Technical Participation

1. Delivered an Expert Lecture on “Intro and Modeling of Soft Active Materials” at IIT Indore, 01-02 Sept 2025 for GIAN Course on Mechanics of Soft Active Materials

2. Delivered an FDP-Expert Lecture on “Smart Materials for Soft Robotic Systems” at Indian Council of Agriculture Research-CIAE Bhopal, 10 March 2025 for Winter School on Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Big data with Innovative cum Futuristic Engineering Interventions for Smart Agriculture 

3. Delivered an Expert Lecture on “Science and Innovation in India” at Millennium College of Pharmacy and Research Bhopal, 28 Feb 2025 for National Science Day 2025 

4. Delivered an FDP-Expert Lecture on “Smart Materials for Soft Robotic Systems” at Medicap University, 06 Jan 2025

5. Delivered an Expert Lecture on “Design and Fabrication of Soft Robotic Systems Design” at ITM Gwalior, 10 Feb 2023

6. Delivered Three Sessions of Talks on “Soft Actuators Designs” at High End Workshop on Human-Centered Assistive and Rehabilitation Robotics, IIIT Kota, 27 Jan 2023

7. Delivered an Expert Lecture on “Design Thinking, Critical Thinking & Innovation Design in Soft Robotics” at LNCT-Bhopal, 21 Jan 2023

8. Delivered Four Sessions of Talks on “Soft Actuators and Its Applications” at High-End Workshop on Wearable Robotics: Design, Sensing and Support, IIIT Kota, 13-22 June 2022

9. Delivered Two Sessions of Talks on “Mechanics of Soft Actuators: Modeling & Design” at ATAL Workshop IIIT Kota, 27 Dec 2021, Link for Session-1: https://youtu.be/kvtrdodMbnU and Session-2: https://youtu.be/vK6LcGVkSnc  

10. Delivered an Expert Lecture at ICMSME-2021 Conference SRI SHAKTHI INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY Coimbatore, 10 Dec 2021

11. Delivered an Expert Lecture on “Mechanics of Soft Actuators: An Intro” at Rabindranath Tagore University Bhopal, 04 Dec 2021

12. Training Program on "Outcome-Based Education" for MANIT faculty at NITTTR Bhopal, 12-24 July 2021

13. TEQIP III sponsored E-Training Program on  “Atomistic Modelling of Solids: Theory & Applications” at IIT Indore, 21-25 Dec 2020

14. Delivered a Research Talk on “Mechanics of Soft Actuators: An Intro” at Dept. Of Science & Technology, Govt. Of Bihar, 03 Sept 2020

15. Delivered a Research Talk on "An electro-magneto-rheological fluid under electromagnetic  field" at Centre for Theoretical Studies IIT Kharagpur

16. International Training Program on “Indo-US Dissemination Workshop on Design of Sustainable Systems” at IISc Bangalore

17. National Training Program on “Practical Hands for Process of Bio-fuel Production from Non-edible Vegetable Oils and Fundamental characterization” at  SSS-NIRE Kapurthala

18.  GIAN Workshop on “Nonlinear Continuum Mechanics” at IIT-Madras Chennai

19.  GIAN Workshop on “Hierarchical Computational Methods for Cross-disciplinary Multiscale Dynamics ” at IIT-Patna Bihta

20. GIAN Workshop on “Monotone Iterative Techniques ” at IIT-Patna Bihta

21. GIAN Workshop on “Stretchable transducers for soft robotics and energy harvesting” at IIT-Patna Bihta

22. Online Interview Talk in FRANKLY PODCAST Earnest Conversation Feast by Pryogshala

Research Collaborators

Collaborators

• Prof. M. M. Joglekar,  IIT-Roorkee, India  

• Prof. Atul Kumar Sharma,  IIT-Jodhpur, India 

Postdoc Mentors 

• Prof. Sitikantha Roy,  IIT-Delhi,  India 

• Prof. Sushma Santapuri,  IIT-Delhi,  India 

• Prof. Prashant Saxena,  University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK 

• Prof. G.  P.  Raja Sekhar, IIT-Kharagpur, India

• Prof. Ranjan Bhattacharyya, IIT-Kharagpur, India  

Ph.D. Supervisors/Mentors

• Prof. Somnath Sarangi,  IIT-Patna, India  

• Prof. Karali Patra,  IIT-Patna, India 

• Prof. Dinesh Kumar Kotnees,  IIT-Patna, India 

Letters of Appreciation: 

Excellent comments from the Reviewers of the Ph.D. Thesis  from NTU Singapore, IIT Kanpur, and IIT Delhi

"The quality and range of experimental work done by the candidate are commendable and clearly reflect in the high quality international reviewed journal publication like Mechanics of Materials, Elsevier. The thesis is excellent. No need any further review. I am happy to note that the candidate has tried to understand the deformation problems concerning the constitutive modeling of nonlinear electro-magneto-elastic soft elastomers within the framework of the classical continuum mechanics-based approach. The candidate has covered three broad topics i.e., electro-magnetostriction under large deformation, electro-magneto-mechanical instability, and universal relations in electro-magneto-elasticity. From the fundamentals, his thesis gives an extensive introduction to the topics to be examined here. Extensive formulation derivation is included in the thesis, aiming to capture some interesting phenomena in smart materials, in particular for instability and large deformation."    

THESIS:  Deepak Kumar “Mathematical Modeling Of Smart Materials: A Continuum Mechanics Approach”, Publisher: IDR - Central Library, IIT Patna  India, Guided by: Prof. Somnath Sarangi 

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