Publications

Peer Reviewed Journals

1. Cuccia N., Yadav K.K., Serlin M., Virot E., Rubinstein S., & Gerasimidis, S. (2023). Hitting the Mark: Probing at the Initiation Site Allows for Accurate Prediction of a Thin Shell's Buckling Load. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. 381:20220036.  (Featured on the cover of the issue)

2. Sadowski, A., Seidel, M., Al-Lawati, H., Azizi, E., Balscheit, H., Böhm, M., ... Yadav K.K., Yun X., & Zhang, P. (2023).  8-MW wind turbine tower computational shell buckling benchmark Part 1: An international ‘round-robin’exercise. Engineering Failure Analysis, 48,107124.

3. Yadav K.K., Cuccia N., Virot E., Rubinstein S., & Gerasimidis, S. (2021). A Nondestructive Technique for the Evaluation of Thin Cylindrical Shells’ Axial Buckling Capacity. Journal of Applied Mechanics., 88(5), 051003.

4. Yadav K.K., & Gerasimidis, S. (2020). Imperfection insensitive thin cylindrical shells for next generation wind turbine towers. Journal of Constructional Steel Research, 172, 106228.

5. Yadav K.K., & Gerasimidis, S. (2020). Imperfection Insensitivity of Thin Wavy Cylindrical Shells Under Axial Compression or Bending. Journal of Applied Mechanics, 87(4), 041003.

6. Yadav K.K., & Gerasimidis, S. (2019). Instability of thin steel cylindrical shells under bending. Thin-Walled Structures, 137, 151-166.

7. Yadav K.K., & Gupta, V.K. (2017). Near-fault fling-step ground motions: Characteristics and simulation. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 101, 90 - 104.

Conference Proceedings

1. Yadav K.K. and Gerasimidis, S. Probing the buckling of axially compressed cylindrical shells: Stability landscape and nondestructive prediction, Proceedings of the Annual Stability Conference Structural Stability Research Council (SSRC), Charlotte, North Carolina, April 11-14, 2023. 

2. Yadav K.K. , Sloance Z., and Gerasimidis, S. Probing the buckling of axially compressed cylindrical shells: Stability landscape and nondestructive prediction, Proceedings of the Annual Stability Conference Structural Stability Research Council (SSRC), Denver, Colorado, April 21-24, 2022.

3. Yadav K.K. and Gerasimidis, S. A nondestructive method to find the buckling capacity for thin shells, Proceedings of the Annual Stability Conference Structural Stability Research Council (SSRC), Atlanta, Georgia, April 21-24, 2020.

4. Yadav K.K. and Gerasimidis, S. Imperfection insensitive thin steel tubular shells under bending, Proceedings of the Annual Stability Conference Structural Stability Research Council (SSRC), St. Louis, MO, April 2, 2019.

5. Yadav K.K. and Gerasimidis, S. Imperfection insensitivity of wavy cross-sectional thin cylindrical shells under bending, Proceedings of IASS Annual Symposia, Boston, MA, July 16, 2018.

6. Yadav K.K., Wind, J.L. and Gerasimidis, S. On the investigation of the most critical shape imperfections for wind turbine tower shell structures, Proceedings of the Annual Stability Conference Structural Stability Research Council (SSRC), San Antonio, TX, March 23, 2017.

Conference Talks

1. Neeraj Sharma and Kshitj Kumar Yadav. Numerical investigation of 3-D auxetic meta-material for high-performance concrete. 7th International Conference of Engineering Against Failure (ICEAF), Spetses Island, Greece, June 22, 2023.

2. Marec Serlin, Nicholas Cuccia, Kshitij Yadav, Sagy Lachmann, Symeon Gerasimidis, Shmuel Rubinstein. Real Shells Exhibit a Universal Localized Buckling Mode with Marginal Imperfection Dependence, Part I: Theory and Simulations. APS March Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, March, 2023.

3. Nicholas Cuccia, Marec Serlin, Kshitij Yadav, Sagy Lachmann, Symeon Gerasimidis, Shmuel Rubinstein. Real Shells Exhibit a Universal Localized Buckling Mode with Marginal Imperfection Dependence, Part II: Experimental Results. APS March Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada,  March, 2023. 

4. Yadav K.K., Cuccia N., Virot E., Rubinstein S., & Gerasimidis, S. Prediction of the buckling capacity of thin shells by using stability landscapes, APS March Meeting, March 15, 2021.

5. Cuccia N., Yadav K.K., Virot E., Rubinstein S., & Gerasimidis, S. Universal Features of Buckling Initiation in Thin Shells, APS March Meeting, March 15, 2021.

6. Yadav K.K. and Gerasimidis, S. Imperfection insensitivity of thin wave cylindrical shells under axial compression or bending, NEW.Mech, Amherst, MA, October 5, 2019.

7. Yadav K.K. and Gerasimidis, S. Wavy thin steel cylindrical shells: An alternative of circular thin steel cylinders to create inexpensive tall wind turbine towers, Structures Congress, Orlando, FL, April 25, 2019.

8. Yadav K.K. and Gerasimidis, S. Imperfection-insensitive thin wavy cylindrical shells under bending: Effect of local radius of curvature on buckling and imperfection-sensitivity, APS March Meeting, Boston, MA, March 4, 2019.

9. Yadav K.K. and Gerasimidis, S. Imperfection insensitivity of wavy cross-sectional thin cylindrical shells under bending: Effect of cross section’s shape and curvature, Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI), Boston, MA, May 29, 2018.

10. Yadav K.K. and Gerasimidis, S. Imperfection sensitivity of tall wind turbine thin steel cylindrical shell towers, Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI), San Diego, CA, June 6, 2017.

Conference Posters

1. Yadav K.K. and Gerasimidis, S. Imperfection insensitivity of thin wave cylindrical shells under axial compression or bending, NEW.Mech, Amherst, MA, October 5, 2019.

2. Yadav K.K. and Gerasimidis, S. Imperfection insensitivity of wavy cross-sectional thin cylindrical shells under bending: Effects of cross section’s shape and curvature, NEW.Mech, Providence, RI, September 29, 2018.

Technical Reports

1. G Tzortzinis, G Pryor, K K Yadav, S Gerasimidis, S Breña . Development of Comprehensive Inspection Protocols for Deteriorated Steel Beam Ends, Massachusetts. Dept. of Transportation. Office of Transportation Planning, 2022.

Theses

1. Yadav K. K. "Buckling of thin cylindrical shells: Imperfection sensitivity, non-destructive technique for capacity prediction and application for wind turbine towers". Ph.D. Dissertation. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst USA, 2020. 

2. Yadav K. K. "Near-Fault Fling-Step Ground Motion: Characteristic and Simulation". Master of Technology Thesis. Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India, 2011.