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Prof. Amirtham Rajagopal

+91-040- 2301 6303

rajagopal@ce.iith.ac.in

Research Interests

Damage Mechanics, Mutliscale modeling, Nonlinear Finite Element and Meshless methods, Mechanics of Composites, Concrete Damage modeling,

Professional Experience

  • Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India.

  • Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India. 

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India. 

  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Chair of Applied Mechanics, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürenberg, Germany.

  • Project Officer- Post Ph.D., Department of Applied Mechanics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India.

  • Project Associate- SRF, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India. 

  • Quality Control Engineer, M/S Vijay Nirman Company, Banglore, India.

Our team focuses on Computational Mechanics

Ongoing Projects:

  1. A thermodynamically consistent model for the evolution of hydride precipitate in zirconium and its alloy, BARC-BRNS, Sanctioned amount: Rs. 25.5 Lakhs, Role: PI

  2. Nonlocal Phase field approach to modeling delamination in high strength composite rocket motor casings, CARS, ASL DRDO, Sanctioned amount: Rs. 33.46 Lakhs, Role: PI

  3. Nonlocal approach for modeling delamination in composites, ARFB-DRDO, Sanctioned amount: Rs. 40.50 Lakhs, Role: PI

  4. Thermo structural analysis for predicting damage/fracture in functionally graded thermal barrier ceramic coatings using a Peridynamic approach, DFTM-DRDO, Sanctioned amount: Rs. 51.00 Lakhs, Role: PI

  5. Nonlocal plasticity based damage models for concrete, DST_JSPS, Sanctioned amount: Rs. 35.78 Lakhs, Role: PI, Indo-Japan bilateral scheme

  6. Nonlocal Nonlinear analysis of plates and laminates via a novel goal oriented adaptive ‘n’ sided polygonal finite element approach, CSIR, Sanctioned amount: Rs. 18.6 Lakhs, Role: PI

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Completed Projects:​

  1. Computational modeling of adaptive microporus materials,  DST-RFBR, Sanctioned amount: Rs. 32.28 Lakhs, Role: PI, Indo-Russian bilateral scheme

  2. Modeling and analysis of damage in high strength composite rocket motor casing by Peridynamics approach, CARS, ASL_DRDO, Sanctioned amount: 9.95 Lakhs, Role: PI

  3. Analysis and simulation of Soil-Metallic spade interaction subjected to static and dynamic loading for different soil conditions and design of spade for artillery application,  CARS, VRDE-DRDO, Sanctioned amount: Rs. 16.17 Lakhs, Role: PI

  4. Computational modeling and analysis of damage in high strength composite structures by a novel nonlocal approach, RESPOND-ISRO, Sanctioned amount: Rs. 21.26 Lakhs, Role: PI

  5. Nonlocal approaches to modeling damage in Quasi brittle materials under blast and ballistic loads, ARMREB-DRDO, Sanctioned amount: Rs. 30.59 Lakhs, Role: PI

  6. Computational material modeling of growth and rupture using FEM, Sanctioned amount: Rs. 45 Lakhs, Role: CI

  7. Meshless analysis of FGM plates and shells, ASL-DRDO, Sanctioned amount: Rs. 9.8 Lakhs, Role: PI

  8. Computational multiscale modeling of damage in composites, ARDB-DRDO, Sanctioned amount: Rs. 17.5 Lakhs, Role: PI

  9. Adaptive meshfree method for analysis of composite plates, IIT Hyderabad Seed Grant, Sanctioned amount: Rs. 5 Lakhs, Role: PI

  10. Isogeometric meshfree methods for analysis of composite plates,  ARDB-DRDO, Sanctioned amount: Rs. 6.5 Lakhs, Role: PI

  11. Multiscale modeling of materials, DST, sanctioned amount: Rs. 8.64 Lakhs, Role: PI

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