Mechanics of Time Dependent Materials Laboratory

Faculty

• Dr. Parag Ravindran

  

Doctoral Students

Finney Charles (co-guided with Prof. R. Gnanamoorthy)

Research area: Failure in polymer nano-composites subjected to rolling contact fatigue.


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• Deepika Sudevan ( co-guided with Prof. Kamaraj M.)

  Research area: Post-Impact Fatigue Life Analyses of Carbon Fiber Epoxy Composites: Experimental Studies and Constitutive Modeling.

• K Vidhyalakshmi (co-guided with Prof. Luoyi Tao )

  Research area: Soil Liquefaction

• Danish Ansari (co-guided with Prof. U. Saravanan )

  Research area: A multi-variable formulation to solve finite plate problems under time varying tractions for a nonlinear elastic model

• MD Fariduddin (co-guided with Prof. Sumesh Thampi)

  Research area: Rheology of Colloids

Masters Students (MS)

• M. N. Sreerag (co-guided Mr. S. Renjith)

  Research Area: Experimental investigation of non-linear mechanical response of solid propellant and estimation of constitutive model parameters.

• Vivek Bafna ( co-guided with Prof. Manish Anand)

  Research Area: Assistive Device.

• Debarnob Kayal

  Research Area: Viscoelasticity

Maheswaran B ( co-guided with Prof. P. Chandramouli)

Research Area: Response of Rubber Mounts.

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Alumni (Post-Doc,PhD,MS)

• Soumya Mukherjee. Institute Post Doctoral Fellow. Currently: Faculty Member, IIT Palakkad

  Area: Residual Stress in Viscoelastic Materials.

• Mini Sahadevan. Currently: Faculty Member, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Trivandrum.

  Graduated July 2016, PhD Thesis: (co-guided with Prof. Krishnan Balasubramanian) Wave propagation through microstructural features with geometric non-linearity -- experimental and numerical investigations

• P. Mythravaruni, Currently: Faculty Member, IIT Kharagpur

  Graduated July 2017, PhD Thesis: Constitutive models within a thermodynamic framework to study growth, remodeling and degradation in a class of biological materials
  

• Uma Chakkoth (co-guided with Prof. J. Murali Krishnan )

  Thesis defended June 2022, PhD Thesis: Paving Grade Formulations and Multiscale Characterization of Blended Bitumen.

• Finney Charles (co-guided with Prof. R. Gnanamoorthy)

  July 2024, PhD Thesis: Rolling Contact Fatigue Behaviour of Polyamide 6 Nanocomposite
  

• Sanjana Talukdar (co-guided with Prof. Narasimhan Swaminathan )

  July 2024, PhD Thesis: Stress-diffusion interactions in viscoelastic electrodes

• Narasimha Rao (co-guided with Prof. Kavitha Arunachalam)

  July 2025, PhD Thesis: Detection of inhomogeneities in viscoelastic bodies with application to breast cancer

• Raviteja Miriyala (co-guided with Prof. Abhijit Deshpande )

  Sep 2025 , Ph.D. Thesis: Rheology and Constitutive Modeling of Thixotropic Elasto-Viscoplastic Fluids.

• K. Arun Kumar. After M.S: Hero Motors

  MS Thesis: (co-guided with Prof. Raghu Prakash) Graduated July 2013, A Continuum model to predict the thermomechanical response of glass-epoxy composites.

• M. Mahalingam. Currently with Caterpillar India

  MS Thesis: Graduated Jul 2015, A Study on a Multilayer Viscoelastic Material and a Homogenized Approximation.

• T. S. Sadagopan. Currently pursuing PhD at IIT Madras

  MS Thesis: Graduated Jul 2015, Thesis: Damage initiation in composites subject to cyclic loading.

• D. Vignesh (co-guided with Prof. Krishna Kannan). After M.S: Graduate Studies at Vanderbilt University.

  Graduated: Jul 2017. Thesis: Constitutive model for compressible viscoelastic solid and its application to some boundary value problems

• Anand V. After M.S: Eaton, Pune.

  MS Thesis: Graduated March 2019, Thesis: A Constitutive Model for Biodegradable Polymers

• Siddhant Lama ( co-guided with Prof. Anand Krishna Kanjarla)

  MS Thesis: Graduated September 2021, Thesis: Numerical Study of the Grain Boundary Stress Using Field Dislocation Mechanics and an FFT based Method

• B. Maheswaran ( co-guided with Prof. P. Chandramouli), After M.S: L & T Mumbai

  MS Thesis: Graduated July 2022, Thesis: Identification of dynamic characteristics of an autorickshaw engine mount

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  P. Dinesh ( co-guided with Prof. Basavaraj Madivala Gurappa)

  MS Thesis: Graduated March 2022, Thesis: Kinetics of particle deposition in drying colloidal dispersion drops

• Swaroop Sonawane ( co-guided with Prof. Narasimhan Swaminathan)

  July 2024, MS Thesis: A Phase Field Model for Intimal Hyperplasia

• Vijay Hajare ( co-guided with Prof. Prabhu Rajagopal)

  July 2025, MS Thesis: A Study On Shear Wave Propagation Through a Viscoelastic Material.