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5^th Structural Integrity Conference and Exposition (SICE-2024), Oct 2024

 

Awards           Publications

 

 

Prof. Raghu V. Prakash Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai 600 036, India   Office: Room # 209, Machine Design Section Tel (O): +91 44 2257 4694                           Email: raghuprakash@iitm.ac.in Webpage: https://home.iitm.ac.in/raghuprakash                 https://sites.google.com/view/raghuprakash

 

Biography

 

Dr. Raghu Prakash received his Master's and Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from College of Engineering, Guindy, Madras (now Chennai).

 

His research interests include machine design, fatigue of materials, small specimen testing, environmental degradation of materials as well as product design and development.

 

Awards & Honors

 

• Binani Gold Medal, Indian Institute of Metals (1997).
• NSC visiting Professor/Scientist, National Taiwan University, 2003-04.
• Erasmus-Mundus Heritage Fellowship, 2013, 2014.
• CSIR SRF 1989-1993.
• National Merit Scholarship, 1979-85.
• ICCES Distinguished Fellow, 2015.
• Vice-Chairman, ASME Technical Committee on Materials Processing, Materials Division, 2018.
• Chairman, ASME Technical Committee on Materials Processing, Materials Division, 2019.
• Chairman, Society for Failure Analysis (Chennai Chapter), (2017-date).
• Director, Executive Council of International Congress on Fracture (ICF) (2023-2027).
• Vice-President, Executive Council of International Congress on Mechanical Behavior of Materials (ICM)(2023-2027).

 

MoU's Initiated / Championed:

 

·        University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA

·        University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

·        Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

·        Centre for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE), University of Maryland, MD, USA

·        University of Kassel, Germany

·        RMIT, Melbourne, Australia

 

Editorial Responsibilities

 

1.     Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Structural Longevity

2.     Regional Editorial Board Member, Frattura ed Integrita Strutturale (IGF Journal of Fracture and Structural Integrity).

3.      Editorial Board Member, Journal of Life Cycle Reliability and Safety Engineering.

 

Selected Publications

 

Books

 

1.   Infrared Thermography, Edited by: Raghu V Prakash, InTech, Croatia, 2012, ISBN: 978-953-51-0242-7.

2.   ICoRD 13-Global Product Development, Edited by: Amaresh Chakrabarti and Raghu V Prakash, Springer, 2013, ISBN: 978-81-322-1049-8.

3.   Advances in Structural Integrity-Proceedings of SICE 2016, Edited by: Raghu V Prakash, Vikram Jayaram, Ashok Saxena, Springer, 2018,

ISBN: 978-981-10-7196-6.

4.    Risk Based Technologies, Edited by: Prabhakar V Varde, Raghu V Prakash and Narendra S Joshi, Springer, 2019, ISBN: 978-981-13-5795-4.

5.  Structural Integrity Assessment - Proceedings of ICONS-2018, Edited by: Raghu V Prakash,  Suresh Kumar, R., Nagesh, A., Sasikala, G., and A. K. Bhaduri, Springer, 2019, ISBN:978-981-13-8767-8.

6.  Reliability, Safety and Hazard Assessment for Risk Based Technologies - Proceedings of ICRESH-2019, Edited by: Prabhakar V. Varde, Raghu V. Prakash and Gopika Vinod, Springer, 2019, ISBN: 978-981-13-9008-1.

7.  Advances in Reliability and Safety Assessment for Critical Systems - Proceedings of the 5th National Conference on Reliability and Safety (NCRS-2022) , Edited by: C. Senthil Kumar, R. Sujatha, R. Muthukumar, K. Balaji Rao, Raghu V. Prakash and Prabhakar V. Varde, Springer, 2023, ISBN: 978-981-99-5048-5.

 

 

Ph. D Guidance - Completed.

 

1.                           Kathirvel Thiyagarajan (2010) - With Prof. Krishnan Balasubramaniam - Title: Assessment of Infrared Thermography and Pulsed Eddy Current Techniques for Material Behavior Studies.

2.                            K. Anandavel (2011) - Title: Three Dimensional Finite Element Studies on Fretting Variables of a Dovetail Interface.

3.                            K. Hariharan (2011) - Title: Effect of anisotropy and Residual stress on fatigue design of sheet metal components.

4.                            S. Suresh Kumar (2012) - Title: Three dimensional numerical estimation of stress intensity factor for threaded fasteners.

5.                            Dhinakaran Sampath (2014) - Title: Corrosion fatigue crack growth Behavior of structural materials at Low cyclic frequencies

6.                            Abdul HuQ Ghouse (IIT Hyderabad Student) (2015) - Title: A Study of Fractal Dimension for Different Fracture Modes in Metallic Materials.

7.                            S. Arun Kumar (2015) - Title: Mechanical Properties Evaluation through ABI and SPT test techniques

8.                            Kavitha, N.S. (2016) - Title: Study of Mechanical Behavior of 1-D scaled FRP Composite Materials.

9.                                   Bharat Kumar Pant (2017) - With Prof. M. Kamaraj - Title: Fatigue Studies of Laser peened Titanium alloy and Steel for Steam Turbine Applications.

10.                       Mathew John (2018) - Title: Post-Impact Fatigue Response studies in CFRP laminates under Spectrum Loading.

11.                       Pankaj Dhaka (2020)(M.S+PhD) - Title: Numerical study of fretting wear and its palliatives for a simplified blade-disc interface

12.                       Manuel Thomas (2021) - Title: High Temperature Fatigue Crack Growth Studies in Austenitic Stainless Steel Welded Joints.

13.               Hithendra K (2023) – Title: A Study of Parameters Influencing Stress Intensity Factors in Pin Loaded Joints.

 

M.S (by Research) Guidance - Completed.

 

1.                 V V S Jaya Rao (2006) - Co-guided with Krishnan Balasubramanian

2.                 Prashant Bhokardole (2008)

3.                 K. M. Mohamed Muneer (2009) - Co-guided with Krishnan Balasubramanian

4.                 Rohan Sharad Ghogare (2010)

5.                 R. Saravanan (2011) - Co Guided with R. Gnanamoorthy

6.                 Hithesh H.C. (2012)

7.                 Arun Kumar (2012) - Co-Guide: Parag Ravindran

8.                 Vidya Joshi Dinkar (2012) - Co-Guided with Krishnan Balasubramanian

9.                 Ramakanth J. V. (2015)

10.            Girija Kumari Sethy (2016)

11.            Padmanabhan P (2016)

12.            Sachin Bapurao Mirajkar (2019)

13.            Sai Deepak Namburu (2019) - Co-Guided with C. Lakshmana Rao, AM

14.            Vishnu Viswanath (2020)

15.            Sanjay Toshniwal (2021)

16.            Harikumar Payoor (2022)

17.            S. Esakki Muthu (2022)

18.        Prathmesh Bharat Pokharkar (2023)

 

PDF Guidance

 

1.     Dr. Sabitha Ghosh (Women PDF Scheme of IIT Madras)

2.     Dr. S. Nagarajan (DST-PDF Scheme).