Sundararajan Natarajan


Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

 
[1] S Natarajan and AJM Ferreira. Static bending and free vibration of cross ply laminated composite plates using nurbs based finite element method and unified formulation. Curved and Layered Structures, 2015.
[2] S Natarajan, J Wang, C Song, and C Birk. Isogeometric analysis enhanced by the scaled boundary finite element method. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 283:733-762, 2015.
[3] Kalyan Bhattacharjee, Sundararajan Natarajan, and Stéphane Bordas. A hybrid t-trefftz polygonal finite element for linear elasticity. arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.5028, 2014.
[4] Lisa Cahill, S Natarajan, Stephane PA Bordas, O'Higgins Ronam M, and Conor McCarthy. An experimental/numerical investigation into the main driving force for crack propagation in uni-directional fibre-reinforced composite laminae. Composite Structures, 107:119-130, 2014.
[5] MT Herath, S Natarajan, BG Prusty, and Nigel St. John. Isogeometric analysis and genetic algorithm for shape adaptive composite marine propellers. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2014.
[6] Manudha T Herath, S Natarajan, BG Prusty, and Nigel St. John. Smoothed finite element and genetic algorithm based optimization for shape adaptive composite propellers. Composite Structures, 109:189-197, 2014.
[7] Chao Li, Ean Tat Ooi, Chongmin Song, and S Natarajan. Sbfem for fracture analysis of piezoelectric composites under thermal load. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 2014.
[8] S Natarajan. On the application of the partition of unity method for nonlocal response of low-dimensional structures. Journal of Mechanical Behaviour of Materials, 23(5-6), 2014.
[9] Sundararajan Natarajan, Stephane Bordas, and Ean Tat Ooi. On the equivalence between the cell-based smoothed finite element method and the virtual element method. 2014.
[10] S Natarajan, S Chakraborty, M Ganapathi, and M Subramanian. A parametric study on the buckling of functionally graded material plates with internal discontinuities using the partition of unity method. European Journal of Mechanics - A/Solids, 44:136-147, 2014.
[11] S Natarajan, Pratik S Deogekar, G Manickam, and Salim Belouettar. Hygrothermal effects on the free vibration and buckling of laminated composites with cutouts. Composite Structures, 108:848-855, 2014.
[12] S Natarajan, AJM Ferreira, S Bordas, E Carrera, M Cinefra, and AM Zenkour. Analysis of functionally graded material plates using triangular elements with cell-based smoothed discrete shear gap method. Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2014.
[13] S Natarajan, M Haboussi, and G Manickam. Application of higher-order structural theory to bending and free vibration analysis of sandwich plates with cnt reinforced composite facesheets. Composite Structures, 113:197-207, 2014.
[14] S Natarajan, P Kerfriden, D RoyMahapatra, and S Bordas. Numerical analysis of the inclusion-crack interaction by the extended finite element method. International Journal for Computational Methods in Engineering Science and Mechanics, 15:26-32, 2014.
[15] Sundararajan Natarajan, Ean Tat Ooi, Irene Chiong, and Chongmin Song. Convergence and accuracy of displacement based finite element formulations over arbitrary polygons: Laplace interpolants, strain smoothing and scaled boundary polygon formulation. Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, 85:101-122, 2014.
[17] S Natarajan, C Song, and S Belouettar. Numerical evaluation of stress intensity factors and t-stress for interfacial cracks and cracks terminating at the interface without asymptotic enrichment. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 279:86-112, 2014.
[18] Ean Tat Ooi, S Natarajan, Chongmin Song, and Francis Tin-Loi. Crack propagation modelling in functionally graded materials using scaled boundary polygons. 2014.
[19] JD Rodrigues, S Natarajan, AJM Ferreira, E Carrera, M Cinefra, and SPA Bordas. Analysis of composite plates through cell-based smoothed finite element and 4-noded mixed interpolation of tensorial components techniques. Computers & Structures, 135:83-87, 2014.
[20] A Sankar, S Natarajan, M Haboussi, K Ramajeyathilagam, and M Ganapathi. Panel flutter characteristics of sandwich plates with cnt reinforced facesheets using an accurate higher-order theory. Journal of Fluids and Structures, 50:376-391, 2014.
[21] A Sankar, S Natarajan, K Ramajeyathilagam, and M Ganapathi. Dynamic instability analysis of sandwich plates with cnt reinforced facesheets subjected to periodic in-plane loads using higher-order shear flexible element. 2014.
[22] Anand Venkatachari, S Natarajan, K Ramajeyathilagam, and M Ganapathi. Assessment of certain higher-order structural models based on global approach for bending analysis of curvilinear composite laminates. Composite Structures, 118:548-559, 2014.
[23] T Xiang, S Natarajan, H Man, C Song, and W Gao. Free vibration and mechanical buckling of plates with in-plane material inhomogeneity - a three dimensional consistent approach. Composite Structures , 118:634-642, 2014.
[24] Octavio A González-Estrada, Sundararajan Natarajan, Juan José Ródenas, Hung Nguyen-Xuan, and Stéphane PA Bordas. Efficient recovery-based error estimation for the smoothed finite element method for smooth and singular linear elasticity. Computational Mechanics, 52:37-52, 2013.
[25] S Natarajan, AJM Ferreira, S Bordas, E Carrera, and M Cinefra. Analysis of composites plates by a unified formulation - cell based smoothed finite element method and field consistent elements. Composite Structures, 105:75-81, 2013.
[26] S Natarajan, K Kaleeswaran, and G Manickam. Functionally graded material panel flutter by cell-based smoothed finite elements. Journal of Coupled Systems and Multiscale Dynamics , 1(2):205-215, 2013.
[27] S Natarajan, G Manickam, and S Bordas. Supersonic flutter analysis of functionally graded material plates with cracks. Frontiers in Aerospace Engineering, 2(2):91-97, 2013.
[28] S Natarajan, G Manickam, AJM Ferreira, and E Carrera. Supersonic flutter analysis of flat composite panels by unified formulation. http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.4233, 2013.
[29] Sundararajan Natarajan and Chongmin Song. Representation of singular fields without asymptotic enrichment in the extended finite element method. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 96:813-841, 2013.
[30] H Nguyen-Xuan, GR Liu, S Bordas, S Natarajan, and T Rabczuk. An adaptive singular es-fem for mechanics problems with singular field of arbitrary order. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 253:252-273, 2013.
[31] Ahmad Akbari Rahimabadi, S Natarajan, and S Bordas. Vibration of functionally graded material plates with cutouts and cracks in thermal environment. Key Engineering Materials, 560:157-180, 2013.
[32] Navid Valizadeh, Sundararajan Natarajan, Octavio A Gonzalez-Estrada, Timon Rabczuk, Ting Quco Bui, and Stephane Bordas. Nurbs-based finite element analysis of functionally graded plates: static bending, vibration, buckling and flutter. Composite Structures, 99:309-326, 2013.
[33] Danbing Long, Zaoyang Guo, Xila Liu, S Natarajan, and S Bordas. A force-based large increment method for 2d continuum solids and the mesh convergence study. AIP Conference Proceedings - International Conference of Computational Methods in Science and Engineering 2009, 1504:377-387, 2012.
[34] S Natarajan, S Chakraborty, M Thangavel, S Bordas, and T Rabczuk. Size-dependent free flexural vibration behavior of functionally graded nanoplates. Computational Materials Science, 65:74-80, 2012.
[35] S Natarajan and M Ganapathi. Bending and vibration of functionally graded material sandwich plates using an accurate theory. Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, 57:32-42, 2012.
[36] H Nguyen-Vinh, I Bakar, MA Msekh, J-H Song, J Muthu, G Zi, P Le, S Bordas, R Simpson, S Natarajan, et al. Extended finite element method for dynamic fracture of piezo-electric materials. Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 92:19-31, 2012.
[37] Stéphane Bordas, Sundararajan Natarajan, Pierre Kerfriden, Charles Edward Augarde, D Roy Mahapatra, Timon Rabczuk, and Stefano Dal Pont. On the performance of strain smoothing for quadratic and enriched finite element approximations (xfem/gfem/pufem). International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 86(4-5):637-666, 2011.
[38] Pedro M Baiz, S Natarajan, S Bordas, P Kerfriden, and T Rabczuk. Linear buckling analysis of cracked plates by sfem and xfem. Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures, 6(9-10):1213-1238, 2011.
[39] S Natarajan, PM Baiz, S Bordas, T Rabczuk, and P Kerfriden. Natural frequencies of cracked functionally graded material plates by the extended finite element method. Composite Structures, 93(11):3082-3092, 2011.
[40] S Natarajan, PM Baiz, M Ganapathi, P Kerfriden, and S Bordas. Linear free flexural vibration of cracked functionally graded plates in thermal environment. Computers & Structures, 89(15-16):1535-1546, 2011.
[41] S Bordas and S Natarajan. On the approximation in the smoothed finite element method (sfem). International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 81(5):660-670, 2010.
[42] Stéphane Bordas, Timon Rabczuk, Nguyen-Xuan Hung, Vinh Phu Nguyen, Sundararajan Natarajan, Tino Bog, Do Minh Quan, and Nguyen Vinh Hiep. Strain smoothing in fem and xfem. Computers & structures, 88(23):1419-1443, 2010.
[43] Sundararajan Natarajan, D Roy Mahapatra, and Stephane Bordas. Integrating strong and weak discontinuities without integration subcells and example applications in an xfem/gfem framework. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 83(3):269-294, 2010.
[44] Sundararajan Natarajan, Stéphane Bordas, and D Roy Mahapatra. Numerical integration over arbitrary polygonal domains based on schwarz-christoffel conformal mapping. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 80(1):103-134, 2009.
[46] N Sundararajan and M Ganapathi. Dynamic thermal buckling of functionally graded spherical caps. Journal of engineering mechanics, 134(2):206-209, 2008.
[47] T Prakash, N Sundararajan, and M Ganapathi. On the nonlinear axisymmetric dynamic buckling behavior of clamped functionally graded spherical caps. Journal of sound and vibration, 299(1):36-43, 2007.
[48] N Sundararajan and M Ganapathi. On the dynamic snap-through buckling of functionally graded spherical caps. Journal of Aerospace Sciences and Technologies, 59(3):223, 2007.
[49] N Sundararajan and M Ganapathi. On the vibrations and thermal buckling of functionally graded spherical caps. Journal of Aerospace Sciences and Technologies, 59(2):136, 2007.
[50] M Ganapathi, T Prakash, and N Sundararajan. Influence of functionally graded material on buckling of skew plates under mechanical loads. Journal of engineering mechanics, 132(8):902-905, 2006.
[51] M Ganapathi, T Prakash, N Sundararajan, and Maloy K Singha. Large amplitude free flexural vibrations of functionally graded plates. Journal of Aerospace Sciences and Technologies, 58(1):50-64, 2006.
[52] Sundararajan Natarajan, Prakash Thiruvengadam, and Ganapathi Manickam. Dynamic buckling of functionally graded spherical caps. AIAA journal, 44(5):1097-1102, 2006.
[53] N Sundararajan, T Prakash, and M Ganapathi. Nonlinear free flexural vibrations of functionally graded rectangular and skew plates under thermal environments. Finite elements in analysis and design, 42(2):152-168, 2005.
[54] N Sundararajan, T Prakash, Maloy K Singha, and M Ganapathi. Free vibration of functionally graded skew plates subjected to thermal environment. Journal of Aerospace Sciences and Technologies, 57(2):270-281, 2005.

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