STRUCTURES

STRUCTURES TEACHING
COURSES
Aerospace Structures
Aircraft Structural Analysis, Solid mechanics, Composite
Materials & Structures, Stochastic Dynamics, Helicopter
Aero-elasticity,
Damage
Mechanics
of
Laminated
Composites, Fracture Mechanics,
Experimental Stress
Analysis, Finite Element Analysis

ELECTIVES
HELICOPTER DYNAMICS AND
AEROELASTICITY
THEORY OF SMART STRUCTURES

Structures Laboratory
Major Equipments
20 ton Universal Testing Machine.
Dynamic Mechanical Analyzer (DMA)
10 KN Universal Testing Machine
Laser Displacement Sensor
Torsion test set up.
300kip compression testing machine
An environment chamber and dewar
PXI Based Data Acquisition System
Composite making and testing facility

Structures Laboratory
Research Activities

Smart Materials & Structures

Noise & Vibration Suppression
Multi-scale material modeling
Stochastic modeling, damage
Helicopter Dynamics and
Aeroelasticity
Composites

Structures, Structural
Dynamics & Aero elasticity

Studies on helicopter rotor/fuselage dynamics

Fixed wing and rotary wing aero elasticity
Modeling and Analysis of Smart Structures
Damage Modeling and structural Health Monitoring
Experimental Investigation of Smart and Composite
Structures
Material Characterization
Stochastic Modeling
Linear and Non-Linear Vibrations
Structural Optimization
Multi Scale Material Modeling
Structural Dynamics
Intelligent / Autonomous Micro Air Vehicles design

Sponsored projects (last 5

years)
The department has completed a
large number of sponsored
research for agencies like AR&DB,
ADA, AOARD, BARC, BOEING,
BRNS, DAE, DRDO, DST, NAL, STC,
SERB ARMREB, ADA, ADE, ADRDE,
ASTE, AICTE, DST, DRDL, GTRE,
VSSC, ISRO, CSIR, HAL, MHRD,
HEMRL, CEMILAC, Indian Railways.
66 projects undertaken, 34 of
them have been completed.
Approximately 38.5 crores

Consultancy projects
Department is involved in 46
projects (~9.7 crores). 18 are on
going.
Some of the agencies are: ADA,
ARPOL, ADRDE, BGRES, BHARAT,
BHEL, CETHAR, DRDL, DRDO, DTL,
FHPL, GANNON, GTRE, HAL, HEWPL,
IBPIL, L&T, MIS, MISC,
NCC, NSTL, P&W, PAHAR, PWC,
SIMON,
SIMPLE, etc

PATENTS
Estimation of inertia tensor and center of gravity of a
vehicle on a three axis platform,Patent Application No.
2365/DEL/2007 Dated: 13-11-2007 (Sanjeev K.
Gupta, A. Kushari, C. S. Upadhyay and C. Venkatesan)
Profile measurement machine, Patent Application
No.1656/DEL/2007 Dated: 03-08-2007 (Sanjeev K.
Gupta, A. Kushari, C. S. Upadhyay and C. Venkatesan)
Piston based resister, Patent Application
No.1886/Del/2007 Dated:06-09-2007(Sanjeev K.
Gupta, A. Kushari, C. S. Upadhyay and C. Venkatesan)

PATENTS
Profile measuring Machine: Patent Application
No.1656/DEL/2007 Dated: 03-08-2007 (Sanjeev
K. Gupta, A. Kushari, C. S. Upadhyay and C.
Venkatesan)
Piston based resister: Patent Application
No.1886/Del/2007 Dated:06-09-2007(Sanjeev K.
Gupta, A. Kushari, C. S. Upadhyay and C. Venkatesan)
Estimation of inertia tensor and centre of gravity of a
vehicle on the three axis platform: Patent Application
No. 2365/DEL/2007 Dated: 13-11-2007 (Sanjeev
K. Gupta, A. Kushari, C. S. Upadhyay and C.
Venkatesan)

RESEARCH AREAS
Computational Aeroelasticity, dynamics
and vibration, mini-helicopter design
and fabrication
Stochastic analysis, design and analysis
of fastener systems (for Indian Railways)
Smart structure modeling and analysis
Composite structure analysis and
design, homogenization, generalized
damage mechanics.

New Research Initiatives

ACECOST program for composite

materials and structures
Damage and fracture mechanics
Shell and missile dynamics
Aero-acoustics, aeroelasticity and
aero-servo-elasticity

JOURNALS
Dynamic mechanical behavior of epoxy variant
sandwich structures, N. Rajesh and R. Kitey, 3rd Asian
Conference on Mechanics of Functional Materials and
Structures (ACMFMS), Dec 2012, IIT Delhi, India.
A hybrid experimental/numerical approach to
characterize interfacial adhesion in multilayer low-k
thin film specimens, R. Kitey, N. R. Sottos and P. H.
Geubelle, Thin Solid Films, 2010, V. 519, P. 337-344.
Mixed-mode interfacial adhesive strength of a thin
film on an anisotropic substrate, R. Kitey, P. H.
Geubelle and N. R. Sottos, Journal of Mechanics and
Physics of Solids, 2009, V. 57, I. 9, P. 51-66.

JOURNALS
Mixed-mode Dynamic Crack growth past a stiff inclusion:
Optical investigation of inclusion eccentricity and inclusionmatrix adhesion strength, R. Kitey and H. V. Tippur,
Experimental Mechanics, 2008, V. 48, I. 1, P. 37-53.
Role of particle size and filler-matrix adhesion on dynamic
fracture of glass-filled epoxy: II. Linkage between macro- and
micromeasurements, R. Kitey and H. V. Tippur,
ActaMaterialia, 2005,V. 53, P. 1167-1178.
Mohite PM and Upadhyay CS. Region-by-region modeling of
laminated composite plates, Computers and Structures, Vol.
85, 23-24, December 2007; 1808-1827.
Mohite PM and Upadhyay CS. A generalized adaptive analysis
of laminated plates, Vol. 112-113, December 2012, 217-234.

JOURNALS
Prasanna Kumar I, Mohite PM and Kamle S. Axial
compressive strength testing of single carbon fibres,
Archives of Mechanics, Vol. 65, 2013, 27-43.
V Murari, CS Upadhyay. Micromechanics based ply level
material degradation model for unidirectional
composites, Composite Structures, Vol. 94, 2012, 671680.
V Murari, CS Upadhyay. Micromechanics Based Diffuse
Damage Model for Unidirectional Composites,
Composite Structures, Vol. 96, 2013, 419-432.
Mohite PM and Upadhyay CS. A generalized adaptive
analysis of laminated plates, Vol. 112-113, December
2012, 217-234

JOURNALS
Amit Kr. Onkar, C. S. Upadhyay, D. Yadav*, Stochastic finite element
buckling analysis of laminated composite plates with circular cutout
under uniaxial compression ASME, Journal of Applied Mechanics,
2007, 74, 798-809.
Amit Kr. Onkar, C. S. Upadhyay, D. Yadav, Stochastic buckling
analysis of laminated plates with random material properties under
shear and compression AIAA Journal, 2007, 45, 8, 2005-2014.
K. Jayakumar, D. Yadav* and B. NageswaraRao, Nonlinear free
vibration analysis of generic coupled induced strain actuated Piezolaminated beams, ForschungimIngenieurwesen, 72, 2008, 153-162.
K. Jayakumar, D. Yadav* and B. NageswaraRao, Nonlinear Free
Vibration Analysis of Piezo-Laminated Plates with Random Actuation
Electric Potential Difference and Material Properties",
Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulations, 14,
2009, 1446-1663.