Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Room No. 18,
Department of Aerospace Engineering
IIT Kanpur,
Kanpur - 208016
Solid Mechanics; Non-linear deformation; Plasticity; Crystal Plasticity; Fracture; Fatigue; Creep; Finite Element Method; Multi-scale Method.
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, US (2011).PhD thesis title: Wavelet transformation based multi-time scale method for fatigue crack initiation in polycrystalline alloysPhD thesis supervisor: Prof. Somnath Ghosh
M.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India (2004).
B. E. in Mechanical Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India (2002).
Mechanics and Numerical Methods
As Instructor: Mechanics of Solids (UG 2nd Year compulsory) Solid Mechanics (PG elective) Continuum Mechanics (PG elective) Aircraft Structural Analysis 1 and 2 (PG compulsory) Composite Materials (PG elective) Dynamics and Vibration (PG elective) Mechanical Properties of Materials (PG compulsory) Materials Processing (PG compulsory) Introduction to Finite Element Methods (PG elective)
Mechanics and Mathematics
As Tutor: Partial Differential Equations (UG compulsory 1st Year) Complex Analysis (UG compulsory 1st Year) Engineering Drawing (UG compulsory 1st Year) Mechanics of Solids (UG compulsory 2nd Year)
Dynamics
Courses taught: - Dynamics and Vibration (PG elective)
Mechanics of Materials
Courses taught: - Composite Materials (PG elective) - Mechanical Properties of Materials (PG compulsory)
Thermodynamics and Phase Transformation
Courses taught: - Materials Processing (PG compulsory)
Numerical Method
Courses taught: - Introduction to Finite Element Methods (PG elective) - Introduction to Non-linear Finite Element Method (TEQIP course)
Fuel Modeling and Simulation Department, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, Idaho, US. (Post-Doc: Sept 2012-March 2014; Staff: April 2014-September 2016)
Post-Doctoral Researcher in Dept. of Civil Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, US. (June 2012-August 2012)
Post-Doctoral Researcher in Dept. of Mechanical Engineering at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, US. (Jan 2012-May 2012)
Mechanical Engineer at GE Global Research Center, Bangalore, India. (August 2004-July 2006)
Physics-based process modelling of Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP): Influence of hydrostatic pressure and temperature on consolidation / density distribution
Sponsor: DMRL
Concurrent Multi-scale Method for Micro-crack Propagation in Polycrystalline Alloys
Sponsor: SERB
Modeling Thermo-mechanical fatigue of a near alpha Titanium Alloy for Compressor Disc/Bling Applications
Sponsor: ARDB
Syed Mustafa Kazim, September 2023
Nazim Khan, November 2023