Recent Advances in Theoretical, Applied, Computational and Experimental Mechanics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Multi-scale Simulation of Elastic Waves Containing Higher Harmonics

   • Ambuj Sharma, Sandeep Kumar, Amit Tyagi

   Pages 1-12

3. Effect of Skewness on Random Frequency Responses of Sandwich Plates

   • R. R. Kumar, Vaishali, K. M. Pandey, S. Dey

   Pages 13-20

4. Design and Simulation of 3-DoF Strain Gauge Force Transducer

   • Ankur Jaiswal, H. P. Jawale, Kshitij Shrivastava

   Pages 21-35

5. A Micromechanical Study of Fibre-Reinforced Composites with Uncertainty Quantification and Statically Equivalent Random Fibre Distribution

   • S. Koley, P. M. Mohite, C. S. Upadhyay

   Pages 37-48

6. Free Vibration Analysis of Laminated Composite Plates and Shells Subjected to Concentrated Mass at the Centre

   • Arpita Mandal, Chaitali Ray, Salil Haldar

   Pages 49-57

7. Buckling Analysis of Thick Isotropic Shear Deformable Beams

   • Kedar S. Pakhare, Rameshchandra P. Shimpi, P. J. Guruprasad

   Pages 59-65

8. Spectral Finite Element for Dynamic Analysis of Piezoelectric Laminated Composite Beams

   • Namita Nanda

   Pages 67-80

9. Determination of Interlaminar Stress Components in a Pretwisted Composite Strip by VAM

   • Santosh B. Salunkhe, P. J. Guruprasad

   Pages 81-108

10. A Study on Wrinkling Characteristics of NBR Material

    • Vaibhav S. Pawar, Rajkumar S. Pant, P. J. Guruprasad

    Pages 109-117

11. First Ply Failure Study of Laminated Composite Conoidal Shells Using Geometrically Nonlinear Formulation

    • Kaustav Bakshi, Dipankar Chakravorty

    Pages 119-131

12. Analysis of Transformed Sixth-Order Polynomial for the Contraction Wall Profile by Using OpenFOAM

    • R. Lakshman, Ranjan Basak

    Pages 133-144

13. Fatigue Life Assessment of an Existing Railway Bridge in India Incorporating Uncertainty

    • Mrinal Chanda, Kishore Chandra Misra, Soumya Bhattacharjya

    Pages 145-154

14. Numerical Simulation of Acoustic Emission Waveforms Generated by Tension and Shear Cracks in RCC Beams

    • Arun Roy, Paresh Mirgal, Sauvik Banerjee

    Pages 155-170

15. Applicability of Tricycle Modelling in the Simulation of Aircraft Steering System

    • S. Sathish, L. Suryanarayanan, J. Jaidev Vyas, G. Balamurugan

    Pages 171-183

16. Free Vibration and Stress Analysis of Laminated Box Beam with and Without Cut-Off

    • Raj B. Bharati, Prashanta K. Mahato, E. Carrera, M. Filippi, A. Pagani

    Pages 185-196

17. Free Vibration Analysis of the Functionally Graded Porous Circular Arches in the Thermal Environment

    • Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Talha

    Pages 197-207

18. Vibration Response of Shear Deformable Gradient Plate with Geometric Imperfection

    • Ankit Gupta, Mohammad Talha

    Pages 209-219

19. Characterization of 2D Nanomaterials for Energy Storage

    • Akarsh Verma, Avinash Parashar

    Pages 221-226

20. Cold Expansion of Elongated Hole: A Realistic Finite Element Simulation

    • S. Anil Kumar, N. C. Mahendra Babu

    Pages 227-238

This volume contains selected papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Theoretical, Applied, Computational and Experimental Mechanics. The papers come from diverse disciplines, such as aerospace, civil, mechanical, and reliability engineering, physics, and navel architecture. The contents of this volume focus on different aspects of mechanics, namely, fluid mechanics, solid mechanics, flight mechanics, control, and propulsion. This volume will be of use to researchers interested in the study of mechanics across disciplines.

• Fluid Mechanics
• Solid Mechanics
• Flight Mechanics and Control
• Propoulsion
• Turbomachinery
• Navigation Systems
• Aeroelasticity

• Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India

  B. N. Singh, Arnab Roy, Dipak Kumar Maiti

B. N. Singh is a HAL Chair Professor and former Head of Aerospace Engineering Department and currently Dean (HR) at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India. Prof. Singh has more than 25 years of teaching and research experience. His work focuses on aerospace composite structures and its uncertainty quantification and he has developed several stochastic and deterministic mathematical models and their applications in aerospace structural components made of smart composites. Prof. Singh  has published more than 130 papers in reputed journals and more than 85 conference papers. 
 
Arnab Roy is a Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at IIT Kharagpur. His research areas include the development of high accuracy Navier Stokes solvers for LES and DNS for incompressible flows- studies on bluff bodies, jets and associated instabilities, reaction control system jets in supersonic cross flow, low Reynolds number airfoils forfixed wing UAV/ MAV applications and Particle Image Velocimetry for flapping wing aerodynamic studies. He has published 3 book chapters, 38 research papers in reputed journal and conferences
 
Dipak Kumar Maiti is Professor and Former Head, Department of Aerospace Engineering at IIT Kharagpur, prior to which he has worked at ADA Bangalore and Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Bombay. His research interest include  aeroelastic analysis of smart lifting, surface analysis of smart landing gear, structural health monitoring and FE analysis of smart multidirectional composites. He has authored over 80 international journal papers, over 70 conference papers and 50 technical reports related to various projects.

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