Personal Information
Full Name: Prof. P J Guruprasad
Room No: 208A, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Phone: 25767142
Email: pjguru[at]aero.iitb.ac.in
Website: http://www.aero.iitb.ac.in/~pjguru/

Specialization: Structures

Background

    Professor: Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, India (2022 - present)

    Associate Professor: Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, India (2017 - 2022)

    Assistant Professor: Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, India (2011 - 2017)

    Post Doctoral Researcher: Centre des Materiaux, Ecole des Mines de Paris (Mines ParisTech), Paris, France (2010 - 2011)

    Education:

    PhD: Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA (2005-2010)

    MS: Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (2002-2005)

    BE: Mechanical Engineering, B.M.S. College of Engineering, Bangalore, India (1998-2002)

Awards & Fellowships

    First prize presentation: Materials Science Division, 12th Annual Student Research Week, March 2009, Texas A&M University.

    Travel award from US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, May 2009.

    Top 25 Hottest Articles: Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids

    Top 25 Hottest Articles: Acta Materialia

    Young Faculty Award, IIT Bombay, 2011.
R&D
Publications: 

1. Tawqeer Nasir Tak, Aditya Prakash, Keralavarma, S. M., Indradev Samajdar, Guruprasad, P. J. 2023. A Discrete Dislocation Dynamics model of creep in polycrystals. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 179: 105385 (download)

2. Tawqeer Nasir Tak, Aditya Prakash, Indradev Samajdar, Amine Benzerga, Guruprasad, P. J. 2023. A discrete dislocation dynamics framework for modeling polycrystal plasticity with hardening. Int. J of Solids and Structures, 281: 112442 (download)

3. Lalit Bhola, Saurav, A. K., Mujumdar, P. M., Guruprasad, P. J. 2023. A numerical approach for modeling response of shape memory polymer composite corrugated structure. Smart Materials and Structures, 32(8):085004 (download)

4. Chetna Srivastava, Vinyas Mahesh, Pandi Pitchai, Guruprasad, P. J., Dineshkumar Harursampath, Sathiskumar A Ponnusami. 2023. Determination of the elastic properties of auxetic materials using variational asymptotic method based homogenization. Journal of Applied Mechanics, 1-38 (download)

5. Aditya Prakash, Tawqeer Nasir Tak, Namit N. Pai, Harita Seekala, S. V. S. Narayana Murty, P. S. Phani, Sivasambhu Mahesh, Guruprasad, P. J., Indradev Samajdar. 2023, Inception of macroscopic shear bands during hot working of Aluminum alloys. International Journal of Plasticity, 166: 103632 (download)

R&D Areas/Projects: 

    Mechanics of Materials

    1. Effect of prior particle boundaries on the deformation of powder metallurgy nickel-based superalloys using discrete dislocation interactions (Sponsoring agency: DMRL (DRDO lab),  2021 - 23)

    2. Development of novel shape memory composite for morphing aircraft application (Sponsoring agency: DRDO, 2017 - 24)

PhD TA Topics: 

    Mechanics of materials

Teaching
Courses Taught: 

AE 443/673: Introduction to fiber reinforced composites

AE 639: Continuum Mechanics

AE 715/433: Vibrations and Structural Dynamics

AE 484/649: Introduction to Finite Element Method