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. Patil et al. 2025. Stochastic dynamics of flexbeam like structures. AIAA (accepted)

2. Punith et al. 2024. Three-dimensional braided composites with auxetic behavior in the transverse plane and equal Poisson’s ratios along principal directions. Polymer Composites (accepted)

3. Priyanka Patil, Susmita Naskar, Guruprasad, P. J. 2024. Multi-scale stochastic dynamic analysis of a damaged pretwisted composite strip. Journal of Composite Materials (accepted)

4. Bhalerao et al. 2024. Science with the Daksha high energy transients mission. Experimental Astronomoy (accepted)

5. Bhalerao et al. 2024. Daksha: on alert for high energy transients. Experimental Astronomy (acceped)

6. Ahamed Ali N, Pandi Pitchai, Guruprasad, P. J. 2024. Determination of the effective thermal conductivity of composites under the influence of an imperfect interface using a variational asymptotic based method. Archives of Applied Mechanics (accepted)

7. Chetna Srivastava et al. 2024. Effect of damage evolution on the auxetic behaviour of 2D and 3D re-entrant type geometries. Mechanics of Materials (accepted)

8. Avinash Kumar Saurav, Lalit Bhola, Mujumdar, P. M., Guruprasad, P. J. 2024. Equivalent plate model of shape memory polymer composite based variable height corrugated structure. Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures (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 and structures

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