Advances in Applied Mechanics

Dr. Deepak Kumar is an assistant professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur, India (an Institute of National Importance, Government of India). He is working in the field of damage mechanics of composite materials, nanocomposites, smart materials, product design, and development of biomaterials. He received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from MAHE, India, Master's degree in Computer Aided Analysis and Design from BITS, Mesra, India, and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Gyeongsang National University, South Korea. His Ph.D. thesis was about a multiscale damage model for composite structures, which considered the onset and evolution of intra-laminar matrix cracking and interlaminar delamination in various ply-configurations considering the mixed mode failure. Deepak also gained valuable experimental expertise in the areas of automated fiber placement technologies and composite bolted-joint mechanics. His latestresearch interests are the development of nanocomposites for development of supercapacitor, energy devices and artificial tissues.

Dr. Vineet Sahoo is an assistant professor in Dept. of Mechanical Engineering at NIT Jamshedpur, India. His research focuses on design and development of special drives such as strain wave gears, LSHT orbit Motors, etc., which are used in precision power transmission and automation. He is particularly interested in understanding stress-strain behavior such as devices in static and dynamic conditions. He has a very good hand on experimentation of such precision devices. Recently, his work is focused on unraveling the design methodology of strain wave gears such that it can be developed indigenously. Further, Sahoo and his associates at NIT Jamshedpur seek to bring design evolutions in various mechanical components like bearings, gears and other power transmitting devices. He has more than 08 years of teaching experience. He has published 22 research