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Smart Materials & Structures Lab

Ph.D Students

Vikas_Rastogi
Dr. Vikas Rastogi
Ph.D. Topic
Rigidization studies on inflatable space structures
Year Awarded : 2024
Current Position
Manager R&D, Sure Saftey Ltd.

Parth_K_Kamaliya
Dr. Parth K Kamaliya
Ph.D. Topic
Analysing Crease-Wrinkle Behaviour of Thin-film Inflatable Space Structure
Year Awarded : 2023
Current Position
Assistant Professor, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda

Shinde_Swapnil_Dipak
Dr. S. D. Shinde
Ph.D. Topic
Tensioning and inflation system for gossamer space structures
Year Awarded : 2023
Current Position
Assistant Professor, NIT Rorukela

Hemant_Sharma
Dr. Hemant Sharma
Ph.D. Topic
Folding pattern design for gossamer space structures
Year Awarded : 2022
Current Position
Postdoctoral research fellow, Seoul National University, South Korea

Sachin_Patel
Dr. Sachin Patel
Ph.D. Topic
Dynamic Performance of Cylindrical Roller bearing
Year Awarded : 2022
Current Position
Assistant Professor, Govt. Engg. College Patan, Gujarat

Prashant_Tiwari
Dr. Prashant Tiwari
Ph.D. Topic
Automated Health State Assessment of Rolling Element Bearings
Year Awarded : 2020
Current Position
Assistant Professor, NIT Uttarakhand

Akhand_Rai
Dr. Akhand Rai
Ph.D. Topic
Condition Assessment and Residual Life Prediction of Rolling Element Bearing
Year Awarded : 2018
Current Position
Assistant Professor, School of Engg. & Applied Science, Ahmedabad University

SATISH_KUMAR
Dr. Satish Kumar
Ph.D. Topic
Active Dynamic Analysis and Control of Space Based Adaptive Membrane Structure
Year Awarded : 2018
Current Position
Assistant Professor, MNNIT Allahabad, Prayagraj

Jignesh_PPatel
Dr. Jignesh P. Patel
Ph.D. Topic
Bearing Condition Monitoring and Diagnosis through Artificial Intelligence Techniques
Year Awarded : 2016
Current Position
Associate Professor, U. V. Patel College of Engineering, Ganpat University

Preeti_Joshi
Dr. Preeti Joshi
Ph.D. Topic
Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube Composites and Their Mechanical Behavior
Year Awarded : 2016
Current Position
Assistant Professor, Amity University, Noida

Utkarsh_kumar_APatel
Dr. Utkarsh kumar A. Patel
Ph.D. Topic
Non-linear Vibration Analysis of Cylindrical Rolling Contact Bearing
Year Awarded : 2015
Current Position
Assistant Professor, L.D. College of Engineering, Gujarat

Panchal_Miteshbhai
Dr. Miteshbhai B. Panchal
Ph.D. Topic
Vibration Analysis of Boron Nitride Nano Tubes base Nano Mechanical Resonator
Year Awarded : 2014
Current Position
Associate Professor, Nirma University, Gujarat

Pandya_Divyang_Harivadan
Dr. Divyang H. Pandya
Ph.D. Topic
Dynamic Analysis of High Speed Rolling Element Bearings Due to Various Defects
Year Awarded : 2013
Current Position
Professor, LDRP Institute of Tech. & Research, Gandhinagar

Sachin_Chandrabhan_Gajbhiye
Dr. Sachin C. Gajbhiye
Ph.D. Topic
Dynamic Analysis of Inflatable Membrane Structure
Year Awarded : 2013
Current Position
Associate Professor, Govt. Engg. College Durg, Chhattisgarh

M.Tech Students

S.No. Name of Student Title of the Dissertation Graduation Year
1. Patil Bhaskar Exploration of dynamic behaviour of lightweight metasturcture in space domain 2025
2. Avdhoot Hole Design and development of compliant mechanism for uninterrupted ground communication in satellite 2025
3. Srikant Prasad Folding techniques and its implications on fabrication of inflatable military decoy 2024
4. Ram Chandra Yadav Dynamics analysis of inflatable decoys 2024
5. Md. Saniul Haque Actuation system for origami inspired miniature soft robotics 2024
6. Ahmed Sarif Miura ori Deployable folding pattern 2023
7. AJAY KUMAR Analysis of Wrinkle Control Strategies in a Creased Membrane 2022
8. AMAN VERMA Design of Folding Patterns for the Inflatable Torus Structure 2021
9. AHIRRAO DHIRAJ NARHARI Design and Analysis of Inflation System for Gossamer Space Structure 2021
10. PRASHANT KAUSHIK Wrinkle-Crease Analysis in Membrane Reflector 2020
11. MUKUL KUMAR Static Analysis of Inflatable Boom Structures 2020
12. MANJUL MAYANK SONI Design& Analysis of Connectors for Gossamer Structures 2020
13. SACHIN KUMAR Design and Analysis of Singly Curved Parabolic Membrane Reflector 2019
14. KUSHAGRA GUPTA Active Vibration Analysis and Control of Membrane Reflector 2018
15. PRASHANT TIWARI Health Management of Rolling Element Bearings Based on Combination Of Feature Reduction Methods and Data Driven Prognostics 2017
16. SOURABH RAJWADE Design and Analysis of Folding Patterns of Membrane Reflectors 2017
17. SUBHAM GUPTA Active Shape Control of A Membrane Reflector For A Space Application 2017
18. VIKAS RASTOGI To Study the Different Rigidization Techniques of A Space Membrane Reflector 2017
19. AMIT KUMAR Nonlinear Modelling and Analysis of Active Magnetic Bearing Systems 2016
20. AMIY CHANDRAUL Modal Analysis of Membrane Structure for Space Application 2016
21. SWAPNIL MANRAL Prognostics of Rolling Element Bearings using Hidden Markov Models 2016
22. KSHIRSAGAR ONKAR YASHWANT Transient Analysis of Journal Bearing System 2016
23. BORSE DEEPAK RAVINDRA Shape Control of Flexible Space Reflectors 2015
24. SATISH KUMAR Wrinkling Analysis of A Membrane For Space Application Structures 2015
25. PARVEEN KUMAR Adaptive Prognostics of High Speed Rolling Elements 2015
26. SAURABH KUMAR Dynamic Analysis of Single Walled BNNT Based Nanomechanical Resonator 2014
27. LOKESH KUMAR Vibration Analysis of Flexible Membrane Structure for Space Appication 2014
28. AKSHAY KUMAR Residual Life Prediction of High Speed Rolling Element Bearing by using Soft computing Techniques 2014
29. RAVI GARG Vibration Analysis of Rail Wheel Profile 2014
30. PARASA RAM Mathematical modeling and simulation of energy absorption in Aircraft Arrester Gear System 2014
31. SALUNKHE AKSHAY VINAYAK Diagnosis of High Speed Rolling Element Bearings by using Acoustic Techniques 2014
32. YADAV HIMANSHU KANTILAL Non-Linear Vibration Signature Analysis Of High Speed Roller Bearing 2013
33. PATEL NIMESHKUMAR BALDEVBHAI Fault Diagnosis of High Speed Rolling Element Bearing Using Acoustic Emission Techniques 2013
34. PRABHAT KUMAR TRIPATHI Dynamic Analysis Of Single Walled Boron Nitride Nanotube Reinforced Composites Based Mass Sensors 2013
35. SATISH GUPTA Vibration Control of Inflatable Torus 2013
36. PATEL VISHAL K. Dynamic Analysis of Wrinkling Membrane Structure For Space Application 2013
37. WAQUAR AHMED KHAN An Experimental Study For Fault Diagnostics of High Speed Rolling Element Bearings 2013
38. AVINASH ANAND Dynamic Analysis of Rail Wheel Interaction 2013
39. SARDHARA DIPAN Y Vibration Analysis of Inflatable structure 2012
40. ALOK MISRA Experimental Study to Analyze Vibration Response for a Rotor Bearing System 2012
41. PATIL PRAVIN GANPATI Health Diagnosis Of High Speed Ball Bearing Using Acoustic Emission Technique 2012
42. GURAV VINAYAK VASANT An Exprimental and Computational Study of Nonlinear Aspects of High Speed Bearing" 2012
43. SARAVANAN J. Combined Influnce of Wear on The Performance of 2-LOBE Six-Pocket Hybrid Journal Bearing System in Turbulance Regime 2012

B.Tech Students

S.No. Name of Student Title of the Project
1. Vinay Kumar Dynamic Modelling and Analysis of Multistorey Kresling Origami-Inspired Structures
2. Srishti Kumari
3. Tapishna Das
4. Yogesh D M
5. Banavath Naveen Naik Design and Development of Cable-net Structure for Mesh Antenna
6. Kaveti Srinivas Parameshwar
7. Kukkadapu Sai Srivardhin
8. Pithani Mohanish
9. Monaksh Nayak Programmable origami inspired metamaterial for extended space application field
10. Vishesh Goswami
11. Anubhav Aaryan
12. Aditya Mishra
13. Yash Vardhan Rai Design and Analysis of origami based structural Mechanics
14. Harsiddh Desai
15. Gautam Shetty
16. Akshat Gupta Design and Analysis of origami based structural Mechanics
17. Aryan Prasad
18. Rohit Bade
19. Parth Chhabra
20. Soumyajeet Jaiswal Analysis of Wrinkle Control Strategies in a Creased Membrane
21. Tamanna Rami
22. Aditya Verma Design and Development of Inflatable Space Antenna
23. Akash Tripathi
24. Ajay Mandrawlia
25. Akshay Meena Design and Analysis of Doubly curved Reflector
26. Jitendra Meena
27. Rishabh Bisht Design and Development of Inflatable Space Antenna
28. Mudit Singh
29. Prabhat Kumar
30. Ayush Tiwari Dynamic Analysis of Membrane for space application
31. Harshit Chopra
32. Sukrit Mittal Noise and Vibration Analysis of Dornier 228 Aircraft
33. Arpit Sharma
34. Praful Kumar Singh Control of RMS Values of Wrinkled Surface of Adaptive Membrane
35. Nihar Agrawal
36. Ankit Shrivastava Shape Control Action of Photostrictive Actuator on Adaptive Membrane
37. Harrit Diwan
38. Deepanshu Gupta
39. Jeevan Shankar Balagam Design of a Suitable Tilting pad Bearing for a VRM Gearbox
40. Pranav vani Vibration Analysis of Deployable Self-Inflating Adaptive Membrane for Space Applications
41. Jitendra Singh
42. Jainil Lakhani
43. Abhishek bansal
44. Krishna Parmar Mechanism of Landing Gear-Design Procedure and its Simulation
45. Anuj Dholakia
46. Shiv Parmar Design and Manufacturing of Vibrating Screening Machine
47. Chirag Patel
48. Nithya Iyer Performance Analysis of Expansion Joint
49. Animesh Kishan Singh Fault Diagnostic of High Speed a Machines
50. Akash Solanki
51. Paras Arora
52. Avinash Nigam Health Monitoring of Rolling Element Bearing using acoustic Emission
53. Manish Sawaiyan
54. Vinay Kumar
55. Nitish Goyal GUI Based Parametric Program for Modelling of Flat Inflatable Membrane and their mode shapes analysis
56. Royal Singla
57. Saurab Nagar
58. Shishir Guptha Prognostics of Rolling Elements Bearings
59. Truptesh Patel
60. Vishnu Tarar