Curators' Distinguished Professor
Director of Composite Manufacturing Laboratory
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Missouri University of Science and Technology
188 Toomey hall
Rolla, MO 65409-1350
Phone: 573-341-4587
chandra@mst.edu
Composite Materials and Structures, Additive Manufacturing, Multifunctional Composites, Biocomposites, Composite Manufacturing and Experimental Characterization, Finite Element Analysis, Multiscale / Multiphysics Modeling.
Curators' Distinguished Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology (formerly University of Missouri - Rolla) | 2008 - date |
Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Missouri - Rolla | 1997 - 2007 |
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Missouri - Rolla | 1991 - 1997 |
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Missouri - Rolla | 1985 - 1991 |
Graduate Research Assistant, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA | 1982 - 1985 |
Assistant Engineer, Structural Design Group, Tata Consulting Engineers, India | 1980 - 1982 |
SAMPE Journal Feature Article | 2012, 2016 |
Intelligent Systems Center (ISC) Distinguished Investigator Award | 2014 |
U.S. Patent Number: 8,481,622 B2, Soybean Based Epoxy Resin and Methods of Making and Use | 2013 |
American Foundry Society Conference, Best Paper Award | 2012 |
Global Learning Outstanding Teaching Commendation Award | 2011 |
Society of American Military Engineers Award for Innovative Materials Development | 2008 |
School of Extended Learning Outstanding Teaching Commendation Award | 2007 |
Editorial Board Member -Journal of Biobased Materials & Bioenergy | 2006 |
NSF-PATH Advisory Panel Member | 2004 |
Keynote Speaker - International Conference on Recent Advances in Composites | 2004 |
Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers | 2002 |
Academy of Mechanical Engineers Faculty Research Excellence Award | 2000 |
University of Missouri Faculty Excellence Awards | 1994,1996,2001 |
ASTM Delamination Round Robin Participant | 1990-1992 |
# | Project | Sponsor |
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1 | Polymer Additive Manufacturing for Composite Applications | America Makes/Boeing/ Stratasys/Impossible Objects |
2 | Additive Manufacturing of Metallic Lattice Structures | Honeywell/Spirit AeroSystems |
3 | Multiscale/ Multiphysics Modeling to Predict Manufacturing-Induced Defects in Autoclave Composite Airframe parts | NAVAIR/Technical Data Analysis |
4 | Manufacturing of Composite Aircraft Structures Using Out-of-Autoclave Process | Air Force Research Lab/ Boeing/GKN Aerospace /Spirit AeroSystems |
5 | Hydrokinetic Turbine System for Energy Harvesting | Office of Naval Research/ Department of Energy |
6 | Continuous Fiber Reinforced Ceramic Composite using Polymer Precursors | Air Force Research Lab/Advanced Technology Institute |
7 | Fiber Reinforced Transparent Composite | General Dynamics/ NAVAIR /NASA/MO-Sci Corp. |
8 | Hot Rolling Simulation of Steel using Non-linear Material Models | Gerdau/ Nucor/ U.S. Steel/ SSAB |
9 | Process Modeling of Cavity Molded Composite Flex Beams | Bell Helicopter/Textron |
10 | Modeling and Simulation of Hot Radial Forging Process | U.S. Army/ Benet Labs |
11 | Strain Monitoring of BMI Composites using Embedded Fiber Optic Sensors | NAVAIR/Boeing |
12 | Manufacturing and Performance Evaluation of Biocomposites | National Science Foundation/ U.S. Department of Agriculture |
13 | Composite Hydrogen Storage Cylinder | U.S. Department of Transportation |
14 | Development of Soy Based Resin and Foam | United Soybean Board/ Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council |
15 | Design and Construction of a Smart Composite Bridge | Missouri Department of Transportation/U.S. Department of Commerce |
16 | Smart Composite Structures | Office of Naval Research/Army Research Office |
17 | Composite Materials for Affordable Housing | U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development |
18 | Advanced Materials for Infrastructures: Multidisciplinary Curriculum | National Science Foundation |
19 | Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis of V-Ribbed Belt Tracking System | MarkIV Automotive/Dayco Products |
20 | Microwave Processing of Composites | NAVAIR |
1 | Amir Yahyavi | 1990 |
2 | Alavandi Bhimaraddi | 1991 |
3 | Shabeer Ahamed | 2006 |
4 | Sundararaman Saikrishna | 2006-2010 |
5 | Raju Vuppalapati | 2013-2014 |
1 | Arun Garg | 2002-2004 |
1 | Subir Roy, M. S. Thesis (EM) | 1988 |
2 | Pranabendra Sharma, M. S. Thesis (EM) | 1988 |
3 | Shankar Krishnaswamy, M. S. Thesis (EM) | 1989 |
4 | Kiran M. Bangera, M. S. Thesis (ME) | 1990 |
5 | Fanghui Jiang, M. S. Thesis (EM) | 1991 |
6 | Mahmood Farhadinia, Ph. D. Dissertation (EM) | 1992 |
7 | Amit Agarwal, M. S. Thesis (ME) | 1992 |
8 | Kamlesh Bhatia, M. S. Thesis (ME) | 1992 |
9 | Ram Tenneti, M. S. Thesis (ME) | 1993 |
10 | Timothy G. Schroeder, M. S. Thesis (ME) | 1993 |
11 | Roland R. Kilcher, M. S. Thesis (EM) | 1994 |
12 | Rahim Zamanian, M. S. Thesis (EM) | 1994 |
13 | Mahesh Kolli, M. S. Thesis (ME) | 1994 |
14 | Jerry Thoman, M. S. Thesis (ME) | 1995 |
15 | Prabhakar Donthireddy, M. S. Thesis (ME) | 1995 |
16 | Sharad Varadarajan, M. S. Thesis (ME) | 1996 |
17 | Sri Prakash Navaneetham, M. S. Thesis (ME) | 1996 |
18 | Christopher S. Smyser, M. S. Thesis (ME) | 1996 |
19 | Yuping Jiang, Ph. D. Dissertation(ME) | 1996 |
20 | Farhad Akhavan, Ph.D. Dissertation (EE) | 1998 |
21 | Chuanqing Jiang, M. S. Thesis (EM) | 1998 |
22 | Rajesh K. Krishnamoorthy, M. S. Thesis (CE) | 1998 |
23 | Manish T. Valoor, M. S. Thesis (ME) | 1998 |
24 | Charles S. Sloan, M. S. Thesis | 1998 |
25 | Minjie Xu, M. S. Thesis (ME) | 1999 |
26 | Abha Lunia, M. S. Thesis (ME) | 1999 |
27 | Nicholas Berring, M. S. Thesis (ME) | 2000 |
28 | Prakash Kumar, M. S. Thesis (ME) | 2000 |
29 | James Castle, M. S. Thesis (ME) | 2001 |
30 | Jiang Zhu, Ph. D. Dissertation (ME) | 2002 |
31 | Yuelin Shen, Ph. D. Dissertation (ME) | 2002 |
32 | Arun Garg, M. S. Thesis (ME) | 2002 |
33 | Timothy Moran, M. S. Thesis (AE) | 2002 |
34 | Saikrishna Sundararaman, M. S. Thesis (ME) | 2002 |
35 | Guiyong Song, Ph. D. Dissertation (ME) | 2004 |
36 | Rupali Yadav, M. S. Thesis (ME) | 2005 |
37 | Guanghui Liang, Ph.D. Dissertation (ME) | 2005 |
38 | Saikrishna Sundararaman, Ph. D. Dissertation (ME) | 2005 |
39 | Ahamed Shabeer, Ph. D. Dissertation (ME) | 2005 |
40 | Vishnu T. Guntupalli, M. S. Thesis (ME) | 2007 |
41 | Girish Menta, M. S. Thesis (ME) | 2007 |
42 | Rama Vuppalapati, M. S. Thesis (ME) | 2007 |
43 | Josef Seale, M. S. Thesis (AE) | 2007 |
44 | Jason Gallagher, M. S. Thesis (AE) | 2008 |
45 | Jianbing Hu, Ph. D. Dissertation (ME) | 2008 |
46 | Prathyush BheemReddy, M. S. Thesis (ME) | 2010 |
47 | Rama Butukuri, M. S. Thesis (ME) | 2011 |
48 | Jian Chen, Ph. D. Dissertation (ME) | 2011 |
49 | Venkatagireesh Menta, Ph. D. Dissertation (ME) | 2011 |
50 | Rama Vuppalapati, Ph. D. Dissertation (ME) | 2012 |
51 | Nathaniel Richie, M. S. Thesis (ME) | 2011 |
52 | Nathan Roe, M. S. Thesis (ME) | 2011 |
53 | Sriram Nagarajan, M.S. Thesis (ME) | 2012 |
54 | Stephen Hawkins, M.S. Thesis (ME) | 2012 |
55 | James Robert Nicholas, M.S. Thesis (ME) | 2013 |
56 | Sudharshan Anandan, M.S. Thesis (ME) | 2013 |
57 | Haifeng Li, Ph. D. Dissertation (ME) | 2014 |
58 | Venkata Bheemreddy, Ph. D. Dissertation (ME) | 2014 |
59 | Abdulaziz M. Abutunis, M.S. Thesis (ME) | 2014 |
60 | Mohaned Mohamed, Ph. D. Dissertation (ME) | 2014 |
61 | Gregory Allen Taylor, M.S. Thesis (AE) | 2014 |
62 | Abdulaziz M. Abutunis, M.S. Thesis (ME) | 2014 |
63 | Robert Raymond Meinders, M.S. Thesis (AE) | 2015 |
64 | Zhen Huo, Ph. D. Dissertation (ME) | 2016 |
65 | James Nicholas, Ph. D. Dissertation (ME) | 2016 |
66 | Sudharshan Anandan, Ph. D. Dissertation (ME) | 2018 |
67 | Xin Wang, Ph. D. Dissertation (ME) | 2018 |
68 | Rafid Hussein, Ph. D. Dissertation (ME) | 2018 |
69 | Gurjot S. Dhaliwal, Ph. D. Dissertation (ME) | 2018 |
70 | Gregory Allen Taylor, Ph. D. Dissertation (AE) 2018 | 2018 |
71 | Sivasai K. Dasari, M.S. Thesis (ME) | 2019 |
72 | Manojkumarreddy Rangapuram, M.S. Thesis (ME) | 2019 |
73 | Abdulaziz M. Abutunis, Ph. D. Dissertation (ME) 2019 | 2019 |
74 | David Murphy, M.S. Thesis (ME) | 2020 |
75 | Mokhtar Fal, Ph. D. Dissertation (ME) 2020 | 2020 |
76 | Robert Raymond Meinders, Ph. D. Dissertation (AE) 2020 | 2020 |
77 | Shouvik Ganguly, Ph. D. Dissertation (ME) | (In Progress) |
78 | Okanmisope A. Fashanu, Ph.D. Dissertation (ME) | (In Progress) |
79 | Sivasai K. Dasari, Ph.D. Dissertation (ME) | (In Progress) |
80 | Manojkumarreddy Rangapuram, Ph.D. Dissertation (ME) | (In Progress) |
81 | Cody Bivens, M.S. Thesis (AE) | (In Progress) |
1 | David Neely (BSME) | 2005 |
2 | Benjamin Hobbs (BSME) | 2006 |
3 | Matthew Brown (BSME) | 2007 |
4 | Justin Kolker (BSME) | 2007 |
5 | John Oster (BSME) | 2009 |
6 | Alyssa Packard (BSME) | 2011 |
7 | Michelle Gegel (BSME) | 2014 |
8 | David Murphy (BSME) | 2017 |
9 | Alexander D. Wood, BSAE | 2020 |
10 | Dillon Ruble, BSAE | 2020 |
ME/AE 5282 | Introduction to Composite Materials & StructuresIntroduction to fiber-reinforced composite materials and structures with emphasis on analysis and design. Composite micromechanics, lamination theory and failure criteria. Design procedures for structures made of composite materials. An overview of fabrication and experimental characterization. |
ME/AE 5212 | Introduction to Finite Element AnalysisVariational formulation of the governing equations. Finite element model, interpolation functions, numerical integration, assembly of elements and solution procedures. Applications to solid mechanics, fluid mechanics and heat transfer problems. Two-dimensional problems. Computer implementation and use of commercial finite element codes. |
ME/AE 6212 | Advanced Finite Element AnalysisHigher order, isoparametric and mixed finite elements. Eigenvalue and time-dependent problems. Solution procedures for dynamic analysis. Implicit and explicit methods. Applications to viscous incompressible fluid and plate bending problems. Three-dimensional problems. Nonlinear finite element analysis. Practical applications using commercial software. |
B. D. Agarwal, L. J. Broutman, and K. Chandrashekhara, Analysis and Performance of Fiber Composites, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, Fourth Edition 2018 (ISBN 978-1-119-38998-9).