Email: rudraa@umich.edu
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Education

• PhD, Mechanical Engineering and Scientific Computing (expected 2010)
  Thesis: "On the analysis and numerical simulation of crack propagation in fiber reinforced composites" (more)
  Advisors: Prof.Anthony Waas, Prof.Krishna Garikipati
• MS, Aerospace Engineering (2009)
• MS, Mechanical Engineering (2007)
• B.Tech, Mining Machinery Engineering (2005) @ Indian School of Mines (ISM Dhanbad), India

Honours:

• The Jefferson Goblet Award for the best student paper at the 50th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, May 2009, Palm Springs, CA. (more)
• DAAD scholarship for the International Association for Exchange of Students for Technical Experience (IAESTE) exchange programme, May 2004. (more)
• ISM (Ministry of Human Resource Development, India) Scholarship, May 2001-April 2005. Full tuition fee & living expenses coverage for undergraduate education.

Projects:

• Modeling fracture and failure in laminated composites using the Variational Multiscale Cohesive Method (2008-ongoing).
  Sponsor: NASA, Collier Research (Ares V Integrated Vehicle Health Management project)
• Damage progression and failure using cohesive elements in finite element codes: An investigation to improve convergence incorporating physics based modeling techniques (2007-2008).
  Sponsor: Boeing (787 Dreamliner project)
• Development of a comprehensive FEA post-processor for J-integral calculations in standard fracture models. (2005-2006).
  Sponsor: Institute for Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics, TU Freiberg, Germany.
• Vibration analysis based rotor unbalance fault detection and correction (2004-2005).
  Sponsor: University Grants Commission (UGC), India.
• Implementation of 3D J-integral calculation procedure in ANSYS parametric language (2004).
  Sponsor: , FZD, Dresden, Germany.