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Architected Materials Design and Manufacturing forNext-Generation Electric Vehicles & High-Speed Railway

The architected multi materials design approach facilitates effective utilization of high performance expensive materials in combination with low cost materials following the innovative design-materials-manufacturing approach in order to improve the overall performance of the futuristic electric vehicle and high speed railway.

Architected Materials Design and Manufacturing forNext-Generation Electric Vehicles & High-Speed Railway

R Gnanamoorthy

Principal Investigator

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R Gnanamoorthy

Area of Interest

R Gnanamoorthy

Principal investigator

Mechanical Engineering

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gmoorthy@iitm.ac.in
New Materials and Product Design & Manufacturing, Architected / Nano / Network Composites Surface Engineering, Damage Tolerant Design & Tribo Design, Failure and Root Cause Analysis
Piyush Shakya

Area of Interest

Piyush Shakya

Co-Principal investigator

Mechanical Engineering

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pshakya@iitm.ac.in
Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis, Structural Health Monitoring, Machine Elements (Rolling element bearings and gears), Signal Processing
Shankar Krishnapillai

Area of Interest

Shankar Krishnapillai

Co-Principal investigator

Mechanical Engineering

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skris@iitm.ac.in
Machine Design, Design Optimization, Dynamics and Structural Vibration, Product Reliabiity
Sourav Rakshit

Area of Interest

Sourav Rakshit

Co-Principal investigator

Mechanical Engineering

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srakshit@iitm.ac.in
Topology optimization, robotics
Sundararajan Natarajan

Area of Interest

Sundararajan Natarajan

Co-Principal investigator

Mechanical Engineering

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snatarajan@iitm.ac.in
Computational Mechanics, Moving Boundary Problems, Multi physics problems, Composite materials

Project

Research Objectives

  • Design, Development, and Validation of the Concept and Product Design with Architected Materials for Light Weight and Efficient Power Transmission (including –Numerical Analysis, Design Optimization, and Reliability Assessment)

  • Architected Lightweight Designs for Structural and Body Material Applications Design, Processing and Property assessment of Architected Polymer Nanocomposites

  • Design and Reliability Assessment of Metallic Foams as Fuel Cell Components

  • Modern Materials and Coatings for Minimizing the Failures in Bearings used in Traction Motors operating in Electrical Environment

Expected deliverables of the research

Current status

Ongoing Projects

Collaborations

External Collobaration

Forthcoming Events

  • 2nd International Conference on Mechanical Power Transmission with emaphsis on Advanced Materials & Manufacturing for Evs 2022

A few on-going projects …

  • Coating Design for Traction Motor Bearings (Prof Gnanamoorthy, Prof Sundarajan Natarajan, G V Balakrishna (PhD))

  • Drive Motor Bearing Performance Simulated Studies ((Prof Gnanamoorthy, Krishnau Monda (MS) G V Balakrishna (PhD))

  • Performance of Metallic Foam Based Fuel Cell (Prof Gnanamoorthy, G Venkatesh (PhD). Anupam (M Tech) )

  • Brake Pad Design using MultiMaterial Appraoch (Prof Gnanamoorthy, Dr Piyush, Dr Sourav, Sunil (PhD), Rajib (MS)

  • Natural Fibre Compsoites for Automotive Applications (Prof Gnanamoorthy, Dr Gurunathan)

  • Acoustic analysis of brake pads (Prof. Shankar Krishnapillai, Prof.Gnanamoorthy, Nakshatra Bannerjee (MTech))

  • Optimization of epicyclic gear box with tribological considerations(Prof. Shankar Krishnapillai, Dr. Ramkumar.P, Ashish Kumar(MS))

  • Additive manufacturing of composites (Prof.Shankar Krishnapillai, Prof R Velmurugan, Niranjan YC (PhD))

Societal impact