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Senior Research Associate

University of Southern California

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Founder, Nilakantan Composites

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Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Multifunctional Composites

Dr. Gaurav Nilakantan

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Announcements

 

- Please click here to visit the website of Nilakantan Composites, the company that owns and markets DYNAFAB - an automated preprocessor to create finite element (FE) models of 2D and 3D textile composites**. DYNAFAB has been commercially launched.

 

- Dr. Nilakantan is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Multifunctional Composites (click here). This new journal was launched in 2013. 

 

Research Interests

 

- Large scale, dynamic, non linear finite element analysis
- Simulating the ballistic impact of woven fabrics and textile composites
- Material model development of fiber, yarn, fabric, and composite structures
- Multiscale modeling of composite materials and structures
- Probabilistic computational techniques
- V0 to V100 penetration response of composite armor
- Experimental and statistical characterization of composite materials
- Preprocessors to automatically create FE models of textile composites

- Fiber-matrix interface characterization and modeling
- Permeability modeling of textile composites

- Fluid-Structure interaction

- Sustainable manufacturing of composites using OOA-VBO prepregs
- Impact simulations and Crashworthiness using LS-DYNA
- Dynamic axial crushing of cylindrical shells
- Occupant survivability during crash, mine blast
- Energy absorbing structures
(click here to see some sample research movies)

 

 

Professional Affiliations and Memberships

 

- American Society for Composites (ASC)
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
- Golden Key International Honor Society
- International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM)
- International Ballistics Society (IBS)
- Sigma Xi
- Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE)
- Textile Institute
- The American Ceramic Society (ACerS)

- The Fiber Society
- United States Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM)

 

Brief Introduction

 

I am the Editor of the Journal of Multifunctional Composites and the founder of Nilakantan Composites. I currently am a Senior Research Associate in the Mork Family Dept. of Chemical Eng & Materials Sci and the M C Gill Composites Center at the University of Southern California. I previously worked as a Research Associate at the Center for Composite Materials, University of Delaware. I hold a PhD degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Delaware and Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati.

 

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Click on the button below to view my LinkedIn profile. You can also join my LinkedIn group “A2E - Armor, Ballistics, Composites, and Defense Experts” by clicking the button below or by clicking here.

 

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