Gaurav Nilakantan

Publications

PUBLICATIONS

JOURNAL - PUBLISHED

· Computational Assessment of Occupant Injury Caused by Mine Blasts Underneath Infantry Vehicles, Gaurav Nilakantan; Ala Tabiei; International Journal of Vehicle Structures and Systems, Vol. 1, Issue 3, August 2009, pp. 50-58. (view pdf)

· Axial Crushing of Tubes as an Energy Dissipating Mechanism for the Reduction of Acceleration Induced Injuries from Mine Blasts underneath Infantry Vehicles, Ala Tabiei; Gaurav Nilakantan; International Journal of Impact Engineering, Vol. 36, Issue 5, May 2009, pp. 729-736. (view pdf)

· Global/Local Modeling of Ballistic Impact onto Woven Fabrics, M. Prabhakar Rao; Gaurav Nilakantan; Michael Keefe; Brian M. Powers; Travis A. Bogetti, Journal of Composite Materials, Vol. 43, Issue 5, March 2009, pp. 445-467. (view pdf)

· Ballistic Impact of Dry Woven Fabric Composites: A Review, Ala Tabiei; Gaurav Nilakantan; Applied Mechanics Reviews, Vol. 61, Issue 1, January 2008, pp. 10801-10813. (view pdf)

- Previously cited as #1 in the Monthly Top 10 Most Downloaded Articles of AMR, first citation appeared in February 2008 (click here)

JOURNAL - SUBMISSIONS

· Novel Computational Modeling of the Probabilistic Impact Response (V0 - V100) of Flexible Fabrics, Gaurav Nilakantan; Michael Keefe; Eric D. Wetzel; Travis A. Bogetti; John W. Gillespie, Jr.; International Journal of Solids and Structures, to be submitted March 2010.

· Experimental Evaluation and Statistical Characterization of the Strength Distribution of Kevlar KM2 Yarns: Accounting for Length Scale and Weaving Effects, Gaurav Nilakantan; Ahmad Abu-Obaid; Michael Keefe; John W. Gillespie, Jr.; Polymer Testing, submitted February 2010.

· On the Finite Element Analysis of Woven Fabric Impact Using Multiscale Modeling Techniques, Gaurav Nilakantan; Michael Keefe; Travis A. Bogetti; Rob Adkinson; John W. Gillespie, Jr.; International Journal of Solids and Structures, submitted December 2009.

· Multiscale Modeling of the Impact of Textile Fabrics Based on Hybrid Element Analysis, Gaurav Nilakantan; Michael Keefe; Travis A. Bogetti; John W. Gillespie, Jr.; International Journal of Impact Engineering, submitted November 2008.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

· Using LS-DYNA® to Computationally Assess the V0-V100 Impact Response of Flexible Fabrics Through Probabilistic Methods, Gaurav Nilakantan; Michael Keefe; Eric D. Wetzel; Travis A. Bogetti; Rob Adkinson; John W. Gillespie, Jr.; 11th International LS-DYNA Users Conference, Dearborn, MI, USA, June 6-8, 2010

· An Experimental and Numerical Study of the Impact Response (V50) of Flexible Plain Weave Fabrics: Accounting for Statistical Distributions of Yarn Strength, Gaurav Nilakantan; Cameron Showell; Ahmad Abu-Obaid; Michael Keefe; John W. Gillespie, Jr.; Travis A. Bogetti; Rob Adkinson; 1st Joint American-Canadian International Conference on Composites, 24th Annual ASC Technical Conference, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA, September 15-17, 2009 (view pdf)

· A Study of Material and Architectural Effects on the Impact Response of 2D and 3D Dry Textile Composites using LS-DYNA®, Gaurav Nilakantan; Michael Keefe; John W. Gillespie, Jr.; Travis A. Bogetti; Rob Adkinson; 7th European LS-DYNA Conference, Salzburg, Austria, May 14-15, 2009 (view pdf)

· A Numerical Investigation into the Effects of 3D Architecture on the Impact Response of Flexible Fabrics, Gaurav Nilakantan; Michael Keefe; John W. Gillespie, Jr.; Travis A. Bogetti; Rob Adkinson; Second World Conference on 3D Fabrics and their Applications, Greenville, South Carolina, USA, April 6-7, 2009 (view pdf)

· Simulating the Impact of Multi-layer Fabric Targets using a Multi-scale Model and the Finite Element Method, Gaurav Nilakantan; Michael Keefe; John W. Gillespie, Jr.; Travis A. Bogetti; TEXCOMP 9, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA, October 13-15, 2008 (view pdf)

· Modeling the Material and Failure Response of Continuous Filament Fabrics for use in Impact Applications, Gaurav Nilakantan; Michael Keefe; John W. Gillespie, Jr.; Travis A. Bogetti; TEXCOMP 9, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA, October 13-15, 2008 (view pdf)

· Novel Multi-scale Modeling of Woven Fabrics for use in Impact Studies, Gaurav Nilakantan; Michael Keefe; John W. Gillespie, Jr.; Travis A. Bogetti; 10th International LS-DYNA Users Conference, Dearborn, MI, USA, June 8-10, 2008 (view pdf)

· Novel Multi-scale Modeling of the Ballistic Impact of Plain Weave Fabrics using a Finite Element Analysis, Gaurav Nilakantan; Michael Keefe; John W. Gillespie, Jr.; Travis A. Bogetti; SAMPE ’08 University Research Symposium, Long Beach, CA, USA, May 18-21, 2008

· Reduction of Acceleration Induced Injuries from Mine Blasts under Infantry Vehicles, Ala Tabiei; Gaurav Nilakantan, 6th European LS-DYNA Users Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2007

· Dynamic Axial Crushing of Circular Tubes: A Novel Numerical Formulation, Gaurav Nilakantan, ASME ISC, Istanbul, Turkey, May 26-28, 2006

MISCELLANEOUS

· Modeling the Impact of Flexible Textile Composites through Multiscale and Probabilistic Methods, PhD Dissertation, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware, DE, USA, August 2010 (expected)

· Reduction of Crew Injury caused by Acceleration from IED/Mine Blast, Technical Paper Spotlight, FEA Information, Nov 2006

· Design and Development of an Energy Absorbing Seat and Ballistic Fabric Material Model to Reduce Crew Injury Caused by Acceleration from Mine/IED Blast, Gaurav Nilakantan, Master of Science Thesis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, OH, USA, August 2006

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