Dr. Gaurav Nilakantan

Research

 

Development of an Anti-Whiplash (AW) Seat for a passenger vehicle subjected to rear impact, using LSDYNA

 

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Noise Testing, Modeling, Analysis - Noise pollution

(Undergraduate Research - I)

 

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Powder metallurgy: Optimization of the Tungsten reduction process parameters to obtain coarse grain tungsten powder (Undergraduate Research - II)

 

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Dynamic axial crushing of circular tubes: Numerical formulation (Graduate Research - University of Cincinnati)

 

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Development of an analytical model for the ballistic impact of single yarns and woven fabrics (Graduate Research - University of Cincinnati / University of Delaware)

 

 

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Numerical simulation and injury assessment of occupant lower leg impact during a mine blast under an armored vehicle, using LSDYNA (Graduate Research - University of Cincinnati)

 

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Numerical simulation and development of an energy absorbing seat to increase occupant survivability during a mine blast under an armored vehicle, using LSDYNA (Graduate Research - University of Cincinnati)

 

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Development of a material model for ballistic impact of loose woven fabrics modeled as a homogenous membrane and implementation as a UMAT in LSDYNA (Graduate Research - University of Cincinnati)

 

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Numerical simulation of vehicle crashworthiness including occupant injury assessment during frontal, side and rear collision, using LSDYNA

 

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NEW!! Automated preprocessors for creating FE models of plain weave fabrics and unidirectional composites for use in numerical simulations

 

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University of Delaware, USA

State of the Art in Finite Element Modeling of Woven Fabrics using 1D, 2D, and 3D elements (Graduate Research - University of Delaware)

 

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Role of Materials and Architecture on the Ballistic Impact Response of Flexible Textile Composites - 2D Vs 3D fabrics  (Graduate Research - University of Delaware)

 

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Modeling the Probabilistic Impact Response of Flexible Fabrics: Determining the V0 - V100 through Computational Techniques (Graduate Research - University of Delaware)

 

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Multiscale Modeling of Textile Composites - Hybrid Element Analysis (HEA) (Graduate Research - University of Delaware)

 

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E-mail    : nilakag@udel.edu

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