Indian Institute of Technology Ropar

Biography

Dr. Navin Kumar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Ropar. Prior to joining IIT Ropar, he was working as a post doctoral fellow at Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersy, USA. Dr. Navin Kumar's research interests are related to both theoretical and experimental aspects of mechanics and dynamics of nano and smart materials and structures. His efforts are directed towards experimental design of nano-structured materials with properties tailored to meet macro-scale requirements that invariably requires model-based understanding of the structure-to-property relationships. He has investigated damage propagation and thermal conductivity of damaged nano structures using equilibrium and non-equilibrium molecular dynamic methods.

Research Interests

• Mechanics and dynamics of Bio and Nano materials and structures.
• Computational and experimental studies on Nano and Bio material characterization.
• Active and passive noise and vibration control.
• Active vibration isolation in MEMS devices.
• Energy harvesting using smart materials.
• Fault diagnostics and condition-monitoring.

Education

• Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, 2007
• M.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, 2002
• B.Tech., Aligarh Muslim University, India, 1997

Work Experience

• Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India, 2010-Present
  
• Post Doctoral Fellow, Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey, USA, 2007-09

1.Navin Kumar and S. P. Singh, Vibration Control of Curved Panel Using Smart Damping Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2012 (accepted)

2. Navin Kumar and Kishore Pochiraju, Dynamics of Virial Stress in Gold Lattic after Crack Initiation, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C, Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science(accepted) .

3. Navin Kumar and S. P. Singh, Experimental Study on Vibration and Damping of Curved Panel Treated with Constrained Viscoelastic Layer, Composite Structures, 2010, 92, 233–243. (Elsevier Journal, Impact factor, 1.454).

4. Navin Kumar and S. P. Singh, Vibration and damping characteristics of beams with active constrained layer treatments under parametric variations, Materials and Design, 2009, 30, 4162–4174 (Elsevier Journal, Impact factor, 1.028).

5. Navin Kumar, Sanjay Meena, S. P. Singh and B. C. Nakra, Vibration control of plate with partially covered active constrained layer damping, 2009, Advances in Vibration Engineering, 4 vol. 8, 327-338.

6. Navin Kumar and Kishore Pochiraju, 2009, Thermal Conductivity of the Damaged Gold Nanowires, 12th International Conference on Fracture, Ottawa, Canada.

7. Navin Kumar and Kishore Pochiraju, 2009, Spectral analysis of stress states using molecular dynamics simulations, Nanotech conference and exposition, Houston, TX, USA.

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