Dr. Amar Nath Roy Chowdhury

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Designation: 
Assistant Professor
Department: 

Department of Civil Engineering

Email: 

amarrc@iitrpr.ac.in

Areas of Research: 
Multiscale Structural Mechanics
Thin-Walled Structures
Structural Stability
Functionally Graded Beams and Plates
Composite Structures
Education: 
PhD-National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore (2010-2014). Thesis title: Comprehensive Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Carbon Nanotubes and Under Axial force or torsion or vibration and new continuum models. Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Wang Chien Ming (http://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/16698).
MTech-Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), Bombay, India (2006-2008). Thesis title: Estimation of hysteretic energy demand including P-Δ effect and asymmetry in plan of structure. Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Siddhartha Ghosh (https://www.civil.iitb.ac.in/~sghosh/).
BE-Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India (2002-2006).
Work Experience: 
Assistant Professor - Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar (2017 - ).
Post-doctoral Research Fellow – National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore (2014-2016).
Structural Engineer – Meinhardt Singapore Pvt. Ltd., Singapore (2008-2010).
Selected Publications/Patents: 

Fernando, D, Wang, C M, and Roy Chowdhury, A N (2018). Vibration of laminated-beams based on reference-plane formulation: Effect of end supports at different heights of the beam. Engineering Structures. 159, pp 245-251.

Wang, C M, Ke, L L, Roy Chowdhury, A N, Yang, J, Kitipornchai, S, and Fernando, D (2017). Critical examination of midplane and neutral plane formulations for vibration analysis of FGM beams. Engineering Structures, 130 (1), 275-281.

Roy Chowdhury, A N, Wang, C M, (2016). Bending, buckling, and vibration of equilateral simply supported or clamped triangular plates with rounded corners. Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 0(0), 04016074.

Roy Chowdhury, A N, Koh, S J A, and Wang, C M (2015). Nonlinear-elastic membrane-shell model for single-walled carbon nanotubes under uni-axial deformation. Computational Materials Science, 97, pp. 237-244.

Roy Chowdhury, A N, Wang, C M, and Koh, S J A (2014). Continuum shell model for buckling of single-walled carbon nanotubes with different chiral angles. International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics, 14 (4), Article No. 1450006.

Roy Chowdhury, A N, Wang, C M, and Koh, S J A (2014). Continuum shell model for buckling of armchair carbon nanotubes under compression or torsion. International Journal of Applied Mechanics, 6 (1), 1450006.

Rathore, M, Roy Chowdhury, A, and Ghosh, S (2011). Approximate methods for estimating hysteretic energy demand on plan-asymmetric buildings. Journal of Earthquake Engineering, 15, pp 99-123.

Roy Chowdhury, A, Ghosh, S (2010). The inclusion of P-Δ effect in the estimation of hysteretic energy demand based on modal pushover analysis, ISET Journal of Earthquake Technology, 47, pp 75-86.

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Book Chapter

Wang, C M, Roy Chowdhury, A N, Koh, S J A, and Zhang, Y Y (2014). Molecular dynamics simulation and continuum shell model for buckling analysis of carbon nanotubes. Modeling of carbon nanotubes, graphene and their composites, K. I. Tserpes, and N. Silvestre, eds., Springer International Publishing, pp. 239-273.

Conference Articles and Presentations

Roy Chowdhury, A N, and Wang, C M, Vibration analysis of stocky single-walled carbon nanotubes using operational modal analysis and a proposed continuum shell model, International Symposium on Engineering Science, Singapore, May 19-20, 2015.

Roy Chowdhury, A N, Koh, S J A, and Wang, C M, Nonlinear-elastic membrane-shell model for single-walled carbon nanotubes. 23rd International Workshop on Computational Mechanics of Materials, Singapore, October 2-4, 2013. (paper presented)

Roy Chowdhury, A N, Wang, C M, Molecular simulation results for axial buckling of double walled carbon nanotubes, The 7th International Conference on Advances in Steel Structures, Nanjing, China, April 14-16, 2012 (paper presented).

Wang, C. M., Roy Chowdhury, A N, Molecular dynamics simulation results for buckling of carbon nanotubes with small aspect ratios. International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation (ICCMS), IIT Hyderabad, December 2012.

Roy Chowdhury, A, Ghosh, S, Approximate methods for estimating hysteretic energy demand on plan-asymmetric buildings. WCCE-ECCE-TCCE Joint Conference on Earthquake and Tsunami, Istanbul, Turkey, June 22-24, 2009.

Roy Chowdhury, A, Ghosh, S, Estimation of hysteretic energy demand including P-Δ effect using equivalent systems. International Workshop on Earthquake Hazards and Mitigation (EHAM) held at IIT Guwahati in December 2007 (paper presented).

Das, A, Roy Chowdhury, A, and Das, M, Nonlinear Deflection Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Beams, 12th Institute of Engineers India Convocation, Bhopal, India, July, 2006.

Awards and Scholarships

Awarded graduate research scholarship by the National University of Singapore to pursue Doctor of Philosophy in Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore.

Awarded University Grant Commission (UGC) scholarship to pursue Masters of Technology in Civil Engineering in Department of Civil Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, India.

Third prize winner in The Best Innovative Structural Steel Design Contest conducted by Institute for Steel Development and Growth (INSDAAG), July 2006. The project was done together with Dr. Mousumi Mukherjee, Dr. Arghya Das, and Subhendu Majumder.

Won the first prize for the paper entitled “Nonlinear Deflection Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Beams” in 12th Institute of Engineers India Convocation, October 2004. The project was done together with Dr. Arghya Das, and Manoj Kumar Das.