Shantanu S. Mulay

Associate Professor,

Department of Aerospace Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

Office address:

Department of Aerospace Engineering,
IIT Madras, Chennai-600036, TN.
Phone (office): +91-44-2257 4016.

Education qualifications:

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) (2011)
B.E., Mechanical Engineering, Maharashtra Institute of Technology (University of Pune) (2001)

Research experience:

Associate Professor (October 2019 - till date), Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras
Assistant Professor (May 2014 - September 2019), Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras
Postdoctoral Fellow (April 2012 - March 2014), University of Liège, Belgium (ULg)
Postdoctoral associate (April 2011 - March 2012), Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, Singapore (SMART)
Research Engineer (August 2010 - April 2011), SMART
Graduate student (January 2007 - August 2010), NTU

Research interests:

Continuum damage mechanics, elasticity, continuum mechanics, large deformation of materials, fracture mechanics, and plasticity
Multi-physics and multi-scale modelling of materials, micro-macro transition
Finite Element Analysis, Meshless methods.

Current research fields:

Constitutive modelling and the fracture studies of composites under fatigue loading.
Multi-scale modelling of granular materials.
Multi-physics modelling of soft materials.
Computation of the macroscopic material constants based on the prescribed motion of the solid.
Fusion of soil mechanics with the continuum mechanics.

Current specific research opportunities:

Thermo-mechanical modelling of porous materials
Viscoelastic material modelling
Multi-scale modelling of granular and polymeric materials
Mathematical modelling of soft materials
Fracture mechanics of composites (damage and failure modes)
Development of meshless method for crack propagation

Funded research projects:

Thermo-mechanical response of polymer matrix composites under high heating rates, ISRO, 2021-2024.
Crack growth studies in multi-angular composite specimens under fatigue loading, ARDB, 2021-2024.
Studies on improved low temperature strain capability in advanced energetic solid propellants, HEMRL, 2017-2021.
Development of the coupled field theory for the large deformation of hydrogels with focus on the fusion of electromagnetics with mechanics and thermodynamics, SERB (DST), 2016-2019.
Development of the multiscale modelling framework for the fracture studies of textile composites, ISRO (VSSC), 2015-2018.
Multi-scale modelling of granular materials, ICSR, IITM, 2014-2016.

Teaching experience:

AS5900 Elasticity (July-Nov. 2014, Jan-May 2022)
AS5850 Finite element analysis (Jan.-May 2015, Jan.- May 2016, Jan.- May 2017, Jan. - May 2021)
AS2010 Basic strength of materials (July-Nov. 2015, July-Nov. 2019)
AS5880 Mechanics of damage tolerance (July-Nov. 2016, July-Nov. 2018)
AS3520 Aero Lab 2 (Jan.- May 2017)
AS3510 Aero Lab 1 (July- Nov. 2017, July-Nov. 2018)
AS6000 Introduction to aerospace engineering (structures module) (July- Nov. 2017)
AS2070 Aerospace Structural Mechanics (Jan.-July 2019, Jan.-July 2020)
AS3020 Aerospace Structures (Aug. - Nov. 2020, Aug. - Nov. 2021, Aug. - Nov. 2022)

PDF Students:

1) Dr. Soniya Chaudhary (October-2020), 2) Dr. Chethana Rao (March-2022)

Ph. D. Students:

1) Udhayaraman R. (July-2014, completed in March 2019), 2) Chinthalavenkata S. R. K. (July-2016, completed in Dec. 2021), 3) Manu Hegde (Jan.-2017), 4) Harini S. (July-2017), 5) Priyanka S. (January-2022)

M. S. Students:

1) Paramveer Sharma (Jan.-2016, completed in July 2019), 2) Kshitiz (July-2019), 3) Ishank Jain (July-2020), 4) Aaditya (July-2021), 5) Rupesh (July-2021)

M. Tech. Students:

1) Deepak kumar Singh (completed), 2) Vaibhav Khandelwal (completed), 3) Phani Kedar (completed), 4) Ratan Singh (completed), 5) Keerthi C. R. (completed), 6) Prakash Gupta (current), 7) Bhushan Chavan (current)

B. Tech. final year project guidance:

Akshara P., Manimozhi M., Pooja Nema (M.I.T. Chrompet, Chennai).

Peer-reviewed Journal Publications (citations)

V.S.R. Krishna Chinthala, Shaik Sadikbasha, V. Pandurangan, Shantanu S. Mulay (2022). A novel strong-form random differential quadrature method to compute the stress intensity factor in fracture mechanics, Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics , (DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tafmec.2022.103416), free link (https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1fE8YcAT7Ek7f).
Manu Hegde, Shantanu S. Mulay (2022). Evolving structural tensor approach to model the damage induced anisotropy in viscoelastic solids, International Journal of Solids and Structures , (DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2022.111655).
Harini Subramanian, Shantanu S. Mulay (2022). Constitutive modelling of plastically deformable self-healing materials, Mechanics of materials , (DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmat.2022.104272).
Soniya Chaudhary, Shantanu S. Mulay (2021). A mathematical modelling of multiphysics-based propagation characteristics of surface wave in piezoelectric - hydrogel layer on an elastic substrate, Applied Mathematical Modelling , (DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apm.2021.10.035).
Harini Subramanian, Shantanu S. Mulay (2021). On the constitutive modelling of elasto-plastic self-healing materials, International journal of solids and structures , (DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2021.111289).
V.S.R. Krishna Chinthala, Shantanu S. Mulay, Ajay B. Harish (2021). Constitutive modelling of pH-sensitive hydrogel: multi-physics coupling of electromagnetics with mechanics and thermodynamics, Mechanics of materials , (DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmat.2021.104002).
Manu Hegde, Shantanu S. Mulay (2021). An approach to model mechanical damage in particulate composites with viscoelastic matrix, International Journal of Advances in Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics , (DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s12572-021-00289-7).
Hemanth Putrevu, Harini Subramanian, Shantanu S. Mulay (2021). On the visco-elastic dynamic beam modelling, International Journal of Advances in Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics , (DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s12572-021-00288-8).
Shantanu S. Mulay, Harini Subramanian (2020). On the development of direct displacement control method: application to local and nonlocal damage mechanics, International Journal of Advances in Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics , (DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s12572-020-00274-6).
Harini Subramanian, Shantanu S. Mulay (2020). On the homogenization of laminate beam under transverse loading : Extension of Pagano’s theory, Acta Mechanica , (DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s00707-020-02827-z).
Udhayaraman R, Harini Subramanian, Shantanu S. Mulay, Venkatachalam S (2020). Multi-scale approach based studies on the damage-healing and fracture behaviour of plain woven textile composite, Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures , (DOI:https://doi.org/10.1080/15376494.2020.1809037).
V.S.R. Krishna Chinthala, Shantanu S. Mulay, Manu Hegde (2020). The buckling and deflection studies of micro-electro-mechanical column and beam structures containing fixed-charges, Mechanics of Materials , (DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmat.2020.103560).
Harini Subramanian, Shantanu S. Mulay (2020). Continuum damage-healing based constitutive modelling for self-healing materials - Application to one dimensional cyclic loading cases, International Journal of Advances in Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics , (DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s12572-020-00266-6).
R. Udhayaraman, Shantanu S. Mulay (2019). Multi-scale damage framework for textile composites: application to plain woven composite, European Journal of Mechanics / A Solids, (DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euromechsol.2019.103809).
Paramveer Sharma, Shantanu Mulay (2018). Damage modeling of unidirectional laminated composites, Mechanics of advanced materials and structures, (DOI:https://doi.org/10.1080/15376494.2018.1534173).
Shantanu Shashikant Mulay, R. Udhayaraman, M. Anas (2019). Comparative study of algorithms to handle geometric and material nonlinearities, International journal of materials and structural integrity, 13 (1/2/3), (DOI:https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMSI.2019.100427).
Shantanu S. Mulay, R. Udhayaraman (2019). On the constitutive modelling and damage behaviour of plain woven textile composite, International journal of solids and structures, 156-157, 73-86.
R. Udhayaraman, Shantanu S. Mulay (2017). Multi-scale approach based constitutive modelling of plain woven textile composites, Mechanics of materials, 112, 172-192.
Shantanu S. Mulay, Gauthier Becker, Renaud Vayrette, Jean-Pierre Raskin, Thomas Pardoen, Moncerrat Galceran, Stéphane Godet, Ludovic Noels (2015). Multiscale modelling framework for the fracture of thin brittle polycrystalline films: application to polysilicon, Computational Mechanics, 55(1), 73-91.
Shantanu S. Mulay, Hua Li (2011). Influence of Young’s modulus and geometrical shapes on the 2-D simulation of pH-sensitive hydrogels by the meshless random differential quadrature method, Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, 19, 065009.
Hua Li, Shantanu S. Mulay (2011). 2D simulation of the deformation of pH-sensitive hydrogel by novel strong-form meshless random differential quadrature method, Computational Mechanics, 48(6), 729-753.
Shantanu S. Mulay, Hua Li, Simon See (2010). On the development of adaptive random differential quadrature method with an error recovery technique and its application in the locally high gradient problems, Computational Mechanics, 45, 467-493.
Hua Li, Shantanu S. Mulay, Simon See (2009). On the Location of Zeroes of Polynomials from the Stability Analysis of Novel Strong-Form Meshless Random Differential Quadrature Method, CMES Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences, 54(2), 147-199.
Hua Li, Shantanu S. Mulay, Simon See (2009). On the Convergence of Random Differential Quadrature (RDQ) Method and Its Application in Solving Nonlinear Differential Equations in Mechanics, CMES Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences, 48, 43-82.
Shantanu S. Mulay, Hua Li, Simon See (2009). On the random differential quadrature (RDQ) method: Consistency analysis and application in elasticity problems, Computational Mechanics, 44, 563-590.

Book Publication:

Hua Li, Shantanu S. Mulay (2013). Meshless Methods and their Numerical Properties, CRC press, Singapore.

Conference Publications:

Harini Subramanian, Shantanu S. Mulay (2021), A three-dimensional continuum damage-healing model for self-healing materials, 25th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (virtual), August 22-27, 2021.
V.S.R. Krishna Chinthala, Shantanu S. Mulay (2021), Constitutive modelling and simulation of pH-sensitive hydrogel, ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute International Conference (virtual), March 22-24, 2021.
C.V.S.R. Krishna, Shantanu S. Mulay (2019), The buckling and deflection studies of micro-electro-mechanical beam-column structure containing fixed charge, 4th Indian conference on applied mechanics (INCAM 2019), IISc Bangalore, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Manu Hegde, Shantanu S. Mulay (2019), On the evolution of damage in viscoelastic solids, 4th Indian conference on applied mechanics (INCAM 2019), IISc Bangalore, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Harini Subramanian, Shantanu S. Mulay (2019), Continuum damage healing model for self-healing materials, 4th Indian conference on applied mechanics (INCAM 2019), IISc Bangalore, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Harini Subramanian, Shantanu S. Mulay (2019), Elasto-Plastic Damage-Healing Model Applied to Self-Healing Materials, 10th international conference on materials for advanced technologies (ICMAT 2019), Singapore.
R. Udhayaraman, Shantanu S. Mulay (2017). Progressive failure analysis on plain woven textile composites, 20th international conference on composite structures (ICCS20), Paris, France.
Paramveer Sharma, Shantanu S. Mulay (2017). Damage modelling of unidirectional laminated composites, International Conference on Composite Materials and Structures- ICCMS 2017, Hyderabad, India.
R. Udhayaraman, Shantanu S. Mulay (2017). Progressive failure analysis of plain woven composite, International Conference on Composite Materials and Structures- ICCMS 2017, Hyderabad, India.
R. Udhayaraman, Shantanu S. Mulay (2017). Micromechanical constitutive modelling of plain woven textile composites, Proceedings of The nineteenth National Seminar on Aerospace Structures, VIT Vellore, TN, India.
(Invited speaker) Shantanu S. Mulay, R. Udhayaraman (2017). Multi-scale approach based constitutive modelling of plain woven textile composites, 9th international conference on materials for advanced technologies (ICMAT 2017), Singapore.
(Invited speaker) Shantanu S. Mulay, R. Udhayaraman, Anas M. (2017). Comparative study of algorithms to handle geometric and material nonlinearities, 3rd Indian conference on applied mechanics (INCAM 2017), MNNIT, Allahabad, UP, India.
Vincent Lucas, Ling Wu, Stéphane Paquay, Jean-Claude Golinval, Shantanu S. Mulay, Ludovic Noels (2015). Propagation of uncertainties using probabilistic multi-scale models, Euromech 559 Multi-scale computational methods for bridging scales in materials and structures, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven , The Netherlands.
Shantanu S. Mulay, Gauthier Becker, Renaud Vayrette, Jean-Pierre Raskin, Thomas Pardoen, Montserrat Galceran, Stéphane Godet, Ludovic Noels (2013). The fracture studies of polycrystalline silicon based MEMS, 14th IEEE international conference on thermal, mechanical, multiphysics simulation and experiments in micro/nano-electronics and microsystems (EuroSimE 2013), Wrocław, Poland.
Shantanu S. Mulay, Hua Li (2009). Analysis of Microelectromechanical Systems Using the Meshless Random Differential Quadrature Method, International conference on materials for advanced technologies (ICMAT) 2009 (Advanced Materials Research), 74, 29-32.