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Mechanical Engineering

Head of Department

Dr. Koushik Das
Ph.D (IIT Guwahati)

E-mail:
hod.me@nitm.ac.in

Faculty

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Dr. Bhabagrahi Nath Sharma Assistant Professor

PhD, IIT Madras

bhabagrahi.sharma@nitm.ac.in
+91 7077913155

Research Interest

Structural Health Monitoring, Non Destructive Testing, Smart Composite Structures, Smart Materials, Wave Propagation

Education Qualification

PhD, IIT Madras

Education


Degree NameDepartmentInstituteStart and End Date
PhDApplied MechanicsIndian Institute of Technology MadrasJul 2016-Nov 2022
M. TechApplied MechanicsIndian Institute of Technology DelhiJul 2011-Jun 2013
B. TechMechanical EngineeringIndira Gandhi Institute of Technology, Sarang, OdishaJul 2006-jun 2010


Experience (Academic and Industry)


S. NoPosition HeldName of OrganizationStart and End Date
1Assistant Professor (Grade II)National Institute of Technology MeghalayaFeb 2025-Present
2InternTestia, An Airbus Company, GermanyNov 2024-Jan 2025
3Post Doctoral Researcher (IGSTC PDIF)Testia, An Airbus Company, GermanySep 2023-Aug 2024
4Senior Research Fellow  Indian Institute of Technology DelhiJan 2023-Aug 2024
5Assistant ProfessorSiksha O Anusandhan University, OdishaAug 2013-May 2016
6Graduate Engineer TraineeJ K Papers Ltd.Jul 2010-Jul-2011


Publications

Journals

  1. Bhabagrahi Natha Sharma, Santosh Kapuria, and A. Arockiarajan, Analytical prediction of temperature effects on Lamb wave response in smart plates and its experimental verification, Smart Materials and Structures, Vol. 33 (10), Pages: 105045, 2024
  2. Bhabagrahi Natha Sharma, Santosh Kapuria, A. Arockiarajan, and M. Kannusamy, Baseline-free damage detection and sizing under varying temperatures using Lamb waves without temperature compensation, Structural Health Monitoring, Vol. 22(5), Pages: 3534-3557, 2023
  3. Santosh Kapuria, Bhabagrahi Natha Sharma, and A. Arockiarajan, Role of transducer inertia in generation, sensing and time-reversal process of Lamb waves in thin plates with surface-bonded piezoelectric transducers, Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, Vol. 33(6), Pages: 779-798, 2022
  4. Bhabagrahi Natha Sharma, Santosh Kapuria, and A. Arockiarajan, Time reversibility of Lamb waves in thin plates with surface-bonded piezoelectric transducers is temperature invariant at the best reconstruction frequency, Structural Health Monitoring, Vol. 20 (5), Pages: 2626-2640, 2021
  5. Santosh Kapuria, Bhabagrahi Natha Sharma, A Arockiarajan, Shear lag model for stress transfer in piezoelectric transducer bonded to thin host plate considering system inertia, AIAA Journal, Vol. 57 (5), Pages: 2123-2133, 2019

Conference Proceedings

  1. Bhabagrahi Natha Sharma, Santosh Kapuria, and A. Arockiarajan, Effect of temperature on time reversibility of Lamb wave in thin plates with surface bonded piezoelectric wafers, in: 12th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring 2019, Vol. 1, Pages: 1945-1952, 2019

Book Chapters 

  1. Bhabagrahi Natha Sharma, Santosh Kapuria, and A. Arockiarajan, Damage detection using refined time reversal method of Lamb waves under varying temperatures, In: European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (Part of book series LNCE, Volume 254), 2023, pp 754-763

Courses Taught at UG and PG Level

Courses                                                          UG/PG

Engineering Mechanics                                     UG

Mechanics of Solids                                          UG

Machine Element Design                                   UG

Dynamics of Machines                                      UG

Product Design and Development                      UG

Industry 4.0 and Six Sigma Engineering             UG   

Achievements

1. Awarded with Indo-German Science and Technology Center Post Doctoral Industrial Fellowship 2023