Assistant Professor bhabagrahi.sharma@nitm.ac.in 7077913155 Qualification : PhD, IIT Madras Area of Research : Structural Health Monitoring, Non Destructive Testing, Smart Composite Structures, Smart Materials, Wave Propagation
Degree Name
Department
Institute
Start and End Date
PhD
Applied Mechanics
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Jul 2016-Nov 2022
M. Tech
Applied Mechanics
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Jul 2011-Jun 2013
B. Tech
Mechanical Engineering
Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, Sarang, Odisha
Jul 2006-jun 2010
S. No
Position Held
Name of Organization
Start and End Date
1
Assistant Professor (Grade II)
National Institute of Technology Meghalaya
Feb 2025-Present
2
Intern
Testia, An Airbus Company, Germany
Nov 2024-Jan 2025
3
Post Doctoral Researcher (IGSTC PDIF)
Testia, An Airbus Company, Germany
Sep 2023-Aug 2024
4
Senior Research Fellow
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Jan 2023-Aug 2024
5
Assistant Professor
Siksha O Anusandhan University, Odisha
Aug 2013-May 2016
6
Graduate Engineer Trainee
J K Papers Ltd.
Jul 2010-Jul-2011
Journals
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
B.Tech Student Guided:
Name of Student
Title of Thesis
Year of Award
Tiyangsen Lemtor (B22ME013)
Revanuru Suhruth Sai (B22ME008)
Guguloth Karthik (B22NE029)
Numerical Analysis of Guided Wave Scattering Caused by Barely Visible Impact Damage in Composite Structures
Ongoing
Faculty in-Charge, Centre for Career Development (CCD), 07/07/2025 to Present
Faculty in-Charge, Placement Cell, CCD, 07/07/2025 to Present
Member, Ranking and Accreditation Committee, 28/03/2025
Start-up Activity Coordinator, Faculty Member Committee, Institute's Innovation Council (IIC), 05/08/2025 to Present
Faculty Mentor, Capacity Building Program on Design and Entrepreneurship (CBDE) Program at NIT Meghalaya, 07/08/2025 to Present
Member, Doctoral Research Committee of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, 13/08/2025 to Present
Member, Start-up and Incubation Cell, 28/04/2025 to 05/08/2025
1. Awarded with Indo-German Science and Technology Center Post Doctoral Industrial Fellowship 2023