Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur |

Applications are sought for PhD students in Computational Materials Science and Probabilistic Mechanics. Please email your resume! Computational Materials Science: Candidates must have a Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Civil/ Mechanical/ Aerospace/ Metallurgical Engineering or in Physics/ Materials Science. Excellent knowledge in mechanics and Finite Element modeling, along with reasonable knowledge in Materials Science and/or Composite Materials, is required. Excellent computer programming skills is essential. Familiarity with materials testing methods and a good publishing record will be given preference. Probabilistic Mechanics Candidates must have a Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Civil/ Mechanical/ Aerospace/ Engineering or in Mathematics/Statistics. Excellent knowledge in Reliability, along with reasonable knowledge in Mechanics and/or Structural Engineering, is required. Excellent computer programming skills is essential. Familiarity with the nuclear power industry and a good publishing record will be given preference. |

Book Chapter/Section

System Reliability and New Measure of Robustness of Truss Structure in Progressive Collapse Baidya M., Bhattacharya B. By Recent Advances in Computational and Experimental Mechanics, Vol II, 611-623 (2022)
Towards Finite Element Modelling of Electrical Activity in Cardiac Tissue Based on Greenstein Winslow Ventricular Myocyte Model Mythri T., Hossain S. J., Bhattacharya B. By Recent Advances in Computational and Experimental Mechanics, Vol II 357-369 (2022)
Joint and Dual Estimation of States and Parameters with Extended and Unscented Kalman Filters Aswal N., Bhattacharya B. , Sen S. By Recent Developments in Structural Health Monitoring and Assessment Opportunities and Challenges: Bridges, Buildings and Other Infrastructures 223-252 (2022)
Risk and reliability in bridges Bhattacharya B. By Innovative Bridge Design Handbook, 2nd Ed 169-213 (2022)
Risk and Reliability in Bridges Bhattacharya B. By Innovative Bridge Design Handbook - (2015)

Journal

Dynamic Response and Progressive Collapse of a Long-Span Suspension Bridge Induced by Suspender Loss Wang H., Chen Q. , Agrawal A. , El-tawil S. , Bhattacharya B. , Wong W. By Journal of Structural Engineering 148 05022001- (2022)
A reliability based measure of structural robustness for coherent systems Bhattacharya B. By Structural Safety 89 - (2021)
Zeroth Law investigation on the logarithmic thermostat Patra P.K., Bhattacharya B. By Scientific Reports 8 - (2018)
Zeroth law investigations on the logarithmic thermostat Patra P. K., Bhattacharya B. By Scientific Reports 11670- (2018)
Non-Gaussian parameter estimation using generalized polynomial chaos expansion with extended Kalman filtering Sen S., Bhattacharya B. By Structural Safety 70 104-114 (2018)
Non-Gaussian parameter estimation using generalized polynomial chaos expansion with extended Kalman filtering Sen S., Bhattacharya B. By Structural Safety 70 104-114 (2018)
Phononic origins of friction in carbon nanotube oscillators Prasad M. V., Bhattacharya B. By Nano Letters - (2017)
Phonon scattering dynamics of thermophoretic motion in carbon nanotube oscillators Prasad MVD and Bhattacharya B. By Nano Letters 16 (4), pp 2174-2180. - (2016)
Equilibrium free energy differences at different temperatures from a single set of nonequilibrium transitions Patra P. K., Bhattacharya B. By Physical Review E 94 040101- (2016)
Equilibrium free-energy differences at different temperatures from a single set of nonequilibrium transitions Patra P. K., Bhattacharya B. By Physical Review E - (2016)
Progressive damage identification using dual extended Kalman filter Sen S., Bhattacharya B. By Acta Mechanica 227 2099-2109 (2016)
Online structural damage identification technique using constrained dual extended Kalman filter Sen S., Bhattacharya B. By Structural Control and Health Monitoring - (2016)
Heat pump without particle transport or external work on the medium achieved by differential thermostatting of the phase space Patra P. K., Bhattacharya B. By Physical Review E - (2016)
Heat pump without particle transport or external work on the medium achieved by differential thermostatting of the phase space Patra P. and Bhattacharya B. By Physical Review E vol. 93, no. 3 - (2016)
A non-iterative structural damage identification methodology using eigenstructure assignment in state space Sen S. and Bhattacharya B. By Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, Taylor and Francis. 12 - (2016)
Thermomechanical buckling of boron nitride nanotubes using molecular dynamics Chandra A., Patra P. K., Bhattacharya B. By Materials Research Express - (2016)
Thermomechanical Buckling of Boron Nitride Nanotubes using Molecular Dynamics Chandra A., Patra P. K., Bhattacharya B. By Materials Research Express 3 - (2016)
Approximating the entire spectrum of nonequilibrium steady-state distributions using relative entropy: An application to thermal conduction Patra P. K., Melendez M. , Bhattacharya B. By Physical Review E 92 023304- (2015)
Phonon wave-packet scattering and energy dissipation dynamics in carbon nanotube oscillators, Prasad M. V., Bhattacharya B. By Journal of Applied Physics 118 244906- (2015)
Thermal vibration characteristics of armchair Boron-Nitride Nanotubes Chandra A., Patra P. K., Bhattacharya B. By Journal of Applied Physics 118 234503- (2015)
Buckling and post buckling characteristics of cantilevered singlewalled carbon nanotubes in bending Prasad M. V., Bhattacharya B. By , International Journal of Nanoscience 14 1550019- (2015)
Non-iterative eigenstructure assignment technique for finite element model updating Sen S., Bhattacharya B. By Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitoring 5 365-375 (2015)
Electric-field assisted desorption of water molecules in DNA functionalized CNT network Paul A., Bhattacharya B. , Bhattacharyya T. K. By IEEE Sensors Journal 15 2947-2950 (2015)
Selective detection of Hg (II) over Cd(II) and Pb(II) ions by DNA functionalized CNT network Paul A., Bhattacharya B. , Bhattacharyya T. K. By IEEE Sensors Journal 15 2774-2779 (2015)
An ergodic configurational thermostat using selective control of higher order temperatures Patra P. K., Bhattacharya B. By Journal of Chemical Physics 142 194103- (2015)
On the Pareto optimality of variance reduction simulation techniques in structural reliability Sen D., Bhattacharya B. By Structural Safety 53 57-74 (2015)
A deterministic thermostat for controlling temperature using all degrees of freedom Patra P. and Bhattacharya B. By Journal of Chemical Physics, AIP vol. 140 - (2014)
A Fast Parallel Gauss Jordan Algorithm for Matrix Inversion using CUDA Sharma G., Agarwala A., and Bhattacharya B. By Computers & Structures, Elsevier vol. 128 31-37 (2013)
Reliability-based partial safety factors for dual performance level design of prestressed inner containment shells in Indian nuclear power plants Bhattacharya B., Chatterjee A., Agrawal G., and Mondal A. By Nuclear Engineering and Design, Elsevier vol. 256 188-201 (2013)
Reliability-based partial safety factors for dual performance level design of prestressed inner containment shells in Indian nuclear power plants Bhattacharya B., Chatterjee A. , Agrawal G. , Mondal A. By Nuclear Engineering and Design 256 188-201 (2013)
Analyzing Fe-Zn system Using Molecular Dynamics, Evolutionary Neural Nets and Multi-objective Genetic Algorithms Bhattacharya B., G.R. Dinesh Kumar, A. Agarwal, Şakir Erkoç, A. Singh, N. Chakraborti By Computational Materials Science, Elsevier vol. 46, no. 4 821-827 (2009)
The Extremal Index and the Maximum of a Dependent Stationary Pulse Load Process Observed above a High Threshold Bhattacharya, B. By Structural Safety, Elsevier vol. 30, no. 1 34 - 48 (2008)
Effect of randomly occurring Stone-Wales defects on mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes using atomistic simulation Lu Q. and Bhattacharya B. By Nanotechnology, Institute of Physics vol. 16, no. 4 555-566 (2005)
Continuum damage mechanics analysis of fatigue crack initiation Bhattacharya, B. and Ellingwood, B. R. By International Journal of Fatigue vol. 20, no 9 631-639 (1998)

Educational Package

Structural Reliability Bhattacharya B. By - (2021)

Workshop

Redundancy of long-span cable supported bridges Agrawal A., El-tawil S. , Bhattacharya B. , Chen Q. , Wang H. By Virtual Workshop on Redundancy in Bridges for Risk Mitigation in a Multi-Hazard Environment - (2020)
Comparison of redundancy framework for bridges Agrawal A., El-tawil S. , Bhattacharya B. , Chen Q. , Wang H. By Virtual Workshop on Redundancy in Bridges for Risk Mitigation in a Multi-Hazard Environment - (2020)

Conferences

Ergodicity and linear response of thermostats for single degree of freedom systems: towards improved temperature control Patra P. K., Bhattacharya B. By ASCE Engineering Mechanics (EMI 2016) and Probabilistic Mechanics and Reliability Conference (PMC 2016) - (2016)
Effect of precompression on thermal vibration characteristics of Boron-Nitride Nanotubes Chandra A., Patra P. K., Bhattacharya B. By International Conference on Advances in Dynamics and Control, Durgapur - (2016)

Symposium

Equilibrium free energy differences at different temperatures from a single set of nonequilibrium transitions Patra P. K., Bhattacharya B. By Non-equlibrium Simulation Conference NESC16 - (2016)

Civil Engineering

Faculty

Research Areas

Principal Investigator

Ph. D. Students

Aritri Roy

Md Wamique Mujeebi

Minangshu Baidya

Tumbalam Gooty Mythri