IITKGP

Mythravaruni Pullela

Ph.D., IIT Madras

Assistant Professor Grade-I

Rubber Technology

+91-3222-283194

pmvaruni@rtc.iitkgp.ac.in

Research Areas

My areas of research interest include Mechanics of soft matter, Mechanics of Viscoelastic materials, Computational Mechanics and am interested in working towards the development of green tyre  technology.
  • Vulcanization and the mechanical response of rubber Kundurthi S., Pullela M. , Ravindran P. By Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Physik volume 66 1109-1123 (2015)
  • Coagulation of blood: influence of chemical reactions on rheological response Pullela M., Ravindran P. By Rheologica Acta 1-13 (2022)
  • Failure of Rubber Bearings Under Combined Shear and Compression Pullela M., Volokh K. By Journal of Applied Mechanics 85 074503--074503- (2018)
  • On Incompressibility Constraint and Crack Direction in Soft Solids Pullela M., Volokh K. By Journal of Applied Mechanics 86 1010041-1010045 (2019)
  • The effect of oxidation on the mechanical response of isolated elastin and aorta Pullela M., Ravindran P. By Journal of biomechanical engineering 141 0610021-0610029 (2019)
  • On the Onset of Cracks in Arteries Pullela M., Volokh K. By Molecular and Cellular biomechanics 17 1-17 (2020)
  • Residual stresses reduce pulse wave velocity in arteries Pullela M., Volokh K. By Mechanics of Soft Materials 2 1-6 (2020)
  • Inception of Material Instabilities in Arteries Pullela M., Volokh K. By Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics (LNCVB, volume 36) 297-304 (2020)
  • Quantifying the Effect of Voids on the Response of a Viscoelastic Solid. Pullela M., Ravindran P. By Advances in Structural Integrity. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. 217-226 (2022)
  • Mechanical response of polyacrylamide breast tissue phantoms: Formulation, characterization and modeling Rao S., Pullela M. , Arunachalam K. , Ravindran P. By Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials 129 1-9 (2022)

Principal Investigator

  • Performance Optimization of 3D Printed Bio-based TPU/PLA blends: Exploring Shape Memory Foams for Precisely Designed and Customized Insoles for Various Foot Shapes

Ph. D. Students

Nishank Verma

Area of Research: Finite element analysis of polymer composites

Vivek Kumar Yadav

Area of Research: Mechanics of Composites