Composite design and manufacturing, fracture and fatigue, process modeling, machining.

Education

Aerospace Engineering, Auburn University, USA
PhD., [Mechanical Engineering], University of Washington, 2008
M.S., [Structural Engineering], University of Iowa, 2003
BTech., [Civil Engineering], Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 2001

Projects

Additive Manufacturing of Novel Structural Foam Composites for Durability and Damage Tolerance, DST, 99.43 Lakhs (2019 – 2022).
Analysis of polymer nanocomposites using nonlocal theories Co-Investigator, ISRO, 46.82 Lakhs, (2019 – 2022).
Micromechanics of damage development in ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) considering process defects – Phase III, Pratt & Whitney USA, $145,000 (USD), (2019-2022).

Publications

A. M. Nagaraja, S. Gururaja Progressive damage modeling in ceramic matrix mini-composites with thick interphases Journal of European Society of Ceramics, Vol. 43, Issue 10, pp. 4336-4348, 2023.
S. Kubher, S. Gururaja, and R. Zitoune Coupled thermo-mechanical modeling of drilling of multi-directional polymer matrix composite laminates, Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, Vol. 156, 106802 (14 pages), 2022.
J. R. Pothnis, D. Kalyanasundaram, and S. Gururaja Enhancement of open-hole tensile strength via alignment of carbon nanotubes infused in glass fiber – epoxy – CNT multi-scale composites, Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, Vol. 140, pp. 106155 (12 pages), 2021.
S. Bharath, D. Bonthu, S. Gururaja, P. Prabhakar and M. Doddamani Flexural response of 3D printed sandwich composite, Composite Structures, Vol. 263, Issue 1, pp. 113732 (15 pages), 2021.

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Additional Information

Assosiate Professor, University of Auburn,

Associate Technical Editor, Machining Science and Technology, 2021 – present
Awards: Indian Society for Structural Integrity (InSIS) Young Scientist Award 2017-2018
Memberships in professional societies: Secretary, Thermomechanics Track, Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM), 2022-2024
Technical Committee Member, Structures, AIAA-SDM Conference, 2014-present
Director and Student Advisor, SAMPE, Alabama/Tennessee Chapter, 2021-present
Lab: Advanced Materials and Processing Lab (https://gsuhasini.wixsite.com/website)