Institute of Structural Analysis Institute Team
Dr. Anilkumar Parapparambil Muraleedharan Nair

Dr. Anilkumar Parapparambil Muraleedharan Nair

Dr. Anilkumar Parapparambil Muraleedharan Nair
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Dr. Anilkumar Parapparambil Muraleedharan Nair
Address
Appelstraße 9a
30167 Hannover
Building
Room
505
Position
Research Staff
Institute of Structural Analysis

Head of the Research Group - Composite Structures

Considering the constant evolution of novel material systems and expanding of their integration into diverse structural applications, we aim to refine the comprehensive knowledge of instability and failure processes. Structural failure, including compression after impact and fatigue after impact, poses critical challenges in wind and aerospace structures. While buckling primarily affects the overall stability of a component, damage influences its mechanical performance. The interplay between these factors is crucial in understanding how even seemingly minor defects can amplify the risk of buckling or, conversely, how buckling can exacerbate existing damage.

The research aims to develop efficient tools for buckling and damage, predicting structural instability, identification of damage, and the propagation thereof under various loading conditions, spanning multiple scales across a wide array of structural systems. The multidisciplinary approach seamlessly integrates experimental techniques, numerical methods, reduced order models and analytical tools to explore, simulate, and validate the physical behavior.

  • Research
    • Buckling and post-buckling
    • Geometric and material non-linearities
    • Morphing and adaptive structures
    • Damage and failure behaviour
  • Teaching
  • Professional Career
    • since 2023: Post-doctoral research associate at the Institute of Structural Analysis (Leibniz University Hannover)
    • 2018 - 2023: Doctoral research on " Investigations on active multistable variable stiffness composites for morphing applications" (IIT Madras)
    • 2022 : Doctoral research associate at Bernal Institute (University of Limerick - 4 months , February to April)
    • 2019 - 2020: DAAD Doctoral research associate at ISD (Leibniz University Hannover)
    • 2016 - 2018:  Master of Techology in Structural Engineering (IIT Madras)
    • 2011 - 2015: Bachelor of Techology in Civil Engineering (NIT Calicut)

     

  • Professional recognitions, awards & honours

    2024

    First Prize in Best PhD Thesis Award by Institute of Smart Structures and Systems (ISSS) 

    2023

    Third Prize in Saransh 2022: Three Minute Thesis Competition for Ph.D students (India)

    2022

    Second prize in AStruM-2022: The Thesis in Three competition (University of Limerick )

    2019

    DAAD Bi-nationality PhD Scholarship by  DAAD: German Academic Exchange Service

    2018

    Best Paper Award in Structural Engineering Convention 2018 - Jadavpur University (India)

    2018

    ISTE National Award for Best M.Tech. Thesis in Civil Engineering (India)