Dr Krishna Shankar
Senior Lecturer
BTech(IITM), MS (IITM), PhD (TASUNI) CPEng, MIE Aust
Building 17 Room 218
Telephone: (+61) 2 626 88584
Fax: (+61) 2 626 88581
Email: k.shankar@adfa.edu.au
Research Experience
- Fracture Mechanics, Fatigue and corrosion of aerospace structures and mechanically fastened joints, Corrosion Fatigue, Composites Testing and Analysis
- Impact Damage of Polymeric Foams and Sandwich Structures, Residual Stress Measurement, Adhesively Bonded Joints
- Finite Element Modelling, Non-Destructive Inspection, Bio-degradable materials, Polymers, Smart Materials, Structural Vibration and Structural Health Monitoring.
- Current Projects in Structure and Materials
- Aircraft Structural Health Monitoring using vibration analysis
- Application of advanced composites for marine and offshore engineering structures
- Applications of Corrugated Wire Mesh Laminates for biomechanical applications
- Simulation and Experimental testing of Impact Behaviour of Laminated Plastics
- Design, Simulation and experimental analysis of advanced composite ballistic vests
- Corrosion fatigue interactions in aircraft aluminium alloy joints
- Application of nano-reinforced metal matrix composites for high temperature applications
- Fatigue behaviour of advanced composite blades at elevated temperatures
- Non destructive inspection using Laser Speckle methods
- Dynamic and impact behaviour of syntactic foam
- Publications - Journals 28, Conferences 71, and Other 21
Teaching Experience
- Senior Lecturer/Research Coordinator
Additional
- Four Years Aircarft Design experience as Stress Analyst in Design Bureau, HAL, Bangalore
- Six years of post doctoral research experience at University of Toronto and National Research Council of Canada in Composite structural analysis and testing
- Fifteen years of Academic Teaching in ADFA on subjects such as Structural Mechanics, Engineering Materials, Non-Destructive Inspection, Composites and Adhesives, and Composites Mechanics
Consulting Interests
- Mechanical Testing, Material Characterisation, Fracture and Fatigue Analysis, Stress Analysis, Non Destructive Inspection, Composite Testing, Corrosion Control and Prevention, Finite Element Modelling, Impact Testing and Simulation.