Prof Gnanamoorthy received his Doctor of Engineering (Dr Engg) degree from Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan. He served at Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University Japan, as a regular employee before joining as Faculty at IIT Madras in 1997. His teaching and research interests include on Advanced Materials & Product Design, Design with Polymer and Nanocomposities, Machine Element and Special Purpose Test Machine Design, Damage Tolerant & Tribo Design, Behavior of implant materials, and Surface Engineering.
Prof Gnanamoorthy has published more than 350 original research publications in reputed International Journals and Conferences. His research publications were cited in more than 1500 research publications worldwide. He has guided 7 Doctoral scholars and holds three patents. He has successfully completed many sponsored research projects for Government organizations such as NRB, ISRO, DST, IGCAR and offered consultancy services to reputed Industries in India and Abroad.
He was on the International Advisory Board of Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineers, and serves on a number of Government, Academic, and Industry committees and advisory bodies associated with the development of new Institutes, curriculum improvement and new product development. He has also served as an Expert Member of Engineering Education for Next Generation Global Engineers, Japan
Prof Gnanamoorthy, served as the Founder Director of IIITDM Kancheepuram, and established a state of the art of green campus at the outskirts of Chennai and is an architect of Design Centric Engineering and Smart (Industry 4.0) Academic Programs in India. He has also served as the Mentor Director for IIITDM Kurnool, AP and Director i/c for the Central Institute for Classical Tamil, Chennai.
Sustainable Materials & Engineering Design, Architected & Additive Manufacturing, Tribology, Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics, Advanced Composites and Design
Institute Chair Professor, IIT Madras, (2020-)
Specially Appointed Professor, Nagaoka UT, Japan (2019-24)
Expert Member, Sustainable Development Goals (GIGAKU SDG), Nagaoka UT, Japan
Fellow of National Academy of Engineering (FNAE) 2017
Best Alumnus Award, Coimbatore Institute of Technology, 2013
Current Courses
Failure Analysis and Design
Engineering Design with Polymers
Engineering Desing with Additive Manufacturing
Previous Courses
Design with Advanced Engineering Materials
Introduction to Fracture Mechanics
Design of Machine Elements
Materials and Design
Samiksha Moharna, R Gnanamoorthy, Y Otuska (2022) Fretting Wear Characteristics of Suspension Plasma-Sprayed Hydroxyapatite Coating on Titanium Substrate for Orthopedic Applications, Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, 31 (9) 7290-7301
Venkatesh G, R Gnanamoorthy, Okazaki M (2022) Contamination Assessment in metal Foam Flow Fled Based PEMFC Int J Hydrogen Energy, 47 (12) 8015-8025
Singh K, Raman SGS, Gnanamoorthy R, (2022) Effect of Thermal Oxidation Duration on Fretting Wear behaviour of Ti6Al4V in Ringer Solution, Trans of IIM, 75 (6) 1629-1639.
Venkatesh G, R Gnanamoorthy, Okazaki M (2022) The behaviour of Nickel Foam flow field based proton exchange membrane fuel cell Composite Materials for Extreme Loading, 3-13.
G V Balakrishna, R Gnanamoorthy, (2022) Coating Material design for Traction motor bearings of electric vehcles under electrical loads, Composite Materials for Extreme Loading, 25-34.
Venkatesh G, R Gnanamoorthy, Okazaki M (2021) Fretting wear behaviour of nickel foam used in fuel cells’ Proc of the Inst of Mech Engineers, Pt L: Journal of Materials, Design and Applications, 236 (1) 144-155.
Integrated Additive Manufacturing of Multi-Requirement Products Using Multiple Material (Patent No. 449088 dt 25/11/2022)
An Apparatus for measurement of tribological quantities for electromechanically loaded contacts (Patent No. 436865 dt 10/11/2022)
A method and apparatus for carrying out oil jet peening (Patent No. 779/CH/2006)
