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Ratna Kumar Annabattula

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208, Machine Design Section

PhD from University of Groningen, The Netherlands

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  • Dr. Ratna Kumar Annabattula received his PhD from University of Groningen, The Netherlands in 2011. He received his B.E. (Andhra University) and M.E. (Indian Institute of Science) in 2002 and 2004, respectively, both in Mechanical Engineering. He was as a researcher at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany for about two and half years before joining IIT Madras in December 2012. He worked at G.E. India Technology Centre, Bangalore, India for about 10 months as a Design Engineer during 2004-2005.
  • His current research interests include mechanics of stimuli-responsive thin films, mechanics of granular materials and multi-scale materials modeling.

  • Stimuli-Responsive Soft Materials
  • Mechanics of Granular Materials
  • Coupled Problems in Mechanics

  1. Young Faculty Recognition Award (YFRA) for teaching and research at IIT Madras, 2015
  2. Thomas Young Centre’s Junior Research Fellowship at UCL, London, 2012
  3. DAAD-GO8 visiting fellowship at The University of Sydney, Australia, August 2012

    Current Courses

  • ID6108 - Process and Design for Additive Manufacturing

    Previous Courses

  • ME2200 - Materials and Design
  • ME7223 - Optimisation Methods for Mechanical Design
  • ME6232 - Mechanics of Thin films for Microsystem Design
  • ME5201 - Computational Methods in Engineering
  • ME5203 - Advanced Mechanics of Solids
  • ME5204 - Finite Element Analysis

  1. Anirudh Chandramouli, Sri Datta Rapaka and Ratna Kumar Annabattula Design of auxetic cellular structures for in-plane response through out-of-plane actuation of stimuli-responsive bridge films, Smart Materials and Structures, 33, 025009 (2024)
  2. Shahid Ansari, Ratna Kumar Annabattula and Sathyan Subbiah Gravity-driven powder flow and the influence of external vibration on flow characteristics, Particuology, 88, 201-209 (2024)
  3. Akhil Reddy Peeketi, Narasimhan Swaminathan and Ratna Kumar Annabattula Design of partially covered bilayer thin film actuators, Mechanics of Materials, 187, 104816 (2023)
  4. Deepak K. Pawar, Ratna Kumar Annabattula and Narasimhan Swaminathan Mesoscopic mechanics of triaxially compressed pebble assembly and estimation of Drucker-Prager parameters using Discrete Element Method, Computational Particle Mechanics (accepted, 2023)
  5. Rajan Aravind, K. Jayakumar and Ratna Kumar Annabattula Probabilistic investigation into brittle fracture of functionally graded materials using phase-field method, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 288, 109344 (2023)
  6. Divya Jayoti, Akhil Reddy Peeketi, Pamod Yallappa Kumbhar, Narasimhan Swaminathan, and Ratna Kumar Annabattula Geometry controlled oscillations in liquid crystal polymer films triggered by thermal feedback, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 15, 18362 - 18371 (2023)