DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Indian Institute Of Technology Madras
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Raushan Singh

Assistant Professor

407, Machine Design Section

PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India

+91 44 2257 4677

raushan[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in

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  • Dr. Raushan Singh received his Ph.D. in 2019 from IIT Delhi, India. He worked as a Postdoctoral Associate (2019-2023) at the Institute of Mathematics, EPFL-Lausanne, Switzerland, before joining IIT Madras.
  • His current research interests include mechanics of rod-like flexible slender structures and sequence-dependent DNA statistical mechanics.

  • Sequence Dependent DNA Statistical Modelling
  • Mechanics of Flexible Slender Structures
  • Solid Mechanics
  • Nanomechanics

  1. Awarded the distinction in doctoral research by IIT Delhi (2019)
  2. Best poster award at Indo-German Workshop on Solid Mechanics (2018)
  3. Research Excellence Travel Award by IIT Delhi (2018)

    Current Courses

  • ME2200 - Materials and Design
  • ME6236 - Mechanics of Slender Structures

    Previous Courses

  • ME5201 - Computational Methods in Engineering
  • ME2200 - Materials and Design
  • ME5281 - Mechanical Lab (PG)

  1. Singh, R., Arora, A., & Kumar, A. (2022). A computational framework to obtain nonlinearly elastic constitutive relations of special Cosserat rods with surface energy. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 398, 115256.
  2. Corazza, G., & Singh, R. (2022). Unraveling looping efficiency of stochastic Cosserat polymers. Physical Review Research, 4(1), 013071.
  3. Singh, R., Tiwari, J., & Kumar, A. (2021). Self-contact in closed and open Kirchhoff rods. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 137, 103786.
  4. Singh, R., & Kumar, A. (2020). A singularity free approach for Kirchhoff rods having uniformly distributed electrostatic charge. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 367, 113133.
  5. Singh, R., Singh, P., & Kumar, A. (2019). Unusual extension–torsion–inflation couplings in pressurized thin circular tubes with helical anisotropy. Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, 24(9), 2694-2712.
  6. Singh, R., Abhishek, D., & Kumar, A. (2018). An asymptotic numerical method for continuation of spatial equilibria of special Cosserat rods. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 334, 167-182.
  7. Singh, R., Kumar, S., & Kumar, A. (2017). Effect of intrinsic twist and orthotropy on extension–twist–inflation coupling in compressible circular tubes. Journal of Elasticity, 128(2), 175-201.