DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Indian Institute Of Technology Madras
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Sourav Rakshit

Associate Professor

204, Machine Design Section

PhD from Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India

+91- 44 -2257- 4693

srakshit[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in

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  • Dr Sourav Rakshit received his PhD and ME from IISc Bangalore in 2012 and 2006 respectively. He is a BE in mechanical engineering from Jadavpur University. He was a postdoctoral researcher at University of North Carolina at Charlotte from 2012 to 2014, and before joining IIT Madras he was institute postdoc at IIT Kanpur (May-July 2014). He worked as a scientist in the reactor engineering division in BARC from 2000-2004.
  • Sourav’s research interests are in multibody dynamics, robotics, biomechanics, convex and topology optimization.

  • Topology optimization, Robotics, biomechanics

    Current Courses

  • Kinematics and Dynamics of Machinary
  • Multibody Dynamics
  • Theory of Mechanisms
  • Variational Principles in Mechanics
  • Topology Optimization
  • CAD/CAM for Product Design

  1. Mangesh Pathak, Lalit Jayanti, and Sourav Rakshit, Linear Complementarity Formulations for Contact Analysis and Wear Predictions in Gears, Mechanism and Machine Theory, 2024.
  2. Rajaraman S and Sourav Rakshit, Multiscale topology optimization of pelvic bone for combined walking and running gait cycles, Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, 2023 (DOI: 10.1080/10255842.2023.2205541) .
  3. Arkaprabho Pal and Sourav Rakshit, Isogeometric Shape Optimization for Design Dependent Loads, ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, 2021, vol. 22(3), 031004 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4053076).
  4. Eswara Sai Kandula and Sourav Rakshit, Topology Optimization of The Hip Bone for Gait Cycle, Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 2020, vol. 62, pp. 2035-2049.
  5. Sourav Rakshit and Anindya Chatterjee, Scalar Generalization of Newtonian restitution for Simultaneous Impact, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2015, vol. 103, pp. 141-157.