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P.M. Mohite, PhD (IIT Kanpur)

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Assistant Professor 

Research Interests: Damage Mechanics of Laminated Composites, Composites, Finite Element Analysis
Email: mohite[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: +91-512-259-6024 (O)
Website: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~mohite
Currently, we are developing micro-mechanics based models for the prediction and propagation of intralaminar damage mechanisms (like fibre breaking, fibre-matrix debonding, matrix cracking etc) along with interlaminar damage mechanism (delamination) for polymer matrix composite under quasi-static and dynamic loading. The model developed will be used to predict the fatigue life of composite structures. Measurement of fibre, matrix, lamina and laminate properties: We are also creating data bank for glass and carbon fibres mechanical and damage properties by single fibre tests. Similar properties are also measured for epoxy matrices. Further, effective mechanical and strength/damage properties are measured for various types of composites with above fibre/matrix systems. Adaptive finite element modeling: We are developing various plate models for laminate analysis to accurately predict the damage initiation and propagation until final fracture. The emphasis is to do a refined adaptive FE analysis for these damages with both discretization and modeling error estimation and control. Further, we model the damage mechanisms in commercial FEM software, Abaqus through UMAT subroutines.