Amar Nath Roy Chowdhury

Email:amarrc[AT]iitk.ac.in

Office Phone: 0512-259-2144

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering

Specialization

Structural Engineering

Research Interest

Stability of Plate and Shell Structures, Mechanics and Design of Thin-walled Structures, Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Materials

Education

Doctor of Philosophy (2010-2014). Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Master of Technology (2006-2008). Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India.
Bachelor of Engineering (2002-2006). Department of Civil Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.

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December 2019- Till date. Currently I am working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.
2017 May – December 2019. Worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Ropar.
2015 Jan – 2016 Dec. Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Civil Engineering at National University of Singapore.
2008 July - 2010 June: Junior structural engineer in Meinhardt Singapore Pte Ltd.

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Stability of Structures, Steel Design, Structural Analysis, Solid Mechanics

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Journal Publications

1.Fernando, D, Wang, C M, and Roy Chowdhury, A N (2018). Vibration of laminated-beams based on reference-plane formulation: Effect of end supports at different heights of the beam. Engineering Structures. 159, pp 245-251.
2.Wang, C M, L L, Wang, Roy Chowdhury, A N*, Yang, J, Kitipornchai, S and Fernando, D (2017). Critical examination of midplane and neutral plane formulations for vibration analysis of functionally graded beams. Engineering Structures. 130, pp. 275-281.
3.Roy Chowdhury, A N*, Wang, C M, (2016). Bending, buckling, and vibration of equilateral simply supported or clamped triangular plates with rounded corners. Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 142(10), 04016074.
4.Roy Chowdhury, A N*, Koh, S J A, and Wang, C M (2015). Nonlinear-elastic membrane-shell model for single-walled carbon nanotubes under uni-axial deformation. Computational Materials Science, 97, pp. 237-244.
5.Roy Chowdhury, A N*, Wang, C M, and Koh, S J A (2014). Continuum shell model for buckling of single-walled carbon nanotubes with different chiral angles. International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics, 14 (4), Article No. 1450006.
6.Roy Chowdhury, A N*, Wang, C M, and Koh, S J A (2014). Continuum shell model for buckling of armchair carbon nanotubes under compression or torsion. International Journal of Applied Mechanics, 6 (1), 1450006.
7.Wang, C M, Tay, ZY, and Roy Chowdhuary, A .N. R., Duan, W H, Zhang, Y Y, Silvestre, N N (2011). Examination of cylindrical shell theories for buckling analysis of carbon nanotubes. International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics, 6(11), pp. 1035-1058.
8.Rathore, M, Roy Chowdhury, A, and Ghosh, S (2011). Approximate methods for estimating hysteretic energy demand on plan-asymmetric buildings. Journal of Earthquake Engineering, 15, pp 99-123.
9.Roy Chowdhury A, Ghosh, S (2010). The inclusion of P-Δ effect in the estimation of hysteretic energy demand based on modal pushover analysis, ISET Journal of Earthquake Technology, 47, pp 75-86.

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Wang, C M, Roy Chowdhury, A N, Koh, S J A, and Zhang, Y Y (2014). Molecular dynamics simulation and continuum shell model for buckling analysis of carbon nanotubes. Modeling of carbon nanotubes, graphene and their composites, K. I. Tserpes, and N. Silvestre, eds., Springer International Publishing, pp. 239-273.

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Roy Chowdhury, A N, Wang, C M, and Fernando D, Effect of end support height on vibration frequencies of deep beams. The 25th Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials (ACMSM25). To held in Brisbane, Australia, December 4 – 7, 2018. (paper presented).
Roy Chowdhury, A N, and Wang, C M, Vibration analysis of stocky single-walled carbon nanotubes using operational modal analysis and a proposed continuum shell model, International Symposium on Engineering Science, Singapore, May 19-20, 2015.(paper presented)
Roy Chowdhury, A N, Koh, S J A, and Wang, C M, Nonlinear-elastic membrane-shell model for single-walled carbon nanotubes. 23rd International Workshop on Computational Mechanics of Materials, Singapore, October 2-4, 2013. (paper presented)
Roy Chowdhury, A N, Wang, C M, Molecular simulation results for axial buckling of double walled carbon nanotubes, The 7th International Conference on Advances in Steel Structures, Nanjing, China, April 14-16, 2012 (paper presented).
Wang, C. M., Roy Chowdhury, A N, Molecular dynamics simulation results for buckling of carbon nanotubes with small aspect ratios. International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation (ICCMS), IIT Hyderabad, December 2012.
Roy Chowdhury, A, Ghosh, S, Approximate methods for estimating hysteretic energy demand on plan-asymmetric buildings. WCCE-ECCE-TCCE Joint Conference on Earthquake and Tsunami, Istanbul, Turkey, June 22-24, 2009.
Roy Chowdhury, A, Ghosh, S, Estimation of hysteretic energy demand including P-Δ effect using equivalent systems. International Workshop on Earthquake Hazards and Mitigation (EHAM) held at IIT Guwahati in December 2007 (paper presented).

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Office

Faculty Building, Room No. 336,
Department of Civil Engineering
IIT Kanpur,
Kanpur 208016

Office Phone: 0512-259-2144 (O)

Email: amarrc[AT]iitk.ac.in