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Sourav Banerjee

Assistant Professor 

Dr. Banerjee’s expertise and fundamental research interests are in the general areas of Nondestructive Evaluation of Structural and Biological materials, Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), Smart and Adaptive Structures with focus on allied mechanics of materials (MoM), Acoustic wave and phonon field modeling, Multiscale detection, quantification, prognosis, Multiscale Information Migration (MIM) geared towards multiscale field theory by using analytical, numerical and experimental techniques.  

Current focus areas can be described in the following categories: 1) Modeling of acoustic wave field (phonon) in periodic structures. 2) Damage prediction at various length scales, detecting incubation of damage using local-nonlocal Green’s function through MIM for monitoring fatigued components. 3) Low power damage detection algorithms for SHM, Damage quantification / calibration, statistical interpretation through feature extraction, Damage prognosis using pattern recognition, SHM system integration with CBM+. 4) Unique Multiscale Acoustic Imaging (MAI) techniques using Scanning Acoustic Microscopy (0.4MHz – 2GHz) for Engineering and Biological Materials. 5) Electromechanical model for energy scavengers.

 

Education:

  • Ph.D., Engineering Mechanics (Major) & Applied Mathmatics (Minor), University of Arizona, Tucson, August 2005
  • M.S., Structural Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), , Bombay, India
  • B.S., Civil Engineering, Bengal Engineering College (D.U),India, May 2000

Awards:

  • “Achenbach Medal to recognize the outstanding contribution as a young researcher in the field of structural health monitoring. IWSHM 2011.
  • DAAD Scholar, 2001. Honored by German Academic Exchange Program Service, Germany.

Selected Publications:

  1. Banerjee, S., Kundu, T., Chapter 4 “Advanced Application of Distributed Point Source Method - Ultrasonic Field Modeling in Solid media”. Ed. T. Kundu and D. Placko, John & Willey Publication, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA, ISBN: 978-0-471-73314-0 (Lib. CAT# TA347.D57P585) (2007).
  2. Shelke, A., Banerjee, S., Kundu, T., Amjad, U., Grill, W., (2011) ‘Multi Scale Damage State Estimation in Composites Using Nonlocal Kernel: An Experimental Validation’, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Volume 48, Issues 7-8, April 2011, Pages 1219-1228
  3. Banerjee, S., Qing, X. P., Beard, S., Chang, F. K., (2009) “Prediction of Progressive Damage States at the Hot Spots using Statistical Estimation”, Journal of Intelligent Materials Systems and Structures, Vol 21 (6), pp.595-605
  4. Banerjee, S., (2009) “Estimation of Damage Sate in Materials using Nonlocal Perturbation: Application to Active Health Monitoring”, Journal of Intelligent Materials Systems and Structures, Vol. 20, No. 10, pp. 1221-1232.
  5. Banerjee, S., (2009) “Effect of intrinsic length scale and multi-scale information migration for calculating elastodynamic Green’s function using nonlocal theory”, JP Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 3 (1), pp. 43-69.
  6. Banerjee, S., Das, S., Kundu, T., Placko, D., (2009) “Controlled Space Radiation Concept for Mesh-Free Semi-Analytical Technique to Model Wave Fields in Complex Geometries”, Ultrasonics, Vol. 49(8), pp. 615-622, 2009
  7. Banerjee, S., Kundu, T., (2008). “Elastic Wave Field Computation in Multilayered Non-Planar Solid Structures: A Mesh-free Semi-Analytical Approach”, Journal of Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 123 (3), pp. 1371-1382
  8. Banerjee, S., Kundu, T., (2006). “Elastic Wave Propagation in Sinusoidally Corrugated Wave Guides”, Journal of Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 119 (4), pp. 2006-2017
  9. Banerjee, S., Kundu, T., (2006). “Symmetric and Anti-symmetric Rayleigh-Lamb modes in Sinusoidally corrugated waveguides: An Analytical approach”, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 43. pp. 6551-6567
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