Sudhakar E. Nair, Ph.D
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Graduate CollegeProfessor
Mechanical Engineering & Aerospace Engineering
Applied Mathematics
Office: Engineering 1, Room 246B
10 W. 32nd Street
Chicago, IL 60616
Office Hours:
Phone: 312.567.3180
Fax: 312.567.7230
Email:
nair_AT_iit_DOT_edu
Web:
Nair's MMAE webpage
Expertise
- Solid Mechanics, Elastic and Inelastic Behavior of Materials, Applied Mathematics, Moving Boundary Problems, Wave Propagation in Anisotropic Media.
Education
- Ph.D. - University of California at San Diego
Curriculum Vitae
Research & Major Accomplishments
Current Projects
Awards/Honors
Patents
Books
- "Introduction to Continuum Mechanics," Cambridge University Press, March 2009
Selected Publications
- Wavelet-Galerkin Method for the Free Vibrations of an Elastic Cable, with M. Al-Qassab, ASCE J. Engineering Mechanics. Vol. 129, No.3, pp. 350-357,2003.
- Wavelet-Galerkin Method for the Free Vibrations of an Elastic Cable Carrying an Attached Mass, with M. Al-Qassab, to appear in J. Sound and Vibration.
- Solidification of a Finite Medium Subject to a Periodic Variation of Boundary Temperature, with Z. Dursunkaya, J. Appl. Mech., Vol. 70, No. 5, pp. 633-637, 2003.
- A Crack Driving Force Criterion for the Prediction of Interface Crack Kinking in Thin-film Composites, with M. Gosz and A. F. Okyar, J. Interface Science, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 329-338 , 2003.
- Dynamics of an Elastic Cable Carrying a Moving Mass Particle, with M. Al-Qassab and J. O'Leary, Nonlinear Dynamics, Vol. 33 No. 1, pp. 11-32, 2003.
- Cooled Mirror for a Double Undulator Beam Line, with Y. Li, A. Khounsary, and J. Maser, SPIE.
