PUNEET MAHAJAN

Professor, Department of Applied Mechanics

Indian Institute of Technology

Hauz Khas, N. Delhi 110016

India

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, with a Minor in Mathematics. Montana State

University, Bozeman, Montana, U.S.A. June '90.

M.E. in Mechanical Engineering, Delhi University, India, June '85.

BSc. in Mechanical Engineering, Delhi University, India, June '82.

CAREER-RELATED EXPERIENCE

Professor, I.I.T., Delhi. Teaching and research in helmets, mechanical behaviour and

impact of composites, applications of finite elements, snow mechanics. Jan. 2005 –

Associate Professor, I.I.T., Delhi. Nov. '1998 –Jan. 2005.

Asst. Professor, I.I.T., Delhi. Nov. 1993 – Nov. 1998

Lecturer, I.I.T., Delhi. Jan. 1992 – Nov.1993

Visiting Faculty, Institute of Low Temperature Science, Sapporo, Japan. May2000 to

July 2000.

Research Scientist, CEMEF, Sophia Antipols, France. Work done on Finite Element code

Forge2 for metal forming problems. May '95 to Sept. '95.

Science and Technology Agency Research Fellow, National Research Institute for

Metals, Japan. A modified shear lag model was developed to study the effect of reaction

zone on stress concentration in fibres in metal matrix composites. Jan. '91 to Jan. '92.

THESIS SUPERVISED

PhD 12, M.Tech. 66

PUBLICATIONS

Journals 65, Conferences 55

1. Details of Research Publications

Journals

[1]. Puneet Mahajan, and Robert L. Brown. "A microstructure-based constitutive law

for snow." Annals of Glaciology 18.1 (1993): 287-294.

[2]. P.Mahajan, C.Masuda, Y.Tanaka, Z. Metallkunde, "Effect of Reaction Layer on

Stress Concentration in Fibres", 1993, Vol. 84, No. 1, p63-68.

[3]. P.Mahajan, J.L.Chenot, L.Fourment "An Implicit Contact algorithm for Non steady

state metal forming", Engineering Computations, 1998, Vol. 15 (7), pp 908-924.

[4]. P Mahajan, "Contact behavior of an orthotropic laminated beam indented by a

rigid cylinder." Composites science and technology 58.3-4 (1998): 505-513."

[5]. Adarsh Kumar Dinesh Mohan, and Puneet Mahajan. "Studies on tractor related

injuries in Northern India." Accident Analysis & Prevention 30.1 (1998): 53-60.

[6]. PMahajan, and A. Dutta. "Adaptive computation of impact force under low

velocity impact." Computers & structures 70.2 (1999): 229-241

[7]. A Dutta, C. V. Ramakrishnan, and P. Mahajan. "Adaptive finite element analysis

of structures under transient dynamic loading using modal superposition." Finite

elements in analysis and design 31.4 (1999): 255-272."

[8]. Adarsh Kumar, “Effect of whole-body vibration on the low back: a study of tractor-

driving farmers in north India." Spine 24.23 (1999): 2506.

[9]. K Krishnamurthy, P. Mahajan, and R. K. Mittal. "A parametric study of the impact

response and damage of laminated cylindrical composite shells." Composites

Science and Technology 61.12 (2001): 1655-1669."

[10]. Adarsh Kumar, "IT—information technology and the human interface: tractor

vibration severity and driver health: a study from rural India." Journal of

Agricultural Engineering Research 80.4 (2001): 313-328.

[11]. Puneet Mahajan, "Short term settlement of footing on snow foundation." Defence

Science Journal 51.4 (2001): 419.

[12]. K Krishnamurthy,P. Mahajan, and R. K. Mittal. "Impact response and damage in

laminated composite cylindrical shells." Composite structures 59.1 (2003): 15-36

[13]. S Senthil & Mahajan, Defence Science Journal, "Avalanche Initiation Mechanism –

A finite Element Approach” ,Volume 53(1), 2003, pp 87-94.

[14]. D Nayak, N. Bhatnagar, and P. Mahajan. "Machining studies of uni-directional

glass fiber reinforced plastic (UD-GFRP) composites part 1: effect of geometrical

and process parameters." Machining Science and Technology 9.4 (2005): 481-501.

[15]. P.Mahajan & S.Senthil, Cold Region Science & Technology "Cohesive Element

Modeling of Crack Growth in Layered Snow", , 40,2004, pp 111-122

[16]. D Nayak, "Finite Element Analysis of Effect of Machining Direction on Fibre

Orientation of FRP Composites." Journal of the Institution of Engineers(India) Part

PR, Production Engineering Division 85.2 (2005): 64-67.

[17]. D Nayak, N. Bhatnagar and P. Mahajan, Machining Science and Technology,

"Machining studies of UD-GFRP composites Part – I: Effect of geometrical and

process parameters", Vol9 (4), 2005, pp 481-501.

[18]. D Nayak, N. Bhatnagar, and P. Mahajan. "Machining studies of UD-FRP

composites part 2: finite element analysis." Machining Science and Technology 9.4

(2005): 503-528.

[19]. D Nayak ,I Singh, N Bhatnagar and Mahajan, P., Manufacturing Technology and

Research,"Chip formation mechanism in Fiber reinforced plastics (FRPs)

composites- A finite element approach", Vol 1(2), pp. 1-4, July 2005

[20]. Puneet Mahajan, Masahiko Arakawa and Norikazu Maeno, Journal of the

Japanese Society for snow and ice sciences "Compression experiments of high

density snow- Load measurements and preliminary comparison to snow sounds",

2006, vol. 68(2), pp 131-139.

[21]. G. Venu Gopala, Rao, P. Mahajan, and N. Bhatnagar, "Micro-mechanical

modeling of machining of FRP composites–Cutting force analysis." Composites

science and technology 67.3 (2007): 579-593. “

[22]. G. Venu Gopala, Rao, P. Mahajan, and N. Bhatnagar. "Micro-mechanical modeling

of machining of FRP composites–Cutting force analysis." Composites science and

technology 67.3 (2007): 579-593.

[23]. G. Venu Gopala, Rao, P. Mahajan, and N. Bhatnagar. "Micro-mechanical modeling

of machining of FRP composites–Cutting force analysis." Composites science and

technology 67.3 (2007): 579-593. ‘.

[24]. M. Venkat, P. Mahajan, Rao and R. K. Mittal. "Effect of architecture on

mechanical properties of carbon/carbon composites." Composite Structures 83.2

(2008): 131-142.

[25]. Venkat M., P. Mahajan, Rao,and R. K. Mittal. "Effect of interfacial debonding and

matrix cracking on mechanical properties of multidirectional

composites." Composite Interfaces 15.4 (2008): 379-409.

[26]. P. Mahajan and S. K. Joshi. "Modeling of interfacial crack velocities in

snow." Cold Regions Science and Technology 51.2 (2008): 98-111. “

[27]. Puneet Mahajan, and Praveen Kumar Pinnoji, "Finite Element Modeling of

Helmeted Head Impact Under Frontal Loading." Transportation Research and

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Research Review 1 (2009): 4.

[28]. K.L.A.Khan, P.Hayanki, P. Mahajan, R.Prasad “Characterization of open-cell

Aluminium foam made by Sintering and Dissolution Process Transactions of

Powder Metallurgy Association of India. ”, Vol 33, ( 2007)

[29]. Praveen Kumar Pinnoji, Zafar Haider, Puneet Mahajan, International Journal of

Crashworthiness, “Design of Motorcycle helmets: Computational Fluid and Impact

analysis”, 2008, 13 (3): pp 265-278.

[30]. Praveen Kumar pinooji and Puneet Mahajan. "Two wheeler helmets with

ventilation and metal foam." Defence Science Journal 58.2 (2008): 304

[31]. K. L. A Khan, P. Mahajan, and R. Prasad. "Synthesis and characterization of Al

foam, Al alloy foam and Al-SiC composite foam." Transactions of the Indian

Institute of Metals 61.2-3 (2008): 111-113. .

[32]. K. L. A .Khan, P. Mahajan and R. Prasad. "Synthesis and characterization of Al

foam, Al alloy foam and Al-SiC composite foam." Transactions of the Indian

Institute of Metals 61.2-3 (2008): 111-113.

[33]. Praveen Kumar Pinnoji and Puneet Mahajan. "Analysis of impact-induced damage

and delamination in the composite shell of a helmet." Materials & Design 31.8

(2010): 3716-3723.

[34]. Praveen K Pinnoji, and Puneet Mahajan. "Analysis of impact-induced damage and

delamination in the composite shell of a helmet." Materials & Design 31.8 (2010):

3716-3723.

[35]. Rajneesh Sharma, Puneet Mahajan, and Ramesh Kumar Mittal. "Fiber bundle push-

out test and image-based finite element simulation for 3D carbon/carbon

composites." Carbon 50.8 (2012): 2717-2725.

[36]. Rajneesh Sharma, Puneet Mahajan, and Ramesh Kumar Mittal. "Fiber bundle push-

out test and image-based finite element simulation for 3D carbon/carbon

composites." Carbon 50.8 (2012): 2717-2725.

[37]. Rajneesh Sharma, Puneet Mahajan, and Ramesh Kumar Mittal. "Fiber bundle

push-out test and image-based finite element simulation for 3D carbon/carbon

composites." Carbon 50.8 (2012): 2717-2725.

[38]. S. M. R. Khalili, Malekzadeh, K., Davar, A., & Mahajan, P. (2010). Dynamic

response of pre-stressed fibre metal laminate (FML) circular cylindrical shells

subjected to lateral pressure pulse loads. Composite Structures, 92(6), 1308-1317.

[39]. K Malekzadeh Khalili, S. M. R., Davar, A., & Mahajan, P. (2010). Transient

dynamic response of clamped-free hybrid composite circular cylindrical

shells. Applied Composite Materials, 17(2), 243-257.

[40]. Rajneesh Sharma, Puneet Mahajan and Ramesh K. Mittal, “X-Ray Tomography

Based Observations on Interfacial Behavior of 3D Carbon/Carbon Composite,”

Special issue of Indian National Science Academy, Proc. Indian natn. Sci. Acad 79

(4), pp 335-345 2013.

[41]. Alaei, M. Hossein, Puneet Mahajan, Mathias Brieu, Djimedo Kondo, S. Javed

Ahmed Rizvi, Sandeep Kumar, and Naresh Bhatnagar. "Effect of particle size on

thermomechanical properties of particulate polymer composite." Iranian Polymer

Journal 22, no. 11 (2013): 853-863.

[42]. Prince Sharma, Pradeep Chandel, Vikas Mangla, Puneet Mahajan, and Manjit

Singh. "Effect of Strain Rate on Constitutive Behavior of AA-5052 H34." In Key

Engineering Materials, vol. 535, pp. 60-63. Trans Tech Publications, 2013.

[43]. S D Patel, S Ahmad , Mahajan P., “Probabilistic Failure Analysis of Composite

plate due to low velocity Impact,” Special issue of Indian National Science

Academy, Proc. Indian natn. Sci. Acad 79 (4) 2013, pp 773-779, 2013.

[44]. Galyna Stasiuk, Romana Piatl, Vinit V Deshpandel, Puneet Mahajan, “Effective

Thermoelastic Properties of C/C Composites Calculated using 3D Unit Cell Presentation of

the Microstructure” Developments in Strategic Materials and Computational Design IV:

Ceramic Engineering and Science Proceedings, Volume 34 Issue10, pp 213-220,2013.

[45]. Sangeeta Khare and Puneet Mahajan, “Effect of Cobalt on austenite-ferrite

transformation in Fe-C-X alloys” Journal of Metals and Metallurgy 1, 1 (2013)

[46]. Rajneesh Sharma, Atul Ramesh Bhagat, and Puneet Mahajan. "Finite element

analysis for mechanical characterization of 4D inplane carbon/carbon composite

with imperfect microstructure." Latin American Journal of Solids and

Structures 11.2 (2014): 170-184.

[47]. Chandel, Chaman, Praveen K. Srivastava, and P. Mahajan. "Micromechanical

analysis of deformation of snow using X-ray tomography." Cold Regions Science

and Technology 101 (2014): 14-23.

[48]. Harpreet Singh, Kiran Kumar Namala, and Puneet Mahajan. "A damage evolution

study of E-glass/epoxy composite under low velocity impact." Composites Part B:

Engineering 76 (2015): 235-248.

[49]. S D Patel, S. Ahmad, and P. Mahajan. "Reliability Analysis of a Composite Plate

under Low-Velocity Impact using the Gaussian Response Surface

Method." International Journal for Computational Methods in Engineering Science

and Mechanics 15.3 (2014): 218-226.

[50]. Puneet Mahajan,"Optimized design of optical surface of the mold in precision glass

molding using the deviation approach." International Journal for Computational

Methods in Engineering Science and Mechanics 16.1 (2015): 53-64.

[51]. Harpreet Singh, Kiran Kumar Namala, and Puneet Mahajan. "A damage evolution

study of E-glass/epoxy composite under low velocity impact." Composites Part B:

Engineering 76 (2015): 235-248.

[52]. Harpreet Singh, and Puneet Mahajan. "Modeling damage induced plasticity for

low velocity impact simulation of three dimensional fiber reinforced

composite." Composite Structures 131 (2015): 290-303.

[53]. Chandel, Chaman, Praveen K. Srivastava, and P. Mahajan. "Determination of

failure envelope for faceted snow through numerical simulations." Cold Regions

Science and Technology 116 (2015): 56-64

[54]. Harpreet Singh and Puneet Mahajan. "Analytical modeling of low velocity large

mass impact on composite plate including damage evolution." Composite

Structures 149 (2016): 79-92

[55]. Srivastava, Praveen K.Pinnoji, "Prediction of anisotropic elastic properties of snow

from its microstructure." Cold Regions Science and Technology 125 (2016): 85-

100.

[56]. Sangeeta Khare, and Puneet Mahajan. "Controlling the ferrite kinetics in Fe-C-Mn

alloys." Metals and Materials International 21.3 (2015): 446-452.

[57]. Dora Pallicity, Tarkes, "Numerical Modeling of Cooling Stage of Glass Molding

Process Assisted by CFD and Measurement of Residual Birefringence." Journal of

the American Ceramic Society 99.2 (2016): 470-483.

[58]. Suhail Patel, Ahmad, and Puneet Mahajan. "Probabilistic Failure Analysis of

Composite Beams for Optimum Ply Arrangements under Ballistic Impact." Journal

of Aerospace Science and Technology 1 (2015): 36-47

[59]. Shivdayal, Patel, Suhail Ahmad, and Puneet Mahajan. "Probabilistic Finite-

Element Analysis of S2-Glass Epoxy Composite Beams for Damage Initiation Due

to High-Velocity Impact." ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in

Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering 2.4 (2016): 044504.

[60]. Harpreet, Singh, and Puneet Mahajan. "Analytical modeling of low velocity large

mass impact on composite plate including damage evolution." Composite

Structures 149 (2016): pp 79-92.

[61]. Sangeeta Khare, and Puneet Mahajan. "Effect of Al on Growth Kinetics of

Cementite in Fe–C–Al Alloys." National Academy Science Letters 39.6 (2016):

441-444.

[62]. Bhagat, Atul Ramesh, and Puneet Mahajan. "Characterization and Damage

Evaluation of Coal Tar Pitch Carbon Matrix Used in Carbon/Carbon

Composites." Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance 25.9 (2016):

3904-3911.

[63]. Bhagwat Singh ,Shishodia, , Sandeep Sikri, Sanjeev Sanghi, and Puneet Mahajan.

"Air flow, heat transfer and impact study of ventilated and non-ventilated full-face

motorcycle helmet." International Journal of Crashworthiness (2016): 1-10.

[64]. Sanjeev Sanghi and Puneet Mahajan. "Numerical Investigation of Ventilation and

Human Thermoregulation for Predicting Thermal Comfort of a Rider Wearing

Ventilated Helmet

[65]. Harpreet Singh, Mohit Gupta, and Puneet Mahajan. "Reduced order multiscale

modeling of fiber reinforced polymer composites including plasticity and

damage." Mechanics of Materials (2017).

Conference/Symposium

[1]. R.L.Brown and P.Mahajan, "A Microstructurally Based Constitutive

Law for Snow" First International Conference on Snow Engineering,

1988. CRREL Special Report 89-6.

[2]. P.Mahajan, Proceedings of International symposium on Snow and

Related Manifestations "Two Constitutive Laws for Snow, Manali,

p222-229, 1995.

[3]. P.Mahajan and R.K.Mittal, "Impact Response of a Fibre-Reinforced

Composite Plate Subjected to a Line Load", Advances in Mechanical

Engineering, ed. T.S. Mruthyunjaya, Narosa Publ., N.Delhi, 1996,

p981-994.

[4]. Aloke Mishra and Puneet Mahajan “Finite element modelling of snow

pack lying on a slope considering snow as isotropic compressible

viscoelastic media”, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute Publication Nr.

203, 1998, pp 182-186.

[5]. Adarsh Kumar, Puneet Mahajan and Dinesh Mohan, “Tractor Vibration

Prediction and relationship with Operator’s health –an Indian

perspective”, 1998, poster paper presented at 1V World Conference on

Injury Prevention and Control, Netherlands.

[6]. Adarsh Kumar, Puneet Mahajan and Dinesh Mohan,“Tractor Vibration

Prediction and relationship with Operator’s health”. International

Conference on Theoretical, Applied, Computational and Experimental

Mechanics, I.I.T. Kharagpur, 1998, paper No. 87, 6 pages, CD ROM.

[7]. P. Mahajan, K.S. Krishnamoorthy and R.K.Mittal, “Impact Behaviour

of Composite Cylindrical Shell”, 1999, Proceeding of the 11th ISME

Conference on Mechanical Engineering, Applied Mechanics Dept.,

I.I.T., Delhi, pp 536-541.

[8]. R. Prasad, P.Mahajan and G.Subba Reddy, “Some Examples Illustrating

the Use of Eshelby Method”, 1999, Proceeding of the 11th ISME

Conference on Mechanical Engineering, Applied Mechanics Dept.,

I.I.T., Delhi, pp 524-529.

[9]. K.S. Krishnamoorthy, P. Mahajan, and R.K.Mittal, “Impact Response of

a Laminated Cylindrical Composite Shell Panel, ”, 2000, Proceedings of

Second Structural Engineering Convention, I.I.T., Bombay, pp 57-62.

[10]. N. Bhatnagar, N. Kokane, D. Nayak, I. Singh, P. Mahajan and J. Bijwe,

“Effect of coefficient of friction on tool wear in machining of GFRP

composites”, Proceedings of Ist International Conference on Recent

Advances in Composite Materials (ICRACM-2004), Varanasi, India,

17th-19th December’ 2004, pp: 149-154.

[11]. D. Nayak, I. Singh, N. Bhatnagar and P. Mahajan, “An Analysis of

Machining Induced Damages in FRP Composites – A micro-mechanics

cohesive zone modeling approach”, 8th International Conference on

Numerical Method in Industrial Forming Processes (NUMIFORM

2004), Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A., June’ 2004, pp: 327-331.

[12]. D. Nayak, N. Bhatnagar and P. Mahajan, “An Analysis of Machining

Induced Damages in FRP Composites – A micro-mechanics Finite

Element Approach”, 3rd International Conference on Advanced

Manufacturing Technology (ICAMT 2004), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,

May’ 2004, pp: 607-611.

[13]. D. Nayak, I. Singh, N. Bhatnagar and P. Mahajan, “Quantification of

Damage in Machining of UD-GFRP Composites”, e-proceedings of

National Conference on Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics (AMR-

2004), CMERI, Durgapur, January’ 2004, India.

[14]. N. Bhatnagar, D. Nayak, I. Singh, H. Chouhan and P. Mahajan,

“Determination of machining induced damage characteristics of FRP

composite laminates”, Proceedings of 6th International Seminar on

“Experimental Techniques and Design in Composite Materials”,

University of Padova, Vicenza, Italy, June’ 2003, pp: 163-164

[15]. M Venkat Rao, Mahajan, P., Mittal, R.K., “Micromechanical Unit Cell

Modeling of Carbon-Carbon composites”, Damage Tolerant Design and

Materials, Proceedings of Indo Japan Conference on Damage Tolerant

Design and Materials, IIT Madras, December 16-18 2004, p310-315

[16]. M Venkat Rao, Mahajan, P., Mittal, R.K.,. “Mechanical Properties of

Carbon-Carbon Composite-Unit Cell Modelling”, Proceedings of

International conference on recent advances in composite materials,

December 17-19-2004, Varanasi.

[17]. M. Venkat Rao, P. Mahajan and R. K. Mittal, “Effect of fiber waviness

on elastic moudli of carbon/carbon composites”, International

conference on Advances in Materials and Materials Processing,

(ICAMMP-2006) 3-5 February 2006. Page: 117-125.

[18]. G. Venu Gopala Rao, Puneet Mahajan and Naresh Bhatnagar, “Micro

Mechanical Finite Element Analysis of Machining of UD-FRP

Composites”, International Conference on Manufacturing Science and

Technology (ICOMAST-2006), August 28-30, 2006 at Multimedia

University, Melaka, Malaysia. Page: 109-112.

[19]. G. Venu Gopala Rao, Puneet Mahajan and Naresh Bhatnagar, “Contact

Pressure in chip formation during orthogonal cutting of unidirectional

CFRP composites”, International Conference on Advances in Materials

and Materials Processing (ICAMMP-2006) February 3-5, 2006 at IIT

Kharagpur, India. Page: 109-116.

[20]. G. Venu Gopala Rao, Puneet Mahajan and Naresh Bhatnagar, “Cutting

forces during orthogonal machining of unidirectional composites

Experiments and Analysis”, Proceedings of All India Seminar on

Recent Advances in Manufacturing Technologies (RAMT-2005),

October 22-23, 2005 at NIT Rourkela, India. Page: 67-74.

[21]. K. L. A. Khan, P. Mahajan and R. Prasad, “Microstructure and

mechanical properties of open-cell Aluminium foam made by sintering

and dissolution process”, International conference on Advances in

Materials and Materials Processing (ICAMMP-2006) 3-5 February

2006. Page: 884-888.

[22]. Puneet Mahajan and Praveen kumar pinooji, “Impact Analysis of Helmets

for improved ventilation with Deformable Head Model”, Madrid 2006,

International IRCOBI Conference on Biomechanics of Impact , p159-170

[23]. P. Mahajan, S.KJoshi,“ Interfacial Crack Velocities in Snow Slab” ,

International Snow Science Workshop Proceedings 2006, p92 -100.

[24]. R.K Agarwal, Ravi, M.R., Mahajan, “Snow Microstructure Supplement to

Sntherm Model”, P.A, International Snow Science Workshop

Proceedings2006, p117-126.

[25]. G. Venu Gopala Rao, Puneet Mahajan and Naresh Bhatnagar, “Machining

of UD-Fiber reinforced Composites a Two Phase Micromechanical Finite

Element Model”, Fifteenth International Symposium on Processing and

Fabrication of Advanced Materials (PFAM XV-2006), Material Science

and Technology, October 15th-19th, 2006, university of Akron, Ohio, USA,

p. 569-587.

[26]. G. Venu Gopala Rao, Puneet Mahajan and Naresh Bhatnagar, “Machining

of UD-FRP Composites – Damage, Cutting forces and Stress Analysis”,

Second International Congress on Computational Mechanics and

Simulation (ICCMS-2006), December 8th-10th, 2006, Indian Institute of

Technology Guwahati, India, Vol-I, p. 426-432.

[27]. Praveen Kumar Pinnoji, Puneet Mahajan , “Dynamics of helmet and head

impact – finite element modeling”, Second International Congress on

Computational Mechanics and Simulation (ICCMS-2006), December 8th-

10th, 2006, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India.

[28]. Praveen Kumar Pinooji and P.Mahajan , “Stress wave propagation in

helmet-head impact”, Proceedings of the Impact Mechanics and

Plasticity (IMPLAST), The University Press, Bochum, Germany, 2007,

135-142.

[29]. Praveen Kumar Pinnoji, Mahajan P, Bourdet N, Willinger R. “New

motorcycle helmets with metal foam shell”, Proceedings of the

International Research Council on the Biomechanics of Impact

(IRCOBI), vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 544-551, 2008.

[30]. G. Venu Gopala Rao, Puneet Mahajan and Naresh Bhatnagar

,"Machining of UD-GFRP Composites - Cutting force", 2008,

Processing and Fabrication of Advanced Materials – XVII, Vol. 2, pp

615-626, Editors: N. Bhatnagar and T.S.Srivatsan, I.K.Int. Pub. House,

N.Delhi.

[31]. K. L. A. Khan, P. Mahajan and R. Prasad, “Synthesis and mechanical

properties of open-cell Aluminium foam made by sintering and

dissolution process”, 2008, Processing and Fabrication of Advanced

Materials – XVII, Vol. 1, pp 318-323, Editors: N. Bhatnagar and

T.S.Srivatsan, I.K.Int. Pub. House, N.Delhi.

[32]. Rajneesh Sharma, Puneet Mahajan, and Ramesh Kumar Mittal, “Image

Based Finite Element Analysis of 3D-Orthogonal Carbon-Carbon (C/C)

Composite”, Proceedings of The World Congress on Engineering 2010,

pp1597-1601, Editors: S. I. Ao and Len Gelman and David WL Hukins

and Andrew Hunter and A. M. Korsunsky, ISBN of Vol II (pp819-

1665): 978-988-18210-7-2. Publisher: Newswood

Limited,Organization: International Association of Engineers.

[33]. S Garg D Sanyal, Mahajan P., “Mould Shape Optimization of the

Precision Glass Mouldin Process,” Proceedings of 3rd Glass Forming

Simulation Workshop, 2011, Glass Service Ltd., Vsetin, Czech

Republic, pp194-203.

[34]. Rajneesh Sharma, Puneet Mahajan , Ramesh Kumar Mittal “Mechanical

Characterization of Carbon-Carbon (C/C) Composite Using Image

Based Finite Element”, , ISAMPE National Conference on Composites

– INCCOM 10, Pune, India, Nov. 18-19, 2011, CD

[35]. S. D. Patel, P. Mahajan and Suhail Ahmad, “Probabilistic Analysis of

Composite Plate Damage Initiation due to Low Velocity Impact”,

ISAMPE National Conference on Composites – INCCOM 10, Pune,

India, Nov. 18-19, 2011, CD (1-8)

[36]. P. Mahajan and R. Sharma, “Mechanical Properties of carbon-carbon

composites - experiments and simulations”, Composite Materials for

Structural Performance: towards higher limits, Roskilde, Denmark,

September 2011, pp 111-126.

[37]. Sangeeta Khare and Puneet Mahajan, “Growth of carbides in Fe-C-X

steel alloys", Third Asian Conference on Mechanics of Functional

Materials and Structures (ACMFMS-2012) held at IIT Delhi, 5-8 Dec.

2012.

[38]. R.T.D. Prabhakaran, M. Gupta, H. Lilholt, B.F. Sørensen, and P.

Mahajan “Experiments and Analyses for Determining Fibre/Matrix

Interface Parameters–Understanding Debonding Problems”,

International Symposium on Materials Science, 2013, 34, pp. 341- R.T.

Durai Prabhakaran, Mohit Gupta*, Hans Lilholt, Bent F. Sørensen, and

Puneet Mahajan*, “Experiments And Analyses For Determining

Fibre/Matrix Interface Parameters –Understanding Debonding

Problems,” Proceedings of the 34th Risø International Symposium on

Materials Science: Processing of fibre composites: Challenges for

maximum materials performance, Editors: B. Madsen, H. Lilholt, Y.

Kusano, S. Fæster and B. Ralph, Department of Wind Energy, Risø

Campus Technical University of Denmark, 2013.

[39]. S.Patel ,S.Ahmad , P Mahajan , “Reliability Assessments Of Composite

Plate Under Damage Initiation Due To Low Velocity Impact”,

Proceeding of the 11th Biennial Conference on Engineering Systems

Design and Analysis (ESDA12), ASME Nantes, 2-4 July, France 2012.

[40]. S.D Patel, Suhail Ahmad P Mahajan,“ Probabilistic Assessment of

Composite Plate for Damage Propagation under Impact,” 3rd Asian

Conference on Mechanics of Functional Materials and Structures,

(ACMFMS -2012) IIT Delhi, 5-8 December 2012.

[41]. Paper entitled “A comparative study of turbulence models performance

for the study of air flow in helmets” Presented at 1st International

conference on “Helmet Performance and Design” Imperial College

London on 15th Feb 2013 and published in the proceedings of the

conference (8)1-7.

[42]. S Patel, S Ahmad, P Mahajan “Stochastic Finite Element Analysis of

Composite Body Armor”, Advances in Structural Engineering, 259-272,

2015.

[43]. H Singh, P Mahajan, KK Namala “A Progressive Failure Study of E-

glass/Epoxy Composite in Case of Low Velocity Impact”, Advances in

Structural Engineering, 273-300, 2015.

[44]. V Yakkala, S Ahmad, P Mahajan, P Pankaj “Static Analysis and

Strength Reliability of Human Femur Bone”, ASME 2014 12th Biennial

Conference on Engineering Systems Design and

AnalysisV001T03A008-V001T03A008.

[45]. B Shishodi S Sanghi, and P Mahajan, “A Comparative Study of

Turbulence Models Performance for the Study of Air Flow in Helmets”

International conference on Helmet Performance and Design, Imperial

College London, UK 2013.

[46]. B Shishodia, S Sanghi, and P Mahajan,“Air Flow, Heat Transfer and

Impact Study of Ventilated and Non-Ventilated Full Face Motorcycle

Helmet”, International Crashworthiness Conference (ICRASH2014),

Sarawak, Malaysia 2014.

[47]. B Shishodia, S Sanghi, and P Mahajan, “A Parametric study of

different Turbulence Models Performance for the Study of Air flow in

Helmets” 5th International and 41st National conference on Fluid

Mechanics and Fluid Power, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur,

India 2014.

[48]. S SikrI, B Shishodia,,P Mahajan, and S Sanghi, “Performance

Comparison of Motorcycle Helmet shell of Different Materials”

International Crashworthiness Conference (ICRASH2014) at Sarawak,

Malaysia 2014.

[49]. M. Asif, Sangeeta Khare and Puneet Mahajan, “Impact testing of

motorcycle helmet foam with polycarbonate as outer shell”, Indian

National Conference on Applied Mechanics INCAM-2015 at IIT Delhi,

13-15 July 2015.

[50]. Sangeeta Khare and Puneet Mahajan, “Effect of Co and Mn on phase

transformation of austenite to ferrite in Fe-C-X (X = Co, Mn)”,

International Conference on Multifunctional Materials, Structures and

Applications (ICMMSA-2014) held at MNNIT Allahabad, 20-22

Dec.2014.

[51]. Sangeeta Khare and Puneet Mahajan, “Effect of Mn and Si on growth

kinetics of ferrite in Fe-C-X alloys", International Union of Materials

Research Society, Materials Research Society of India (IUMRS-ICA

2013) held at Bangalore, 16-20 Dec. 2013.

[52]. 348.

[53]. B Shishodia, S Sikri, S Sanghi, P Mahajan, “Air flow, heat transfer and

impact study of ventilated and non-ventilated full-fact Ballistic Impact."

Procedia Engineering 173 (2017): pp 1901-1908.

[54]. Patel, Shivdayal, Suhail Ahmad, and Puneet Mahajan. "Safety

Assessment of Composite Armor under Ballistic Impact." Procedia

Engineering 173 (2017): pp 1901-1908.

[55]. B.Shishodia S. Sanghi, and P. Mahajan. "Redesigning of Motorcycle

Helmet for Improved Air Ventilation Using Numerical Simulations."

Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power–Contemporary Research. Springer

India, 2017. pp 625-635.

2. PhD thesis (guided):

S No Name of the Student Project Title Co-Supervisor Remarks

1. Anjan Dutta Adaptive Finite Element

Analysis for Accurate

Computation of Stresses

and Design Sensitivities for

Structures under Transient

Dynamic Loads.

Prof.

C.V.Ramakrishnan

1996

2. Adarsh Kumar Effect of Whole Body

Vibrations on Tractor

Drivers: An Ergonomic and

Medical Investigation

Prof. Dinesh Mohan 2000

3. K.S.Krishnamoorthy A study of Impact Response

of Laminated Composite

Shells Including Impact

Induced Damage

Prof. R.K.Mittal 2001

4. Debasis Nayak Machining studies of

Unidirectional fiber

reinforced thermoset

composites

Prof. N. Bhatnagar 2004

5. G.V.Rao Finite Element Analysis of

Machining of uni-

directional composites

Prof. N. Bhatnagar 2008

6. M.Venkat Rao Mechanical properties of

Multi-directional Carbon-

carbon composites

Prof. R.K.Mittal 2008

7. P. Praveen Kumar Dynamic studies on Shell

materials and ventilation in

Motor cycle helmets

2008

8. Kunwar Laiq Ahmad

Khan

Synthesis and mechanical

behaviour of aluminium

foam

Dr. Rajesh Prasad 2010

9..

Rajneesh Sharma

2007AMZ8328

Mechanical characterization

of 3d carbon/carbon

composites using image-

based finite element mehod

Prof. R.K.Mittal 2012

10.

Mohammad Hossein

Alaei

2009AMZ8447

Particle Size Effect From

Micro To Nano On The

Thermal And Mechanical

Properties Of

Polymer Composites

Prof. N. Bhatnagar 2013

11.

Kiran Kumar Namala

2007AMZ8327

Low velocity impact on

glass fibre reinforced epoxy

composites:experiments

and simulation

Prof. N. Bhatnagar 2016

12.

Prince Sharma

2008AMZ8173

Ballistic impact behaviour

of aluminium alloy

AA2014-T652 subjected to

rigid and deformable

projectiles

2017

13. Chaman Chandel

2008AMZ8174

Micromechanical analysis

of deformation and failure

of snow

2016

14. Atul Ramesh Bhagat

2009AMZ8162

Homogenization and

multiscale modeling of

carbon/carbon composit

2017

15, Praveen Srivastava

2011AMZ8095 Microstructure of Snow

16. Shiv Dayal Patel

2010AMZ8131

Impact and stochastic

studies on composites

Prof. S.Ahmed 2016

17. Mohit Gupta

2012AMZ8337

Micromechanics of

Composites

Bent Sorensen (DTU)

P. Durai

18.

Bhagwat Shishodia

2009AMZ8573

Design and optimization of

air ventilation system for

improved heat transfer

characteristics in helmets

S. Sanghi 2017

19. Harpreet Singh Low velocity impact

20. Tarkes Dora (IITM) Glass moulding simulation K. Ramesh 2016

21 2011AMZ8342

Ranjeet Kumar

(Indian Spinal Injury

Centre)

Analysis of Polymeric

Polycentric Prosthetic Knee

Joint

Naresh Bhatnagar

22 C.Chenna Sekhar Reddy

M.S Research

Study of crack propagation

during indentation of a

layered material

Pro.R,k

Mittal&Dr.Punnet

Mahajan

1999

3. List of Sponsored Projects Implemented

Periods Sponsoring Organization

Title of Project Amount of

Grant

Co-Investigators

1993-1996 Defence Research and

Development Organisation

A constitutive law for snow

and its application to Snow

Slab Release

2.56 lakhs Prof. R.K.Mittal

1999-2000 DST

Ergonomic Analysis,

Vibration Reduction and

Safety Improvements of

Indian Tractor

Rs. 10

lakhs

Prof. D. Mohan

1997-1999 IGCAR

Ratchetting of Main Vessel

of Prototype Fast Breeder

Reactor under Axial

Temperature variation near

Sodium Free Level

Rs. 8 lakhs Prof. C.V.Ramakrishnan

and Prof. R.K.Mittal

2001-2003 Dupont Analysis of Mechanical

Behaviour of Layered

Materials I

Rs. 8.0

lacs

Prof. R.K.Mittal

2003-2004 Dupont Analysis of Mechanical

Behaviour of Layered

Materials II

Rs. 8.0

lacs

Prof. R.K.Mittal

2001-2004 DRDO Microstructure of Snow and

Slab avalanche initiation

Rs. 18 lacs Prof. R.K.Mittal

Dr. R. Prasad

2005- Volvo Foundation Transportation research Rs. 12

Crores

G. Tiwari (PI)

S. R. Kale

D. Mohan

A. Chawla

S. Mukherjee

S.Sanghi

2005-2008 DRDO Development of Model for

fracture of snow

Experiments and Simulation

Rs. 9.97

lacs

Prof. R.K. Mittal

Dr. R. Prasad

2006-2009

DRDO Micromechanical modelling

of Carbon-Carbon

composites

Rs. 8 lacs

Prof. R.K. Mittal

Prof. Gandhi

2010- DST (Indo-EU project)

Project sanctioned

Development of a

Synergistic Computational

Tool for Material Modeling,

Process Simulation and

Optimization of Optical

Glass Molding

Rs. 74,43,600

Dr. Rajesh Prasad, Dr.

M.Singha.

28-12-2010

DST Modelling of precipitates in

steel alloys

24,10,000

P.Mahajan

2011

IIT Development of Light Weight Ballistic Materials System for Body, Vehicle and Structural Armors

1 crore N. Bhatnagar(PI)

P.Mahajan

R. Algairusamy,

A.Ghosh etc.

17-5-2011

TRIPP TRIPP Chair Professor project

6,00,000 P.Mahajan

2011-09-30 (3 years

DRDO Numerical Simulation of

Fracture Initiation and

Propagation in Weak Layer

15,00,000

P.Mahajan

2012-04-13 ( 2 years)

UKIERI Natural Anisotropic

Materials: From micro-level

composition to macro-level

response

12,00,000 P.Mahajan (PI)

S.Ahmad

2012-04-13 (2 years)

UKIERI Design of ventilated

Helmets 16,00,00

0

S.Sanghi (PI), P.Mahajan

4. List of Consultancy Projects

Period Organisation Nature of Work Co-Investigators

1997 J.K.Technosoft Finite Element Workshops I and II Mr. S. Hegde, Ms Akhila

Sinha, Dr. P.V.Krishnan,

Ms Jayshree.

1997 Land Base India Ltd. Mechanical Testing of TMT bars of

Different Stocks and Diameters

Prof. R.K.Mittal

1998 Newgen Finite Element Meshing and Analysis Mr. S. Hegde

2001 Hero Motors Stress Analysis of moped frame Dr. D.K.Seghal

2001 “ Vibration Measurement in moped Dr. Tandon

2003 Association of State Road

Transport

Finite Element Stress Analysis of Bus Body

Design –I

Dr. D.K.Seghal

2009 DRDO Snow Surface Temperature Modeling Dr. A. Keshari, Dr. Ratan

Mohan

2009 GE Stochastic Analysis of Composites Prof. S.Ahmed

2010 NDMC Testing of Materials For CIPP Lining

of Trunk Sewer Line

Dr. A. Keshari

5. Courses taught at IIT Delhi

Engineering Mechanics, Mechanics of Solids, Constitutive modeling, Finite Element

Methods, Advanced Finite Element Methods, Engineering Mathematics. Plasticity

6. Laboratory Development

i) Accelerometer and DAQ systems.

ii) Impact tester for helmets and composites.

iii) Digital Image Correlation System (DIC) for high speed strain measurements (In the

process of acquiring).

iv) Crack growth measurement Potentiometer system.

Puneet Mahajan is a professor in the Department of Applied Mechanics at IIT Delhi. He

joined IIT Delhi as a Lecturer in 1992. He obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degree in

Engineering from Delhi University, India and PhD from Montana State University, USA.

His research interests are in the areas of the Mechanics of composite materials, Impact

mechanics, Snow mechanics, Finite Element Method and helmet design. Puneet Mahajan

has 80 publications in refereed journals and conferences.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Mechanics of composite materials, Impact mechanics, Snow mechanics, Helmets