Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur |

Applications are sought for PhD students in Computational Materials Science and Probabilistic Mechanics. Please email your resume! Computational Materials Science: Candidates must have a Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Civil/ Mechanical/ Aerospace/ Metallurgical Engineering or in Physics/ Materials Science. Excellent knowledge in mechanics and Finite Element modeling, along with reasonable knowledge in Materials Science and/or Composite Materials, is required. Excellent computer programming skills is essential. Familiarity with materials testing methods and a good publishing record will be given preference. Probabilistic Mechanics Candidates must have a Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Civil/ Mechanical/ Aerospace/ Engineering or in Mathematics/Statistics. Excellent knowledge in Reliability, along with reasonable knowledge in Mechanics and/or Structural Engineering, is required. Excellent computer programming skills is essential. Familiarity with the nuclear power industry and a good publishing record will be given preference. | Applications are sought for PhD students in Computational Materials Science and Probabilistic Mechanics. Please email your resume! Computational Materials Science: Candidates must have a Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Civil/ Mechanical/ Aerospace/ Metallurgical Engineering or in Physics/ Materials Science. Excellent knowledge in mechanics and Finite Element modeling, along with reasonable knowledge in Materials Science and/or Composite Materials, is required. Excellent computer programming skills is essential. Familiarity with materials testing methods and a good publishing record will be given preference. Probabilistic Mechanics Candidates must have a Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Civil/ Mechanical/ Aerospace/ Engineering or in Mathematics/Statistics. Excellent knowledge in Reliability, along with reasonable knowledge in Mechanics and/or Structural Engineering, is required. Excellent computer programming skills is essential. Familiarity with the nuclear power industry and a good publishing record will be given preference. | Applications are sought for PhD students in Computational Materials Science and Probabilistic Mechanics. Please email your resume! Computational Materials Science: Candidates must have a Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Civil/ Mechanical/ Aerospace/ Metallurgical Engineering or in Physics/ Materials Science. Excellent knowledge in mechanics and Finite Element modeling, along with reasonable knowledge in Materials Science and/or Composite Materials, is required. Excellent computer programming skills is essential. Familiarity with materials testing methods and a good publishing record will be given preference. Probabilistic Mechanics Candidates must have a Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Civil/ Mechanical/ Aerospace/ Engineering or in Mathematics/Statistics. Excellent knowledge in Reliability, along with reasonable knowledge in Mechanics and/or Structural Engineering, is required. Excellent computer programming skills is essential. Familiarity with the nuclear power industry and a good publishing record will be given preference. |

Journal

Numerical estimation of elastic constants of hydroxyapatite at finite temperatures: A comparison of different force fields by Roy A., Patra P. K., Bhattacharya B. International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics 2440001- (Accepted/In-Press)
First-Principles Electrophysiological Models of Cardiac Ventricular Myocytes as a Basis of Multiscale Mechanics of the Heart by Mythri T.G., Hossain S.J., Greenstein J.L., Winslow R.L., Bhattacharya B. Journal of Engineering Mechanics 150 - (2024)
An appraisal of the LQI as an approach to setting target reliabilities in ISO 2394:2015 by Bhattacharya B. Structural Safety 109 102482- (2024)
Behavior of a Network Tied-Arch Bridge Subjected to Sudden Hanger Loss Scenarios by Chen Q., Wang H., El-Tawil S., Agrawal A.K., Bhattacharya B., Wong W. Journal of Bridge Engineering 29 - (2024)
Reliability-Based Framework for Structural Robustness Evaluation of Bridges by Chen Q., Wang H., Bhattacharya B., El-Tawil S., Agrawal A.K., Wong W. Journal of Bridge Engineering 29 - (2024)
Towards system reliability targeted design for flange-angle partially restrained steel moment connections by Chatterjee A., Chakravorty T., Bhattacharya B. Structural Safety 106 - (2024)
Temperature effects on elastic constants and related properties of apatites by Roy A., Kanungo B. , Patra P. K., Bhattacharya B. Materials Today Communications 35 106223- (2023)
Dynamic Response and Progressive Collapse of a Long-Span Suspension Bridge Induced by Suspender Loss by Wang H., Chen Q., Agrawal A.K., El-Tawil S., Bhattacharya B., Wong W. Journal of Structural Engineering (United States) 148 - (2022)
A nested hierarchy of second order upper bounds on system failure probability by Ghosh S., Bhattacharya B. Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics 70 - (2022)
A reliability based measure of structural robustness for coherent systems by Bhattacharya B. Structural Safety 89 - (2021)
Zeroth Law investigation on the logarithmic thermostat by Patra P.K., Bhattacharya B. Scientific Reports 8 - (2018)
Non-Gaussian parameter estimation using generalized polynomial chaos expansion with extended Kalman filtering by Sen S., Bhattacharya B. Structural Safety 70 104-114 (2018)
Phononic origins of friction in carbon nanotube oscillators by Prasad M. V., Bhattacharya B. Nano Letters - (2017)
Progressive damage identification using dual extended Kalman filter by Sen S., Bhattacharya B. Acta Mechanica 227 2099-2109 (2016)
Online structural damage identification technique using constrained dual extended Kalman filter by Sen S., Bhattacharya B. Structural Control and Health Monitoring - (2016)
Heat pump without particle transport or external work on the medium achieved by differential thermostatting of the phase space by Patra P. and Bhattacharya B. Physical Review E vol. 93, no. 3 - (2016)
A non-iterative structural damage identification methodology using eigenstructure assignment in state space by Sen S. and Bhattacharya B. Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, Taylor and Francis. 12 - (2016)
Thermomechanical Buckling of Boron Nitride Nanotubes using Molecular Dynamics by Chandra A., Patra P. K., Bhattacharya B. Materials Research Express 3 - (2016)
Phonon scattering dynamics of thermophoretic motion in carbon nanotube oscillators by Prasad MVD and Bhattacharya B. Nano Letters 16 (4), pp 2174-2180. - (2016)
Equilibrium free energy differences at different temperatures from a single set of nonequilibrium transitions by Patra P. K., Bhattacharya B. Physical Review E 94 040101- (2016)
Phonon wave-packet scattering and energy dissipation dynamics in carbon nanotube oscillators, by Prasad M. V., Bhattacharya B. Journal of Applied Physics 118 244906- (2015)
Buckling and post buckling characteristics of cantilevered singlewalled carbon nanotubes in bending by Prasad M. V., Bhattacharya B. , International Journal of Nanoscience 14 1550019- (2015)
Thermal vibration characteristics of armchair Boron-Nitride Nanotubes by Chandra A., Patra P. K., Bhattacharya B. Journal of Applied Physics 118 234503- (2015)
Electric-field assisted desorption of water molecules in DNA functionalized CNT network by Paul A., Bhattacharya B. , Bhattacharyya T. K. IEEE Sensors Journal 15 2947-2950 (2015)
Non-iterative eigenstructure assignment technique for finite element model updating by Sen S., Bhattacharya B. Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitoring 5 365-375 (2015)
An ergodic configurational thermostat using selective control of higher order temperatures by Patra P. K., Bhattacharya B. Journal of Chemical Physics 142 194103- (2015)
Selective detection of Hg (II) over Cd(II) and Pb(II) ions by DNA functionalized CNT network by Paul A., Bhattacharya B. , Bhattacharyya T. K. IEEE Sensors Journal 15 2774-2779 (2015)
On the Pareto optimality of variance reduction simulation techniques in structural reliability by Sen D., Bhattacharya B. Structural Safety 53 57-74 (2015)
Approximating the entire spectrum of nonequilibrium steady-state distributions using relative entropy: An application to thermal conduction by Patra P. K., Melendez M. , Bhattacharya B. Physical Review E 92 023304- (2015)
A deterministic thermostat for controlling temperature using all degrees of freedom by Patra P. and Bhattacharya B. Journal of Chemical Physics, AIP vol. 140 - (2014)
Reliability-based partial safety factors for dual performance level design of prestressed inner containment shells in Indian nuclear power plants by Bhattacharya B., Chatterjee A., Agrawal G., and Mondal A. Nuclear Engineering and Design, Elsevier vol. 256 188-201 (2013)
Reliability-based partial safety factors for dual performance level design of prestressed inner containment shells in Indian nuclear power plants by Bhattacharya B., Chatterjee A. , Agrawal G. , Mondal A. Nuclear Engineering and Design 256 188-201 (2013)
A Fast Parallel Gauss Jordan Algorithm for Matrix Inversion using CUDA by Sharma G., Agarwala A., and Bhattacharya B. Computers & Structures, Elsevier vol. 128 31-37 (2013)
Analyzing Fe-Zn system Using Molecular Dynamics, Evolutionary Neural Nets and Multi-objective Genetic Algorithms by Bhattacharya B., G.R. Dinesh Kumar, A. Agarwal, Şakir Erkoç, A. Singh, N. Chakraborti Computational Materials Science, Elsevier vol. 46, no. 4 821-827 (2009)
The Extremal Index and the Maximum of a Dependent Stationary Pulse Load Process Observed above a High Threshold by Bhattacharya, B. Structural Safety, Elsevier vol. 30, no. 1 34 - 48 (2008)
Effect of randomly occurring Stone-Wales defects on mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes using atomistic simulation by Lu Q. and Bhattacharya B. Nanotechnology, Institute of Physics vol. 16, no. 4 555-566 (2005)
Continuum damage mechanics analysis of fatigue crack initiation by Bhattacharya, B. and Ellingwood, B. R. International Journal of Fatigue vol. 20, no 9 631-639 (1998)

Conferences

Identifying dominant failure sequences and key elements in progressive collapse analysis by Chakravorty T., Baidya M. , Chatterjee A. , Bhattacharya B. 14th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering - (2023)
Effect of varying component reliabilities on system reliabilities in flange-angle partially restrained steel moment connections by Chakravorty T., Chatterjee A. , Bhattacharya B. 14th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering - (2023)
System Reliability and New Measure of Robustness of Truss Structure in Progressive Collapse by Baidya M., Bhattacharya B. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering 611-623 (2022)
Towards Finite Element Modelling of Electrical Activity in Cardiac Tissue Based on Greenstein Winslow Ventricular Myocyte Model by Mythri T.G., Hossain S.J., Bhattacharya B. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering 357-369 (2022)
Ergodicity and linear response of thermostats for single degree of freedom systems: towards improved temperature control by Patra P. K., Bhattacharya B. ASCE Engineering Mechanics (EMI 2016) and Probabilistic Mechanics and Reliability Conference (PMC 2016) - (2016)
Effect of precompression on thermal vibration characteristics of Boron-Nitride Nanotubes by Chandra A., Patra P. K., Bhattacharya B. International Conference on Advances in Dynamics and Control, Durgapur - (2016)

Book Chapter/Section

Joint and dual estimation of States and parameters with extended and unscented kalman filters by Aswal N., Bhattacharya B., Sen S. Recent Developments In Structural Health Monitoring And Assessment - Opportunities And Challenges: Bridges, Buildings And Other Infrastructures 223- (2022)
Risk and reliability in bridges by Bhattacharya B. Innovative Bridge Design Handbook, 2nd Ed 169-213 (2022)
System Reliability and New Measure of Robustness of Truss Structure in Progressive Collapse by Baidya M., Bhattacharya B. Recent Advances in Computational and Experimental Mechanics, Vol II, 611-623 (2022)
Towards Finite Element Modelling of Electrical Activity in Cardiac Tissue Based on Greenstein Winslow Ventricular Myocyte Model by Mythri T., Hossain S. J., Bhattacharya B. Recent Advances in Computational and Experimental Mechanics, Vol II 357-369 (2022)
Risk and Reliability in Bridges by Bhattacharya B. Innovative Bridge Design Handbook - (2015)

Educational Package

Structural Reliability by Bhattacharya B. - (2021)

Workshop

Redundancy of long-span cable supported bridges by Agrawal A., El-tawil S. , Bhattacharya B. , Chen Q. , Wang H. Virtual Workshop on Redundancy in Bridges for Risk Mitigation in a Multi-Hazard Environment - (2020)
Comparison of redundancy framework for bridges by Agrawal A., El-tawil S. , Bhattacharya B. , Chen Q. , Wang H. Virtual Workshop on Redundancy in Bridges for Risk Mitigation in a Multi-Hazard Environment - (2020)

Symposium

Equilibrium free energy differences at different temperatures from a single set of nonequilibrium transitions by Patra P. K., Bhattacharya B. Non-equlibrium Simulation Conference NESC16 - (2016)

Civil Engineering

Faculty

Baidurya Bhattacharya

Research Areas

Ph. D. Students

Minangshu Baidya