Prof. K. Ramesh, IIT

K. Ramesh, FNAE
Professor
Department of Applied Mechanics
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Chennai, India-600 036
91-44-22574051/4058/4050 (O) 22437175 (home)
Fax:91-44-22574052

kramesh@iitm.ac.in

	Areas of Interest
Personal Academics Publications Projects Consultancy	Computer Application in Experimental Mechanics Digital Photoelasticity Fracture Mechanics Composite Materials Educational Technology	Photomechanics_Lab Students Designing by Photoelasticity Research Quick_Tour

Books

1. e-book on Experimental Stress Analysis, K. Ramesh, Published by IIT Madras, India, 2009.

2. Handbook of Experimental Solid Mechanics, K. Ramesh, Contributed a chapter on Photoelasticity, Springer, USA. (Forthcoming in 2008)

3. e-book on Engineering Fracture Mechanics, K. Ramesh, Published by IIT Madras, India, 2007.
....The author has craftily exploited the potential of the electronic media with excellent animations, attractive colour sketches, many photographs of failed Specimens......They help in understanding the sophisticated concepts of fracture mechanics.........
Prof. Prashant Kumar, Dept of Mechanical Engg, IIT Kanpur. (Author of Elements of Fracture Mechanics, 1999, Wheeler Publishing, India)

.....Captivating photoelastic illustrations constitute a vivid part of the teaching and learning theme throughout this e-book......

Prof. Yogendra Simha, Dept of Mechanical Engg, IISc Bngalore. (Author of Elements of Fracture Mechanics for Modern Engineering, 2001, Universities Press)

........What impressed me most is the tenacity of the author to create a book in a form suitable for teaching.......

Prof. B. Dattaguru, Emeritus Professor, Dept of Mechanical Engg, IISc Bangalore.

4. Digital Photoelasticity - Advanced Techniques and Applications, K. Ramesh, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, New York, Tokyo, 2000.

.......The author has produced a first class textbook that should find widespread use among the students, researchers and design engineers in many branches of engineering....... Applied Mechanics Reviews 55(4) B69-B71 JUL 2002

.......The book is accompanied by a CD-ROM of the C source code of the programs referred to in the text along with
some photoelasticity simulations and some hardware-specific code......	Strain 38 85-86 2002
Bible of digital photoelasticity	www.amazon.co.uk

......This is the first monograph in its field and forms a useful contribution......

Measurement Science and Technology. 11(December 2000) 1826-1827

5. Mechanical Sciences, G. K. Lal, Vijay Gupta, N. G. R. Iyengar, B. N. Banerjee and K. Ramesh, Narosa Publishing House, 1998. Published under the Institution of Engineers book series.

Representative Papers

K.R. Madhu, R. G. R. Prasath and K. Ramesh, "Colour Adaptation in Three Fringe Photoelasticity, Experimental Mechanics, 47, 271-276, 2007.
K. Ashokan and K. Ramesh,"A novel approach for ambiguity removal in isochromatic phasemap in digital photoelasticity", Meas.Sci.Technol.,17, 2891-2896, 2006.
M. Ramji, V.Y. Gadre and K. Ramesh, “Comparative study of evaluation of primary isoclinic data by various spatial domain methods in digital photoelasticity”, J. Strain Analysis for Engng. Des., 41(5), 333-348, 2006.
P.R.D. Karthick Babu and K. Ramesh, “Development of fringe plotting scheme from 3D FE results”, Comm. Num. Meth. in Engng., 22(7), 809-821, 2006.
M. Ravichandran and K. Ramesh, "Determination of Stress Field parameters for an interface crack in a bi-material by digital photoelasticity”, Jl of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design, 40 (4), 2005, 327-343.
K. Ramesh, and D.K. Tamrakar, "Improved Determination of Retardation in Digital Photoelasticity by Load Stepping", Optics and Lasers in Engineering, 33 (2000) 387-400.
K. Ramesh, M. A. Kumar and S. G. Dhande, "Fusion of digital photoelasticity, rapid prototyping and rapid tooling technologies", Experimental Techniques, 23(2), 36-38, 1999.
K. Ramesh and D. Sreedhar, "Optically enhanced tiling (OET) in digital fringe pattern analysis", Strain, 127-131, 1998.
K. Ramesh, "PHOTOSOFT_H : a comprehensive photoelasticity simulation module to teach the technique of photoelasticity", International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education, 25(4), 306-324, 1997.
K. Ramesh and S. S. Deshmukh, "Automation of white light photoelasticity by phase-shifting technique using colour image processing hardware", Optics and Lasers in Engineering, 28(1), 47-60, 1997. Also in the book "Selected Papers on Photoelasticity", T. Y. Chen (ed.) brought out by SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering in their Milestone Series. Vol. MS158, pp 290-303, 2000.
K. Ramesh and Sanjeev S. Deshmukh, "Three-fringe photoelasticity - use of colour image processing hardware to automate ordering of isochromatic fringes", Strain, 32, 79-86, 1996.
L. S. Srinath, K. Ramesh and V. Ramamurti, "Determination of characteristic parameters in three dimensional photoelasticity", Optical Engineering, 27(3), 225-230, 1988. Also in the book "Applications of Polarised Light", B. H. Billings (ed.) brought out by SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering in their Milestone Series. Vol.
MS57, pp 589 - 594, 1992.

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