Dr. Aman Khurana | Decision-making and Problem-solving | Best Researcher Award

Dr. Aman Khurana | Decision-making and Problem-solving | Best Researcher Award

Indian Institute of Technology Indore India, India

🔗 Professional Profiles

Summary:

Aman Khurana is an Assistant Professor at IIT Indore, specializing in soft materials mechanics and dynamic behavior of electroactive polymers. He has been recognized with the DST Inspire Faculty Fellowship (2022) and the Ratan Prakash Memorial Gold Medal (2017) 🎓.

🎓Education:

  • Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Saarland University, Germany
  • Postdoctoral Researcher at Intelligent Materials Systems Lab, Saarland University

⚙️Professional Experience:

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Indore
  • Guest Editor, Special Issue: European Journal of Computational Mechanics (2023-present)

🌟Research Interests:

  • Mechanics of Soft Active Materials ⚙️
  • Nonlinear Dynamics 📈
  • Stability Analysis and Control of Electrically Driven Mechanical Structures 🌟

Aman Khurana has led and contributed to various research projects funded by prestigious agencies and has a strong publication record with over 21 journal articles.

Notable Publications 

Paper Tittle:  Effect of viscoelasticity on the nonlinear dynamic behavior of dielectric elastomer minimum energy structures

  • Authors: Aman Khurana, Ajay Kumar, Santosh Kumar Raut, Atul Kumar Sharma, Manish M Joglekar
  • Journal: International Journal of Solids and Structures
  • Year: 2021
  • Citations; 61

Paper Tittle: Nonlinear oscillations of particle-reinforced electro-magneto-viscoelastomer actuators

  • Authors: Aman Khurana, Deepak Kumar, Atul Kumar Sharma, Manish M Joglekar
  • Journal: Journal of Applied Mechanics
  • Year: 2021
  • Citations; 43

Paper Tittle: Nonlinear oscillations of electrically driven aniso-visco-hyperelastic dielectric elastomer minimum energy structures

  • Authors: Aman Khurana, Atul Kumar Sharma, Manish M Joglekar
  • Journal: Nonlinear Dynamics
  • Year: 2021
  • Citations; 43

Paper Tittle: Static and dynamic instability modeling of electro-magneto-active polymers with various entanglements and crosslinks

  • Authors: Aman Khurana, Deepak Kumar, Atul Kumar Sharma, MM Joglekar
  • Journal: International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics
  • Year: 2022
  • Citations; 33

Paper Tittle: Effect of polymer chains entanglements, crosslinks and finite extensibility on the nonlinear dynamic oscillations of dielectric viscoelastomer actuators

  • Authors: Aman Khurana, Ajay Kumar, Atul Kumar Sharma, Manish M Joglekar
  • Journal: Nonlinear Dynamics
  • Year: 2021
  • Citations; 27