Sajith S

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India· s.sajith@iitg.ac.in

I am a Ph.D. scholar working with Prof. K.S.R.K. Murthy and Prof. P.S. Robi at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India. My research areas are mainly experimental and numerical fatigue crack growth studies


Education

Indian institute of technology guwahati

Doctor of Philosophy (Pursuing)
Mechanial Engineering - Fatigue crack growth studies
January 2020

Indian institute of technology guwahati

Master of Technology
Mechanial Engineering - Machine Design
June 2011

The Institution of Engineers (India)

Bachelor's Degree (AMIE)
Mechanial Engineering
June 2007

Experience

Assistant professor 

svnce, kayamkulam, kerala, India 
July 2011 - December 2011

Lecturer 

VIET, Kottayam, Kerala, India
June 2006 - June 2009

Publications

International Journals

  1. Sajith, S., Murthy, K.S.R.K., and Robi, P.S., 2020. Experimental and numerical investigation of mixed mode fatigue crack growth models in Aluminum 6061-T6. International Journal of Fatigue, Vol. 130(1), p. 105285

  2. Sajith, S., Shukla, S.S., Murthy, K.S.R.K., and Robi, P.S., 2020. Mixed mode fatigue crack growth studies in AISI 316 stainless steel. European Journal of Mechanics, A/Solids, Vol. 80, p. 103898.

  3. Sajith, S., Murthy, K.S.R.K., and Robi, P.S., 2019. Prediction of accurate mixed mode fatigue crack growth curves using the Paris’ law. Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series C, Vol. 100(1), pp. 165-174.

  4. Sajith, S., Murthy, K.S.R.K., and Robi, P.S., 2018. A simple technique for estimation of mixed mode (I/II) stress intensity factors. Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures, Vol. 13(2), pp. 141-154.

Conference Publications

  1. Sajith, S., Murthy, K.S.R.K., and Robi, P.S., 2020. Estimation of stress intensity factors from crack flank displacements. Materials Today Proceedings, (Article in press)

  2. Sajith, S., Murthy, K.S.R.K., and Robi, P.S., 2020. Accurate estimation of mixed-mode stress intensity factors using crack flank displacements. Advances in Materials and Manufacturing Engineering. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, Vol. 1, pp. 503-509

  3. Sajith, S., Murthy, K.S.R.K., and Robi, P.S., 2019. Mixed mode fatigue crack growth studies of crack emanating from circular hole. AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 2200, p. 020041.

  4. Sajith, S., Murthy, K.S.R.K., and Robi, P.S., 2018. Fatigue life prediction under mixed-mode loading using equivalent stress intensity factor models. MATEC Web of Conferences, Vol. 172, p. 03005.

  5. Sajith, S., Murthy, K.S.R.K., and Robi, P.S., 2018. Fatigue crack growth and life prediction under mixed-mode loading. AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1943, p. 020068.

  6. Sajith, S., Murthy, K.S.R.K., and Robi, P.S., 2014. A novel method for computation of mixed mode stress intensity factors of 2D cracked configurations. Proceedings of the 5th International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation, Vol. 1, pp. 840-847.

Technical Skills

Experimental and numerical fatigue crack growth studies

• Expertise in experimental and numerical fatigue crack growth studies

• Performed a series of fatigue crack growth experiments using various materials

• Devised a new curve fitting method for the scattered experimental data

• Image-based measurement of fatigue crack length

Fracture mechanics experiments

• Performed fracture toughness tests and tensile tests

• Finite element analysis of cracked structures

• Limited knowledge of strain gauge techniques in fracture mechanics

Data analysis

• Knowledge about data analysis and statistical techniques using MS Excel and SPSS


Activities & Achievements