Faculty Profile

About

Dr. Rajanna T has 17 years of experience in teaching and research and is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, B.M.S College of Engineering, Bengaluru, India. He has completed his Ph.D at IIT-Bombay in the area of Structural stability and dynamics of FRP composites and Functionally graded materials. His Passionate teacher and researcher in the field of Structural Engineering. His areas of research include Structural stability and dynamic behavior of retrofitted RC Columns, RC slabs, Corrugated GI sheets, FRP Composite Laminates with stiffeners and damages, Functionally graded Materials (FGM), Structural Health Monitoring, etc. Through concerted effort could able to publish more than 40 peer-reviewed papers in highly reputed international Journals and more than 20 in the Conference proceedings. Under his guidance, two Ph.D students obtained Ph.D degree in the year 2022. Further, three more Ph.D students are working under his guidance in the area of structural stability and dynamics and retrofitting of RC structural elements as a part of a sponsored project. He also guided many M.Tech and B.E students not only in the parent institute but also in many other colleges. He has taught many advanced subjects like, Finite Element Method, Matrix method of Structural Analysis, Structural Dynamics, Theory of Elasticity, Mechanics of FRP Composites, Advanced design of RC structures, etc.

Publications:

1. Rajanna T., Banerjee S., Desai Y.M., and Prabhakara D.L., (2016), “Vibration and buckling analyses of laminated panels with and without cutouts under compressive and tensile edge loads”, Steel and Composite Structures, 21(1), 37-55. https://doi.org/10.12989/SCS.2016.21.1.037.

2. Rajanna T., Banerjee S., Desai Y.M., and Prabhakara D.L., (2016), “Effects of Partial Edge Loading and Fibre Configuration on Vibration and Buckling Characteristics of Stiffened Composite Plates”, Latin American Journal of Solids and Structures, 13(5), 854-879. doi: 10.1590/1679-78252239.

3. Rajanna T., Banerjee S., Desai Y.M., and Prabhakara D.L., (2017), “Effect of boundary conditions and non-uniform edge loads on the buckling characteristics of laminated composite panels with and without cutout”, International Journal for Computational Methods in Engineering Mechanics, (Taylor & Francis Group), 18(1), 64-76. https://doi.org/10.1080/15502287.2016.1276350

4. Rajanna T., Banerjee S., Desai Y.M., and Prabhakara D.L., (2018), “Effect of reinforced cutouts and ply-orientations on buckling behavior of composite panels subjected to non-uniform edge loads”, Internal Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics. 18(4), 1850058. https://doi.org/10.1142/S021945541850058X

5. KS, S. C., Rajanna, T., & Rao, K. V. (2020). A Parametric study on the effect of elliptical cutouts for buckling behavior of composite plates under non-uniform edge loads. Latin American Journal of Solids and Structures, 17(8), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1590/1679-78256225.

6. Maharudra, R., Arya, B., & Rajanna, T. (2020). Effect of ply-orientation and boundary conditions on the vibrational characteristics of laminated composite plates using HOSDST. Materials Today, 20, 134-139.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2019.10.062

7. Muddappa, P. Y., Rajanna, T., & Giridhara, G. (2021). Effects of different interlaminar hybridization and localized edge loads on the vibration and buckling behavior of fiber metal composite laminates. Composites Part C, 4, 100084. doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomc.2020.100084.

8. Muddappa, P. Y., Giridhara, G., & Rajanna, T. (2021). Buckling behavior of GLARE panels subjected to partial edge loads. Materials Today, 45, 94-99. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2020.10.099

9. Maharudra, R., Rajanna, T., & Arya, B. (2021). Influence of Trapezoidal Shapes and Cutout Sizes on the Buckling Behaviour of Composite Laminates under Thermally Induced Loads. Latin American Journal of Solids and Structures, 18. https://doi.org/10.1590/1679-78256331.

10. Muddappa, P. Y., Giridhara, G., & Rajanna, T. (2021). Buckling behavior of interlaminar hybrid fiber metal laminate (HFMLs) subjected to uniaxial compressive loading. Materials Today, 45, 128-132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2020.10.111.

11. Chandra, K. S., Rajanna, T., & Venkata Rao, K. (2021). Hygro-thermo-mechanical vibration and buckling analysis of composite laminates with elliptical cutouts under localized edge loads. International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics, 2150150. doi:10.1142/S0219455421501509.

12. Muddappa, P. Y., Rajanna, T., & Giridhara, G. (2021). Effect of Compression and Tension Types of Concentrated Edge Loads on Buckling and Vibration Behavior of Interlaminar Hybrid Fibre Metal Laminates. Composites Part C, 100167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomc.2021.100167

13. Swaminathan, K., Sachin, H., & Rajanna, T. (2021). Buckling analysis of functionally graded materials by dynamic approach. Materials Today, 45, 172-178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2020.10.412

14. Maharudra, R., Rajanna, T., & Arya, B. (2021).Thermal Buckling Behaviours of Laminated Composite Trapezoidal Panel under Thermally Induced Loads. American Journal of Materials Science, 11(1), 10-19. https://doi:10.5923/j.materials.20211101.02

15. Chandra, K. S., Rajanna, T., & Rao, K. V. (2021). Effect of sinusoidal and inverse sinusoidal In-plane loads on buckling and vibration characteristics of FRP panels with cutouts. Materials Today, 45, 48-53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2020.09.231

16. Maharudra, R., Rajanna, T., & Arya, B. (2021). Effect of trapezoidal shapes on the thermal buckling behaviour of perforated composite plates. Advances in Materials Science, 21(1), 10-26. doi:10.2478/adms-2021-0002.

17. Chandra, K. S., Rao, K. V., & Rajanna, T. (2021). Effect of Varying In-Plane Loads and Cutout Size on Buckling Behavior of Laminated Panels. Advances in Mechanical Engineering. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi. org/10.1007/978-981-15-3639-7_80.

18. Muddappa, Y. P., Rajanna, T., & Giridhara, G. (2021). Effect of nonlinear edge loads and hybridization of FMLs on buckling performance of interlaminar composites with/without cutouts. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, 09544062211037367. https://doi.org/10.1177/09544062211037367

19. Rajanna, T., & Gowda, V. M. (2021). Effect of non-uniform in-plane bending and edge conditions on the stability behaviour of laminated panels with and without cutouts. Materials Today, 45, 156-160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2020.10.402

20. Rajanna, T., & Gowda, V. M. (2021). Dynamic behaviour of perforated laminated panels under biaxial non-uniform edge loads based on FE approach. Materials Today, 45, 179-183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2020.10.413

21. Yathish Muddappa, P. P., Rajanna, T., & Giridhara, G. (2021). Effect of tensile and compressive nonlinear edge loads on the buckling performance of hybrid metal composite laminates with cutouts. Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/15397734.2021.1956331

22. Maharudra, R., Rajanna, T., & Arya, B. (2021). Influence of Trapezoidal Shapes and Linearly varying Edge Loads on the Buckling Characteristics of Plates with Cutouts. Journal of the Institution of Engineers (India): Series C, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40032-021-00735-2

23. Muddappa, P. Y., Giridhara, G., & Rajanna, T. (2021). Effect of localized edge loads on the buckling behaviour of hybrid fibre metal laminates. Materials Today, 46(18), 9054-9058. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2021.05.387

24. Swaminathan, K., Sachin, H., & Rajanna, T. (2021). Effect of initial stresses on vibration behavior of functionally graded materials. Materials Today, 45(1), 240-245. doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2020.10.430.

25. Yathish Muddappa, P. P., Rajanna, T., & Giridhara, G. (2021). Effect of reinforced cutouts on the buckling and vibration performance of hybrid fiber metal laminates. Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines, 1-21. doi.10.1080/15397734.2021.1948862.

26. Chandra, K. S., Rajanna, T., & Rao, K. V. (2021). Effect of position of partial load on buckling and vibration characteristics of composite panels with circular cutouts. Materials Today, 45(1), 41-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2020.09.229

27. Muddappa, P. Y., Rajanna, T., & Giridhara, G. (2021). Effects of different interlaminar hybridization and cutout sizes on the vibration and buckling characteristics of fiber metal composite laminates under partial edge loads. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, 09544062211002876. https://doi.org/10.1177/09544062211002876

28. Maharudra, R., Arya, B., & Rajanna, T. (2021). Effect of trapezoidal shaped laminated composite plate with and without cutout on vibration characteristics. Materials, 45(1), 34-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2020.09.228

29. Maharudra, R., Arya, B., & Rajanna, T. (2021). Buckling behaviour of composite laminates of trapezoidal panel with cutout subjected to non-uniform in-plane edge loads. Materials Today, 45, 21-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2020.09.224

30. Narayanan, N. I., Banerjee, S., Kalgutkar, A. P., & Rajanna, T. (2021). Vibration Analysis of Functionally Graded Material Plate. In Recent Advances in Computational Mechanics and Simulations (pp. 119-130). Springer, Singapore.

31. Chandra, K. S., Rao, K. V., & Rajanna, T. (2021). Effect of Varying Ιn-Plane Loads and Cutout Size on Buckling Behavior of Laminated Panels. In Advances in Mechanical Engineering (pp. 671-678). Springer, Singapore.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-15-3639-7_80

32. Kalgutkar, A.P., Banerjee, S., and Rajanna, T. (2022). Effect of elliptical cutouts on buckling and vibration characteristics of stiffened composite panels under non-uniform edge loads. Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/15397734.2021.1999266

33. Rajanna, T., Chandra, K.S.S., and Rao, K.V. (2022). Influence of local stiffeners and cutout shapes on the vibration and stability characteristics of quasi-isotropic laminates under hygro-thermo-mechanical loadings. Defence Technology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dt.2021.10.002

34. Maharudra, R., Rajanna, T., and Arya, B. (2022). Effect of trapezoidal shapes and non-uniform edge loads on buckling behaviour of plates with cutouts. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science. 236(7), 3512-3529.
https://doi.org/10.1177/09544062211022258

35. Swaminathan, K., Sachin, H., & Rajanna, T. (2022). Vibration and stability characteristics of functionally graded sandwich plates with/without porosity subjected to localized edge loadings. Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines, 1-39. https://doi.org/10.1080/15397734.2022.2038619

36. Rakshith, H.S., Ravi Kumar, L., Prabhakara, D.L., and Rajanna, T. (2022). Vibration and Stability Characteristics of the Laminated Composite Plates (LCPs) for Various Delamination Positions. Advances in Structural Mechanics and Applications, 373-389.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-04793-0_29

37. Kalgutkar, A.P., Banerjee, S., and Rajanna, T. (2022). Optimum arrangement of stiffener on the buckling behaviour of stiffened composite panels with reinforced elliptical cutouts subjected to non-uniform edge load. Steel and Composite Structures, 42(4), 427-446. https://doi.org/10.12989/scs.2022.42.4.427

38. Swaminathan, K., Sachin, H., and Rajanna, T. (2022). Buckling Response of Functionally Graded Material Plates with Cutouts Subjected to Linearly Varying Loads. Recent Advances in Computational and Experimental Mechanics, 399-408. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-16-6490-8_33

39. Subash Chandra, K. S., Rajanna, T., and Venkata Rao, K. (2022). Effect of Nonlinearly Varying Loads and Position of Stiffener on Buckling Behaviour of Stiffened Composite Panels. Recent Advances in Manufacturing, Automation, Design and Energy Technologies, 543-551.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-16-4222-7_61

40. Darshan, B.U., Siddesha, H., and Rajanna, T. (2023). Structural Damage Detection for Plates Using Flexibility Based Strain Energy Method.
Recent Advances in Civil Engineering, 285-300. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-19-1862-9_18

41. Swaminathan, K., Sachin, H., and Rajanna, T. (2022). Influence of porosity and nonuniform in-plane edge loads on vibration and buckling response of power law and sigmoid function based FG sandwich plates with geometrical discontinuities. Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines, 1-33.
https://doi.org/10.1080/15397734.2022.2107010

42. Swaminathan, K., Sachin, H., and Rajanna, T. (2023). Effect of Porosity Distribution on Vibration and Stability Characteristics of FGM Plates Subjected to Nonlinearly Varying Edge Loads. Advances in Structural Mechanics and Applications, Springer. 188-201.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-05509-6_16

43. Subash Chandra, K. S., Rajanna, T., and Venkata Rao, K. (2023). Thermal Buckling Analysis of Stiffened Composite Cutout Panels. Recent Trends in Construction Technology and Management, 935-948
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-19-2145-2_69

Education

• Ph.D - Structural stability and dynamic behaviour of composite structures
  Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay (IIT-Bombay)
  Passed Year: 2018 | Program Type: FullTime
• M.Tech - Computer Aided Design of Structures
  Malnad College of Engineering, Hassan
  Passed Year: 2006 | Program Type: FullTime
• B.E - Civil Engineering
  Siddaganga Institute of Technology, Tumkur
  Passed Year: 2004 | Program Type: FullTime

Selected Publications

Other Information

1. Organized two week AICTE-ISTE short term training program on “Advanced in finite element methods and applications”, 17-28, July 2017, at B.M.S.C.E., Bangalore.

2. Organized one week ISTE short term training program on “Structural Health Monitoring and its Implications”, 15-19, June 2020, at B.M.S.C.E., Bangalore.

3. Organized one week ISTE-ICI short term training program on “Recent Advances in Concrete Technology”, 22-26, June 2020, at B.M.S.C.E., Bangalore.

4. Organized Two-week value-added short-term training program in collaboration with CADD Centre on “Skill Enhancement using ETABS Software application in Civil Engineering”, January-29 to February-13 2020, at B.M.S.C.E., Bangalore.

5. Organized one week TEQIP-III short-term training program on “Recent Advances in Composite Materials For Engineering Applications”, 08-12, March 2021, at B.M.S.C.E., Bangalore.

6. Organized one week TEQIP-III short-term training program on “Recent Advances in Sustainable Materials For Engineering Applications”, 22-26, February 2021, at B.M.S.C.E., Bangalore.

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