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Ashwini Kumar

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Ashwini Kumar

Visiting Professor, Civil

  • BE: University of Roorkee, India,1969
  • MASc: University of Waterloo, Canada, 1971
  • PhD: University of Waterloo, Canada, 1974

Email: ashwini -AT- iitgn.ac.in

Office: 6/303
VOIP: 2501


  • Work Experience

    • Visiting Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (Dec 2011 - present)
    • Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (Aug 1985 - Jun 2012)
    • Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (Apr 1977 - July 1985)
    • Lecturer, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (Oct 1975 - Mar 1977)
    • Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Cambridge, England (Mar - Oct 1975)
    • Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Waterloo, Canada (Apr 1974 - Feb 1975)
    • Deputy Director, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (1998 - 2001)
    • Dean of Faculty Affairs, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (1997 - 1998)
    • Dean of Academic Affairs, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (1988 - 1990)
    • Coordinator, QIP, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (1987)
    • Vice Chairman/Chairman, JEE, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (1984 - 1985)

  • Selected Publications

    1. A. Kumar, "Response of axially compressed square laminates having a rectangular/square cut-out", Proc. US National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, College Park, 2010.
    2. A. Samanta and A. Kumar, "Distortional buckling in braced cantilever I-beams", Thin-Walled Structures, Vol.46(6), 2008.
    3. A. Kumar and A.Samanta, "Distortional Buckling in monosymmetric I-beams: Reverse curvature bending", Thin-Walled Structure, Vol.44(7), 2006.
    4. A. Kumar and H.P. Shrivastava, "Free vibration of square laminates with delamination around a central cutout using HSDT", Composite Structures, Vol.70, 2005.
    5. "Stability of Structures", Allied Publishers Ltd., New Delhi, 1998.

Research Interests

  • Stability and large deformation of structures
  • Theoretical stress analysis
  • Post-buckling and non-linear response of laminated plates