Smart Materials & Structures Lab

Faculty-In-Charge

Prof. Devendra G. Patil

Lab Overview

Smart Materials & Smart Structures Lab (SMSL) is dedicated to educate young and curious minds about field of smart materials and their applications to develop a sustainable future.

Better (smart) materials, better structures/systems for better world….

Key Research Areas

  • Smart Materials applications
  • Smart Structures
  • Shape Memory Alloys
  • Piezo-ceramics
  • Magneto-rheological Fluids
  • Condition Monitoring
  • SHM
  • Controls

Significant Facilities & Special Features

  • Structural Health/Condition Monitoring
  • Vibration Analysis
  • Actuation and Controls using smart materials such as piezo, SMA, MR
  • Biofouling prevention using ultrasonic vibrations
  • Micro motion monitoring using Laser sensors
  • Virtual Lab (SMSL.ONLINE) hosting remote physical experiments to introduce smart materials to students around India (under development)
  • Various other experiments based on Smart Materials (student pet project – SMA wheel, Piezo Micro-fluidic Pump and others…)
  • Softwares: NI LabVIEW, MATLAB, COMSOL

Major Equipment

Smart Materials

  • Piezo Transducers
  • Shape Memory Alloys
  • Magnetorheological Fluid
  • Viscoelastic Tape

Other facilities

  • 3D printer
  • Laser sensors
  • ICP Accelerometer
  • Vacuum Pump
  • Workstations

Research Funding & Grants

  • DST- Startup Research Grant (SRG) (SRG/2019/001747)
  • BITS ACG 2019-20/06
  • BITS Cross-Disciplinary Research Fund (CDRF) (C2/24/222)
  • Consultancy for Indian Port Association, Ministry of Ports, Shipping & Waterways (IPA/ICTF/166)

Achievements

Publications:

  • "Effect of Seawater Exposure on Impact Damping Behavior of Viscoelastic Material of Pounding Tuned Mass Damper (PTMD)" Applied Sciences (IF: 2.7)
  • "Inspection & monitoring systems subsea pipelines: A review paper" SHM journal, (IF: 5.98) (Among top 3 most read since publication)
  • “Shape Sensing of Cantilever Column Using Hybrid Frenet–Serret Homogeneous Transformation Matrix Method” Sensors (IF: 3.4)

Patents:

  • "Systems and method utilizing piezoelectric materials to mitigate or eliminate stick-slip during drilling" US Patent 11,028,659
  • "Systems and methods for disruption of biofilm and algal growth" US Patent App. 16/494,409
  • "Defreezing device and method for defreezing a solidified liquid in a pipeline using the piezo based device", IN Patent App.: 202111051701, assigned to BITS Pilani

Publications prior to joining BITS Pilani available on GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Campus
Goa
Division/Department
Goa-Mechanical Engineering