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Classes Taught

• MA242 Calculus III: Vector Calculus (at NCSU)
• EGRM 410 Mechatronics (Fall 2008)

Education

• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, India, 2001
• M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, 2003
• Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, 2006

Journal Publications

• J. Atulasimha, A. B. Flatau and J. R. Cullen, "Energy-based Model for Actuation and Sensing Behavior of Single-crystal Iron-gallium Alloys," Journal of Applied Physics, vol.103, Issue 1, 3rd January 2008.
• J. Atulasimha, A. B. Flatau, and J. R. Cullen, "Analysis of the effect of gallium content on the magnetomechanical behavior of single-crystal iron-gallium alloys using an Energy-based model," Smart Materials and Structures, vol. 17, 29th February 2008.
• J. Atulasimha, G. Akhras and A. B. Flatau, "Comprehensive 3-D Hysteretic Magnetomechanical Model and its Validation with Experimental <110> Single-crystal Iron-Gallium Behavior," Journal of Applied Physics, vol.103, issue 7, 20th March 2008.
• J. Atulasimha and A. B. Flatau, "Experimental Actuation and Sensing Behavior of Single-Crystal Iron-Gallium Alloys," Journal of Intelligent Materials Systems and Structures, accepted in October 2007, awaiting publication in 2008.
• S. Datta, J.Atulasimha, C. Mudivarthi and A. B. Flatau, "Modeling of magneto-mechanical sensors in laminated structures," Smart Materials and Structures, vol. 17, 11th February, 2008.
• C. Mudivarthi, S. Datta, J. Atulasimha and A. B. Flatau, "A fully coupled magnetoelastic model and its validation using a Galfenol unimorph sensor," Smart Materials and Structures, vol. 17, 25th March, 2008.
• J. Atulasimha, A. B. Flatau, E. Summers, "Characterization and Energy-based Model of the Magnetomechanical Behavior of Polycrystalline Iron-Gallium Alloys," Smart Materials and Structures, vol. 16, pp. 1265-1276, July 2007.
• S. Datta, J. Atulasimha and A. B. Flatau, "Modeling of Magnetostrictive Galfenol Sensor and Validation under Four-Point Test," Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 101, no. 9, May 2007.
• J. Atulasimha, A. B. Flatau and R. A. Kellogg, "Sensing Behavior of Varied Stoichiometry Single Crystal Fe-Ga," Journal of Intelligent Materials Systems and Structures, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 97-105, February, 2006.

Research Experience

• 2006-2007
  Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Center for Smart Structures and Materials, Royal Military College, Kingston, Canada (also associated with Center for Manufacturing of Advanced Ceramics and Nanomaterials, Queens University, Kingston, Canada).
• 2007-2008
  Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University.
• 2008-Present
  Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University.

Research Topics

• Behavior of smart materials at micro/nano scale (planned)
• Design and fabrication of MEMS devices
• Magnetostrictive, piezoelectric and magnetoelectric materials
• Experimental control in aerospace, automobile and biomedical applications (planned)
• Nonlinear and hysteretic systems: dynamical response, development of inverse compensation and control design