Dr. Jayasimha Atulasimha
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
E-mail:jatulasimha@vcu.edu
Phone: (804) 828-9117
Fax: (804) 827-7030
Research Website
Address
401 West Main Street, Room E3249
P.O. Box 843015
Richmond, Virginia 23284-3015
Education
- Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, 2006
- M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, 2003
- B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, India, 2001
Research experience
- 2008-Present
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University. - 2007-2008
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University. - 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).
Research topics
- Nonlinear and hysteretic systems: dynamical response, development of inverse compensation and control design
- Experimental control in aerospace, automobile and biomedical applications (planned)
- Magnetostrictive, piezoelectric and magnetoelectric materials
- Design and fabrication of MEMS devices
- Behavior of smart materials at micro/nano scale (planned)
Classes taught
- EGRM 410 Mechatronics (Fall 2008)
- MA242 Calculus III: Vector Calculus (at NCSU)
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.