Gaurav Nilakantan

Publications

PUBLICATIONS

JOURNAL

· Computational Assessment of Occupant Injury Caused by Mine Blasts Underneath Infantry Vehicles, Gaurav Nilakantan; Ala Tabiei; International Journal of Vehicle Structures and Systems, Vol. 1, Issue 3, August 2009, pp. 50-58.

· Axial Crushing of Tubes as an Energy Dissipating Mechanism for the Reduction of Acceleration Induced Injuries from Mine Blasts underneath Infantry Vehicles, Ala Tabiei; Gaurav Nilakantan; International Journal of Impact Engineering, Vol. 36, Issue 5, May 2009, pp. 729-736.

· Global/Local Modeling of Ballistic Impact onto Woven Fabrics, M. Prabhakar Rao; Gaurav Nilakantan; Michael Keefe; Brian M. Powers; Travis A. Bogetti, Journal of Composite Materials, Vol. 43, Issue 5, March 2009, pp. 445-467.

· Ballistic Impact of Dry Woven Fabric Composites: A Review, Ala Tabiei; Gaurav Nilakantan; Applied Mechanics Reviews, Vol. 61, Issue 1, January 2008, pp. 10801-10813.

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CONFERENCE

· An Experimental and Numerical Study of the Impact Response (V50) of Flexible Plain Weave Fabrics: Accounting for Statistical Distributions of Yarn Strength, Gaurav Nilakantan; Cameron Showell; Ahmad Abu-Obaid; Michael Keefe; John W. Gillespie, Jr.; Travis A. Bogetti; Rob Adkinson; 1st Joint American-Canadian International Conference on Composites, 24th Annual ASC Technical Conference, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA, September 15-17, 2009

· A Study of Material and Architectural Effects on the Impact Response of 2D and 3D Dry Textile Composites using LS-DYNA®, Gaurav Nilakantan; Michael Keefe; John W. Gillespie, Jr.; Travis A. Bogetti; Rob Adkinson; 7th European LS-DYNA Conference, Salzburg, Austria, May 14-15, 2009

· A Numerical Investigation into the Effects of 3D Architecture on the Impact Response of Flexible Fabrics, Gaurav Nilakantan; Michael Keefe; John W. Gillespie, Jr.; Travis A. Bogetti; Rob Adkinson; Second World Conference on 3D Fabrics and their Applications, Greenville, South Carolina, USA, April 6-7, 2009

· Simulating the Impact of Multi-layer Fabric Targets using a Multi-scale Model and the Finite Element Method, Gaurav Nilakantan; Michael Keefe; John W. Gillespie, Jr.; Travis A. Bogetti; TEXCOMP 9, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA, October 13-15, 2008

· Modeling the Material and Failure Response of Continuous Filament Fabrics for use in Impact Applications, Gaurav Nilakantan; Michael Keefe; John W. Gillespie, Jr.; Travis A. Bogetti; TEXCOMP 9, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA, October 13-15, 2008

· Novel Multi-scale Modeling of Woven Fabrics for use in Impact Studies, Gaurav Nilakantan; Michael Keefe; John W. Gillespie, Jr.; Travis A. Bogetti; 10th International LS-DYNA Users Conference, Dearborn, MI, USA, June 8-10, 2008

· Novel Multi-scale Modeling of the Ballistic Impact of Plain Weave Fabrics using a Finite Element Analysis, Gaurav Nilakantan; Michael Keefe; John W. Gillespie, Jr.; Travis A. Bogetti; SAMPE ’08 University Research Symposium, Long Beach, CA, USA, May 18-21, 2008

· Reduction of Acceleration Induced Injuries from Mine Blasts under Infantry Vehicles, Ala Tabiei; Gaurav Nilakantan, 6th European LS-DYNA Users Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2007

· Dynamic Axial Crushing of Circular Tubes: A Novel Numerical Formulation, Gaurav Nilakantan, ASME ISC, Istanbul, Turkey, May 26-28, 2006

MISCELLANEOUS

· Reduction of Crew Injury caused by Acceleration from IED/Mine Blast, Technical Paper Spotlight, FEA Information, Nov 2006

· Design and Development of an Energy Absorbing Seat and Ballistic Fabric Material Model to Reduce Crew Injury Caused by Acceleration from Mine/IED Blast, Gaurav Nilakantan, Master of Science Thesis, University of Cincinnati, OH, USA, August 2006

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