Awards/ Achievements/Memberships:

• Published/Presented 40+ papers in National and International Journals /conferences.
• Guided  many undergraduate projects (More than 50) regularly since 1987, 75  M.Tech Projects & 1 PhD.Guiding 2 Ph.Ds.
•  Guided : Project work which won the Best Impact Simulation for Product Design at ASME’s inaugural Innovative Design Simulation Challenge in Buffalo, N.Y., on Aug. 17.2014
• Participated as   BOS as VTU nominee in MSRIT,New Horizon.BOE member in several colleges
• Successfully completed AICTE and CVRDE funded project.
• Subject Expert for VTU Edusat program for the courses Finite Element Analysis
• Worked as Chairperson and Co-ordinater for several international and national conferences.
• Given several invited/guest lectures in colleges as well as industries.
•  Participated as Panel member for selection in NAL.

Expertise/Subjects handled

• Machine Design
• Materials Science
• Mechanical Vibrations
• Dynamics of Machinery
• Kinematics of Machinery
• Design of Machine Elements
• Composite Materials
• Mechanics Composite Materials
• Tribology, Mechanics of Materials
• Machine Drawing
• Engineering Drawing
• Experimental Stress Analysis
• Theory of Elasticity

Research Interest:

• Mechanical and Vibrational analysis of Composite Structures

Publications

• Rangavittal H.K.and  Naidu A.C.B., ‘Continuum  analysis  of   an infinite  orthotropic plate with smooth elastic pin  under  plate load’, 37th ISTAM congress, Jan, 1993, Panthnagar.
•  Rangavittal H.K., Naidu A.C.B., Dattaguru  B.,and   Ramamurthy T.S., ‘Continuum analysis of  finite orthotropic plate with smooth elastic  pin  under pinload’, 8th ISME conference  on  mechanical engg.,Mar,1993,IIT, New Delhi.
• Rangavittal    H.K.,    Naidu    A.C.B.,    Dattaguru     B.and Ramamurthy, T.S., ‘Continuum  analysis  of smooth rigid pin  in  an infinite orthotropic plate with isotropic bush subjected to plate loading’, 9th   ISME  conference  on  Mechanical engg., Nov,1994 University of Roorkee,Roorkee
• RangavittalH.K.,Naidu A.C.B., DattaguruB.andRamamurthy,T.S., ‘Analytical  solutions  for load transfer through  smooth  elastic pin  in  an  infinite  orthotropic  plate’, Composite  structure 30(1995), P329-339.
• Rangavittal H.K.,Naidu A.C.B.,Dattaguru  B.,and   Ramamurthy T.S.,’Continuum analysis  of smooth rigid pin  in  an infinite  orthotropic plate with isotropic bush subjected to  pin load’, International  conference on “Fiber reinforced structural plastics  in  civil engineering”  held at ‘Indian  Institute  of Technology, Madras , December(18-20),1995, P152-160.
•  Naidu  A.C.B., and Rangavittal  H.K., ‘Development  of  Boundary Elementanalysis Software for  Pin joint problems using inverse formulation’, ARDB-SPTR-98-898-01, Technical report to Aeronautics R&D Board, Ministry of Defence, Government of India, March 1998.
•  Naidu  A.C.B., and Rangavittal  H.K., ‘Development  of  Boundary Elemen analysis Software for  Pin joint problems using inverse formulation’, ARDB-SPTR-98-898-01, Technical report to Aeronautics R&D Board, Ministry of Defence, Government of India, March 1999.
• Murthi T.M., Naidu  A.C.B., and Rangavittal  H.K.,Giridhar .G., “Development of Boundary Element software for contact stress problems-interference pin with frictional interface in orthotropic plate and subjected to plate load”, ICME 2001 Dhaka, Bangladesh, December(26-28),2001, P135-140.
• M.Raghavendra, C.M.Manjunatha, M,JeevaPeter,C.R.Venugopalan and Rangavittal  H.K.”Effect of Moisture on the Mechanical properties of Glass Fiber reinforced Polymer matrix Woven fabric Material”ISRS-2004,December 20 -22 ,IIT,Madras,Chennai.
• H.K.Rangavittal,A.C.B.Naidu,,K.BadariNarayana and  B. S.SURESH  “Boundary Element Solutions For Pin Joints In Orthotropic Plate Under Bypass Load Using Inverse Formulation.International  conference on “Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering-FIME-2010”  held at NITK, Suratkal ,May (20-22),2010, DA 532.
• Gururaj D, Rangavittal H.K.and Suresh B.S. “Analysis Of Stresses Around Elliptical Cutouts And Inclusions In Laminated Composite Cylindrical Shells” International  conference on “Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering-FIME-2010”  held at NITK, Suratkal ,May (20-22),2010, DA 126.
•  Kashinath S.V.H., Rangavittal H.K., Suresh B.S “Three dimensional Non-linear contact stress analyses of pin joints in composite plates” NAME 2004,12-14,Oct.2010,JNNCE,Shimoga.
• B.S.Suresh,, H.K. Rangavittal, J.SharanaBasavarajand Mohammed yakub S.L ^“Influence of Axis Ratio on the Stresses around an Elliptical Cutout and Inclusion in a Filament Wound Fibre Reinforced Plastic Pressure Vessel “ICTT 2010 ,An International Conference on Technological Trends (ICTT-2010) held at  College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram 25-27 November 2010
• Rangavittal H.K., Naidu A.C.B., Badari Narayana K.and  Suresh B. S.^”Boundary Element Solutions For Pin Joints In Orthotropic Plate Under Pin  Load Using Inverse Formulation. December 27 – 29, 2010,ICTACEM 2010,Fifth International Conference on Theoretical &Applied,Computational and Experimental Mechanics held at IIT,Kharagpur.
• H.K.Rangavittal,A.C.B.Naidu,,K.BadariNarayana and  B. S.SURESH  “Boundary Element Solutions for load transfer in finite orthotropic plate with misfit smooth rigid pin”, presented at NaConDM2011, National Conference on  DESIGN AND  MANUFACTURING held  at IIT Madras, 27-28, May 2011
• KarthikMadhyastha. N, SenthilSubramaniam, H.K.Rangavittal, “Design Optimization of a Miter Saw Yoke”, Proceedings of IMEC-2014 titled “Advances in Mechanical Engineering”, (ISBN: 978-93-84389-01-7), paper no. 141, pp 599-602.Held  NIT Trichy from 13th June -15th June 2014.
• B.S .Mithuna , H.K. Rangavittal, A.R. Anilchandra , R Bojja , N Jagannathan , C.M. Manjunatha” Stiffness Degradation Behavior Of A Polymer Nanocomposite Under Constant Amplitude Fatigue Loads”, Proceedings Of National Seminar On “Research Aspirants Of Nano Materials And Its Applications” (NSRANA-2015)  21st And 22nd July 2015 Organized by “Department Of Physics, S J C Institute Of Technology” and Published in  International Journal of Advanced Scientific and Technical Research ISSN 2249-9954,P120-123.
• Pavan Raj S , Dr. H.K.Rangavittal”Finite Element Analysis of Typical Ground Based Composite Sandwich Radome” Int. Journal of Engineering Research and Application ISSN : 2248-9622, Vol. 7, Issue 12, ( Part -2) December 2017, pp.05-11.
• Akshay Kumar , Rangavittal H K “Convergence Studies in the Finite Element Analysis of CFRP Shaft Under Torsion using Shell281, Shell181 and Comparison with Analytical Results” NAFEMS India Regional Conference on Engineering Modelling, Analysis, Simulation and 3D-Printing (NIRC-2018) 20 – 21 July 2018, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
• Akshay Kumar & H K Rangavittal “Genetic Algorithm Parameter Effect on 3D Truss Optimization with Discrete Variable” Advanced journal of graduate research,AJGR ,ISSN:2456-7108 Volume 5, Issue 1, pp. 61-70, January 2019
• Vishwas B Patil, H.K.Rangavittal & Kiran Sundara Rajan,”Fracture mechanics comparison studies on an edge cracked specimen and compact tension specimen using ABAQUS” International Journal of Advanced Research in Basic Engineering Sciences and Technology (IJARBEST),ISSN (ONLINE):2456-5717, Vol.7, Issue.9, September 2021
• H.K.Rangavittal, G.Giridhara,.L.Ravikumar,V.Arun Kumar, “DEVELOPMENT OF CARBON FIBRE REINFORCED PLASTIC  (CFRP)  TORQUE    TRANSMISSION TUBE” CVRDE/16CR0009/APD/15-16/ TR-1,2021Technical report to COMBAT VEHICLES RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT ESTABLISHMENT (CVRDE), Ministry of Defence, Government of India, March 2022.
• K Vinod Kumar, Balamurugan Gopalsamy, HK Rangavittal, C Manjunath “Kinematic Synthesis and Optimization of a Double-Slotted Fowler Flap Mechanism”,Machines, Mechanism and Robotics,2022, Pages  447-453, Springer, Singapore
• Samarth S Bhatt, Amritanshu Dixit, Ahmad Shaikh, Tejas Canchi and Rangavittal H K “A quasi-longitudinal study of the effect of hemodynamical parameters on the biomechanics of rupture in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms”Presented at The 8th ICTACEM to be held from December 20-22, 2021 at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
• Ahmad Rehan Shaikh Samarth S. Bhatt, TejasCanchi, AmritanshuDixi, H. K. Rangavittal “A quasi-longitudinal study of the effect of hemodynamical parameters on the biomechanics of rupture in abdominal aortic aneurysms”Aerospace and Associated Technology  2022, Routledge, eBook ISBN9781003324539

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