Naresh Reddy Kolanu

About

About me
Currently, I am working as Lead Engineer, Composite Mechanics at GE Renewable Energy. Looking after the design, testing & validation of the wind turbine blade components
Prior to joining GE, I finished my PhD in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India.
Thesis Title: “Investigations on the post-buckling and collapse behavior of CFRP structures under in-plane shear/compression loads"

Technical Expertise
Composites (Fabrication, Testing, and analysis)
Experimental Stress Analysis
Fatigue and Fracture of structures
Computational fracture and damage mechanics
Solid Mechanics
Mechanical Behavior of Materials (Harsh environments and elevated temperatures)
Finite Element Analysis
Non Destructive Testing
Strain gaging

Applied research tools:
• Non-contact strain measurement (global and local): Digital Image Correlation (DIC)
• In-situ damage monitoring and post-test damage assessment: Acoustic Emission (AE), IR-thermography and Ultrasonics (Air and water coupled), Fractography (Digital microscopy and SEM)
• Experimental Stress analysis (ESA): Photoelasticity and conventional Strain gaging
• Finite Element Analysis (FEM): Abaqus

Employment

• GE Renewable Energy Lead Engineer Composite Mechanics
  2023 - Present
• GE Energy Lead Engineer Component Design
  2020 - 2022
• Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad Doctoral Research Fellow
  2015 - 2020
• Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad Junior Research Fellow
  2012 - 2014
• Hyquip Systems Pvt. Ltd. Junior Executive
  2011 - 2012

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad PhD
  2015 - 2020
• Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad M.Tech
  2013 - 2014
• Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad B.Tech
  2007 - 2011

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (9)

• Post-buckling failure studies on quasi-isotropic CFRP panels under positive and negative in-plane shear loading
  Composite Structures 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2020.112379
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• A unified numerical approach for the simulation of intra and inter laminar damage evolution in stiffened CFRP panels under compression
  Composites Part B: Engineering 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesb.2020.107931
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• Damage assessment studies in CFRP composite laminate with cut-out subjected to in-plane shear loading
  Composites Part B: Engineering 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesb.2018.11.142
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• Linear Least Square Approach for the Estimation of Crack Tip Fracture Parameters Using Isopachic Data from Thermoelastic Stress Analysis
  Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals 2019 DOI: 10.1007/s12666-019-01740-x
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• Progressive damage analysis of adhesively bonded patch repaired carbon fibre–reinforced polymer specimen under compression involving cohesive zone model
  International Journal of Damage Mechanics 2019 DOI: 10.1177/1056789519832062
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• Damage Growth Study in Unidirectional CFRP Composites Using Infrared Thermography
  Advances in Structural Integrity 2018 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-7197-3_56
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• Experimental and numerical studies on the buckling and post-buckling behavior of single blade-stiffened CFRP panels
  Composite Structures 2018 DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2018.05.015
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• FEA and Experimental Analysis on Buckling and Post-buckling Behavior of CFRP Composite Panel Using Digital Image Correlation Technique
  Advances in Structural Integrity 2018 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-7197-3_44
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• Experimental study on compressive behavior of GFRP stiffened panels using digital image correlation
  Ocean Engineering 2016 DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2016.01.034
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