Prashanta K Mahato

About

Dr. Prashanta Kr. Mahato is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institue of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad. He has joined there after completing his PhD from the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur under the guidance of Prof. D. K. Maiti on 2010. He did Post Doctoral studies under Erasmus Mundus India4EU exchange programme in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Polytechnic di Torino, Turin, Italy. There, he was working with Prof. Erasmo Carrera's group on static, dynamic and aeroelastic analysis of laminated composites beams, blades and boxes using CUF finite element model. He published his work in different prominent Journal like Composite Structure, Aerospace Engineering (ASCE), Journal of Composite Material, Thin walled structure etc . His research interests include study of laminated composite structure, smart structures, computational & experimental mechanics and aero-elasticity.

Employment

• Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad Professor
  2024 - Present
• Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad Assistant Professor
  2010 - 2016

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur PhD
  2005 - 2010

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (38)

• Effect of temperature and moisture on static and dynamic behavior of delaminated composite structure and control using integrated AFC
  Archive of Applied Mechanics 2025 DOI: 10.1007/s00419-025-02821-8
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• Closed-Loop Subsonic Flutter Control of Smart Variable Stiffness Composite Plates in Tapered-Swept Configurations
  Ssrn 2025 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.5217130
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• SIMPLIFIED MICROMECHANICS APPROACH FOR MODELING AND ANALYSIS OF UD COMPOSITES PERFORMANCE
  2024 DOI: 10.22541/au.170664502.22093518/v1
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• Delamination Effect on Composite Plates with Curvilinear Fibers: A Numerical Investigation of Eigenfrequencies
  Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering 2024 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-4270-1_43
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• Evaluation of the mechanical characteristics of Ti64 cubic and body-centered-cubic porous structures: A finite element study validated with physical tests
  Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures 2024 DOI: 10.1080/15376494.2024.2333035
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• Free Vibration Analysis of Laminated Composite Plates Based on Refined Plate Theory
  Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering 2024 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-97-3173-2_44
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• Open loop flutter control of optimally oriented smart variable stiffness plates under hygrothermal environment
  European Journal of Mechanics A Solids 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.euromechsol.2024.105284
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• AEROELASTIC ANALYSIS OF VAT NANO-COMPOSITE PLATE
  Proceedings of ASME 2023 Aerospace Structures Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference Ssdm 2023 2023 DOI: 10.1115/ssdm2023-107605
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• Effect of Interface on Elastic Properties for Hybrid Smart Nanocomposites using Micromechanics based Mori Tanaka Technique
  Indian Journal of Engineering and Materials Sciences 2023 DOI: 10.56042/ijems.v30i2.598
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• Cross-section optimization of thin-walled open-section composite column for maximizing its ultimate strength
  Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part L Journal of Materials Design and Applications 2022 DOI: 10.1177/14644207211046264
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