International Conference on

Composites for 21st Century:

Current & Future Trends
(ICC-CFT2011)

A short course on
Analysis of Composite Materials and Structures
by
Prof. J.N. Reddy
Distinguished Professor &
Oscar S. Wyatt Endowed Chair in Mechanical Engineering
Texas A&M University,
College Station, Texas.
USA

DATE :- 04-01-2011
TIME :- 09 :00 AM TO 04:00 PM
VENUE:
J.N.Tata Auditorium
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560 012
BACKGROUND

The use of composite materials in a variety of engineering structures (e.g.,

aerospace, automotive, and off-shore and underwater structures, as well as in
medical prosthetics, electronic circuit boards, and sports equipment) and the number
of journals and research papers published in the four decades attest to the fact that
there has been a major effort to develop, analyze, and design composite material
systems with various functionalities. The subject of composite materials is truly an
interdisciplinary area where chemists, material scientists, chemical engineers,
mechanical engineers, and structural engineers contribute to the overall product. The
present one-day short course is primarily intended for structural engineers from
aerospace, civil and mechanical engineering as well as off-shore industries.

COURSE OBJECTIVES
The course is intended to provide engineers with the theory, analysis and design
considerations in dealing with composite structural components in the form of plates
and shells laminated of fiber-reinforced materials. Theoretical formulations and
applications will be presented to illustrate the concepts. Persons who have taken the
course and understood the material should benefit in strengthening their background
in the following areas:

1. General design considerations in dealing with composite materials.

2. Structural theories (classical as well as higher-order) governing the bending,
buckling and vibration behavior of plate and shell structures.
3. Analysis approaches based on conventional and least-squares finite element
models.
4. Failure of composite structures.
5. An overview of the research in nano-composites and multifunctional materials

The participants of the course must have a background in mechanics of materials

and structures and a course on differential equations (i.e., at least an undergraduate
degree in engineering is required).

COURSE OUTLINE
• Composite Materials: An Introduction
• Anisotropic Elasticity of Composite Materials
• Structural Theories of Composite Laminates (CLPT, FSDT, TSDT)
• Analytical Solutions of rectangular laminates for bending, vibration and buckling
• Finite Element Models of Composite Laminates
• Failures in composites: Post-buckling of laminated structures
• Recent advances: a new shell element and least-squares finite element models
• Nano-composites

COURSE MATERIAL
Much of the material used in the course from the instructor’s
book, Mechanics of Laminated Composite Plates and Shells (CRC
Press, 2004; second edition); other material will come the
research publications of the instructor. A copy of the overheads
will be provided to the registrants of the course.
Course Co-ordinator:
Prof. S.Gopalakrishnan
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore 560012
e-mail: krishnan@aero.iisc.ernet.in
Mobile: 9980542141
Tel: +918022933019
Fax: +918023600134

Course Fee: Rs.5000 per participant

(Rs 8000 for ISAMPE members and Rs 9000 for others
registering for both short course and ICC-CFT2011 conference)

Venue: J.N.Tata Auditorium, IISc, Bangalore

Date and Time: 4th January 2011

09:00 till 16:00

How to Apply?

Interested participants may kindly fill the form given with this
announcement send it to Prof.S.Gopalakrishnan at the addresses given
above. The course fee may kindly be paid through cheque/DD payable
at Bangalore in favor of “ICC-CFT2011”.

Professional Highlights of J. N. Reddy

http://isihighlycited.com/ and http://www.tamu.edu/acml

Dr. Reddy is a Distinguished Professor and inaugural

holder of the Oscar S. Wyatt Endowed Chair in
Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University,
College Station, Texas. He is internationally-known for his
research on mechanics of composite materials and for
computational methods. Dr. Reddy is the author of over
410 journal papers and 16 text books on theoretical
formulations and finite-element analysis of problems in solid and structural
mechanics (plates and shells), composite materials, computational fluid
dynamics, numerical heat transfer, and applied mathematics. The books
authored by Dr. Reddy include: Principles of Continuum Mechanics
(Cambridge University Press, 2010, An Introduction to Continuum
Mechanics (Cambridge University Press, 2008); An Introduction to Nonlinear
Finite Element Analysis, Oxford University Press, 2004; An Introduction to
the Finite Element Method, McGraw-Hill, 1984 (3rd ed., 2006); Energy
Principles and Variational Methods in Applied Mechanics, John Wiley, l984
(2nd ed., 2002); Applied Functional Analysis and Variational Methods in
Engineering, McGraw-Hill, 1986; Mechanics of Laminated Composite Plates
and Shells: Theory and Analysis, CRC Press, 1997 (2nd ed., 2004); and Theory
and Analysis of Elastic Plates and Shells, Taylor & Francis, 1999 (2nd edition
in preparation).
The shear deformation plate and shell theories that he developed and bear
his name in the literature are well known, and finite element models he
developed have been implemented into commercial software like ABAQUS,
NISA, and HYPERFORM. Dr. Reddy numerous national and international
awards, including the Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award and the
Worcester Reed Warner Medal of the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers, Nathan M. Newmark Medal from the American Society of Civil
Engineers; Award for Excellence in the Field of Composites, Distinguished
Research Award from the American Society for Composites, the
Computational Solid Mechanics award from US Association for
Computational Mechanics, and the Archie Higdon Distinguished Educator
Award from the American Society of Engineering Education. Recently, Dr.
Reddy presented the prestigious “The 2009 Landis-Epic Lecture” at the
University of Pittsburgh, and received Honoris Causa, Honorary degree, from
the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. In addition, Dr. Reddy is one of
the very few researchers in engineering around the world, who is recognized
by ISI Highly Cited Researchers (with over 10,000 citations and h-index of
46). He has delivered over 70 plenary, keynote, or general lectures at national
and international conferences. Dr. Reddy advised to date 15 postdoctoral
fellows, 46 Ph.D. students and 40 M.S. students.
Dr. Reddy serves on the editorial boards of about two-dozen journals,
including Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics (ASME), International Journal
for Numerical Methods in Engineering, and International Journal for
Numerical Methods in Fluids. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Applied Mechanics
Reviews (ASME), Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, and
serves as one of the Chief Editors of International Journal of Computational
Engineering Science and International Journal of Structural Stability and
Dynamics
 ICC-CFT 2011
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore – 560 012, INDIA

SHORT COURSE REGISTRATION FORM

Course Title: Analysis of Composite Materials and Structures by

Prof. J.N. Reddy

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