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Publications

Journal

Mozumder, C.K., Patel, N.M., Renaud, J.E., and Pydimarry, K., “Synthesis of a Dynamically Loaded Structure with Topology Optimization”, SAE International Journal of Passenger Cars - Mechanical Systems, Vol. 2, No. 1, October 2009, pp. 1143-1150.

Agarwal, H., Gano, S.E., Pérez, V.M., Mozumder, C.K., Renaud, J.E., and Watson, L.T., “Homotopy Methods for Constraint Relaxation in Unilevel Reliability based Design Optimization”, Journal of Engineering Optimization, Vol. 41, No. 6, June 2009, pp. 593-607.

Agarwal, H., Mozumder, C.K., Renaud, J. E., and Watson, L. T., “An Inverse-measure-based Unilevel Architecture for Reliability-based Design Optimization”, Journal of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, DOI 10.1007/s00158-006-0057-3, Vol 33, No. 3, March 2007, pp. 217-227.

Conference

Mozumder, C.K., Bandi, P., Tovar, A., and Renaud, J.E., “A Unilevel Architecture for Reliability-based Topology Optimization for Crashworthiness Design”, Proceedings of the 13^th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference (MAO 2010), Fort Worth, Texas, September 13-15, 2010.  (Abstract submitted)

Bandi, P.,  Mozumder, C.K., Tovar, A., and Renaud, J.E., “Crashworthiness Design for Multiple Loading Conditions using Dynamic Weighting Factors in HCA framework”, Proceedings of the 13^th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference (MAO 2010), Fort Worth, Texas, September 13-15, 2010.  (Abstract submitted)

Mozumder, C.K., Tovar, A., and Renaud, J.E., “Topology Design of Plastically Deformable Structures with a Prescribed Force and Displacement Response for Controlled Energy Absorption”, Proceeding of the 51^st AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Material Conference (SDM 2010), Orlando, Florida, April 12-15, 2010.

Mozumder, C.K., Tovar, A., and Renaud, J.E., “Topology Design of Plastically Deformable Structures with a Prescribed Force and Displacement Response”, Proceedings of the 8^th World Congress on Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (WCSMO-8), Lisbon, Portugal, June 1-5, 2009.

Mozumder, C.K., and Renaud, J.E., “Cost and Mass Optimization for Crashworthiness Design of Shell-based Structure using Hybrid Cellular Automata”, Proceeding of the 50^th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Material Conference (SDM 2009), Palm Springs, California, May 4-7, 2009.

Mozumder, C.K., Patel, N.M., Renaud, J.E., and Pydimarry, K., “Synthesis of a Dynamically Loaded Structure with Topology Optimization”, Proceedings of Society of Automotive Engineers World Congress (SAE 2009), Detroit, Michigan, April 20-23, 2009.

Mozumder, C.K., Bandi, P, Patel, N.M., and Renaud, J.E., “Thickness based Topology Optimization for Crashworthiness Design using Hybrid Cellular Automata”, Proceedings of the 12^th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference (MAO 2008), Victoria, British Columbia, September 10-12, 2008.

Patel, N. M., Mozumder, C.K., and Renaud, J. E., “Topology Optimization for Synthesizing Extrusion Based Nonlinear Transient Designs”, Proceedings of ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2007), Las Vegas, Nevada, September 4-7, 2007.

Mozumder, C.K., Patel, N. M., Tillotson, D., Renaud, J. E., and Tovar, A., “An Investigation of Reliability-based Topology Optimization”, 11^th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference (MAO 2006), AIAA 2006-7058, Portsmouth, Virginia, September 6-8, 2006.

Raghavan, B., and Mozumder, C.K., “Characterization of Mini Propeller”, 55^th Annual General Meeting of Aeronautical Society of India, Bangalore, India, December 2003.

Research

• Topometry Optimization for Crashworthiness Design

  Graduate Research  August 2006 - Current

  Topometry optimization for structural design of shell-structures for crashworthiness applications using the Hybrid Cellular Automata (HCA) algorithm. The algorithm utilizes the cellular automata computing paradigm and nonlinear transient finite element analyses to capture material and geometric nonlinearities that occur during a dynamic crash event. The algorithm is able to generate energy absorbing concept designs, which can meet the given performance as well as manufacturing constraints, and also minimize the mass and cost simultaneously. This work will facilitate the design of low-weight energy absorbing structures for application in automobile structural body parts for our collaborator Honda America R&D.

  Reliability-based Topology Optimization

  Graduate Research  January 2006 - Current

  Reliability-based topology optimization (RBTO) of structures and compliant mechanism using the Hybrid Cellular Automata (HCA) algorithm. This is a decoupled efficient approach to topology optimization of continuum structures with a desired reliability level. This formulation incorporates uncertainty with respect to material properties and applied loads and considers a limit state function based on the failure mode of the output displacement.

Awards and Honors

• ·  Awarded Graduate Fellow of the Center for Applied Mathematics of the University of Notre Dame for the academic year 2009-10

  ·  Winner of travel grant to attend the NSF CMMI Research and Innovation Conference 2009

  ·  Winner of Best Poster in Engineering division in the Graduate research Symposium 2008 at Notre Dame

  ·  Member of Indiana Gamma Chapter of Tau beta Pi

  ·    Notre Dame Graduate Fellowship for graduate studies in the Aerospace and Mechanical department

  ·  Shri V G Gadgil Memorial Scholarship 2003-04, IIT Bombay Private Trust for overall annual performance in senior year of Aerospace Engineering Undergraduate Program

  ·  Have maintained Departmental Rank 2 consistently over the 5 years in IIT Bombay