Established the Smart Materials and Structures Lab (SMSL) @ BITS-Goa (link to lab website coming soon here - SMSL)

SMSL is developed with vision in mind to promote the awareness in the students in India about smart materials including Shape Memory Alloys, Piezo-ceramics, Magnetorheological and many more….

The goal of SMSL is to exposes senior and graduate students to rapidly growing field of smart material-based structures/systems. SMSL is equipped with following components -

Hardware

•  NI USB 6366, X series Multifunctional DAQ
•  NI USB 6361, X series Multifunctional DAQ
•  NI USB My-DAQ systems (for UG students hands on experience in fold of controls and data acquisition)
• Falco WMA-300, High speed high voltage amplifier (±150 V)
• SmartCharge PreAmp from Smart Material inc, Germany
• HVA 1500/50 -2, from Smart Material inc, Germany (-500 to +1500 V)
• FLIR One Pro, Thermal Camera
• ICP® accelerometers (352A24) with sensor signal conditioner (480E09) (3 Nos)
• Keyance Laser Sensor
• Skybound DOUBLE STAGE Value Vacuum Pump VE - 245N for VARTM
• 2260B-30-36 Programmable Power Supply (max voltage – 30V, max current -36A) from Tektronix Keithley Make
• Oscilloscopes
• Workstation
• Numerous Piezo Ceramic elements for Sensing and Actuation applications/research
• Several Shape Memory Alloy Cables
• Magneto-rheological Fluid and Damper
• and other tools... 

Software

•  NI LabVIEW
•   MATLAB
•   Abaqus
•   COMSOL

Research Team

Mr. Atul Gavade (2019PHXF0002G)

Institute Fellow (PhD Ongoing)

PhD Proposal Accepted on 20/07/2021 

Mr. Aditya Upganlawar (2020PHXP0081G)

DST-SRG (JRF Completed)

PhD Qualifier Cleared on 18/02/2022 

Current UG/PG students in SMSL -

Mr. Harsh Tyagi (2020A4PS2068G)

Mr. Yash Vijaykumar Chavan (2020A4PS1972G)

Mr. Shounak Nafde (2020A4PS2104G)

Mr. Jatin Garg (2022H1060099G)

Mr. Eldrin C Wilson (2022H1060092G)

Past students

Mr. Eeshan Ghaisas (2018B5A40197)

Off-campus Thesis “Correlation between structure and dynamics in 2D colloidal monolayers” Fall - 2022

Co-Guided with Dr. Vijayakumar Chikkadi, IISER, Pune

Mr. Santosh N (2017A4TS0653G)

Off-campus Thesis “Friction Modelling in Syringe Reservoir And Sma Actuator Exploration In Insulin Pump” Spring 2021

Co-Guided with Dr. Manish Arora, UTSAAH Lab, IISc

Mr. Gaurav Ghosh(2017A4PS0525G)

On-campus “Resilient Control of Mechanical Systems” Spring 2021

Co-Guided with Dr. Rakesh Warier, EEE, BITS-Goa

Mr. Lakshay Dhingra (2017A4TS0688G)

On-campus Thesis “Design and Development of Frozen Fuel Atomization using Smart materials” Fall 2020

Solely Guided

Mr. Vipul Ritwik (2018H1410183G)

On-Campus Thesis “Development of Test Specimen’s to study innovative Peizo based Anti-Fouling System” Spring 2020

Solely Guided