Dr. Subramanian Chithambaram Pillai

Areas of Research Interest

Fatigue, wear, creep, failure analysis, machine design, thermoplastic composites

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL PUBLICATION

1. Subramanian, C., and Senthilvelan, S. (2009). Effect of reinforced fiber length on hysteretic heating of discontinuous fiber reinforced polypropylene. International Journal of Polymeric Materials, 58(7), 347-354.
2. Subramanian, C., and Senthilvelan, S. (2009). Development and preliminary performance evaluation of discontinuous fiber reinforced thermoplastic leaf spring. Journal of Materials: Design and Applications, Proc. of Ins. Mech. E Part L, 223(3), 131-142.
3. Subramanian, C., and Senthilvelan, S. (2010). Abrasive behavior of discontinuous fiber reinforced polypropylene material. Industrial Lubrication and Tribology, 62(4), 187-196.
4. Subramanian, C., and Senthilvelan, S.(2010). Effect of reinforced fiber length on the joint performance of thermoplastic leaf spring. Materials and Design, 31, 3733-3741.
5. Subramanian, C., and Senthilvelan, S. (2010). Fatigue performance of discontinuous fiber reinforced thermoplastic leaf spring. Journal of Materials: Design and Applications, Proc. of Ins. Mech. E Part L, 224(3), 93-100.
6. Subramanian, C., and Senthilvelan, S. (2011) .Joint Performance of Glass Fiber Reinforced Polypropylene Leaf spring. Composite Structures, 93(2), 759-766
7. Subramanian, C., and Senthilvelan, S. (2011).Short-term Flexural Creep Behavior and Model Analysis of a Glass-fiber-reinforced Thermoplastic Composite Leaf spring. Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 120(6), 3679-3686.
8. Subramanian, C., Sunil Balwant Deshpande and Senthilvelan, S. (2011).Effect of Reinforced Fiber Length on Damping Performance of Thermoplastic Composites. Advanced Composite Materials, 20(4), 319-335.
9. Sunil Balwant Deshpande., Subramanian,C., and Senthilvelan,S. (2008). Vibration Characteristics of Thermoplastic Composites. International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Material Science, 1(1), 21-26.
10. Subramanian, C., and Senthilvelan, S. (2006) .Effect of fiber length on the friction and wear of discontinuous fiber reinforced polypropylene material. International Journal of Plastics Technology, 12, 863-875.

CONFERENCE PUBLICATION

1. Subramanian,C and S.Senthivelan, Computer Aided Design of Thermoplastic Composite Leaf Spring, International Conference on Computer Aided Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, December 13-15, 2007, pp. 329-336.
2. C. Subramanian and S. Senthilvelan, Friction and Wear Performance of long and Short Fiber Reinforced Polypropylene, 6th International Conference on Industrial Tribology (ICIT),Indian Oil R & D Centre, New Delhi, November 6-8, 2008.
3. C. Subramanian and S. Senthilvelan, Computer aided design of Composite Leaf Spring, National Conference on Industrial Problems in Machines and Mechanisms (IPRoMM), Indian Institute of Technology Madras, July 10-11, 2009, pp. 149-156.
4. Sunil Balwant Deshpande, C. Subramanian and S. Senthilvelan, Vibration Characteristics of Thermoplastic Composites, 1st International and 6th ISAMPE National Conference on Composites (INCCOM), Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, December 12-14, 2007,pp.535-539.
5. Rohit Kansay, Ravi Shankar, C. Subramanian and S. Senthilvelan, Micro Mechanical Behavior of Short Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastic Composites – A Finite Element Analysis Approach, 2nd International and 23rd All India Manufacturing Technology, Design and Research Conference (AIMTDR), Indian Institute of Technology Madras, December 15-17, 2008, pp 211-216.
6. C.Subramanian and S.Senthilvelan, Effect of Material Stiffness Over Joint Performance of Thermoplastic Composite Leaf Spring 8th ISAMPE National Conference on Composites (INCCOM), VSSC, Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 4-5, 2009, pp 25-33.
7. N.Sukesh and C.Subramanian, Creep prediction of thermoplastic material using Finite element tool from experimental data.3rd International Conference on design and materials, VIT University, Nov 15-18, pp 1862-1865.
8. N. Sukesh, C. Subramanian, K. Annamalai, C. D. Naiju, Short –Term Creep Strain Prediction of Thermoplastic Material Using Finite Element Analysis from Experimental Data, 2nd International Conference on Smart Materials and Nanotechnology in Engineering (SMNE 2012) Dubai, July 21-22,2012, pp-280-286.