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Professor Poonam Kumari

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India

Brief Introduction:
Dr. Poonam Kumari completed her Masters and Ph.D in solid mechanics from department of Applied Mechanics of IIT Delhi. She worked as Postdoctoral Fellow at School of Engineering of Simon Fraser University, BC Canada. Presently working as Assistant Professor at Department Mechanical Engineering of IIT Guwahati. She developed various 3D models and 2D models for analysis of piezoelectic plates and shells. Recently, she received INAE Young Engineer –2017 Award. She published 26 papers in reputed International Journals and almost 30 papers in International conferences. She has developed Moocs course on theory of rectangular plates. This course is recommended by AICTE for faculty development programme.

Selected Publications (For more see the link, Prof. Poonam Kumari):
Kumari P., Nath J.K., Dumir P.C., Kapuria S.: 2D exact solutions for flat hybrid piezoelectric and magnetoelastic angle-ply panels under harmonic load. Smart Mater. Struct. 16(5), 1651–1661 (2007)
P.C. Dumir, J.K. Nath, P. Kumari, and S. Kapuria, Improved efficient zigzag and third order theories for circular cylindrical shells under thermal load, J. Therm. Stresses, vol. 31, pp. 343–367, 2008.
P.C. Dumir, P. Kumari, and S. Kapuria, Assessment of third order smeared and zigzag theories for buckling and vibration of flat angle-ply hybrid piezoelectric panels, Compos. Struct., vol. 90, pp. 346–362, 2009.
S. Kapuria, P. Kumari, and J.K. Nath, Analytical piezoelasticity solution for vibration of piezoelectric laminated angle-ply circular cylindrical panels, J. Sound Vib., vol. 324, pp. 832–849, 2009.
Kapuria S., Kumari P., Nath J.K.: Efficient modeling of smart piezoelectric composite laminates: a review. Acta Mech. 214, 31–48 (2010)
S. Kapuria and P. Kumari. Three-dimensional piezoelasticity solution for dynamics of cross-ply cylindrical shells integrated with piezoelectric fiber reinforced composite actuators and sensors. Composite Structures, 92:2431–2444, 2010.
S. Kapuria and P. Kumari, Three dimensional elasticity solutions of sandwich panels using the extended Kantorovich method, in: A.J.M. Ferreira (Ed.) Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Composite Structures, Porto, Portugal, 2011.
S. Kapuria and P. Kumari, Extended Kantorovich method for three-dimensional elasticity solution of laminated composite structures in cylindrical bending, J. Appl. Mech., vol. 78, pp. 061004-1–061004-8, 2011.
P. Kumari, S. Kapuria, “Boundary layer effects in rectangular cross-ply Levy-type plates using zigzag theory”, ZAMM-Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics/Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik, 91 (7) (2011), pp. 565-580
S. Kapuria, P. Kumari, Multiterm extended Kantorovich method for three-dimensional elasticity solution of laminated plates, J Appl Mech, 79 (6) (2012), p. 061018
S. Kapuria, P. Kumari, “Boundary layer effects in Levy-type rectangular piezoelectric composite plates using a coupled efficient layerwise theory”, Eur J Mech-A/Solids, 36 (2012), pp. 122-140
S. Kapuria, P. Kumari, Extended Kantorovich method for coupled piezoelasticity solution of piezolaminated plates showing edge effects, Proc R Soc A, 469 (2151) (2013), p. 20120565
P. Kumari and S. Kapuria, “Extended Kantorovich 3D solution and performance of 2D laminate theories for edge effects in smart piezolaminated structures”, Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy, Vol 79, No. 4, Part A, pp 575-585, December 2013

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