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Professor Balakrishnan Prabu

Department of Mechanical Engineering
Pondicherry Engineering College, India

Balakrishnan Prabu received his ME (Eng. Design) from Anna University, India in 1993, and his Ph.D in Thin Shell Buckling from Pondicherry University, India in 2007.

Selected Publications:
Prabu B., Bujjibabu N., Saravanan S. and Venkatraman A., 2007. Effect of a dent of different sizes and angles of inclination on buckling strength of a short stainless steel cylindrical shell subjected to uniform axial compression. Advances in Structural Engineering, Vol. 10, No. 5, pp. 581-591, 2007

B. Prabu, N. Rathinam, R. Srinivasan, K.A.S. Naarayen, “Finite Element Analysis of Buckling of Thin Cylindrical Shell Subjected to Uniform External Pressure”, Journal of Solid Mechanics Vol. 1, No. 2 (2009) pp.148-158.

A.V. Raviprakash, B. Prabu, N. Alagumurthi, M. Naresh, A. Giriprasath, “Effect of Through Stationary Edge and Center Cracks on Static Buckling Strength of Thin Plates under Uniform Axial Compression”, Journal of Solid Mechanics Vol. 1, No. 2 (2009) pp. 118-129

Prabu B., Raviprakash A.V. and Venkatraman A., 2010. Parametric study on buckling behavior of dented short carbon steel cylindrical shells subjected to uniform axial compression. Thin-Walled Structures, 48 (2010) 639-649.

B. Prabu, A.V. Raviprakash, N. Rathinam, “Parametric study on buckling behaviour of thin stainless steel cylindrical shells for circular dent dimensional variations under uniform axial compression”, International Journal of Engineering, Science and Technology Vol. 2, No. 4, 2010, pp. 134-149.

Prabu B., Raviprakash A.V. and Venkatraman A., Neighborhood effect of two short dents on buckling behavior of thin short stainless steel cylindrical shells. International Journal of Computer Aided Engineering & Technology, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2012

Raviprakash, A. V., Prabu, B., and Alagumurthi, N. (2012). “Residual ultimate compressive strength of dented square plates.” Thin-Walled Structures, 58, pp. 32–39.

Prabu, B., Raviprakash, A.V. and Rathinam, N., “Numerical buckling analysis of thin cylindrical shells with combined distributed and local geometrical imperfections under uniform axial compression”, International Journal of Computer Aided Engineering and Technology, Vol. 4, No. 4, July 2012 , pp. 295-320, DOI: 10.1504/IJCAET.2012.047813

B. Prabu, “Numerical Investigation Of Influencing Parameter Of Imperfections On Thin Short Carbon Steel Cylindrical Shell Under Axial Compression”, International Journal of Modeling, Simulation, and Scientific Computing 08/2013; 04(03). DOI: 10.1142/S1793962313500074

N. Rathinam and B. Prabu, “Static buckling analysis of thin cylindrical shell with centrally located dent under uniform lateral pressure”, International Journal of Steel Structures, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 509 – 518, 2013

N. Rathinam, B. Prabu, “Numerical study on influence of dent parameters on critical buckling pressure of thin cylindrical shell subjected to uniform lateral pressure”, Thin-Walled Structures, 03/2015; 88:1-15. DOI: 10.1016/j.tws.2014.11.020

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