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Professor K. P. Rao

Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India
Possibly formerly:
US Air Force Materials Laboratory, AFWAL/MLBM, WPAFB, Dayton, Ohio 45433, USA

Selected Publications (For more see the link, Prof. K. P. Rao):
Murthy, M.V.V., Rao, K.P. and Rao, A.K. (1974) ‘On the stress problem of large elliptical cutouts and cracks in circular cylindrical shells’, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 10, No. 11, pp.1243–1269.
P. Prakash and K. P. Rao, Thermal Stresses Around Circular Holes in Spherical Shells, Nucl. Eng. Des., vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 83–87, 1974.
D. H. Bonde and K. P. Rao, Thermal Stresses in a Cylindrical Shell Containing a Circular Hole or a Rigid Inclusion, Nucl. Eng. Des., vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 337–346, 1977.
Rao, K. P., "A Rectangular Laminated Anisotropic Shallow Thin Shell Finite Element," Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 15, 1978, pp. 13-33.
Venkatesh, A. and Rao, K. P., "A Doubly Curved Quarilateral Finite Element for the Analysis of Laminated Anisotropic Thin Shells of Revolution," Computers and Structures, Vol. 12, 1980, pp. 825-832. 

Venkatesh, A. and Rao, K. P., "Analysis of Laminated Shells with Laminated Stiffeners Using Rectangular Shell Finite Elements," Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 38, 1983, pp. 255-272.
R.K. Gupta, A. Venkatesh, K.P. Rao, Finite element analysis of laminated anisotropic thin-walled open-section beams, Compos Struct, 3 (1) (1985), pp. 19–31
Vijayakumar, K., Rao, K.P.: Stress-strain relations for composites with different stiffness in tension and compression. Comput. Mech. 2, 167-175 (1987)
Rao, K. P. (1987). “Shear buckling of corrugated composite panels.” Compos. Struct., 8(3), 207–220.
Rao, K., “Design for elastic stability of corrugated/sandwich/stiffened composite panels”, Int. SAMPE Symp. Exhib., Vol. 32, pp 540-550, 1987
Rao, K. P. (1988) Buckling of composite sandwich rectangular panels (grid core), Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites, 7, 72–89.
B. Tripathy and K.P. Rao, “Curved composite beams—optimum lay-up for buckling by ranking”, Computers & Structures, Vol. 41, No. 1, 1991, pp. 75-82
Rao, K. P. and Tripathy, B., "Composite Cylindrical Panels - Optimum Lay-up for Buckling by Ranking," Computers and Structures, Vol. 38, No. 2, 1991, pp. 217-225.
K.P. Rao and H.R. Gopalkrishna, “Optimization of composite cylindrical panels for buckling by ranking”, Composite Structures, Vol. 21, No. 3, 1992, pp. 131-140.
B. Tripathy and K. P. Rao, “Stiffened composite cylindrical panels—Optimum lay-up for buckling by ranking”, Computers & Structures, Vol. 42, No. 4, February 1992, pp. 481-488
Tripathy, B., and Rao, K. P., “Stiffened Composite Axisymmetric Shells-Optimum Lay-up for Buckling by Ranking,” Computers and Structures, Vol. 46, No. 2, 1993, pp. 299-309.
Biswajit, Tripathy and Rao, KP (1993) Optimum design for buckling of plain and stiffened composite axisymmetric shell panels/shells. Composite Structures, Vol. 25, pp 459-467, December 1993
C. Sridhar and K. Rao, “Large deformation finite element analysis of laminated circular composite plates”, Computers & Structures, Vol. 54, pp 59-64, January 1995
C. Sridhar and K. Rao, “Estimation of low-velocity impact damage in laminated composite circular plates using nonlinear finite element analysis, Computers & Structures, Vol. 54, pp 1183-1189, March 1995
S. Ganapathy, Biswajit Tripathy and K.P. Rao, “Damage and its growth in laminated composite circular/rectangular plates undergoing large deformations”, Composite Structures, Vol. 32, pp 367-373, December 1995

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