Department of Aerospace Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), Mumbai, India
Research Interests:
Theory of plates, Finite element method, Optimization techniques, Material testing, Experimental stress analysis, Ultrasonic testing
Selected Publications (For more see the link, Prof. Rameshchandra p. Shimpi):
Krishna Murty AV, Shimpi RP. Vibration of laminated beams. J Sound Vib 1974;36:273–284
Shimpi RP, Ghugal YM. A layerwise trigonometric shear deformation theory for two-layered cross-ply laminated beams. J Reinf Plast Compos 1999;18 (16):1516–1543.
Ghugal YM, Shimpi RP. A trigonometric shear deformation theory for flexure
and free vibration of isotropic thick beams. Structural Engineering
Convention (SEC-2000), IIT Bombay, India; 2000.
Shimpi RP, Ainapure AV. A beam finite element based on layerwise trigonometric shear deformation theory. Compos Struct 2001;53:153–162.
R.P. Shimpi and Y.M. Ghugal. A new layerwise trigonometric shear deformation theory for two layered cross-ply beams. Composite Science and Technology, 61:1271–1283, 2001.
Ghugal, Y. M. and Shimpi, R. P., “A Review of Refined Shear Deformation Theories for Isotropic and Anisotropic Laminated Beams”, Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites, vol. 20, no. 3, 2001, pp. 255-272.
Ghugal Y. M., Shimpi R. P., “A review of refined shear deformation theories of isotropic and anisotropic laminated plates”, Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites 21, 2002, 775–813
Arya H., Shimpi R. P., Naik N. K., A zigzag model for laminated composite beams, Composite Structures 56, 2002, 21–24
Arya H., Shimpi R. P., Naik N. K., A zigzag model for laminated composite plates, Journal of Aero. Soc. of India, Vol. 54, No. 4, pp 347-357, November 2002
Shimpi RP. Refined plate theory and its variants. AIAA J 2002;40(1):137–146
Shimpi RP and Ghugal YM. A layerwise shear deformation theory for two-layered
cross-ply laminated plates. Mech Compos Mater St 2002; 7: 331–353
Shimpi RP, Ainapure AV. Free vibration analysis of two layered cross-ply laminated beams using layer-wise trigonometric shear deformation theory. J Reinf Plast Compos 2002;21(16):1477–92.
Arya H, Shimpi RP, Naik NK. Layer-by-layer analysis of a simply supported thick flexible sandwich beam. AIAA J 2002;40(10):2133–2136.
Shimpi RP, Arya H and Naik NK. A higher order displacement model for the plate
analysis. J Reinf Plast Compos 2003; 22: 1667–1688.
Shimpi RP and Ainapure AV. Free vibration of two-layered cross-ply laminated plates using layer-wise trigonometric shear deformation theory. J Reinf Plast Compos 2004; 23:
389–405
Shimpi RP, Patel HG, Arya H. New first order shear deformation theories. ASME J Appl Mech 2006;74(3):523–533.
Shimpi RP, Patel HG (2006) Free vibrations of plate using two variable refined plate theory. J Sound Vib 296:979–999
Shimpi R.P., Patel H.G.: A two variable refined plate theory for orthotropic plate analysis. Int. J. Solids Struct. 43, 6783–6799 (2006)
Shimpi, R. P., Patel, H. G., and Arya, H., 2007, “New First-Order Shear Deformation Plate Theories,” ASME J. Appl. Mech., 74(3), pp. 523–533
K. Nareen, R. Shimpi Refined hyperbolic shear deformation plate theory, Proc. Inst. Mech. Eng., Part C, J. Mech. Eng. Sci., 229 (2015), pp. 2675-2686
Rameshchandra P. Shimpi, Rajesh A. Shetty and Anirban Guha, “A single variable refined theory for free vibrations of a plate using inertia related terms in displacements”, European Journal of Mechanics – A/Solids, Vol. 65, pp 136-148, September-October 2017
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