Journal of Applied Mechanical Engineering

Sellakkutti Rajendran

Sellakkutti Rajendran
Associate Professor, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Biography

Dr. S. Rajendran holds a Ph.D degree from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). Prior to his doctoral research at IISc, he was working for about 5 years as a R&D Engineer in automobile companies. After his doctoral research, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Hong Kong for a year and as a Senior Scientist (E1) at the National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore, for about 3 years. He moved to Singapore in 1998. He worked as a Senior Engineer at the Singapore Productivity and Standards Board for about 2 years, and as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Numerical Engineering Simulation, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) for about 2 years. Then he joined the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, NTU as an Assistant Professor in 2001 and is currently working as an Associate Professor. Dr Rajendran’s broad research area is computational mechanics. His primary research interests include development of mesh-distortion-tolerant finite elements, hybrid FE-meshless methods, molecular dynamics (MD) simulation of carbon nanotubes, computational methods for large eigenproblems, simulation of MEMS gyroscope, and delamination buckling of composites. He has published over 45 papers in reputed international journals and presented over 15 papers in conferences, workshops and symposiums.

Research Interest

Advanced numerical techniques including finite element and meshless methods, molecular dynamics (MD) simulation of carbon nanotubes, computational methods for large eigenproblems, simulation of MEMS gyroscope, and delamination buckling of composites.