Engineered Materials and Structures Lab (EMSL)
News
2025: We are organizing a mini-symposium on "Advances in Computational Mechanics and Design of Mechanical Metamaterials" at UKACM2025, London.
2025: We have developed thickness-wise graded metamaterials for hydrogen storage and enhanced sustainability under extreme environments. This is one of the early attempts for developing novel metamaterials in the field of hydrogen storage and sustainable green aviation. LINK
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2025: We have organized and Dr. Naskar chaired a panel session at AIAA SciTech 2025 on Optimally-Tailored Microstructures and Architected Metamaterials at AIAA SciTech 2025.
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2024: Dr. Naskar chaired session at Fourth International Conference on Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures (ICMAMS) on advanced composites, metamaterials and sandwich structures.
2024: EMSL PhD student Priyanka presented her work on material and geometrical uncertainties of reducible composites at Fourth International Conference on Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures (ICMAMS)
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2024: EMSL PhD student Aditi Sharma's work on origami metamaterial is selected for media publication for The Space South Central newsletter 2024.
2024: EMSL PhD students presented their research work at the Young Researchers Conference at University of Southampton. Aditi got 1st prize for her work on origami inspired metamaterial and Soumyadeep got third prize for his work on active metamaterial.
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2024: Dr. Naskar has joined the Editorial Board of Discover Materials, a peer-reviewed journal published by Springer Nature.
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2024: Dr. Naskar gave an invited seminar presentation at Imperial College London on 27th September 2024.
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​2024: Dr. Naskar gave an invited seminar presentation at University of Bath, UK on 7th July 2024.
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2024: Dr. Naskar has joined the Editorial Board of Nature Scientific Reports, a peer-reviewed journal published by Nature Portfolio.
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2024: Dr. Naskar gave an invited seminar presentation at Loughborough University, UK on 14th May 2024.
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2024: Our group presented work on active porous material at the Engineering Porous Materials at Multiple Scales (EPoMM) conference.​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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2024: Dr. Naskar gave an expert talk for International Conference on Climate-Resilient Infrastructures and Communities (INTERLINC) organized by Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), and IIT Bombay India on 30th March, 2024.
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2024: Dr. Naskar organized and chaired a two-day workshop (27-28 June 2024) with Prof. Nitesh Yelve on AI-enabled Structural health monitoring supported by joint funding with Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
2024: Dr. Naskar organized a mini-symposium on "Trustworthy Model V&V and Digital Twins of Complex and Nonlinear Engineering Systems" at the European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL) 2024 with Dr. Sifeng Bi, Prof. Michael Beer and Dr. Tanmoy Mukhopadhyay on June 2024.
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2024: Dr. Naskar organized a mini-symposium on "Active Programmability and Artificial Intelligence in Mechanical Metamaterials" at the European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMAS 2024), held at Lisbon with Dr. Tanmoy Mukhopadhyay on June 2024.
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2024: EMSL PhD students presented on European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMAS 2024), held at Lisbon
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2023: Dr. Naskar gave an invited seminar presentation at the University of Maryland on 18th January 2023.
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2023: Our PhD student PRIYANKA PATIL presented her research work on Uncertainty Quantification of complex thin-walled composites which has attracted significant interest in the ICCMS 2023 conference held recently at Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi
2023: Dr. Naskar gave an invited seminar presentation at the University of Cambridge on 4th November 2023.
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2023: Dr. Naskar gave an invited seminar presentation at the Johns Hopkins University on 18th July 2023.
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2022: EMSL postgraduate Thomas was awarded a Distinction for his master's dissertation titled: "An Investigation into the Viscoelastic and Metamaterial Characteristics of Kirigami in Response to a Tensile Load". Congratulations Thomas!!
2022: Dr. Naskar started working as an outreach coordinator for Southampton University Women in Engineering Society, University of Southampton.
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2023: Dr. Naskar gave an invited seminar presentation at the Embraer Aircraft, Brazil on 5th March 2023.
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2022:Susmita's research on advanced materials and structures was featured in Space Magazine, Southampton.
2022: The group designed project from EMSL on Origami Spacecraft De-Orbiter got 2022's Environment Award.
2021: Susmita joined as Guest Editor: Frontiers in Nanotechnology on the topic: Computational Advances in Nanostructured Thermoelectric
2021: Susmita joined as Guest Editor: Journal of Composites Science on the topic: Advanced Multi-functional Composites and Metamaterials
2020: Susmita received best paper award with Dr. Kishor Balasaheb Shingare from The Institution of Engineers!
2020: Athira's thesis from EMSL lab on Machine learning assisted modelling of uncertainty for lightweight structures has been selected for IIT Bombay's newsletter of the month (Link)
2020: Our paper on probing the stochastic dynamics of coronaviruses has been included in the WHO database
2020: Our work on proposing new piezoelectric material for composite structure got media coverage (Link)
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2020:Our recent work on predicting effective properties on composites got media coverage at the IIT Bombay research section (Link)
2020:Our research on functional materials which have shown that, contrary to what was thought before, the isotropy of material is relatively independent of the lattice geometry published at the IIT Bombay research section
2020:Our collaborative work at IIT Bombay on metamaterial with IIT Kanpur and Swansea University featured and released in media
2020: Dr Naskar received Young Engineer Award From The Institution of Engineers.
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2020: Dr. Naskar received the Young Achievers Awarded by Institute of Scholar.
2020: Dr. Naskar received Young Woman in Engineering Award by 5th Venus International Women Awards - VIWA 2020.
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2019: Dr. Naskar received Young Faculty Award from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
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2019: Dr Naskar was interviewed by the University of Aberdeen as a bright international student for their yearly magazine.
2019: Dr Naskar was interviewed by the new age media portal She The People organized by British Council UK and India Govt.
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2019: Dr Naskar was interviewed by the new age media portal HerStory, the section of Yourstory that covers women’s stories organized by British Council UK.
HerStory is one of the special editions of YourStory – features stories of entrepreneurs and change-makers, funding analyses, resource pieces and the first glimpse of emerging trends from India’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, as well as profiles of great businesses and entrepreneurs from all over the world. HerStory is a women-first platform that profiles and celebrates inspirational stories of women.
2019: Our paper Condition assessment and strengthening of aged structures: Perspectives based on a critical case study has been selected to be featured in the Editor’s Choice section of the Practice Periodical on Structural Design and Construction page in the ASCE Library
Link: https://ascelibrary.org/journal/ppscfx
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2019: Served as a judge in the panel on second-annual Women in STEM Symposium, supporting women in STEM at Johns Hopkins University
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