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Prof.Tanish Dey

Designation: Associate Professor

Department: Civil Engineering

Email: tanish[at]iitism[dot]ac[dot]in

Contact Number: 9475427363

Personal Page: Under Construction

Research Interest: Stability Analysis of Structures; Plates and Shells Structures; Composite Structures; Non-linear Mechanics; Smart Structures

Curriculum
Vitae
Publications

Teaching

Academics

  • Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.): Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India (2010 - 2015)

       Thesis Title: Non-linear Static and Dynamic Instability Analysis of Composite Cylindrical Shells and Panels Subjected to Non-Uniform Loadings

  • Master of Technology (M.Tech.): Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India (2008 - 2010)

       M.Tech. Thesis Title: Static and Dynamic Instability Analysis of Cylindrical Shell Panels and Complete Cylindrical Shells

  • Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.): Department of Civil Engineering, Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, India  (2004– 2008)

Position

  • April 2022 – present: Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad
  • May 2015 – April 2022: Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad 
  • May 2019 – July 2019: Visiting Scientist, Institute for Static and Dynamic, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
  • September 2014 – March 2015: Senior Researcher, Research & Rule Development Division, Indian Register of Shipping, Mumbai

Awards and Honors

2023: Recipient of International Travel Support (ITS) from Science and Engineering Research Board (DST) for attanding the International Conference on Thin-Walled Structures (ICTWS 23), Sydney, Australia.

2022: Recipient of prestigious Young Engineer Award from Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), India.

2022: Inducted as Young Associate by Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), India.

2019: Recipient of DAAD Felowship for Bilateral Exchange of Academics.

2017: Recipient of International Travel Support (ITS) from Science and Engineering Research Board (DST) for attanding the International Conference on Composite Structures (ICCS 20), Paris, France.

 

Publications

Books Published

Book/ Chapter

  1. L. S. Ramachandra, Tanish Dey and Rajesh Kumar, Stability of plates and shell panels under non-uniform in-plane loadings, Stability and Failure of High-Performance Composite Structures, 143-165, 2022.

List Of Research Publications (only in Peer-reviewed Journals)

  1. Sumeet Chakraborty, Marco Amabili, H. R. Moghaddasi, Amit Yadav, Tanish Dey and Rajesh Kumar, Nonlinear Dynamics of Axially Functionally Graded, Porous Sandwich Panel Subjected to Periodic Non-uniform In-plane Excitation, Thin-Walled Structures, 211, 113076, 2025.
  2. Satyajeet Dash, Tanish Dey, Ayan Haldar and Rajesh Kumar, A Semi-Analytical Method for Non-Linear Instability Analysis of Variable Stiffness Laminated Composite Beams Under Thermo-Mechanical Loading, Composite Structures, 357, 118966, 2025.
  3. Satyajeet Dash, Tanish Dey and Rajesh Kumar, Instability characteristics of variable stiffness composite panels under thermomechanical loadings, Acta Mechanica, 236(2), 631-654, 2024.
  4. Musitefa Adem Yimer and Tanish Dey, Dynamic behavior of full-scale GFRP bar-reinforced ultra-high-performance concrete-encased concrete-filled double-skin steel tubular bridge columns under lateral impact loading, Structures, 70, 107674, 2024.
  5. Varun Jain, Rajesh Kumar, Tanish Dey, S. N. Patel and Gaurav Watts, A meshfree formulation for size-dependent thermal buckling and post-buckling behaviour of porous microplates on elastic foundation subjected to localized heating, Thin-Walled Structures, 205, 112451, 2024.
  6. Sumeet Chakraborty, Satyajeet Dash and Tanish Dey, Non-linear stability characteristics of randomly distributed CNT-reinforced fiber composite beams under thermo-mechanical loadings, Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines, 52 (9), 7021-7044, 2024.
  7. Sumeet Chakraborty, Amit Yadav, Tanish Dey, Rajesh Kumar and Ankur Singh, Semi-analytical framework for modelling of surface heating and its impact on nonlinear stability of nanotube reinforced doubly curved porous fiber composite panels, Mechanics of Materials, 198, 105126, 2024.
  8. Sumeet Chakraborty, S Naskar, Tanish Dey, Rajesh Kumar and T Mukhopadhyay, Nonlinear Stability of Curved Multiphase Composite Panels: Influence of Agglomeration in Randomly Distributed Carbon Nanotubes with Nonuniform In-Plane Loads, Journal of Aerospace Engineering (ASCE), 37 (3), 04024015, 2024.
  9. Satyajeet Dash, Tanish Dey and Debarati Hati, Influence of thermo-mechanical loads on variable stiffness composite beams: a comprehensive study using semi-analytical and finite element approaches, Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines, 52 (12), 10555-10582, 2024.
  10. Musitefa Adem Yimer and Tanish Dey, Dynamic response of concrete beams reinforced with GFRP and steel bars under impact loading, Engineering Failure Analysis, 161, 108329, 2024.
  11. Varun Jain, Rajesh Kumar, S. N. Patel and Tanish Dey, Geometrically nonlinear dynamic analysis of a damped porous microplate resting on elastic foundations under in-plane nonuniform excitation, Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines, 52 (7), 4553-4598, 2024.
  12. Sumeet Chakraborty, Vishal Singh, Tanish Dey and Rajesh Kumar, Influence of carbon nanotubes on stability and vibration characteristics of plates and panels in thermal environment: a review, Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, 31 (1), 147-178, 2024.
  13. Amit Yadav, Marco Amabili, S. K. Panda and Tanish Dey, Instability analysis of fluid-filled angle-ply laminated circular cylindrical shells subjected to harmonic axial loading, European Journal of Mechanics-A/Solids, 97, 104810, 2023.
  14. Sumeet Chakraborty and Tanish Dey, Thermomechanical buckling and wrinkling characteristics of softcore sandwich panels with CNT reinforced composite face sheets, European Journal of Mechanics-A/Solids, 98, 104894, 2023.
  15. Sumeet Chakraborty, Tanish Dey, V. Mahesh and D. K. Harursampath, Post-buckling and vibration analysis of randomly distributed CNT reinforced fibre composite plates under localised heating, Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, 30 (21), 4430-4449, 2022.
  16. Satyajeet Dash, Sumeet Chakraborty, Tanish Dey, Buckling and free vibration analysis of randomly distributed CNT reinforced composite beam, European Journal of Mechanics-A/Solids, 96, 104749, 2022.
  17. Sumeet Chakraborty, Tanish Dey, Vishal Singh and Rajesh Kumar, Thermal Stability Analysis of Three-Phase CNTRFC Cylindrical Shell Panels, Journal of Aerospace Engineering (ASCE), 35, 04022074, 2022.
  18. Amit Yadav, Marco Amabili, S. K. Panda, Tanish Dey and Rajesh Kumar, A semi-analytical approach for instability analysis of composite cylindrical shells subjected to harmonic axial loading, Composite Structures, 296, 115882, 2022.
  19. Rajesh Kumar, Vishal Singh, Tanish Dey, Dipendu Bhunia, S. N. Patel, Varun Jain, Nonlinear Analysis of Sandwich Plate with FG Porous Core and RD-CNTCFRC Face Sheets under Transverse Patch Loading, Acta Mechanica, 233 (11), 4589-4614, 2022.
  20. Tanish Dey, Eelco Jansen, Rajesh Kumar and Raimund Rolfes, Instability characteristics of variable stiffness laminated composite curved panels under non-uniform periodic excitation, Thin-Walled Structures, 171, 108735, 2022.
  21. Anjana Sahu, Tanish Dey and Sukanta Chakraborty, Performance evaluation of sustainable recycled aggregate concrete with colloidal nano silica, European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering, 26, 7878-7898, 2021.
  22. Amit Jadav, Marco Amabili, S. K. Panda and Tanish Dey, Nonlinear analysis of cylindrical sandwich shells with porous core and CNT reinforced face-sheets by higher-order thickness and shear deformation theory, European Journal of Mechanics / A Solids, 90, 104366, 2021.
  23. Sumeet Chakraborty, Tanish Dey and Rajesh Kumar, Instability characteristics of damped CNT reinforced laminated shell panels subjected to in-plane excitations and thermal loading, Structures, 34, 2936-2949, 2021.
  24. Amit Jadav, Marco Amabili, S. K. Panda, Tanish Dey and Rajesh Kumar, Forced nonlinear vibrations of circular cylindrical sandwich shells with cellular core using higher-order shear and thickness deformation theory, Journal of Sound and Vibration, 510, 116283, 2021.
  25. Vishal Singh, Rajesh Kumar, S. N. Patel, Tanish Dey and S. K. Panda, Instability and vibration analyses of functionally graded carbon nanotube-reinforced laminated composite (FG-CNTRLC) plate subjected to localized in-plane periodic loading, Journal of Aerospace Engineering (ASCE), 34(6), 04021072, 2021.
  26. Vishal Singh, Rajesh Kumar, S. N. Patel and Tanish Dey, Non-linear Response and Buckling of Imperfect Laminated Composite Plates under In-Plane Pulse Forces, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, 1-17, 2021.
  27. Anjana Sahu, Tanish Dey and Sukanta Chakraborty, Influence of nano silica on mechanical and durability characteristic of mortar made by partial replacement of natural fine aggregate with recycled fine aggregate, Silicon, 13, 4391-4405, 2021.
  28. Sumeet Chakraborty and Tanish Dey, Non-linear stability analysis of CNT reinforced composite cylindrical shell panel subjected to thermomechanical loading, Composite Structures, 255, 112995, 2021.
  29. Amit Jadav, Marco Amabili, S. K. Panda, Tanish Dey and Rajesh Kumar, Nonlinear damped vibrations of three-phase CNT-FRC circular cylindrical shell, Composite Structures, 255, 112939, 2021.
  30. Tanish Dey, Chandra Sekhar Das and Naval Mishra, Behaviour of Confined Recycled Aggregate Concrete under Compressive Loading: An Experimental Investigation, Journal of Building Engineering, 32, 101825, 2020.
  31. Amit Jadav, Marco Amabili, S. K. Panda and Tanish Dey, Non-linear vibration response of functionally graded circular cylindrical shells subjected to thermo-mechanical loading, Composite Structures, 229, 111430, 2019.
  32. Tanish Dey and L. S. Ramachandra, Computation of worst geometric imperfection profiles of composite cylindrical shell panels by minimizing the non-linear buckling load, Applied Mathematical Modelling, 74, 483-495, 2019.
  33. Rajesh Kumar, Tanish Dey and S. K. Panda, Instability and vibration analyses of FG cylindrical panels under parabolic axial compressions, Steel and Composite Structures, 31, 187-199, 2019.
  34. Sumeet Chakraborty, Tanish Dey and Rajesh Kumar, Stability and vibration analysis of CNT-Reinforced functionally graded laminated composite cylindrical shell panels using semi-analytical approach, Composites Part B: Engineering, 168, 1-14, 2019.
  35. C. S. Das, Tanish Dey, R. Dandapat, B. B. Mukharjee and J. Kumar, Performance evaluation of polypropylene fibre reinforced recycled aggregate concrete, Construction and Building Materials, 189, 649-659, 2018.
  36. Amit Jadav, S. K. Panda and Tanish Dey, Coupled Dynamic Instability Analysis of Thin Walled Columns Subjected to Harmonic Axial Loading, International Journal of Applied Mechanics, 10, 1850051-1-22, 2018.
  37. R. S. Padhi, R. K. Patra, B. B. Mukherjee and Tanish Dey, Influence of Incorporation of Rice Husk Ash and Coarse Recycled Concrete Aggregates on Properties of Concrete, Construction and Building Materials, 173, 289-297, 2018.
  38. Amit Jadav, S. K. Panda and Tanish Dey, Non-linear Dynamic Instability Analysis of Thin-walled Stiffener Beam Subjected to Uniform Harmonic In-plane Loading, Journal of Sound and Vibration, 408, 383-399, 2017.
  39. Amit Jadav, S. K. Panda and Tanish Dey, Non-linear Dynamic Instability Analysis of Mono-Symmetric Thin Walled Columns with Various Boundary Conditions, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 126, 242-254, 2017.
  40. Tanish Dey and L. S. Ramachandra, Non-linear vibration analysis of laminated composite cylindrical shells, Composite Structures, 163, 89-100, 2017.
  41. Tanish Dey, Rajesh Kumar and S. K. Panda, Postbuckling and postbuckled vibration analysis of sandwich plates under non-uniform mechanical edge loadings, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 115-116, 226-237, 2016.
  42. Tanish Dey and L. S. Ramachandra, Linear and non-linear parametric instability behavior of cylindrical sandwich panels subjected to various mechanical edge loadings, Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, 23 (1), 8-21, 2016.
  43. Tanish Dey and L. S. Ramachandra, Dynamic stability of simply supported composite cylindrical shells under partial axial loading, Journal of Sound and Vibration, 353, 272-291, 2015.
  44. Tanish Dey and L. S. Ramachandra, Static and dynamic instability analysis of composite cylindrical shell panels subjected to partial edge loading, International Journal of Non-linear Mechanics, 64, 46-56, 2014.
  45. Tanish Dey and L. S. Ramachandra, Buckling and postbuckling response of sandwich panels under various mechanical edge loadings, Composites Part B: Engineering, 60, 537-545, 2014.
  46. Tanish Dey and L. S. Ramachandra, Non-linear stability analysis of laminated composite simply supported circular cylindrical shells subjected to partial axial loading, Journal of Engineering Mechanics (ASCE), 140 (8), 04014058, 2014.

Projects & Activities

Sponsored Research Projects (External Funded)

  1. Title of Project: Improved Lightweight Design of Variable Stiffness Composite Aircraft Panels Enabled by Tow-Steering and Machine Learning; Role: PI; Name of Sponsoring Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), India; Status: Ongoing (2024-2027).
  2. Title of Project: Design of Multi-stable Variable Stiffness Composite Shells for Morphing Applications; Role: PI; Name of Sponsoring Agency: Aeroronautics Research and Development Board (AR&DB), DRDO, India; Status: Ongoing (2023-2026).      
  3. Title of Project: Performance Study of Steel Oil Storage Tanks under Seismic Loading; Role: PI; Name of Sponsoring Agency: Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), India; Status: Ongoing (2022-2025).
  4. Title of Project: Nonlinear vibrations and instability analysis of composite structural elements through advanced shear-deformation theories and homogenization based damage model; Role: Co- PI; Name of Sponsoring Agency: SPARC, MHRD, India; Status: Completed.
  5. Title of Projects: Static Stability Analysis of Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Laminated Composite Plate Subjected to Axial Compressive Loading; Role: PI; Name of Sponsoring Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), India; Status: Completed.
  6. Title of Projects: Imperfection Sensitivity Analysis of Cylindrical Shells Subjected to Axial Compressive Loadings; Role: PI; Name of Sponsoring Agency: IIT(ISM), Dhanbad under Faculty Research Scheme; Status: Completed.
  7. Title of Projects: Effects of Steel Fiber on the Mechanical Properties of Recycled Aggregate Concrete after Exposes to Elevated Temperatures; Role: PI; Name of Sponsoring Agency: IIT (ISM), Dhanbad under TEQUIP II; Status: Completed.

Consultancy Project

  1. Title of Project: Proof Checking for Design and Drawings for Major Upgradation and Redevelopment of Asansol Railway Station; Role: CI; Client: M/s Auro Infra Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad; Status: Ongoing.
  2. Title of Project: Proof Checking for Drawings & Designs of Solarplant in Jodhpur; Role: CI; Client: M/s Enviro Infra Engineers Ltd., Delhi; Status: Ongoing.
  3. Title of Project: Condition Assessment Based on in-situ Non-Destructive Test (NDT) of the existing RCC Chimney raft of Coke Oven Battery (COB#6); Role: Co-CI; Client: M/s MECON Limited, Ranchi; Status: Ongoing.
  4. Title of Project: Proof Checking for Design and Drawings of Silo Bin Building, Screen and Classifier Building and Crusher Foundation for Donimalai Project; Role: Co-CI; Client: M/s Kalpataru Projects International Ltd., Banglore; Status: Ongoing.
  5. Title of Project: Proof Checking for Design and Drawings of Grinding Building Structures along with 3 Ball Mill Foundations and Downhill Conveyor of NMDC BP05 Project; Role: Co-CI; Client: M/s Kalpataru Projects International Ltd., Banglore; Status: Ongoing.
  6. Title of Project: Proof Checking for Design and Drawings of Structural Components for Upgradation of 50 MLD STP at Jodhpur; Role: CI; Client: M/s Enviro Infra Engineers Ltd., Delhi; Status: Ongoing.
  7. Title of Project: Proof Checking for Design and Drawings of Networks Pipeline and Interception Diversion Inclusive of IPS for STP and I&D Project; Role: CI; Client: M/s Enviro Infra Engineers Ltd., Delhi; Status: Ongoing.
  8. Title of Project: Vetting of Structural Drawings & Designs for Bhopal Zone Works of Military Engineering Services; Role: CI; Client: M/s Engineers and Consultancy, Koderma; Status: Completed.
  9. Title of Project: Vetting of Structural Drawings & Design for Jabalpur Zone Works of Military Engineering Services; Role: CI; Client: M/s Engineers and Consultancy, Koderma; Status: Completed.
  10. Title of Project: Design Validation of Newly Erected Structural Pulley Frames, Drive Base Frames & Associated Civil Foundations of Downhill Conv. No. 28 & 29; Role: Co-CI; Client: M/s NMDC, Bacheli; Status: Completed.
  11. Title of Project: Proof Checking for Design and Drawings of Railway Truss Bridge (24.92m OWG); Role: CI; Client: M/s Metal Craft Engineering Pvt. Ltd., Kolkata; Status: Completed.
  12. Title of Project: Proof checking for design and drawings of Phase-1 of Medical College at Bihar; Role: Co-CI; Client: M/s Inmitable Consultants Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi; Status: Completed.
  13. Title of Project: Proof checking for structural design and drawings of two buildings of NMDC 2 MTPA Pellet Plant at Nagarnar​​​​​​​; Role: Co-CI; Client: M/s Engineering Design Research Centre, L&T Limited, Kolkata​​​​​​​​​​​​​​; Status: Completed.
  14. Title of Project: Proof Checking for Design and Drawings of 17 MLD Sewerage Treatment Plant in Ramgarh Town, Jharkhand​​​​​​​; Role: CI; Client: M/s Enviro Infra Engineers Ltd., Delhi; Status: Completed.
  15. Title of Project: Design validation for 3 numbers structural steel sheds and respective RCC foundation for stockpiles at NMDC Limited Bacheli/Kirandul (Chattisgarh) site; Role: Co-CI; Client: M/s MECON Limited, Ranchi; Status: Completed.

Guidance

Ongoing

  1. Satyajeet Dash. “Instability Analysis of Advanced Composite Structural Elements Subjected to Thermo-Mechanical Loadings,” Joined: August 2020, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT(ISM), Dhanbad. Satyajeet has published 5 papers in top-tier journals, and another 2 papers are under preparation.
  2. Musitefa Adem Yimer. “Dynamic Behaviour and Strengthening of Concrete Members Reinforced with Hybrid Fiber-Reinforced Polymer and Steel Bars under Impact Loading,” Joined: August 2022, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT(ISM), Dhanbad. Musitefa has published 2 papers in top-tier journals, and another 2 papers are under review.
  3. Sakshi. “Performance Study of Steel Oil Storage Tanks under Seismic Loading,” Joined: July 2023, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT(ISM), Dhanbad. Co-Supervisor: Dr. Rajib Sarkar.
  4. Subodh Kumar. “Experimental Investigation on Compsite Strudtural Elements under Dynamic Loadings,” Joined: December 2023, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT(ISM), Dhanbad. 
  5. Nikesh Sharma. “Design of Multi-stable Variable Stiffness Composite Shells for Morphing Applications,” Joined: June 2024, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT(ISM), Dhanbad. Co-Supervisor: Dr. Rahul Bhartiya.
  6. Haripad Mahto. “Lightweight Design of Variable Stiffness Composite Aircraft Panels Enabled by Tow-Steering and Machine Learning,” Joined: June 2024, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT(ISM), Dhanbad. 

 Awarded/Completed

  1. Amit Yadav. “Nonlinear Vibration and Instability Analysis of Empty and Fluid-Filled Composite Cylindrical Shell using Higher-Order Shell Theory,” Joined: August 2017, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT(ISM), Dhanbad. Co-Supervisor: Dr. S.K. Panda. Awarded: August 2022. Amit has published 6 papers in top-tier journals from his doctoral works, and he is currently working as Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, NIT Mizoram.
  2. Sumeet Chakraborty. “Instability Analysis of CNT-Reinforced Composite Curved Panels Subjected to Thermo-Mechanical Loadings,” Joined: December 2017, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT(ISM), Dhanbad. Awarded: June 2022. Sumeet has published 6 papers in top-tier journals from his doctoral works, and he is currently working as Postdoctoral Fellow at Westlake University, China.
  3. Anjana Sahu. “Sustainable Development of Concrete using Recycled Coares and Fine Aggregates,” Joined: January 2014, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT(ISM), Dhanbad. Awarded: March 2022. Anjana has published 2 papers in top-tier journals from his doctoral works.
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