Research Interests
Research Interests
My team and I work in the areas of aircraft structural health monitoring, corrosion fatigue, and bio-mimetic materials & structures. A brief outline of each is provided below:
Aircraft Structural Health and Usage Monitoring
Structural health monitoring (SHM) refers to a system of sensors and instrumentation integrated with data processing tools deployed to assess the integrity of the structure. SHM systems are typically designed to provide usage and/or damage information with which one could diagnose current status of structural integrity or prognosticate on remaining useful life of the structure. This helps in reducing operational costs and enhancing aircraft reliability and availability. Thus, it has both strategic and economic significance.
Corrosion Fatigue
Corrosion in aircraft structures poses safety, economic and operational challenges. The approaches to address corrosion in aircraft have been mostly conservative and/or heuristic. Moreover, both civilian and military aircraft operators wish to maximize the life of their assets for strategic and economic reasons.It thus becomes imperative to develop more rigorous science-based metrics and methodologies for providing accurate and reliable diagnoses and prognoses on the structural integrity of corrosion-affected structures.
Development of Structural Health Monitoring System Using Fibre Optic Sensors
PIs – G.M. Kamath
Funding Agency - Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur [as Initiation Grant]
Project Timeline - 2017-2019
Characterization and Modeling of Membranes for Inflatable Space Structures
PIs – G.M. Kamath, P.M. Mohite (IITK), S. Kamle (IITK)
Funding Agency - Indian Space Research Organization
Project TImeline - 2018-2020
Development and demonstration of a fibre-optic sensor-based system for aircraft loads and usage monitoring
PIs – G.M. Kamath, Ramesh Sundaram (CSIR-NAL, Bangalore), P.D. Mangalgiri (IITK)
Funding Agency – Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) under the IMPacting Research INnovation and Technology (IMPRINT-2) Scheme
Project TImeline - 2019-2022