Structural Impact & Crash Simulation Centre (SIMCRASH)

Research and Skills Center

Faculty Vision and Mission Research Partners Research Areas Research Facilities Research Outcomes Contact

Dr. K. Ramajeyathilagam

Senior Professor – Aerospace (HEAD)

Dr. M. Chandrasekar

Associate Professor – Aerospace

Dr. R Sundaramoorthy

Assistant Professor(SG) – Aeronautical

Ms.T. Sivagangai

Assistant Professor(SS) – Aerospace

Mr. S Pragadheswaran

Assistant Professor(SS) – Aeronautical

Structural Impact & Crash Simulation Centre (SIMCRASH)

1. Dr. K. Ramajeyathilagam, Senior Professor – Aerospace (HEAD)
2. Dr. M. Chandrasekar, Associate Professor – Aerospace
3. Dr. R Sundaramoorthy, Assistant Professor(SG) – Aeronautical
4. Ms.T. Sivagangai, Assistant Professor(SS) – Aerospace
5. Mr. S Pragadheswaran, Assistant Professor(SS) – Aeronautical

Vision

To become a centre of excellence for designing and development of structural systems for structural impact and crash related technologies.

Mission

To assess, design, simulate and integrate advanced state of art technologies for impact and crash proof design of systems for industry and Defence forces.

Structural Impact & Crash Simulation Centre (SIMCRASH) was established on 12th January 2017 to promote educational and research activities in the field of structural impact and crash analysis. The centre bridges the gap between the industries, research institutes and the University with a distinct capability to harness the intellectual energy of academia to solve the real time problems faced by the industry and the Defence forces. SIMCRASH is a multi-disciplinary research centre dedicated for solving real world structural impact and crash problems through the application of modelling and simulation techniques and to develop new approaches in material modelling for structural impact crash problems.

Research Areas

Impact and Crash, Hail ice Impact, Fatigue and Fracture, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Bird Strike, Underwater Explosion, Water Entry Shock, Mine Blast.

Research Facilities

LS Dyna – 8 Licenses
High end workstation -1Nos
Ballistic Test facility
Hail ice impact facility
Fatigue test Machine –MTS 100kN
Drop weight Test
Drop test facilities- 5m height

R&D projects

Evaluation of Numerical Bird Model Parameters Through the Dynamic Test of Bird Projectile” Sponsored by GTRE, DRDO.
Experimental and Numerical investigations on the failures of metallic and composite structures to hall- ice impact Sponsored by ARDB, DRDO
Simulation of Traumatic Brain Injury Using Finite Element Method” Sponsored by HITS.
Coupled Fluid-Structure Interaction Studies Due to Underwater Explosion Around Submerged Composite Pressure Hull” Sponsored by NRB, DRDO.
Estimation of Shock Levels and Its Impact on the Underwater Axi-Symmetric Bodies Due to Water Entry and Pyro Shock” Sponsored by NSTL, DRDO.
Development of shock standards and guideline for two different marine vessels through numerical simulations.
Experimental and numerical investigations on the failures of metallic and composite structures to hail ice impact.
Parametric studies on articles subjected to underwater shock wave excitation.
Fatigue testing of composite specimens.

Dr. K Ramajeyathilagam
Head, SIMCRASH
Email: simcrash@hindustanuniv.ac.in