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Pulla Kondaiah

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Pulla Kondaiah is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Mahindra École Centrale, Mahindra University, with a Ph.D. in Machine Design from IIT Madras focused on developing magnetoelectric sensors for thermal applications and formulating pyroelectric and pyromagnetic effects to enhance their performance. He holds an M.Tech. in Manufacturing Technology from NIT Karnataka and a B.Tech. from JNTU Hyderabad, and has taught a wide range of undergraduate courses including mechanics, machine design, CAD, and smart structures. His multidisciplinary research spans smart materials and structures, coupled-field multiphysics analysis, thermomagnetic heat management, battery thermal management and pack design, polymer composites, structural health monitoring, and advanced manufacturing, supported by internal R&D funding for waste-heat-to-electricity conversion and multiple journal and international conference publications.

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Pulla Kondaiah

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Kondaiah Pulla is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Mahindra École Centrale College of Engineering. He successfully obtained his Ph.D. in Machine Design from IIT Madras, Chennai, India (2010-2014). His Ph.D. research contributed to the development of magnetoelectric sensor for thermal application. Furthermore, his research described formulation of Pyroelectric and Pyromagnetic effects for enhancing the performance of magnetoelectric sensor. He completed his Master in Manufacturing Engineering from NIT Karnataka, Surathkal, India (2007-2009). During his master’s, his focus areas were Advanced Manufacturing and Polymer Composites.

  • Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (Machine Design), IIT Madras, India
  • M.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering (Manufacturing Technology), NIT Karnataka, Surathkal, India
  • B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering, JNTU Hyderabad, India

  • Chaitanya Ruhatiya, Ruthvik Gandra, P. Kondaiah, Kura Manivas, Aditya Samhith, Liang Gao, Jasmine Siu Lee Lam and Akhil Garg, “Intelligent optimization of bioleaching process for waste lithium‐ion batteries: An application of support vector regression approach”, Int. J. Energy Res., Vol. 45, pp. 6152-6162 (2020)
  • P. Kondaiah and K. Shankar (2017), “Pyroeffects on Magneto-Electro-Elastic Sensor patch subjected to Thermal load”, Int. Journal of Smart Structures and Systems 19, 299-307.
  • P. Kondaiah, K. Shankar and N. Ganesan (2015), “Pyroeffects on magneto-electro-elastic sensor bonded on mild steel cylindrical shell”, Int. Journal of Smart Structures and Systems, 16, 537-554.
  • P. Kondaiah, K. Shankar and N. Ganesan (2014), “Pyroeffects on multiphase magneto-electro-elastic sensor patch bonded on mild steel plate”, Int. Journal on Smart sensing and Intelligent systems, 7, 1134-1155.
    • P. Kondaiah, K. Shankarand N. Ganesan (2013), “Pyroelectric and pyromagnetic effects on multiphase magneto-electro-elastic cylindrical shell for axisymmetric temperature” Smart Mater. Struct. 22, 025007 (13pp).
    • P. Kondaiah, K. Shankar and N. Ganesan (2013), “Pyrolectric and pyromagnetic effects on behavior of magneto-electro-elastic plate” Int. Journal of Coupled Systems and Mechanics, 2, 1-22.
    • P. Kondaiah, K. Shankar and N. Ganesan (2012), “Studies on Magneto-Electro-Elastic Cantilever Beam under Thermal environment” Int. Journal of Coupled Systems and Mechanics, 1, 205-217.
    • P. Kondaiah, K. Shankar and N. Ganesan (2012), “Magneto-electro-elastic beam under thermal environment”. Int. Journal of Advanced Materials Manufacturing & Characterization, 1, 36-47.
    Conference Publications:
  • P. Kondaiah, “Thermally Induced Vibration of Magneto-Electro-Elastic Structure under
    Transient Thermal Environment” 9th International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT2017), 18-23 June’2017, Suntec Singapore.
  • P. Kondaiah, K. Shankar and N Ganesan, “The Pyroelectric and Pyromagnetic effects on multiphase Magneto-Electro-Elastic sensors bonded to mild steel cantilever beam”, Second International Conference on Advances in Materials Processing and Characterisation(AMPC2013), 6th -8th February, 2013, Anna University Chennai, India.
  • P. Kondaiah, K. Shankar and N Ganesan, “Studies on multilayer multiphase MEE/BaTiO3Beam under Thermal environment”, Fourth International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation (ICCMS 2012), 10th -12th December, 2012, IIT Hyderabad, India.
  • P. Kondaiah, Sathisha H M, Appu Kuttan K K and Ravikiran Kadoli,“Investigation on free vibration due to laminar flow of lubricant in a pipe” Frontiers In Mechanical Engineering (FIME 2010), 20th -22nd May, 2010, NIT Karnataka, Surathkal, India.
  • Narasimha Marakala,P. Kondaiah, Appu Kuttan K K and Ravikiran Kadoli, “Experimental studies on dynamic behavior of cantilever slender pipe conveying compressed air ” 54th Congress of Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics(ISTAM 2009), 18th -21st December, 2009, Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India.

    • Oct-2021 – Associate Professor at Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ecole Centrale School of Engineering, Mahindra University Hyderabad, India.
    • Mar-2014 to Oct-2021: Assistant Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering at MU Hyderabad, India
    • Sep-2013 to Mar-2014: Associate Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering at MREC Hyderabad, India
    • Aug-2011 to May-2013: Teaching Assistantin Department of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Madras, India
    • July-2009 to May-2010: Assistant Lecturer in Department of Mechanical Engineering at NIT Karnataka, Surathkal, India
    • May-2005 to Aug-2005: Design Intern at Thermal Systems Pvt. Ltd.
    • Introduction to Engineering Design (B. Tech 1 year) – Fall 2014, Spring 2017
    • Introduction to Computer Science(B. Tech 1 year) – Spring 2015, Spring 2016
    • Solid and Fluid Mechanics (B. Tech 2 year) – Fall 2015, Fall 2016
    • Introduction to Electrical Engineering (B. Tech 1 year) – Fall 2014, Fall 2015
    • Workshop Practice (B. Tech 1 year) – Spring 2019, Spring 2020
    • Engineering Drawing (B. Tech 1 year) – Fall 2019, Spring 2021
    • Computer Aided Engineering Design (B. Tech 2 year) – Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020
    • Machine Drawing (B. Tech 2 year) – Spring 2018
    • Mechanics (B. Tech 2 year) – Fall 2020, Fall 2021
    • Experimental Analysis (B. Tech 3 year) – Spring 2017
    • Finite Element Methods in Engineering (B. Tech 3 year) – Fall 2017
    • Design of Machine Elements (B. Tech 3 and 4 year) – Spring 2018, Fall 2020
    • Ph.D Supervision :
      Ongoing: 1
    • UG projects: 14
    • Interns: 1

    Multidisciplinary areas of interest which include:

    Smart Materials and Structures, Coupled Field (Multiphysics) Analysis, Optimization, Thermomagnetic Heat Management, Battery Thermal Management, Battery Pack Design, Phase Change Material, Structural Health Monitoring, Polymer Composites, Manufacturing Automation, Advanced Manufacturing, Application of Embedded Systems in Manufacturing, Sensors and transducers.

    Research projects:

    • Internal R&D Grant for project titled ‘Conversion of Low-Grade Waste Heat into Electricity’.
      Role: Principal Investigator, Total funding: ₹200000.00
      (Project dates: 01/01/19 – 31/07/21)
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