COMMAS - Personal Statementersonant

I have my beginnings from a small town in southern India where I have studied till grade 10. Right from grade 4, I have been at the top of my class with excellent command over sciences and languages. With my Determination to excel in my subjects, I have stood at 6th Position in my State of 100,000 students, who appeared for Grade 10 public Exams, 2001.

Since Childhood, I was excited to learn physical sciences and their applications into daily life. I exhibited a science experiment on Newton’s third law of motion in grade 6, which attracted attention of my school. All such experiments intrigued me to delve into the world of Physics. With my excellent academic records, I Cleared IITJEE, ranked among top 1 % of 400,000 applicants in India, for engineering in 2003, granting me admission into prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur.

Engineering studies have been an all-round development with Extra Curricular Social Activities. At Academics, I was particularly interested in Structural courses and common construction. With striking enthusiasm, I opted for many structural design electives, gaining a master’s degree in structural engineering, as an integrated course with a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, both granted in a five years duration.

At IIT Kharagpur, I was well exposed to theory and experimentation in structural analysis. I have done my bachelor’s degree Project in Finite Element Analysis of Fibre Reinforced Plastic (FRP) decks for culverts. Observing my interest in laboratory experimentation, my Project Advisor has expanded my project into master’s thesis in High velocity impact testing of FRP Wrapped Reinforced Concrete Beams. FRP beams showed a remarkable increase in local strength with layers of FRP Wrapped to Beams.

With a sparked interest into structures, I started my profession with TATA Group, India, into design and construction of twelve storied commercial RCC & Steel Building. Here I have gained significant exposure into practical implementation of structural design. I executed 40 storied buildings in Mumbai, India along with structural design review for these buildings, giving me a complete outlook of Design obstacles and implementation in the field. Further analyzing, the dynamic behavior of these structures and response spectrum analysis has kindled my interest into structural dynamics.

I performed design of structural steel connections; with the behavior I validated by Finite element analysis (FEA) and its results. This created zeal within me to understand further the nonlinearity and behavior of materials. Also, numerical simulation has always fascinated me as I am able to model almost anything and know the stress and capacity of both the material and the object to take the load.

Working as a structural Engineer, with Design Excellence, I took a great opportunity to design varied projects ranging from concrete High-Rise RC buildings to critical structural steel projects. I successfully designed challenging complexities in slender structures and high temperature steel structures with nonlinear behavior. But, Majority of the Commercial Design is done with first order linear analysis, although structural behavior is nonlinear beyond proportionality limit. Moreover, actual behavior cannot be captured from such linear and static analyses. Dynamic analysis is also simplified for buildings, with assumptions in response spectrum analysis.

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COMMAS - Personal Statementersonant

I strongly feel studying further is paramount to gather a deeper understanding into structural dynamics and nonlinear systems. I yearn for further education into this field of structures, with the aid of numerical simulation enabling me to simulate a realistic behavior of structures. Having a fair introduction to FEA through my bachelors and masters, I’m earnest to seek deeper insight into numerical modelling of structures and materials. My background in structural engineering serves a head start, with an added advantage of structural analysis experience I have amassed in these five years.

Germany has a great refinement into the research and study of structural mechanics and collaborated with various international institutions. I came to know of Stuttgart University from exhaustive research I did to seek my profound interests in numerical simulation of structures, dynamics and nonlinear analyses. I aspire to master these with the enriched curriculum COMMAS offers, in all these topics. I would like to work in this field and research, furthering the development of this field. COMMAS also helps sharing my knowledge and understanding on a global scale. Throughout my studies and career, I set my goals to perform the best and achieved them. I am very determined and believe that I can successfully accomplish what I’ve set my mind into.

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