Varun Murugan

Designed and optimized fiber-reinforced composite structures accounting for weight limits, structural response, and manufacturability, and achieving up to 3× improvements in stiffness over reference designs.

− Developed FEA-driven optimal designs of plastic parts like beams, plates and brackets and ensured accurate and quick manufacturing and 4× structural performance improvement, − Developed advanced FE models capturing both local material behavior and global structural response to drive structural design − Ensured reduced lead time and quick arrival to best designs by coupling FE simulations and optimization

Fixed convergence problems in large-deformation simulations and improved FE model setup, resulting in more stable results and reduced computational time by 2.5 times.

Development of Software for choosing structural members of a building in Matlab - Prototype of software that suggests the optimal profiles for structural members of a building. - Artificial Neural Network (ANN) to choose appropriate cross-sections based on FEA. - The objective is to minimize the cost, CO2 production, and weight.

Use of Commerical software to perform Finite Element Simulations. Use of PolyJet and FDM printers to produce prototypes Projects: – Design validation of lattice-type wind masts using Ansys Multiphysics – Static and fatigue analysis of splined Shaft using Hypermesh and Ansys Workbench – Fabrication of the jigs that facilitate the drilling in the vertebral bodies of a patient in Polyjet 3D printers