Dr. Loukham Shyamsunder

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest

• Finite Element Modeling
• Bio-inspired Materials
• Fiber-reinforced Laminated Composites
• Fracture Mechanics
• Experimental Material Characterization
• Impact
• Constitutive Model Development

Education

• Ph.D., Arizona State University, USA
• M.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
• B.Tech., National Institute of Technology Calicut, India

Latest Publications

• T. Hao, W. Huang, N. Guarín-Zapata, D. Lublin, Y. Chen, H. Yu, L. Shyamsunder, P. Zavattieri, and D. Kisailus, "Bioinspired SiC/Chitosan Impact Resistant Coatings," Advanced Functional Materials https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202417291, 2024.
• J. Skinner, N. Langley, M. Joseph, J. Herrick, R. Brown, B. Waletzki, P. Goguen, L. Shyamsunder, and S. Rajan, "Do bone elasticity and postmortem interval affect forensic fractographic analyses?," Journal of Forensic Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.15237, 2023.
• L. Shyamsunder, A. Maurya, S. Rajan, D. Cordasco, D. Revilock, and G. Blankenhorn, "Impact Simulation of Composite Panels for Aerospace Applications," Composites Part B: Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesb.2022.110320, 2022.
• B. Khaled, L. Shyamsunder, S. Rajan, S. Dong, A. Sheldon, T. Achstetter, and K. Carney, "Crush Simulations of Composite Energy Absorbing Structural Systems," Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesa.2022.107265, 2022.
• L. Shyamsunder, B. Khaled, S. Rajan, M. Pereira, P. DuBois, and G. Blankenhorn, "Numerical Validation of Impact Tests on Composite Panels," International Journal of Impact Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijimpeng.2021.104032, 2022.