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IIITDM

Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design & Manufacturing
(IIITD&M) Kancheepuram, Chennai - 600 127
(An Institute of National Importance Fully Funded by Govt of India)
Faculty Profile

Dr Jayabal K

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

                           
U. G  :  B.E. in Mechanical Engineering, Government College of Technology, Coimbatore
P. G  :  M.E in CAD, Hindustan College of Engineering, University of Madras.
PhD  :  IIT Madras
 
Email   : jayabal@iiitdm.ac.in       Phone   : +91-44-27476362

Research Interests

  • Computational Mechanics
  • Finite Element Methods
  • Material Modelling
  • Engineering Design, Smart Materials

Awards

  • Fellowship from Technical University Dortmund, Germany, 2009

Employment

    Research
  • Senior Researcher-Post Doctoral Fellow at Technical University, Dortmund, Germany (Nov 2009 - Apr 2012)
  • Research Scholar at Technical University, Dortmund, Germany (Sep 2008 -March 2009)
    • Teaching
  • Associate Professor, C.I.T., Coimbatore (May 2012-June 2014)
  • Half time teaching and research assistant at IIT Madras (Aug 2005-Oct 2009)
  • Senior Lecturer at Srivenkateswara College of Engineering, Sriperumbudur, Chennai. (June 2000-July 2005)
  • Lecturer at Hindustan College of Engineering, Chennai. (Jan 1997-May 2000)
  • Engineer Trainee at Tamilnadu Transport Corporation Ltd. (Oct 1995-Sep 1996)

Book Chapter

    K. Jayabal and S. M. Sivakumar. Model for Piezoceramics (Chapter 40), Encyclopaedia of Structural Health Monitoring, 2009, John Wiley & Sons Inc. U.K.ISBN: 0470058226

Journals

  • K. Jayabal, A. Arockiarajan, and S. M. Sivakumar. A micromechanical model for polycrystal ferroelectrics with grain boundary effects. Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, 2008, 27 (2), 111-124.
  • K. Jayabal, A. Arockiarajan, and S. M. Sivakumar. Multiaxial behavior of ferroelectric single and polycrystals with pressure dependent boundary effects. Computational Materials Science, 2009, 44 (4), 1222-30.
  • K. Jayabal, D. Srikrishna T.S. Abhinandan, A. Arockiarajan, and S.M. Sivakumar. A thermodynamically consistent model with evolving domain structures in ferroelectrics. International Journal of Engineering Science, 2009, 47 (10), 1014-1024.
  • P. Pavankumar, K. Jayabal and A. Arockiarajan. A comparative study between finite element and polygonal finite element approaches for electromechanical coupled linear problems. Integrated Ferroelectrics, 2010, 120(1), 90-101.
  • K. Jayabal, A. Menzel, A. Arockiarajanand S. M. Srinivasan. Micromechanical modelling of switching phenomena in polycrystalline piezoceramics - Application of a polygonal finite element approach, Computational Mechanics, 2011, 48:421-435.
  • K. Jayabal and A. Menzel. On the application of the polygonal finite element method for two-dimensional mechanical and electromechanically coupled problems. Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, 2011, 73 (2), 183-207.
  • K. Jayabal and A. Menzel. Polygonal finite elements for three-dimensional Voronoi-cell-based discretisations. European Journal of Computational Mechanics, 2012, 21 (1-2), 92-102.
  • K. Jayabal and A. Menzel. Voronoi-based three-dimensional Polygonal finite elements for electromechanical problems. Computational Materials Science, 2012, 64, 66-70.

Conferences

  • K. Jayabal, A. Arockiarajan, S. M. Sivakumar and C. Sansour (2008). Studies on grain-boundary effects of ferroelectric polycrystals, Smart Devices: Modeling of Material Systems, January 10-12, 2008, IIT Madras, Chennai [AIP conference proceedings 1029: 221-235]
  • K. Jayabal, A. Arockiarajan, A. Menzel and S. M. Sivakumar (2008). Multi-axial behavior of ferroelectrics with two types of micro-macro mechanical models, IUTAM-MMSS 08, December 10-13, 2008, IISc Bangalore [IUTAM Book Series, volume 19, Springer Conference Proceedings, ISBN: 978-90-481-3770-1]
  • K. Jayabal, A. Menzel, A. Arockiarajan, and S.M. Sivakumar (2009). Micromechanically motivated finite element model for ferroelectric ceramics, 80th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, February 9-13, 2009, Gdansk, Poland [GAMM Proceedings of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 9(1):327-328, DOI: 10.1002/pamm.200910137]
  • K. Jayabal, A. Menzel, A. Arockiarajan, and S.M. Sivakumar (2010). A micromechanically motivated model for ferroelectrics combined with polygonal finite elements, 81st Annual Meeting of the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, March 22-26, 2010, Karlsruhe, Germany [GAMM Proceedings of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics 10(1):299-300, 2010.
  • K. Jayabal, A. Arockiarajan, S. M. Sivakumar, A micromechanical model for ferroelectric single crystals incorporating friction effects, International Conference on Theoretical, Applied, Computational and Experimental Mechanics, December 27-29, 2007, IIT Kharagpur
  • K. Jayabal, A. Menzel, A. Arockiarajan, and S.M. Sivakumar, On polygonal finite elements applied to the modelling of polycrystalline ferroelectrics, 1st International Conference on Material Modelling, September 15-17, 2009, Technical University Dortmund, Germany
  • K. Jayabal and A. Menzel,Micromechanical modelling of switching phenomena in polycrystalline ferroelectrics, GAMM 4thSeminaron Multiscale Material Modelling, July 9-10, 2010, Technical University Bochum, Germany
  • K. Jayabal and A. Menzel, Micromechanical modelling of switching phenomena in ferroelectrics, International Conference on Theoretical, Applied, Computational and Experimental Mechanics, December 27-29, 2010, IIT Kharagpur, India
  • S. M. Sivakumar, K. Jayabal and A. Arockiarajan, A review of constitutive models for ferroelectric materials, National Conference on smart Electro ceramics, IL03:13 March 8-9, 2007, Thrissur, India