MechanicalEngg » Dr. S. M. Kulkarni

Professor, Mechanical Engineering,

NITK Surathkal

Contact Details:
    Office             : (0824) 2474000 Extn. 3656

 Residence     : (0824) 2474656

E-mail:        smk[at]nitk.ac.in,  samakoo[at]yahoo.com

My Curriculum Vitae

Educational Background

 Awards and Achievements:

• Biography listed in “Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering 2006-07”
• Sir Vithal N. Chandavarkar Medal for best Ph. D thesis in Engineering Faculty,  Indian Institute of Science, 2002 

Areas of research interest:

•         Materials, Composite and Smart Materials, Rapid Manufacture
•         Product Design, Mechatronics, Sensors and Actuators,
•         MEMS – Simulation and Analysis
•         Design of Experiments for Mechanical Engineering Problems

Teaching experience

19 years

Courses taught:

•  Product Design & Rapid Prototyping
•  Mechatronics
•  MEMS
•  Hydraulics & Pneumatics
•  Composite Materials
•  Design of Machine Elements
•  Mechanisms

Research Publications:

    * 22 Journal Papers
    * 33 Conference Publications

Selected Publications (Recent):

1. Vrushank Buch, S. M. Kulkarni, “Electrostatic Potential Field and Fuzzy Logic approach for Obstacle Avoidance of a Self Guided Robot – A Comparative study” IURS Journal of Robotics and Intelligent Systems Research, September 2007
2. N.S. Mohan, S.M. Kulkarni and A. Ramachandra “Delamination Analysis in Drilling Process of Glass Fibre Reinforced Plastic [GFRP] Composite Materials” Journal of Materials Processing Technology 186/1-3, 2007, 265-271
3. N.S. Mohan, A. Ramachandra and S.M. Kulkarni “Influence of process parameters on cutting force and torque during drilling of glass fibre polyester reinforced composites” Compos. Struct. 71/3-4, 2005, 407-413
4.  S. M. Kulkarni and Kishore, Effects of Surface treatments and size of fly ash particles on the compressive properties of epoxy based particulate composites, J. Mater. Sci, 37, 2002, 4321-4326
5. S. M. Kulkarni, Anuradha D., Murthy C. R. L. and Kishore, Analysis of Filler- Fibre Interactions in Fly ash Filled Short Fibre-Epoxy Composites Using Ultrasonic NDE, Bull. Mater. Sci., 25/2, 2002, 137-140
6. N S Mohan, A Ramachandra, S M Kulkarni “Influence of Process Parameters on Cutting Force and Torque during Drilling of Glass-Fibre Polyester Reinforced Composites” Proceedings of Fifth International Conference on Composites Science and Technology, American University of Sharjah at Sharjah, Feb 2005, 305-310
7. Kishore and S. M. Kulkarni, Epoxy-Fly ash composites – A study on C-scan nondestructive image patterns, microscopy and strength as a function of filler content, 16th World conference on Non-destructive Testing, Aug 30 – Sept 3, 2004 Montreal, Canada
8. Kishore, S. M. Kulkarni, P. Barpanda, "Effects of particulate fly ash filler addition and sliding velocity on wear behavior of epoxy system" 11th European Conference on Composite Materials May 31 - June 3, 2004. Rhodes, Greece
9. Lijo Paul, S. M. Kulkarni, U. Sripathi, “Electromagnetic Shielding effectiveness of Plain Epoxy and Carbon-Epoxy particulate composites” Engineering Design.in 2007, 9-11 Aug 2007, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
10. Vrushank Buch, Rahulkumar S. Bhat and S. M. Kukarni, “Fuzzy logic base approach for obstacle avoidance of a self-guided robot”, Natl. Conf. on Recent Advances inDesign Engineering RADE-07, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal, 22-24, Feb 2007
11. Vrushank Buch, Manohar T. K., Kaushik S. V. N. And S. M. Kulkarni, “Fuzzy logic based algorithm for collision avoidance of a self-guided robot in an unknown environment” Natl. level technical symposium Indcon – 07, Anna University, Chennai, 1-3, Mar 2007 (This paper was awarded first prize) 

PhD Guidance:

    * NITK Deemed University
    * MAHE Deemed University