Engineer Engineering
Resume:
Vipul Ranatunga
Associate Professor
Miami University
Department of Engineering Technology
205K Thesken Hall
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EDUCATION:
Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.
Ph.D. in Integrated Engineering (Mechanical & Industrial Combined), November 2002.
Dissertation: Modeling of Profile Ring Rolling with Upper Bound Elemental Technique .
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, March 1999.
Thesis: Analytical Modeling of Axisymmetric Disk Forging .
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Associate Professor, Dept. of Engineering Tech., Miami University, Middletown, Ohio. August 2008-Present
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Engineering Tech., Miami University, Middletown, Ohio. August 2004-July 2008
Visiting Professor, Dept. of Engineering Tech., Miami University, Middletown, Ohio. August 2002-July 2004
Instructor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. January 2001-July 2002
Research Associate, Center for Adv. Mat. Processing, Ohio University. September 1996 July 2002
Staff Engineer, Austral Engineering and Software Inc., Dayton, Ohio. June Dec. 1999 & June Sep. 1998
Workshop Engineer, Engineering Workshop, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. June 1994 August 1996
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND RELATED ACTIVITIES:
Member of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Member of Society for Composite Materials
HONORS, AWARDS, AND PUBLICATIONS:
School of Engineering and Applied Science Outstanding Researcher award, March 2005.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Computational Solid Mechanics, Damage and Durability of Composites, Finite Element Analysis, Experimental Mechanics.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
1. Vipul Ranatunga, Brett Bednarcyk, Steven Arnold, Modeling Progressive Damage Using Local Displacement
Discontinuities Within the FEAMAC Multiscale Modeling Framework, NASA/TM-201*-******, October, 2010.
2. Vipul Ranatunga, David Klotzkin, Analysis of Thermal Residual Stresses During Field-Assisted Anodic Bonding of
Optical Fiber to Si V-groove for Optoelectronic Packaging, International Journal of Modeling & Simulation, Vol. 30,
Issue 3, 2010.
3. Don C. Abeysinghe, Vipul Ranatunga, Ajit Balagopal, David Klotzkin, Epoxyless Fiber-to-Submount Bonding for
Active Fiber Optoelectronic and Fiber Backplane Applications, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum
Electronics, Vol. 12, No. 5, October 2006.
4. Don C. Abeysinghe, Vipul Ranatunga, Ajit Balagopal, Haichuan Mu, Kuntao Ye, David Klotzkin, A Novel Technique
for High-Strength Direct Fiber-to-Si Submount Attachment Using Field-Assisted Anodic Bonding for Optoelectronics
Packaging, IEEE Photonic Technology Letters, Vol. 16, No. 9, pp. 2150-2152, September 2004.
5. Vipul Ranatunga, Stephen B. Clay, Testing and Analysis of the End-Notched Flexure Specimen for Composites under
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Mode-II Fracture, American Society for Composites 26 Annual Technical Conference, Montreal, Canada, September
26-28, 2011.
6. Vipul Ranatunga, Finite Element Modeling of Delamination Crack Propagation in Laminated Composites, World
Congress on Engineering organized by the International Association of Engineers, London, UK, 6-8 July, 2011.
7. Stephen B. Clay, Vipul Ranatunga, Experimental Characterization of Z-Pinned Composites for Numerical Modeling
with Cohesive Elements, ASME Applied Mechanics and Materials Conference, Chicago, IL, May 31-June 2, 2011.
8. Vipul Ranatunga, Stephen B. Clay, Experimental Observations and Numerical Simulations of Damage Growth in Z-
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Pinned Laminated Composite Structures, American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics 52 Structural
Dynamics Conference in Denver, April 3-7, 2011.
9. Vipul Ranatunga, Stephen B. Clay, Predicting Damage Growth in Z-Pinned Laminated Composite Structures,
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American Society for Composites 25 Annual Technical Conference, Dayton, OH, September 20-22, 2010.
10. Brian Hayes, Cynthia Braden, Ricardo Averbach, Vipul Ranatunga, Determination of Objective Architectural Acoustic
Quality of a Multipurpose Auditorium: Audience Perception, Society of Experimental Mechanics Annual Congress,
Indianapolis, June 7-9, 2010.
11. Cynthia Braden, Brian Hayes, Ricardo Averbach, Vipul Ranatunga, Identification and Enhancement of On-Stage
Acoustics in a Multipurpose Auditorium, Society of Experimental Mechanics Annual Congress, Indianapolis, June 7-9,
2010.
12. Vipul Ranatunga, Brett Bednarcyk, Steven Arnold, Modeling Progressive Damage in Composites via Multiscale
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Continuum Displacement Discontinuity Model, American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics 51 Structural
Dynamics Conference in Orlando, FL, April, 2010.
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