Civil Engineering Mechanical Engineer

Resume

Rakesh Ranjan

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Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering September 2014 – July 2019 University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Aggregate Marks: 89.75 %

Master of Engineering in Civil Engineering August 2012 - June 2014 Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

CGPA: 6.5/8 (Class Rank- 3/11)

Bachelor of Technology in Civil Engineering August 2007- May 2011 Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, India CGPA: 8.38/10 (Class Rank-3/60)

Research Interests:

• Fracture Mechanics Analysis

• Fatigue Testing

• Finite Element Modelling

• Reliability Analysis

Journal Publications:

• Ranjan, R., de Oliveira Miranda, A. C., Guo, S. H., Walbridge, S., & Gerlich, A. (2019). Fatigue analysis of friction stir welded butt joints under bending and tension load. Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 206, 34-45.

• Guo, S., Shah, L., Ranjan, R., Walbridge, S., & Gerlich, A. (2019). Effect of quality control parameter variations on the fatigue performance of aluminum friction stir welded joints. International Journal of Fatigue, 118, 150-161.

• Ranjan, R., Ghahremani, K., Walbridge, S., & Ince, A. (2016). Testing and fracture mechanics analysis of strength effects on the fatigue behavior of HFMI-treated welds. Welding in the World, 60(5), 987-999.

Conference Papers:

• Ranjan, R., Walbridge, S. (2017). Crack shape effects on the fatigue behaviour of HFMI treated welds under variable amplitude loading conditions. International Conference on Shot Peening

(ICSP-13), Doc ID: 2017126, https://www.shotpeener.com/library/pdf/2017126.pdf

• Ghahremani, K., Ranjan, R., Walbridge, S., & Ince, A. (2015). Fatigue strength improvement of aluminum and high strength steel welded structures using high-frequency mechanical impact treatment. Procedia Engineering, 133, 465-476.

Teaching Experience as Teaching/ Course Assistant:

• Fall 2015, Fall 2017 & Fall 2018: CIVE 265 (Structure and Properties of Materials)

• Winter 2016: CIVE 331 (Advanced Mathematics for Civil Engineers)

• Spring 2016: ENVE 321 (Advanced Mathematics)

• Fall 2016: CIVE306 (Mechanics of Solids-3)

• Spring 2017, Spring 2018: CiVE 512 (Rehabilitation of Structures)

• Winter 2018: CIVE 332 (Civil Systems and Project Management) Research Experience:

Research work at University of Waterloo, Canada as Ph.D. Candidate

(September 2014 to July 2019) Supervisor: Prof. Scott Walbridge Project: ‘Probabilistic strain-based fracture mechanics analysis of welded joints’ Highlights: This research work resulted in a useful analytical tool for developing quality control guidelines and reliability-based design curves for new welding and post-weld treatment technologies, which is applicable for a broad range of materials, connection geometries, scales, and cyclic loading conditions, beyond what can be practically investigated in a purely experimental program. Research work at University of Brasilia, Brazil as Visiting Researcher

(02.01.2017 to 10.03.2017) Advisor: Prof. Antonio Miranda & Prof. Scott Walbridge Project: ‘Fatigue analysis of friction stir welded butt joints under bending and tension load’ Highlights: My objective for this research work was to study the effect of misalignment in friction stir welded butt joints under bending and tension load. With the fracture mechanics model, I proved that ignoring even a minor misalignment of the order of 0.5

may cause over-estimation of fatigue strength

for a properly welded specimen.

Research work at University of Edinburgh, Scotland UK as Sponsored Researcher

(20.03.2014 to 30.04.2014) Advisor: Prof. Asif Usmani & Prof. C S Manohar Project: ‘Making performance-based engineering for fire resistance attainable’, United Kingdom-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI), Joint project between the University of Edinburgh and Indian Institute of Science.

Highlights: My objective was to implement a performance-based structural engineering framework

(PEER approach) for structures subjected to fire loads. Masters Dissertation: ‘Reliability analysis of composite beams subjected to fire load’

(01.08.2012 to 30.06.2014) Supervisor: Prof. C S Manohar Highlights: I implemented a performance-based structural engineering framework (PEER approach) for a composite beam subjected to fire loads. This involved sequentially coupled thermal stress analysis and reliability computation. Stress analysis was performed in ABAQUS and reliability computations were performed in MATLAB.

Bachelors Dissertation: ‘Development of Computer-Aided Design application for the design of plain cement concrete pavement’ Supervisor: Dr. Varun Singh Highlights: This involved development of a window form application in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 using C# programming language for the design of pavement thickness, contraction joints, expansion joints, dowel bars, tie bars to automate the manual iterative process. Work Experience:

Indian Oil Corporation Limited, India June 2011–July 2012 Designation- Officer (Renewable Energy & Sustainable Development - Nuclear) Project-Rajasthan Atomic Power Project (Unit-7&8), India Responsibilities:

Supervision of civil construction work at the site, review of documents such as work procedures, quality assurance procedures, investigation and testing procedures & segmental methodologies. Review of pour-plan, construction drawings or sketches & simple formwork design. Academic Achievements/Scholarship availed:

• Graduate Research Studentship, (September 2014- present, $ 8000 value per term)

• International Doctoral Student Award, (September 2014- August 2018, $ 4000 value per term)

• David Johnston International Experience Award, (Jan 2017 -April 2017, $ 3000 value)

• Top-ranked student during masters Study (2014, Rank 3/ 11 structural engineers, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)

• Sponsored Researcher Fund (March 2014 - April 2014, funding through the UK India Education

& Research Initiative (UKIERI) for travel, accommodation and food expenses during the stay at University of Edinburgh, Scotland)

• Postgraduate scholarship for GATE qualified candidates (August 2012 - July 2014, 8,000 value per semester from Government of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development)

• Top rank in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (2011, All India Rank 31 out of 29347 civil engineers)

• Top-ranked student during bachelors study (2011, Rank 3/60 civil engineers, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Allahabad, India)

• Received 1

st

prize in ‘Connections’, an aluminum bridge fabrication competition in the national level technical festival (AVISHKAR -2008) held at NIT Allahabad ( 3,000 value)

• Awarded merit scholarship in 2007 from NIT Allahabad based on All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) (All India Rank 6311 out of 602000 candidates) Volunteer Experience:

• Peer Reviewer for Journal of Bridge Engineering (January 2017 – Present)

• Councilor (May 2018 – April 2019), Vice-President Internal (September 2015 – April 2017) and President (May 2017 – April 2018) for Civil and Environmental Engineering Graduate Association (CE

2

GA) at the University of Waterloo.

• Campus tour volunteer for undergraduate national and international student during orientation event, September 2016

• National level technical festival (Avishkar-2010) coordinator during undergraduate study at NIT Allahabad, India.

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