T. S. Indraneel

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SUMMARY

• Six years of research experience in Noise, Vibration and Harshness (NVH). Six months of Industry experience in Automotive NVH. Two years of industry experience in industrial maintenance.

• Experience in CAE, analytical and experimental tools in solving structural dynamics problems. EDUCATION

Ph. D. Candidate, Mechanical Engineering CGPA (3.87/4) University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH (Expected Graduation Apr 2021) Master of Technology, Product Design CGPA (7.92/10) IIT Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India July 2012

Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering CGPA (7.92/10) IIT Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India July 2012

SKILLS & TOOLS

• Data acquisition, modal testing, DSP, modal parameter estimation, analysis of rotating systems.

• CAE: FEA - static structural, modal analysis, harmonic analysis, transient structural, fluent; multi-body dynamics.

• TOOLS: LMS-Testlab, ANSYS, X-Modal Suite, MATLAB, Solidworks, MSC Adams, Foam-X. EXPERIENCE

NVH Engineering Intern, Mahindra Automotive North America, Auburn Hills, MI (Jan 2020-Jul 2020)

• Performed NVH benchmarking for three vehicles: on-road testing for measuring powertrain vibration & noise, wind & tire noise; powertrain modal analysis, acoustic modal analysis, P/Qs, start/stop vibration.

• Performed component level testing – impact testing and MPE of prop. shafts, effectiveness of dash sound package using impedance tube and molded sample, performance analysis of EGR tube brackets. Graduate Research, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH (Aug 2014-Present)

• Experience in using analytical techniques and FE techniques to estimate natural frequencies of bladed disks to compare two different formulations.

• Used spectral maps and speed estimation to perform order-tracking and mode-order interaction to analyze data from rotating equipment.

• Calibrated sensors; instrumented and obtained acceleration data from hammer and shaker testing of a rectangular plate and a circular plate.

Testing Engineer, Hyperloop UC, Cincinnati, OH (Mar 2016 - Mar 2017)

• Carried out structural dynamic model verification and validation for the pod space frame by comparing a free-free modal test and a torsional stiffness test.

• Developed a test rig to measure the braking and levitation forces of magnetic brake and magnetic levitation systems for the Hyperloop Pod.

• Used the test data to design brake and levitation mounts and further analyze the speed curve of the Hyperloop Pod using a multi body dynamics model.

Deputy Manager – Maintenance, Coromandel International Limited, Kakinada, India (Jul 2012 - Jun 2014)

• In charge of maintenance of the utilities section of a complex fertilizer plant and operations of a machine shop.

• Experience in techniques of condition monitoring and dynamic balancing of rotary equipment. TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Course Instructor, University of Cincinnati

• Taught ‘Experimental methods in Mechanical Engineering’ for senior students.

• Techniques covered included analyzing effectiveness of shock absorbers, accelerometer calibration, estimation of moment of inertia and analyzing control parameters of hydraulic circuits.

• Taught ‘Mechanical Design’ for junior students, including classroom and lab instruction in kinematics and kinetics of 4-bar mechanisms, cam design and FEA. Lab instruction included FEA and Multi body dynamics in Solidworks.

Teaching Assistant, University of Cincinnati

• Lab TA – Circuits and sensing, experimental methods in mechanical engineering, Numerical methods in mechanical engineering.

• Trained undergraduate students on data acquisition, setting up strain gauges, calibrating sensors, interfacing and analyzing data obtained from various digital and analog devices. RESEARCH

Doctoral Dissertation: Forced response using a traveling wave formulation

• Developed a traveling wave mode formulation to estimate the forced response of axisymmetric structures to rotating and stationary loads using modal superposition method.

• Extended the method to rotating axisymmetric structures and demonstrated the method on a thin circular ring. The method improves the understanding of vibrations of rotors.

• Studied rotor-stator interaction in simplified model to determine instability conditions and show how resonance speeds are affected by rotation speed and interaction stiffness using the method developed. Master’s Thesis – Optimal Design of an acoustic energy harvester

• Used numerical optimization techniques to increase the power output by an acoustic energy harvester.

• Impedance matching methods were used to optimize the design of an existing acoustic energy harvester. Energy output was increased 4 times.

RELEVANT GRADUATE COURSEWORK

FEM, Advanced FEM, DSP, Experimental Vibrations, Vibrations of continuous systems, Modal modeling and sub- structuring, Experimental analysis of rotating systems, Rotordynamics, Acoustics, Experimental analysis of non- linear systems

PUBLICATIONS

• Indraneel, T. S., Kim, Jay. “Traveling Wave Mode Based Modal Analysis Method Developed for Vibration Study of Circular Structures Such as Automotive Tires”, Internoise 2020.

• Jayakumar, Vignesh, T. S. Indraneel, Rohan Chawla, Sudeshna Mohanty, Shishir Shetty, Dhaval Shiyani, and Shaaban Abdallah. "Verification and Validation for a Finite Element Model of a Hyperloop Pod Space Frame." In Model Validation and Uncertainty Quantification, Volume 3, pp. 33-40. Springer, Cham, 2020.

• Indraneel, T. S., Vignesh Jayakumar, Abhishek Soni, Dhaval R. Shiyani, Kanishk Tyagi, and Shaaban Abdallah. "Levitation array testing for Hyperloop Pod Design." In AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum, p. 0787. 2019.

• Soni, Abhishek, T. S. Indraneel, Vignesh Jayakumar, Dhaval R. Shiyani, Pushkaraj Bhagwat, and Shaaban Abdallah. "Magnetic Brake testing for Hyperloop Pod Design." In AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum, p. 0786. 2019.

• T. S. Indraneel, A. Sarkar, S. Narayanan, “Optimal Design of an Acoustic Energy Harvester”, National Symposium of Acoustics, 2012, KSRIET, Tiruchengode, India, December 2012.

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