Department of Mechanical Engineering

Areas of Interest:

CAD, CAE, Dynamics, Bio-Mechanics, Road safety, Impact and Blast Mechanism

Education

Past Experience

Professor, Mechanical Engineering, IIT Delhi, October 2006- Present
Honorary Researcher, Mechanical Engineering, University of Birmingham, UK, July 2007- April 2012.
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, IIT Delhi,January 2000 to October 2006.
Visiting Faculty, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Aug 1999 to December 1999.
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, IIT Delhi, May 1993 to January 2000.
Assistant Engineer, at the CAD unit of Tata Iron and Steel Co Ltd, Jamshedpur, from July 1985 to December 1990.

Selected Publications

P Gaur, A Chawla, K Verma, S Mukherjee, S Lalvani, R Malhotra, C Mayer, “Characterisation of human diaphragm at high strain rate loading” Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials 60, 603-616
A Chawla, S Singh, S Paruchuri, A Chhabra,” Contour Based Repositioning of Specific Joints of the GHBMC Human Body FE Model” SAE Technical Paper
H Sankarasubramanian, A Chawla, S Mukherjee, D Goehlich,”Optimisation study on multibody vehicle-front model for pedestrian safety” International journal of crashworthiness 21 (5), 407-422WA
Lakew, S Mukherjee, A Chawla,” Measurement of Abrasion Injuries in Crash-related Environments”, Biotribology 9, 12-17
K Singh, A Chawla, S Mukherjee, P Agrawal,”A Pilot Study at National Highway-8 for On-Site Crash Data Collection and In-Depth Investigation in India”SAE Technical Paper
A Chawla, S Mukherjee, , S Mukherjee,”Foldable transport container with horizontally slidable side walls and method for folding said container” US Patent 9,517,879

For more information, please go to http://web.iitd.ac.in/~achawla/

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