Dr Shanmugam Kumar

Reader in Composites and Additive Manufacturing (Systems Power & Energy)

telephone: 0141 330 5529
email: Msv.Kumar@glasgow.ac.uk

309 Rankine Building, Oakfield Avenue, James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, G12 8LT

ORCID iD https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3386-8012

Biography

Kumar Shanmugam is Reader in Composites and Additive Manufacturing in the James Watt School of Engineering at the University of Glasgow. Prior to joining the University of Glasgow, Kumar held positions at Masdar Institute (Associate/Assistant Professor), MIT (Visiting Assistant Professor), UC Santa Barbara (Post-Doctoral Researcher) and DRDO (Scientist). He obtained a Ph.D. in Solid Mechanics and Materials Engineering from University of Oxford in the Department of Engineering Science. His research interests in mechanics, materials and additive manufacturing are reflected in his recent and ongoing research collaborations with MIT, University of Cambridge, Harvard Medical School, Pacific Northwest National Lab, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), University of New South Wales, Lockheed Martin, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), University of Texas Austin, Texas A&M University and Borouge. Kumar has generated more than £5M through external grants and has been awarded the ADEK award twice for research excellence. He also serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives and Scientific Reports. Kumar has edited a book, contributed 5 book chapters, and authored more than 75 journal articles. He is a Sr. Member of AIAA, and a member of ASME, APS, ACS, and the UK Society for Adhesion and Adhesives.

Research interests

My research interests revolve around mechanics and materials innovation & design with a focus on multiscale and multifunctional attributes, particularly in the context of additive manufacturing (AM) towards energy efficient and sustainable applications. Our current efforts focus on bioinspired and integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) approaches for the design of advanced multifunctional materials and composites. Our group’s strength in combining theory, computations and experiments has led to several novel contributions, for e.g., 3D printed compliance-tailored multilayers; architected materials; spatial material grading motifs in nacre. For more information, please visit Materials and Manufacturing Research Group.

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Publications

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Number of items: 45.

2021

Gupta, V., Alam, F., Verma, P., Kannan, A.M. and Kumar, S. (2021) Additive manufacturing enabled, microarchitected, hierarchically porous polylactic-acid/Lithium iron phosphate/carbon nanotube nanocomposite electrodes for high performance Li-Ion batteries. Journal of Power Sources, 494, 229625. (doi: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2021.229625)

Jefferson Andrew, J., Verma, P. and Kumar, S. (2021) Impact behavior of nanoengineered, 3D printed plate-lattices. Materials and Design, 202, 109516. (doi: 10.1016/j.matdes.2021.109516)

Verma, P., Bansala, T., Chauhan, S. S., Kumar, D., Deveci, S. and Kumar, S. (2021) Electromagnetic interference shielding performance of carbon nanostructure reinforced, 3D printed polymer composites. Journal of Materials Science, (Accepted for Publication)

J, J. A., Schneider, J., Ubaid, J., Velmurugan, R., Gupta, N.K. and Kumar, S. (2021) Energy absorption characteristics of additively manufactured plate-lattices under low- velocity impact loading. International Journal of Impact Engineering, 149, 103768. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijimpeng.2020.103768)

Kavitha, T. and Kumar, S. (2021) Multifunctionalities enabled by the synergistic effects of mesoporous carbon dots and ZnO nanorods. Materials Research Express, (doi: 10.1088/2053-1591/abe36f) (Early Online Publication)

Verma, P., Ubaid, J., Schiffer, A., Jain, A., Martínez-Pañeda, E. and Kumar, S. (2021) Essential work of fracture assessment of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) processed via fused filament fabrication additive manufacturing. International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, (doi: 10.1007/s00170-020-06580-4) (Early Online Publication)

Dixit, T., Nithiarasu, P. and Kumar, S. (2021) Numerical evaluation of additively manufactured lattice architectures for heat sink applications. International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 159, 106607. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2020.106607)

Verma, P., Schiffer, A. and Kumar, S. (2021) Thermo-resistive and thermo-piezoresistive sensitivity of carbon nanostructure engineered thermoplastic composites processed via additive manufacturing. Polymer Testing, 93, 106961. (doi: 10.1016/j.polymertesting.2020.106961)

2020

Alam, F., Varadarajan, K. M., Koo, J. H., Wardle, B. L. and Kumar, S. (2020) Additively manufactured polyetheretherketone (PEEK) with carbon nanostructure reinforcement for biomedical structural applications. Advanced Engineering Materials, 22(10), 2000483. (doi: 10.1002/adem.202000483)

Saab, R., Polychronopoulou, K., Zheng, L., Kumar, S. and Schiffer, A. (2020) Synthesis and performance evaluation of hydrocracking catalysts: a review. Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, 89, pp. 83-103. (doi: 10.1016/j.jiec.2020.06.022)

Gupta, V., Kannan, A.M. and Kumar, S. (2020) Graphene Foam (GF)/Manganese Oxide (MnO2) nanocomposites for high performance supercapacitors. Journal of Energy Storage, 30, 101575. (doi: 10.1016/j.est.2020.101575)

Ubaid, J., Wardle, B. L. and Kumar, S. (2020) Bioinspired compliance grading motif of mortar in nacreous materials. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 12(29), pp. 33256-33266. (doi: 10.1021/acsami.0c08181)

Schneider, J. and Kumar, S. (2020) Multiscale characterization and constitutive parameters identification of polyamide (PA12) processed via selective laser sintering. Polymer Testing, 86, 106357. (doi: 10.1016/j.polymertesting.2020.106357)

Budarapu, P.R., Thakur, S., Kumar, S. and Paggi, M. (2020) Micromechanics of engineered interphases in nacre-like composite structures. Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, (doi: 10.1080/15376494.2020.1733714) (Early Online Publication)

Arif, M.F., Alhashmi, H., Varadarajan, K.M., Koo, J. H., Hart, A.J. and Kumar, S. (2020) Multifunctional performance of carbon nanotubes and graphene nanoplatelets reinforced PEEK composites enabled via FFF additive manufacturing. Composites Part B: Engineering, 184, 107625. (doi: 10.1016/j.compositesb.2019.107625)

Alam, F., Shukla, V. R., Varadarajan, K.M. and Kumar, S. (2020) Microarchitected 3D printed polylactic acid (PLA) nanocomposite scaffolds for biomedical applications. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 103, 103576. (doi: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2019.103576) (PMID:32090905)

Upadhyaya, P., Kumar, S., Reddy, J. and Lacy Jr., T. E. (2020) Multiscale modeling of strength and failure behavior of carbon nanostructure reinforced epoxy composite adhesives in bonded systems. European Journal of Mechanics - A/Solids, 80, 103932. (doi: 10.1016/j.euromechsol.2019.103932)

Mora, A., Verma, P. and Kumar, S. (2020) Electrical conductivity of CNT/polymer composites: 3D printing, measurements and modeling. Composites Part B: Engineering, 183, 107600. (doi: 10.1016/j.compositesb.2019.107600)

Alam, F., Varadarajan, K.M. and Kumar, S. (2020) 3D printed polylactic acid nanocomposite scaffolds for tissue engineering applications. Polymer Testing, 81, 106203. (doi: 10.1016/j.polymertesting.2019.106203)

2019

Kumar, S. , Ubaid, J., Abishera, R., Schiffer, A. and Deshpande, V.S. (2019) Tunable energy absorption characteristics of architected honeycombs enabled via additive manufacturing. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 11(45), pp. 42549-42560. (doi: 10.1021/acsami.9b12880)

Ram, D., Suman, A., Bagui, A. S., Sharma, R., Gupta, V., Yoo, S., Kumar, S. and Singh, S. P. (2019) Effectiveness of Solvent Vapor Annealing over Thermal Annealing on the Photovoltaic Performance of Non-Fullerene Acceptor Based BHJ Solar Cells. Scientific Reports, 9, 8529. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-44232-0) (PMID:31189940) (PMCID:PMC6561915)

Alam, F., Kumar, S. and Varadarajan, K. M. (2019) Quantification of adhesion force of bacteria on the surface of biomaterials: techniques and assays. ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering, 5(5), pp. 2093-2110. (doi: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.9b00213)

Patole, S. P., Reddy, S. K., Schiffer, A., Askar, K., Prusty, G. and Kumar, S. (2019) Piezoresistive and mechanical characteristics of graphene foam nanocomposites. ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2(3), 1402–1411-1402–1411. (doi: 10.1021/acsanm.8b02306)

2018

Rajkumar, A. R. and Shanmugam, K. (2018) Additive manufacturing-enabled shape transformations via FFF 4D printing. Journal of Materials Research, 33(24), pp. 4362-4376. (doi: 10.1557/jmr.2018.397)

Dugbenoo, E., Arif, M. F., Wardle, B. L. and Kumar, S. (2018) Enhanced bonding via additive manufacturing-enabled surface tailoring of 3D printed continuous-fiber composites. Advanced Engineering Materials, 20(12), 1800691. (doi: 10.1002/adem.201800691)

Patole, S. P., Arif, M. F. and Kumar, S. (2018) Polyvinyl alcohol incorporated buckypaper composites for improved multifunctional performance. Composites Science and Technology, 168, pp. 429-436. (doi: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2018.10.010)

Kavitha, T. and Kumer, S. (2018) Turning date palm fronds into biocompatible mesoporous fluorescent carbon dots. Scientific Reports, 8, 16269. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-34349-z) (PMID:30257078) (PMCID:PMC6492006)

Reddy, S.K., Kumar, S., Varadarajan, K.M., Marpu, P.R., Gupta, T. K. and Choosri, M. (2018) Strain and damage-sensing performance of biocompatible smart CNT/UHMWPE nanocomposites. Materials Science and Engineering C: Materials for Biological Applications, 92, pp. 957-968. (doi: 10.1016/j.msec.2018.07.029)

Khan, M.A., Kumar, S. and Cantwell, W. J. (2018) Additively manufactured cylindrical systems with stiffness-tailored interface: Modeling and experiments. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 152-15, pp. 71-84. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2018.06.002)

Khan, M.A., Kumar, S. and Reddy, J.N. (2018) Material-tailored adhesively bonded multilayers: A theoretical analysis. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 148, pp. 246-262. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2018.08.017)

Arif, M. F., Kumar, S., Gupta, T. K. and Varadarajan, K. M. (2018) Strong linear-piezoresistive-response of carbon nanostructures reinforced hyperelastic polymer nanocomposites. Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, 113, pp. 141-149. (doi: 10.1016/j.compositesa.2018.07.021)

Ubaid, J., Wardle, B. L. and Kumar, S. (2018) Strength and performance enhancement of multilayers by spatial tailoring of adherend compliance and morphology via multimaterial jetting additive manufacturing. Scientific Reports, 8, 13592. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-31819-2) (PMID:30206331) (PMCID:PMC6134147)

Arif, M.F., Kumar, S., Varadarajan, K.M. and Cantwell, W.J. (2018) Performance of biocompatible PEEK processed by fused deposition additive manufacturing. Materials and Design, 146, pp. 249-259. (doi: 10.1016/j.matdes.2018.03.015)

Khan, M.A. and Kumar, S. (2018) Performance enhancement of tubular multilayers via compliance-tailoring: 3D printing, testing and modeling. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 140, pp. 93-108. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2018.02.038)

Kumar, S., Wardle, B. L., Arif, M. F. and Ubaid, J. (2018) Stress reduction of 3D printed compliance-tailored multilayers. Advanced Engineering Materials, 20(1), 1700883. (doi: 10.1002/adem.201700883)

2017

Kumar, S., Pal, G. and Shah, T. (2017) High performance overhead power lines with carbon nanostructures for transmission and distribution of electricity from renewable sources. Journal of Cleaner Production, 145, pp. 180-187. (doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.01.053)

Kumar, S., Wardle, B. L. and Arif, M. F. (2017) Strength and performance enhancement of bonded joints by spatial tailoring of adhesive compliance via 3D printing. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 9(1), pp. 884-891. (doi: 10.1021/acsami.6b13038)

2016

López Jiménez, F., Upadhyaya, P., Liljenhjerte, J., Reis, P.M. and Kumar, S. (2016) Soft optical composites for tunable transmittance. Extreme Mechanics Letters, 9(2), pp. 297-303. (doi: 10.1016/j.eml.2016.09.003)

López Jiménez, F., Kumar, S. and Reis, P. M. (2016) Soft color composites with tunable optical transmittance. Advanced Optical Materials, (doi: 10.1002/adom.201500617)

Cui, Y., Kundalwal, S.I. and Kumar, S. (2016) Gas barrier performance of graphene/polymer nanocomposites. Carbon, 98, pp. 313-333. (doi: 10.1016/j.carbon.2015.11.018)

Pal, G. and Kumar, S. (2016) Multiscale modeling of effective electrical conductivity of short carbon fiber-carbon nanotube-polymer matrix hybrid composites. Materials and Design, 89, pp. 129-136. (doi: 10.1016/j.matdes.2015.09.105)

Pal, G. and Kumar, S. (2016) Modeling of carbon nanotubes and carbon nanotube–polymer composites. Progress in Aerospace Sciences, (doi: 10.1016/j.paerosci.2015.12.001)

2015

Upadhyaya, P. and Kumar, S. (2015) Micromechanics of stress transfer through the interphase in fiber-reinforced composites. Mechanics of Materials, 89, pp. 190-201. (doi: 10.1016/j.mechmat.2015.06.012)

2013

Kumar, S. and Cocks, A.C.F. (2013) Computational modelling of constrained sintering in EB-PVD thermal barrier coatings. Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, 21, 065008. (doi: 10.1088/0965-0393/21/6/065008)

2012

Kumar, S. and Cocks, A.C.F. (2012) Sintering and mud cracking in EB-PVD thermal barrier coatings. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 60(4), pp. 723-749. (doi: 10.1016/j.jmps.2011.12.004)

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Jump to: Articles

Number of items: 45.

Articles

Jefferson Andrew, J., Verma, P. and Kumar, S. (2021) Impact behavior of nanoengineered, 3D printed plate-lattices. Materials and Design, 202, 109516. (doi: 10.1016/j.matdes.2021.109516)

Rajkumar, A. R. and Shanmugam, K. (2018) Additive manufacturing-enabled shape transformations via FFF 4D printing. Journal of Materials Research, 33(24), pp. 4362-4376. (doi: 10.1557/jmr.2018.397)

López Jiménez, F., Kumar, S. and Reis, P. M. (2016) Soft color composites with tunable optical transmittance. Advanced Optical Materials, (doi: 10.1002/adom.201500617)

Cui, Y., Kundalwal, S.I. and Kumar, S. (2016) Gas barrier performance of graphene/polymer nanocomposites. Carbon, 98, pp. 313-333. (doi: 10.1016/j.carbon.2015.11.018)

Pal, G. and Kumar, S. (2016) Modeling of carbon nanotubes and carbon nanotube–polymer composites. Progress in Aerospace Sciences, (doi: 10.1016/j.paerosci.2015.12.001)

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Grants

Transforming Material Architecture (April 2012-Dec 2015), Funding Source: MI-MIT Cooperative Program, USD 300,000, Grant No: 12MAMA1, Role: PI.
Carbon Nanostructures: From Characterization, Modeling to Product Design (Dec 2013-Dec 2015), Funding Source: Lockheed Martin, USA , USD 1000,000, Grant No: 13NZZA1, Role: Co-I.
Carbon Nanostructure-Polymer Composites for Electrical Power Transmission Lines (May 2014-March 2016), Funding Source: Lockheed Martin, USA, USD 200,000, Grant No: EX2014-000011, Role: PI.
Improved Barrier Performance of Polyolefins (Sep 2014-Dec 2015), Funding Source: Borouge Pet Ltd, USD 276,000, Grant No: EX2014-000027, Role: PI.
Sustainable High-Performance Coatings: An Integrated Approach (2014-2015), Funding Source: Award of Seed Funding, Masdar Institute, USD 280,797, Grant No: RS2014-000006, Role: PI.
Design and Development of High Performance Composites for Hydrocarbon and Water Transmission & Distribution Systems: An Integrated Approach (01 Feb 2016-31 Dec 2019), Funding Source: Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), USD 2.209340M, Grant No: EX2016-000010, Role: PI.
Nanocomposite Biomaterials for Orthopedic Implants (01 Jan 2016-31 Dec 2017), Funding Source: ADEK, Abu Dhabi.  USD 279,683, Grant No: EX2016-000006, Role: PI.
Development of nano-carbon-zeolite hybrid supports for novel hydro-processing catalysts (01 Jan 2018- 31 Dec 2019), Funding Source: ADEK, Abu Dhabi, USD 279528, Grant No: AARE-17/8434000100, Role: Co-I.
Additive Manufacturing of Multifunctional PEEK Composites for Biomedical Applications: Characterization & Modeling to Innovative Product Design: A Holistic Approach  (01 June 2018- 31 May 2021), Funding Source: CIRA , USD 750,000, Role: PI.
Bend-dominated mechanical metamaterials with high specific strength and stiffness enabled by additive manufacturing (Jan 2020-31 Dec 2022), Funding Source: ADEK, USD 272,000, Role: Co-I.

Supervision

PhD/Post-Doctoral Positions: Our group has open PhD positions in the broad area of additive manufacturing-enabled multifunctional materials with a specific focus on metamaterials, multifunctional composites, biomaterials and soft robotics. We combine theory, simulations and experiments. I encourage interested candidates to discuss their research plan with me. PhD application submittal information is available here: http://www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/scienceengineering/graduateschool/postgraduateresearchstudy/howtoapply/.

Postdoctoral Research Associates

Jabir Parakkal (UofG)
Andrew Jefferson (Khalifa University (KU), Masdar)
Vinay Gupta (KU)

PhD Students

Johannes Schneider (UofG), Role: Primary Supervisor
Kazaz, OGUZHAN (UofG), Role: Co-Supervisor
O.H. Saad (KU), Role: Co-Supervisor
M.U. Azam (KU), Role: Co-Supervisor

MSc Students

Nadine Anderson (UofG), Role: Primary Supervisor

PhD Students (Past)

M A Khan, Graduated-Fall 2017, Currently Assistant Professor at Mahindra Ecole Centrale, India.
Jabir Ubaid, Graduated-Fall 2019, Currently PDRA at UofG.
H Alhashmi, Graduated-Fall 2019

MS Students (Past)

S Tampi, Graduated May 2014
H Alhashmi, Graduated May 2014
A M de Tejada Alvarez, Graduated May 2015
F Bernabe, Graduated May 2015
J Liljenhjerte, Graduated May 2015
N M Oliva, Graduated May 2016
E Dugbenoo, Graduated Dec 2016
M Choosri, Graduated May 2017
A Younus, Graduated May 2018
Sara Almuhairi Spring 2020

Teaching

Current (Jan 2020-Present) at UofG:

UG: ENG3035 Design and Manufacture 3
PhD Level Course: ENG5318 Material Technologies

Past (Jan 2013-Dec 2019) at Masdar Institute:

Undergraduate Courses:

300 Level Courses: MEEG 344 Mechanics of Materials; MEEN 325 Mechanics of Solids
400 Level Courses: FDN 414 Advanced Calculus

Postgraduate Level Courses:

500 Level Courses: MEG 517 Continuum Mechanics; MEG 518 Advanced Mechanics of Solids & Materials; SSC 501 Spacecraft Systems and Design
600 Level Courses: MEG 624 Linear and Nonlinear Finite Element Methods, MEEN 610 Applied Finite Element Analysis; MEEN 606 Advanced Mechanics of Solids & Materials

Additional information

I am constantly looking for talented and passionate Ph.D. students and postdoctoral fellows to join our group. I encourage interested candidates to discuss their research plan with me. If you want to join my group as post-doc, please email me your latest CV with 2 most recent papers. For prospective PhD students, the detailed application process is available here: http://www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/scienceengineering/graduateschool/postgraduateresearchstudy/howtoapply/.

PhD Positions: Our group has open PhD positions in the broad area of additive manufacturing-enabled multifunctional materials with a specific focus on metamaterials, multifunctional composites, biomaterials and soft robotics.

Fellowship Opportunities :

I am keen on supporting strong candidates for various Fellowships. Information about some of the relevant fellowships, the application procedure and closing dates, can be found via following links:

Please contact me if you are interested in the Research Fellowships.

Room 309 Rankine Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8LT