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    Chaitali Ray

    Academic Qualifications


    BE(Civil) B E College Shibpur, 1989

    M Tech (Structural Engineering) REC(NIT)  Durgapur, 1992

    Ph.D (Structural Engineering) IIT Kgaragpur 1998

    Research Statement


    Structural Engineering

    Latest Publications


  • 1 Shubham Dutta, Subhra Paul and Chaitali Ray, Experimental and numerical study on free vibration analysis of composite laminated shell, ISAMPE National Conference on composites INCCOM-19, Pune, India, 30-31, January, 2025
  • 2 Chaitali Ray, Subhodeep Sarkar, Rony Kar, Dhiraj Biswas, Sujit Kumar Dalui and Saptarshi Kundu, Temperature induced characteristics of FRP bridge deck and a study on combined effect of thermal and vehicle loads, (In Press), Journal of Bridge Engineering (ASCE), 2025
  • 3 Animesh Kashyap, Subhra Paul and Chaitali Ray, Buckling Analysis of Hybrid Bio-composite plates based on Finite Element Analysis, 69th ISTAM Conference, CHRIST University, Bangalore, India, 19-21, December, 2024
  • 4 Rony Kar, Subhra Paul and Chaitali Ray, Free Vibration analysis of Hybrid Bio-composite laminates- Numerical simulation with experimental verification, 14th Structural Engineering Convention, NIT Tiruchirapalli, Tamilnadu, India, 12-14 December, 2024
  • 5 Chaitali Ray, Rony Kar, Dhiraj Biswas, Sujit Kumar Dalui & Saptarshi Kundu, Response Analysis of Hollow Core FRP Bridge Deck Panel with Steel Girder under Moving Load, Iranian Journal of Science and Technology, Transactions of Civil Engineering, 2024
  • 6 Dhiraj Biswas, Rudraprasad Bhattacharyya & Chaitali Ray, Stability and dynamic analyses of hybrid laminates using refined higher-order zigzag theory, 25 (6), 406-426, International Journal for Computational Methods in Engineering Science and Mechanics, 2024
  • 7 Arindam Das and Chaitali Ray, Dynamic Analysis of Stiffened and Unstiffened Lock Gate Considering Fluid–Structure Interaction, 103 (4), 1063-1072, Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series A, 2022
  • 8 Soumen Roy, Subham Patra, Sandipan Nath Thakur & Chaitali Ray, A Comparative Study on Free Vibration of Hybrid Laminated Composite Shells, Vol-I, 111-120, Recent Advances in Computational and Experimental Mechanics, 2022
  • 9 Soumen Roy, Sandipan Nath Thakur, C. Ajeesh and Chaitali Ray, Free Vibration Study of Laminated Composite Shell with Varying Cut-Outs, Vol II, 1-13, Recent Advances in Computational and Experimental Mechanics, 2022
  • 10 Soumen Roy, Sandipan Nath Thakur and Chaitali Ray, Investigation on free vibration behavior of laminated angle ply shell with numerical validation, 52 (3), 1351-1376, Thin-Walled Structures, 2022
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    Research Areas


    • Structural Engineering
    • Experimental Structural Dynamics
    • Failure analysis of laminated plates
    • Damage assessment of steel panels
    • Computational Mechanics
    • Experimental analysis of composite laminates
    • Finite element modelling of FRP bridges
    • Hygrothermal analysis of laminated plates
    • Fabrication and characterization of Special composites including Bio-Composites

    Publications


    1 Chaitali Ray, Subhodeep Sarkar, Rony Kar, Dhiraj Biswas, Sujit Kumar Dalui and Saptarshi Kundu, Temperature induced characteristics of FRP bridge deck and a study on combined effect of thermal and vehicle loads, (In Press), Journal of Bridge Engineering (ASCE), 2025
  • 2 Chaitali Ray, Rony Kar, Dhiraj Biswas, Sujit Kumar Dalui & Saptarshi Kundu, Response Analysis of Hollow Core FRP Bridge Deck Panel with Steel Girder under Moving Load, Iranian Journal of Science and Technology, Transactions of Civil Engineering, 2024
    • 3 Dhiraj Biswas, Rudraprasad Bhattacharyya & Chaitali Ray, Stability and dynamic analyses of hybrid laminates using refined higher-order zigzag theory, 25 (6), 406-426, International Journal for Computational Methods in Engineering Science and Mechanics, 2024 4 Arindam Das and Chaitali Ray, Dynamic Analysis of Stiffened and Unstiffened Lock Gate Considering Fluid–Structure Interaction, 103 (4), 1063-1072, Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series A, 2022 5 Soumen Roy, Sandipan Nath Thakur and Chaitali Ray, Investigation on free vibration behavior of laminated angle ply shell with numerical validation, 52 (3), 1351-1376, Thin-Walled Structures, 2022
  • 6 Sandipan Nath Thakur and Chaitali Ray, Transient dynamic response of doubly curved laminated composite shells under pulse loading, 160, 107342, Thin-Walled Structures, 2021
  • 7 Soumen Roy and Sandipan Nath Thakur and Chaitali Ray, Free vibration analysis of laminated composite hybrid and GFRP shells based on higher order zigzag theory with experimental validation, 88, 104261, European Journal of Mechanics - A/Solids, 2021
  • 8 Sandipan Nath Thakur and Chaitali Ray, Static and free vibration analyses of moderately thick hyperbolic paraboloidal cross ply laminated composite shell structure, 32, 876-888, Structures, 2021
  • 9 Soumen Roy, Sandipan Nath Thakur, Chaitali Ray, A Modified Higher Order Zigzag Theory for Response Analysis of Doubly Curved Cross-ply Laminated Composite Shells, in press, Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, 2021
  • 10 Sandipan Nath Thakur, Chaitali Ray, Static and Free Vibration Analyses of Moderately Thick Hyperbolic Paraboloidal Cross Ply Laminated Composite Shell Structure, Structures, Elsevier (accepted), 2021
  • 11 Roy, S., Thakur, S.N., and Ray, C, Free Vibration Analysis of Laminated Composite Hybrid and GFRP Shells Based on Higher Order Zigzag Theory with Experimental Validation, European Journal of Mechanics - A/Solids (Elsevier) (Accepted), 2021
  • 12 Thakur, S.N., and Ray, C, Transient dynamic response of doubly curved laminated composite shells under pulse loading, 160, Thin-Walled Structure (Elsevier), 2021
  • 13 Arpita Mandal, Chaitali Ray, Salil Halder, Free Vibration Analysis of Laminated Composite Plates and Shells Subjected to Concentrated Mass at the Centre, 49-57, Recent advances in theoretical, applied, computational and experimental mechanics, 2020
  • 14 Arpita Mandal, Chaitali Ray, Salil Halder, Experimental and Numerical free vibration analysis of laminated composite plates with arbitrary cut-outs, 101, 281-191, Institution of Engineers (India): Series C (Springer India), 2020
  • 15 Moumita Sit, Chaitali Ray, Free vibration characteristics of glass and bamboo epoxy laminates under hygrothermal effect: a comparative approach, 176, Composites Part B (Elsevier), 2019
    • 16 Dhiraj Biswas, Chaitali Ray, Effect of hybridisation in laminated composites on the first ply failure behaviour: Experimental and Numerical studies, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences (Elsevier), 2019
  • 17 Dhiraj Biswas, Chaitali Ray, An improved isoparametric quadratic element based on refined zigzag theory to compute interlaminar stresses of multilayered anisotropic plates, 119, 1245-1278, International Journal of Numerical Methods in Engineering (Elsevier), 2019
  • 18 Dhiraj Biswas, Chaitali Ray, Comparative study on transient response analysis of hybrid laminated composite plates with experimental verification, 453, 43-64, Journal of Sound and Vibration (Elsevier), 2019
  • 19 Moumita Sit, Chaitali Ray, A third order nonlinear model to study the dynamic behaviour of composite laminated structures under thermal effect with experimental verification, 212, 106-117, Composite Structures (Elsevier), 2019
  • 20 Arpita Mandal, Chaitali Ray, Salil Halder, Experimental and numerical studies on vibration characteristics of laminated composite skew shells with cut-out, 161, 228-240, Composites Part B (Elsevier), 2019
  • 21 Arpita Mandal, Chaitali Ray, Salil Halder, Experimental and numerical modal analysis of composite laminated shells with cut-out, 161, 1-12, International Journal of Maritime Engineering, RINA Transactions, 2019
  • 22 Moumita Sit, Chaitali Ray, Temperature Induced Nonlinear Effect on Free Vibration Characteristics of Fibre Reinforced Polymer Bridge Deck, 100, 147-155, Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series A (Springer India), 2019
  • 23 Sandipan Nath Thakur, Subrata Chakraborty, Chaitali Ray, Reliability analysis of laminated composite shells by response surface method based on higher-order shear deformation theory, 72, 203-216, Structural Engineering and Mechanics (Technopress), 2019
  • 24 Sandipan Nath Thakur, Chaitali Ray, Subrata Chakraborty, Response sensitivity analysis of laminated composite shells based on higher order shear deformation theory, 88, 1429-1459, Archive of Applied Mechanics (Springer), 2018
  • 25 Arpita Mandal, Salil Halder, Chaitali Ray, Dynamic analysis of laminated composite skew plates with cut-out, 68, 639-646, Structural Engineering and Mechanics (Technopress), 2018
  • 26 Arpita Mandal, Chaitali Ray, Salil Halder, Free vibration analysis of laminated composite skew plates with cut-out, 87, 1511-1523, Archive of Applied Mechanics (Springer), 2017
  • 27 Dhiraj Biswas, Chaitali Ray, Comparative perspective of various shear deformation theories with experimental verification for modal analysis of hybrid laminates, 23, 1321-1333, Journal Vibration and Control, 2017
  • 28 Sandipan Nath Thakur, Chaitali Ray, Subrata Chakraborty, A new efficient higher order shear deformation theory for doubly curved laminated composite shell, 228, 69-87, ACTA Mechanica (Springer), 2017
  • 29 Moumita Sit, Chaitali Ray, A simplified higher order shear deformation theory for hygrothermal analysis of bridge deck, 2 (no. 1), 41-59, International Journal of Automotive Composites, Inderscience Publishers, 2016
  • 30 Moumita Sit, Chaitali Ray, Dhiraj Biswas, Bibekananda Mandal, Stress distribution in the hollow stiffened hybrid laminated composite panels in ship structures under sinusoidal loading, 158, A102-A116, International Journal of Maritime Engineering, RINA Transactions, 2016
  • 31 Sandipan Nath Thakur, Chaitali Ray, The effect of thickness coordinate to radius ratio on free vibration of moderately thick and deep doubly curved cross-ply laminated shell, 86, 1119-1132, Archive of Applied Mechanics (Springer), 2016
  • 32 Chaitali Ray, Bibekananda Mandal, Linear and Non-linear Analysis of Fibre Reinforced Plastic Bridge Deck due to Vehicle Loads, 96, 109-121, Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series A, 2015
  • 33 Sandipan Nath Thakur, Chaitali Ray, An accurate C0 finite element model of moderately thick and deep laminated doubly curved shell considering cross sectional warping, 94, 384-393, Thin Walled Structures (Elsevier), 2015
  • 34 Chaitali Ray, Somnath Majumder, Failure analysis of composite plates under static and dynamic loading, 52, 137-147, Structural Engineering and Mechanics, 2014
  • 35 Moumita Sit, Chaitali Ray, Dhiraj Biswas, Thermal stress analysis of laminated composite plates using third order shear deformation theory, 149-156, Advances in Structural Engineering (Springer), presented in SEC, IIT Delhi, 2014
  • 36 Dhiraj Biswas, Chaitali Ray, Experimental and numerical modal analysis of laminated composite plates with GFRP, 55-66, Advances in Civil Engineering (Springer), presented in SEC, Delhi, 2014
  • 37 Bibekananda Mandal, Chaitali Ray, Bending of FRP bridge deck under the combined effect of thermal and vehicle load, 2493-2503, Advances in Structural Engineering (Springer), presented in SEC, IIT Delhi, 2014
  • 38 Chaitali Ray and Mithu Dey, Failure analysis of laminated composite plates under linearly varying temperature, 28, 99-107, Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites, 2009
  • 39 Chaitali Ray, Comments to the paper “A new approach for the large deflection finite element analysis of isotropic and composite plates with arbitrary oriented stiffeners" by Roberto Ojeda, B. Gangadhara Prusty, Norman Lawrence and Giles Thomas, 44, 872-873, Finite element in analysis and design, 2008
  • 40 Garai J, Ray C, Initial failure analysis of laminated composite plates under humid condition, 24, 1203-1212, Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites, 2005
  • 41 Ray C, An investigation on the effect of fibre weight fraction on buckling of laminated composite plates, 23, 951-957, Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites, 2004
  • 42 Prusty B G, Ray C, Satsangi S K, Free vibration analysis of composite hat stiffened panels by finite element method, 23, 533-547, Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites, 2004
  • 43 Pal P, Ray C, Progressive failure analysis of laminated composite plates by finite element method, 21, 1505-1513, Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites, 2002
  • 44 Prusty B G, Ray C, Satsangi S K, First ply failure analysis of laminated panels under transverse loading, 20, 671-684, Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites, 2001
  • 45 Prusty B G, Ray C, Satsangi S K, First ply failure analysis of stiffened panels- a finite element approach, 51, 73-81, Composite Structures, 2001
  • 46 Ray C, Satsangi S K, Laminated stiffened plates – a first ply failure analysis, 18, 1061-1076, Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites, 1999
  • 47 Ray C, Satsangi S K, Geometric nonlinear analysis of composite hat stiffened plates, 17, 1264-1280, Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites, 1998
  • 48 Satsangi S K and Ray C, Structural analysis of ships’ stiffened panels in bending, 45, 181-195, International Shipbuilding Progress, 1998
  • 49 Ray C, Satsangi S K, Finite element analysis of laminated hat stiffened plates, 15, 1174-1193, Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites, 1996
  • 1 Shubham Dutta, Subhra Paul and Chaitali Ray, Experimental and numerical study on free vibration analysis of composite laminated shell, ISAMPE National Conference on composites INCCOM-19, Pune, India, 30-31, January, 2025
  • 2 Animesh Kashyap, Subhra Paul and Chaitali Ray, Buckling Analysis of Hybrid Bio-composite plates based on Finite Element Analysis, 69th ISTAM Conference, CHRIST University, Bangalore, India, 19-21, December, 2024
  • 3 Rony Kar, Subhra Paul and Chaitali Ray, Free Vibration analysis of Hybrid Bio-composite laminates- Numerical simulation with experimental verification, 14th Structural Engineering Convention, NIT Tiruchirapalli, Tamilnadu, India, 12-14 December, 2024
    • 4 Soumen Roy, Subham Patra, Sandipan Nath Thakur & Chaitali Ray, A Comparative Study on Free Vibration of Hybrid Laminated Composite Shells, Vol-I, 111-120, Recent Advances in Computational and Experimental Mechanics, 2022 5 Soumen Roy, Sandipan Nath Thakur, C. Ajeesh and Chaitali Ray, Free Vibration Study of Laminated Composite Shell with Varying Cut-Outs, Vol II, 1-13, Recent Advances in Computational and Experimental Mechanics, 2022
  • 6 Soumen Roy, Sandipan Nath Thakur, Ajeesh and Chaitali Ray, Free vibration study of laminated composite shell with varying cut-outs, 1st Online International Conference on Recent Advances in Computational and Experimental Mechanics , September 4-6, 2020, IIT Kharagpur, 2020
  • 7 Soumen Roy, Sandipan Nath Thakur, Subham Patra and Chaitali Ray, A comparative study on free vibration of hybrid laminated composite shells, 1st Online International Conference on Recent Advances in Computational and Experimental Mechanics , September 4-6, 2020, IIT Kharagpur, 2020
  • 8 Ajeesh C, Soumen Roy, Sandipan Nath Thakur, Chaitali Ray, Experimental and numerical free vibration analysis of laminated composite shells, 64th ISTAM Congress (An International Meet), 2019
  • 9 Soumen Roy, Subham Patra, Sandipan Nath Thakur, Chaitali Ray, A comparative study on free vibration of hybrid laminated composite shells, 64th ISTAM Congress, 2019
  • 10 Soumen Roy, Subham Patra, Sandipan Nath Thakur, Chaitali Ray, A comparative study on free vibration of hybrid laminated composite shells, 64th ISTAM Congress, 2019
  • 11 Subham Patra, Moumita Sit, Chaitali Ray, Effect of fibre orientation on the free vibration characteristics of laminated composite plates, 64th ISTAM Congress, Bhubaneswar, 2019
  • 12 Moumita Sit,Manish Singh, Chaitali Ray, Transient response analysis of fibre reinforced polymer bridge deck panel under vehicle load, SEC Jadavpur University, 2018
  • 13 Dhiraj Biswas, Moumita Sit, Chaitali Ray, Transient response analysis of laminated composite plates using third order shear deformation theory, SEC Jadavpur University, 2018
  • 14 Arpita Mandal, Chaitali Ray, Salil Halder, Free vibration analysis of laminated composite skew shells, SEC Jadavpur University, 2018
  • 15 Moumita Sit, Chaitali Ray, Combined effect of vehicle and thermal load on FRP bridge deck, 8thInternational Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction Management, Kandy Srilanka, 2017
  • 16 Dhiraj Biswas, Chaitali Ray, A modified higher order zigzag theory for stress analysis of composite laminates, 7th ICTACEM, IIT Kharagpur, 2017
  • 17 Moumita Sit, Chaitali Ray, Comparative study of biocomposite and synthetic FRP composite with experimental verification, 7th ICTACEM, IIT Kharagpur, 2017
  • 18 Arpita Mandal, Chaitali Ray, Salil Halder, Free vibration analysis of laminated composite plates and shells subjected to concentrated mass at the centre, 7th ICTACEM, IIT Kharagpur, 2017
  • 19 Moumita Sit, Chaitali Ray, Hygrothermal free vibration analysis of FRP bridge deck using higher order shear deformation theory, SEC, CSIR, Chennai, 2016
  • 20 Dhiraj Biswas, Moumita Sit, Chaitali Ray, Experimental verification of free vibration analysis of laminated stiffened plate considering HSDT and FSDT, SEC, CSIR, Chennai, 2016
  • 21 Sandipan Nath Thakur, Chaitali Ray, Subrata Chakraborty, A finite element model based sensitivity analysis of deep and moderately thick cross ply laminated shell structure, SEC, CSIR, Chennai, 2016
  • 22 Chaitali Ray, Laminated Composites as Building Materials in Indian Scenario, Institute of Engineers Convention, 2016
  • 23 Moumita Sit, Chaitali Ray, Bending behaviour of FRP bridge deck under vehicle load using Higher order shear deformation theory, ICTACEM, IIT Kharagpur, 2014
  • 24 Dhiraj Biswas, Chaitali Ray, Free vibration analysis of GFRP laminates by experimental and numerical investigations, ICTACEM, IIT Kharagpur, 2014
  • 25 Sourav Mondal, Chaitali Ray, Experimental validation of finite element modal analysis of steel plates, 59th ISTAM Congress, Bangalore, 2014
  • 26 Moumita Sit, Chaitali Ray, Bibekananda Mandal, Hygrothermal analysis of FRP Bridge deck, 58th ISTAM Conference, IIEST Shibpur, 2013
  • 27 Dhiraj Biswas and Chaitali Ray, Free vibration analysis of beams and plates- numerical and experimental investigations, 38th ISTAM Conference, 2013
  • 28 C Ray and S Majumder, Time history analysis of failure index of laminated composite plates under pulse loading, PROTECT, Mysore, 2013
  • 29 Somnath Majumder, Chaitali Ray, Time history analysis of laminated composite plates under triangular pulse loads, ICRACM, Goa, 2013
  • 30 Bibekananda Mandal, Chaitali Ray, Thermal and mechanical bending analysis of laminated FRP bridge deck, ICRACM, Goa, 2013
  • 31 Bibekananda Mandal, Chaitali Ray, Bibekananda Mandal and Chaitali Ray, Shear buckling capacity of laminated stiffened plates with diverse stiffener configurations, 57th ISTAM Congress, 2012
  • 32 S Majumder, B Mandal, S. Dey, C Ray, Static and free vibration analysis of laminated orthotropic plates using FEM and B3 spline finite strip method, 57th ISTAM Congress, Pune, 2012
  • 33 Nilanjana Sen and Chaitali Ray, Thermal buckling safety assessment of laminated plates with optimum fibre weight fraction., ISEUSAM, B E College DU, 2012
  • 34 Chaitali Ray and Somnath Majumder, Dynamic analysis of stiffened laminated plates with various stiffener configuration., 55th ISTAM Congress, Hamirpur, 2010
  • 35 Chaitali Ray and Gautam Debnath, Thermal analysis of hybrid composite laminated plates of arbitrary shapes by finite element method, 53rd ISTAM Congress, Hyderabad, 2008
  • 36 Chaitali Ray and Mithu Dey, Effect of fibre volume fraction on first ply failure load of composite laminates under combined temperature and pressure, 52nd ISTAM Congress, 2007
  • 37 Ray Chaitali, Hygrothermal effect on free vibration of laminated composite plates by finite element method, SHOT, IIT Kharagpur, 2002
  • 38 Prusty B G, Ray C, Satsangi S K, Analysis of composite stiffened panels for ship structures, SEC Mumbai, 2000
  • 39 Ray Chaitali, Buckling analysis of laminated box stiffened structures under axial and shear loads, SHOT, IIT Kharagpur, 1997
  • 40 Ray C, Satsangi S K, Application of 3D beam element for longitudinal strength analysis of ships, 39th ISTAM Conference, 1994
  • 41 Chaitali Ray, Finite element static analysis of laminated stiffened plates, 39th ISTAM Conference, 1994
  • 1 TR Chandrupatla, AD Belegundu, T Ramesh, C Ray, Introduction to Finite elements in Engineering, International edition, Pearson Publishing Co., 2012

    • Patents


    # Patents Year

    Member


    Fellow, Institute of Engineers (India)

    Responsibilities


    Head, Civil Engineering Department
    July 2023 -till date
    Head, School of Ecology, Infrastructure and Human Settlement management
    July 2023 -till date
    Chairperson, DUGC, Civil Engineering Department
    July 2023 - till date
    Warden, Pandya Hall
    2006-till date

    Projects


    • Analysis of Bridge with Hollow Core Stiffened FRP Deck Under Dynamic Loading Considering Fluid-structure and Soil-structure Interaction, Sponsored
      Ongoing
    • Hygrothermal analysis of laminated composite plates based on the first ply failure, Sponsored
      Completed
    • Stability and vibration analyses of composite hat stiffened plates (macro and micro mechanical behaviour), Sponsored
      Completed
    • Hygrothermal analysis of laminated composite stiffened plates, Sponsored
      Completed
    • Geometric nonlinear thermo-mechanical analysis of FRP bridge deck, Sponsored
      Completed
    • Static and dynamic failure analysis of hybrid laminated composite stiffened plates for marine structures, Sponsored
      Completed

    Awards


    • President of India Prize for the best paper entitled “FINITE ELEMENT STATIC ANALYSIS OF LAMINATED STIFFENED PLATES” presented in the 39th Congress of Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ISTAM) in December 1994, held at Andhra University, , Year: 1994
    • Young Scientist Award from DST, India under Fast Track Project Scheme, Year: 2003
    • E P Nicholaides' best paper award from Institute of Engineers (India), Year: 2016

    Research Groups


    Dhiraj Biswas
    Ph. D
    dhiraj.biswas@gmail.com

    Soumen Roy
    Ph. D.
    soumen.mroy.ce35@gmail.com

    Sandipan Nath Thakur
    Ph. D.
    thakur.sandipan@gmail.com

    Arpita Mandal
    Ph. D.
    mandal.arpita6@gmail.com

    Moumita Sit
    Ph. D.
    moumita.sit11@gmail.com

    Citations


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