404 North 3rd Street,

Harrison, 07029 NJ,

848-219-5520,
rt277@njit.edu.

Rajasekhar Tripuraneni
Education New Jersey Institute of Technology
PhD, Mechanical Engineering Advisor: Siva Nadimpalli Fall 2014-now

Indian Institute of Technology

Master’s in Machine Design Advisor: Chakraborty Fall 2007 – Spring 2009

Industry General Motors -Team Lead April 2013 - August 2014

Experience Led a team of 6 engineers working on steering and suspension components. Designed and
optimized chassis components for GM automobiles using finite element simulations. Developed a
unified tool in PYTHON for Pre and Post processing of suspension components to reduce project
time by 85%.

General Electric Aviation-Engineer May 2011 – April 2013

Redesigned multiple stages of high pressure compressor rotor disk to achieve weight saving targets
directly impacting PASSPORT 20 and LEAP-1B jet engine program goals. Developed design
optimization tools using APDL for ANSYS and TCL for HYPERMESH.

Hitachi Construction Machinery- Design Engineer August 2009 – May 2011

Design of construction equipment components for fatigue life and manufacturability.

Research NJIT Micro and Nano Mechanics Lab Leading the following Fall 2014- now
Experience PhD student projects
Characterizing Interlayer adhesion and Fracture of 3D printed materials
A Fracture mechanics based technique was proposed to characterize fracture resistance and
interlayer adhesion of Fused Deposition Modeled 3D printed materials. Experiments reveled that
processing parameters has huge impact on interlayer adhesion and it can be enhanced by
optimizing various parameters. Responsible for designing specimens, test set up and performing
testing and finite element simulation of 3D printed materials.
Degradation of anode materials for Lithium ion batteries
One of the major capacity fade mechanism in high energy density Li ion battery anode is high stress
induced mechanical failure. Understanding the failure mechanism is important to design innovative
and complex electrode architectures, also mechanical properties of anode materials evolve during
charging and discharging of battery and should be understood to accurately model batteries. Nano
scale thin film electrodes are prepared by DC/RF sputter deposition, e-beam. Micro scale
electrochemical interactions are measured by performed by a Potentiostat. Laser assisted multi
beam optical sensor used to measure stress and experiments were designed for characterizing
degradation of anode materials.
 Time dependent behavior of battery polymers
PVdF polymer used in current Li ion batteries is being approximated as elastic material for finite
element modeling of composite li ion battery. Our experiments showed that it is a time dependent
visco-plastic material. I developed a user defined material subroutine using MATLAB and FORTRAN
for finite element software ABAQUS to model PVdF as visco-plastic material which is more realistic
rather than elastic material assumption.

IIT Guwahati Master’s Thesis Fall 2007-Spring 2009

Dynamic Characteristics of Smart FGM Structures
Developed finite element code in FORTRAN to measure dynamic characteristics of smart
functionally graded materials. FGM material properties varies gradually with corresponding change
in volume fraction of combining materials which makes it difficult to implement in commercially
available standard finite element software. The finite element code can be used along with standard
FE software to model complex FGM structures.

Teaching Teaching Assistant for various Mechanical Engineering labs at NJIT including Mechanical Lab 1,
Experience Engineering materials and processes Lab and Mechanical Lab 3. Presented lectures on experiments
and guided students during experiments. Coached students to write reports professionally and
graded the reports.
Teaching assistant for Machine design course at IIT. Assisted students using CAD software like
UNIGRAPHICS, SOLID EDGE and AUTOCAD.

Awards and Honors 1st place Graduate Research Showcase NJIT-ME (2016)
Invited for a special and competitive mentoring session at ICTAM Montreal (2016).
Haythornthwaite foundation travel award (2015).
Society of Engineering Sciences Travel award (2015).
Six Sigma Green Belt certification (2014).
Work of Wonder Award General Motors Vehicle Engineering (2014).
Above and Beyond award from Product Engineering Center GE Aviation (2013).
Pat on the Back Award Product Engineering Center GE Aviation (2012).
Ministry of Human Resources scholarship for Master’s in Machine Design at IIT Guwahati (2007).

Publications R. Tripuraneni, N. Aliheidari, J. Christ, S. Nadimpalli, A. Ameli, “Optimizing Fused Deposition

Modeling 3D Printing Process for Fracture Resistance”. ANTEC (2017). (Submitted)

R. Tripuraneni, N. Aliheidari, J. Christ, S. Nadimpalli, A. Ameli, “The impact of nozzle and bed
temperatures on the fracture resistance of FDM printed materials”. SPIE Smart Structures and
Materials (2017) (Submitted)

N. Aliheidari, R. Tripuraneni, S. Nadimpalli, A. Ameli, “Fracture Resistance Measurement of Fused

Deposition Modeling 3D Printed Polymers”. Polymer Testing Journal(2017) (Submitted).
R. Tripuraneni, N. Aliheidari, J. Christ, S. Nadimpalli, A. Ameli, “Measuring Interlayer Fracture
Resistance of FDM Printed Thermoplastics”. ANTEC (2016).

R. Tripuraneni, A. Santimetaneedol, S. A. Chester, S. Nadimpalli. “Time-dependent deformation

behavior of polyvinylidene fluoride binder: Implications on the mechanics of composite
electrodes”. Journal of Power Sources (2016)

R. Tripuraneni, S. Nadimpalli, “Biaxial Modulus Evolution of Ge electrode for Li ion Battery”. ICTAM
(2016)

S. Rakshit., R. Tripuraneni, S. Nadimpalli. “Lithium ion diffusivity study in germanium (Ge) electrode
by galvanostatic intermittent titration technique (GITT) during electrochemical cycling”. Society of
Engineering Sciences (2016) (Abstract)

S. Nadimpalli, R. Tripuraneni, V. A. Sethuraman. "Real-time stress measurements in germanium

thin film electrodes during electrochemical lithiation/delithiation cycling". Journal of The
Electrochemical Society(2015)

S. Nadimpalli, S., R. Tripuraneni, (2015, November). “Stress Response of Germanium Electrodes

During Lithiation/Delithiation Cycling”. International Mechanical Engineering Congress and
Exposition, ASME (2015).