Contact Information

Status: Masters Student in Mechanical Engineering Office: Manufacturing Research Center (MaRC), Room 266                            Georgia Institute of Technology 813 Ferst Drive, NW Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0405 Phone: (404) 894-8170 (Lab)             (404) 731-5816 (Mobile) Fax:      (404) 894-9342 Email:   jiten@gatech.edu URL:     www.srl.gatech.edu/Members/jpatel

Research Interests

The information technology-enabled processing and methods have led to a new family of engineered materials and structures. The primary objective of my research is to develop a risk-based synthesis method to design mesostructures under consideration of uncertainty. Hopefully my research will provide a robust design of mesostructures which have superior structural or compliant performance, per weight, than parts with bulk material, or foams.  I am working on the integration of  traditional topology optimization methods with  statistical  sampling (Monte Carlo and Latin Hypercube Sampling) and data  mining  techniques for the conceptual design of reliable structures.

    These new optimization techniques will come under the broad field of stochastic programming or stochastic optimization methods.These methods will ensure robust designs, insensitive to given uncertainties, that will provide the designer with a guarantee of satisfaction with respect to the uncertainties in the objective function, performance constraints, and design variables. Performing probabilistic analysis prior to the early stage of fabrication is critical to reduce the cost, to improve the product quality, and to provide a better understanding of failure mechanism, and sensitivity to process variation

Publications

Conference Papers

• Patel,J. and Ananthasuresh, G.K.,”Kinematic theory of planer Hoberman and other foldable Mechanisms”- Conference proceedings of IDETC/CIE 2006 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Mechanisms and Robotics Conference September 10-13, 2006, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
  
• Patel, J. and Ananthasuresh, G. K., “Kinematics of Radially Foldable Mechanisms using Algebraic Loci,” Proceedings of the 3rd Aerospace and Related Mechanisms (ARMS 2005) Conference of INSARM (Indian Society of Aerospace and Related Mechanisms), Bangalore, India, Nov. 16-19, 2005. (Nominated for one of the three papers recognized for the best paper award).  

Journal Articles

• Patel,J. and Ananthasuresh, G.K., "A kinematic theory for radially foldable planar linkages", International Journal of Solids and Structures, Volume 44, Issues 18-19, September 2007, Pages 6279-6298

Patents

• Applied patent:A radially circumferentially actuated foldable single degree of freedom mechanism which can be used as a deployable structure and can be actuated by a single motor.
  
  

Class Reports

Master of Science Thesis

• Reliability Based Topology Optimization
  

Other Information

• Resume available upon request