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Dr Shirsendu Sikdar

Dr Shirsendu Sikdar

Research Associate

Email
sikdars@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 7404906780
Campuses
W/1.30, Queen's Buildings, 5 The Parade, Newport Road, Cardiff, CF24 3AA

Overview

I am an EPSRC Research Associate in mechanical engineering, working with the Applied and Computational Mechanics research group. I work with industrial partners and academic collaborators on the topics of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cyber-physical Systems, Computer Vision, Internet-of-things (IoT), Structural Health Monitoring, Ultrasonic Waves and Acoustic Emission. There are research positions and PhD studentships that are available in our research group. I have over 40 publications in international journals, conference proceedings, book chapters, book and thesis.

My primary research interests are as follows -

  • Structural Health Monitoring is a significant area of interest, especially for aerospace applications where AI-based intelligent monitoring systems for structures integrated within an IoT framework would help in the development and fail-safe operation of the next smart structures.
  • Computational modelling and digital twin is receiving increasing attention in high-tech applications because it enables simulation of a products’ operation in a virtual environment in a parametrized space that captures both design features and operational conditions. This requires advanced computational modelling techniques including reduced-order modelling to have a sleek, interactive model in real-time.

Areas of expertise

  • Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) & Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE)
  • Reduced-order Computational Modelling
  • Smart Sensing Systems
  • Nonlinear Ultrasonics
  • Robust Optimization
  • Acoustic Emission
  • Machine Learning
  • Smart Structures

Biography

Educational qualifications:

  • PhD, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Mumbai, India, 2017.
  • M. Tech., IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India, 2011.
  • B.E., Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, Construction Engineering, 2009.

Honours and awards

  • Best paper award
    • Conference: 9th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, 10-13 July 2018.
    • Location: Manchester, UK.
  • Award of Excellence for Best PhD Thesis: 2015-2016, IIT Bombay, India.
  • Best PRELUDIUM 12 Proposal in 2017, NCN Poland.
  • Winner of FWO Marie Curie Fellowship (2018), FWO Belgium.
  • Best Researcher of IMP PAN in 2019 for securing the highest points amongst other researchers at IMP PAN.
  • Winner of OPUS 15 grant (2018), NCN Poland.

Professional memberships

  • Guest Editor of Signals: Organising a Special Issue, "Advances in Signal Processing for SHM and  NDT".
  • Member of (i) International Association of Advanced Materials, (ii) Reviewer Board of MDPI (JCS).
  • Special Session Organizer ‘Nonlinear Elastic Waves in Composites’ at the ICCS24,  14 - 18 June 2021, University of Porto, Portugal.

Academic positions

  • 2021 - present: Research Associate, Cardiff University, UK.
  • 2019 - 2021: FWO Mariecurie Fellowship, Ghent University, Belgium.
  • 2016 - 2019: Postdoc, Research Associate, Polish Academy of Sciences: IMP PAN, Poland.
  • 2012-2016: PhD Scholar & Teaching Assistant, IIT Bombay, India
  • 2011-2012: Assistant Professor, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, India

Speaking engagements

Keynote:

·         SESSION Keynote Lecture on ‘Physical and Thermal Properties of Treated Sugar Palm /Glass Fiber-Reinforced Thermoplastic Polyurethane Hybrid Composites’ at the 4th International Conference on Mechanics of Composites (MECHOMP 2019), July 9 - 12, 2018, Madrid, Spain

Talks Delivered in key conferences:

  • Guided Wave Propagation based Analysis of Non-linear Debonding Effects in a Composite Structure. The 12th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (IWSHM 2019). September 10-12, 2019, Stanford University, California, USA.
  • Analysis of Non-linear Disbond Effects on Guided Wave Propagation in a Stiffened Composite Structure. International Congress on Ultrasonics,  September 3-6, 2019, Bruges, Belgium.
  • A Robust Health Monitoring Framework for Rapid Inspection of a Honeycomb Sandwich Composite Panel with Stiff Core-inserts. 4th International Conference on Mechanics of Composites, July 9 - 12, 2018, Madrid, Spain.
  • Acoustic Emission Source Localization in Advanced Composite Structures. EURONOISE 2018, May 27 - 31, 2018, Heraklion, Greece.
  • Acoustic emission based debonding detection in a honeycomb composite sandwich structure. 20th International Conference on Composite Structures, 4 - 7 September 2017, Paris, France.
  • Assessment of barely visible impact damage in a 3D core sandwich composite structure. IPM 2017, 31 May-02 June 2017, Rzeszow-Krasiczyn, Poland.

·       Wave Propagation in a Honeycomb Composite Sandwich Structure in the Presence of High-Density Core Using Bonded PZT-Sensors. 10th International Conference on Vibration Engineering & Technology of Machinery, September 9-11, 2014. University of Manchester, UK.

Committees and reviewing

Provides reviewer service for

  • Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Elsevier
  • Smart Materials and Structures, IOPscience
  • Composite Structures, Elsevier
  • NDT&E, Elsevier
  • Engineering Failure Analysis, Elsevier
  • Ultrasonics, Elsevier
  • Structural Health Monitoring, SAGE
  • Journal of the Royal Society Interface, The Royal Society
  • IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics, IEEE
  • Journal of Intelligent Materials Systems and Structures, SAGE
  • Journal of Sandwich Structures and Materials, SAGE
  • Materials Research Express, IOPscience
  • Reviewer for Research Grant Applications for NCN Poland.

Projects

  • Project (as Individual Fellow): Development of SHM Frameworks for Advanced Composite Structures under Hazardous Environmental Conditions (FWO.3E0.2019.0102.01, funded by FWO (Research Foundation-Flanders, Belgium, Grant amount: £160.00k))
  • Project (as PI): Probabilistic Active Health Monitoring of Advanced Composite Structures (2018/29/B/ST8/02904, funded by NCN Poland, Grant Amount: £190.00k)

  • Project (as PI): Study of Disbond Effects in Honeycomb Sandwich Composite Materials Subjected to Environmental impacts (UMO-2016/23/N/ST8/01326, funded by NCN Poland, Grant Amount: £20.00k)

Publications

The listed publications reflect my supervision of PhD Students (marked with ‘*’) and collaboration (marked with ‘+’) success.

Peer-reviewed journal publications (selected list):

  1. Sikdar, S., Liu, D.+ and Kundu, A.+, 2022. ‘Acoustic Emission Data Based Deep Learning Approach for Classification and Detection of Damage-sources in a Composite Panel’, Composites Part B: Engineering, 228, 109450. Impact Factor (IF): 9.078. SJR: Q1
  2. Pal, J.+, Sikdar, S. and Banerjee S.+, 2022. ‘A Deep-Learning Framework for Health Monitoring of a Steel Frame Structure with Bolted Connections’, Structural Control and Health Monitoring, 29, e2873. IF: 4.819. Q1
  3. Sikdar, S. and Pal, J.+, 2021. ‘Bag of Visual Words based Machine Learning Framework for Disbond Characterisation in Composite Sandwich Structures using Guided Waves’, Smart Materials and Structures, 30: p. 075016. IF: 3.613. Q1
  4. Singh SK*, Sikdar S, and Malinowski, P.H.+, 2021. ‘An Optimized Data Fusion Strategy for Structural Damage Assessment using Electromechanical Impedance’, Smart Materials and Structures, 30(3), p.035012. IF: 3.613. Q1
  5. Sikdar S, Singh SK*, Malinowski, P.H.+ and Ostachowicz, W. +, 2021. ‘Electromechanical Impedance based Debond Localisation in a Composite Sandwich Structure’, Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, 1045389X211057225. IF: 2.569. Q1
  6. Sikdar, S., Paepegem, W.V., Ostachowicz, W. +, Kersemans, M., 2020. ‘Nonlinear Debond Response Analysis in a Smart Composite Structure using Elastic Wave Propagation’, Composites Part B: Engineering, 200, p.108304. IF: 9.078. Q1
  7. Sikdar, S., 2019. ‘Multi-level nondestructive analysis of joint-debond effects in sandwich composite structure’, Polymer Testing, 80: p. 106149. IF: 3.275. Q1
  8. Sikdar, S., and Banerjee, S.+, 2019. ‘Guided wave based nondestructive analysis of localized inhomogeneity effects in an advanced sandwich composite structure’, Composites Part B: Engineering, 176, 107195. IF: 9.078. Q1
  9. Sikdar, S., Mirgal, P.*, Banerjee, S.+ and Ostachowicz, W., 2019. ‘Damage-induced Acoustic Emission Source Monitoring in a Honeycomb Sandwich Composite Structure’, Composites Part B: Engineering, 158: pp. 179-88. IF: 9.078. Q1
  10. Sikdar, S. and Ostachowicz, W., 2019. ‘Nondestructive analysis of Core-junction and Joint-debond effects in Advanced Composite Structure’, Polymer Testing, 73: pp. 31-33. IF: 3.275. Q1
  11. Sikdar, S. and Ostachowicz, W., 2019. ‘Ultrasonic Guided Lamb Wave based Debonding Monitoring of Advanced Honeycomb Sandwich Composite Structures’, Strain, 55(1): p. 12302. IF: 1.848. Q2
  12. Sikdar, S., Kundu, A.+, Jurek, M. and Ostachowicz, W., 2019. ‘Nondestructive Analysis of Debonds in a Composite Structure under Variable Temperature Conditions’,  Sensors, 19(16), 3454.IF: 3.576. Q2
  13. Sikdar, S., Fiborek, P.*, Kudela, P., Banerjee, S.+ and Ostachowicz, W., 2018. ‘Effects of Debonding on Lamb Wave Propagation in a Bonded Composite Structure under Variable Temperature Conditions’, Smart Materials and Structures, 28(1):p.015021. IF: 3.613. Q1
  14. Sikdar, S., Ostachowicz, W. and Pal, J.+, 2018. ‘Damage-induced Acoustic Emission Source Identification in an Advanced Sandwich Composite Structure’, Composite Structures, 202:860-866. IF: 5.407. Q1
  15. Sikdar, S., Kudela, P., Radzieński, M., Kundu, A+. and Ostachowicz, W., 2018. ‘Online detection of barely visible low-speed impact damage in 3D-core sandwich composite structure’, Composite Structures, 185: pp. 646-55. IF: 5.407. Q1
  16. Kundu, A.+, Eaton, M.J.+, Al-Jumali, S., Sikdar, S., and Pullin, R.+, 2017. ‘Acoustic emission based damage localization in composites structures using Bayesian identification’, Journal of Physics. Conference Series 842: pp.012081.
  17. Sikdar, S., Kudela, P. and Ostachowicz, W., 2017. ‘Assessment of barely visible impact damage/debonding in a 3D-core sandwich composite structure. Computer Assisted Methods in Engineering and Science, 24:259–268.
  18. Sikdar, S. and Banerjee, S., 2016. ‘Identification of disbond and high density core region in a honeycomb composite sandwich structure using ultrasonic guided waves’, Composite Structures, 152, pp. 568–578. IF: 5.407. Q1
  19. Sikdar, S. and Banerjee, S., 2016. ‘Guided Wave Propagation in a Honeycomb Composite Sandwich Structure in Presence of a High Density Core’, Ultrasonics, 71: pp. 86-97. IF: 2.89. Q1
  20. Sikdar, S. and Banerjee, S., 2015. ‘Study of Guided Wave Propagation in a Honeycomb Composite Sandwich Plate in Presence of a High-density Core Region Using Surface-bonded Piezoelectric Sensors’, Journal of Vibration Engineering & Technologies, 4(5): pp. 431-438. IF: 0.649. Q3
  21. Sikdar, S., Banerjee, S. and Ashish, G.*, 2015. ‘Ultrasonic guided wave propagation and disbond identification in a honeycomb composite sandwich structure using bonded piezoelectric wafer transducers’, Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, 27(3): pp. 1767-1779. IF: 2.569. Q1

Books - Authored:

  1. Sikdar, S. and Banerjee, S., (2017). SHM of Advanced Composites Using Guided Waves.

LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, ISBN 978-620-2-02697-0.

Peer-reviewed book chapters:

  1. 1.Sikdar, S. (2020). Numerical Simulation Techniques for Damage Response Analysis in Composites. Structural Health Monitoring System for Synthetic, Hybrid and Natural Fiber Composites, Springer- Nature. (accepted)
  2. Kundu A+, Sikdar S, Eaton M+, Navaratne R.+ A Generic Framework for Application of Machine Learning in Acoustic Emission-Based Damage Identification. InProceedings of the 13th International Conference on Damage Assessment of Structures 2020 (pp. 244-262). Springer, Singapore.

Peer-reviewed Conference Papers (selected list):

  1. Sikdar, S., Paepegem, W.V. and Kersemans, M., 2020. ‘Guided Wave Propagation and Breathing-debond Localization in Composite Structures’, 10th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (EWSHM 2020), July 6 - 9, 2020, Palermo, Italy.
  2. Sikdar S, Ostachowicz W. Guided Wave Propagation Based Analysis of Non-linear Debonding Effects in a Composite Structure. Structural Health Monitoring, September 10-12, 2019, Stanford University, California, USA
  3. Balasubramaniam, K.*, Sikdar, S., Fiborek, P*. and Malinowski, P. Damage Assessment for a Sandwich-like Panel using Experimental and Numerical Analysis of Guided Waves, NDE 2019 Conference & Exhibition, December 5-7, 2019, Bangalore, India.
  4. Sikdar, S., Fiborek, P.*, Malinowski, P. and Ostachowicz, W. (2019, April). Ultrasonic guided wave propagation in a repaired stiffened composite panel. In Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems XIII(Vol. 10972, p. 1097207).
  5. Kundu, A.+, Sikdar, S., Eaton, M.J.+ and Navaratne, R.+, 2018. ‘Probabilistic method for damage identification in multi-layered composite structures’, EWSHM 2018, July 10 - 13, 2018, Manchester, UK.
  6. Sikdar, S., Ostachowicz, W., Kudela, P. and Fiborek, P.*, 2018. Study of Disbond Effects in a Jointed Composite Structure under Variable Ambient Temperatures. In Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2018(Vol. 10598, p. 105980G). International Society for Optics and Photonics.
  7. Sikdar, S., Mirgal, P.*, Banerjee, S+. and Ostachowicz, W. ‘Acoustic Emission Waveform Propagation and Source Localization in Advanced Sandwich Composite Structure’, EWSHM 2018, July 10 - 13, 2018, Manchester, UK.
  8. Sikdar, S., and Banerjee, S., (2014). ‘Wave Propagation in a Honeycomb Composite Sandwich Structure in the Presence of High-Density Core Using Bonded PZT-Sensors’.In: Vibration Engineering and Technology of Machinery. Springer, Cham, 2015. pp. 619-628.
  9. Sikdar, S., Banerjee, S., and Subhani, S.M.*, 2013. ‘Detection of Disbond in a Honeycomb Composite Sandwich Structure Using Ultrasonic Guided Waves and Bonded PZT Sensors’. Proceedings of the 14th Asia Pacific Conference on non-destructive testing, 18 - 22 November 2013, Mumbai, India.

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