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Anil K. Patnaik, Ph.D.

Anil K. Patnaik, Ph.D.

Title: Associate Professor
Department: Civil Engineering
Office: ASEC 209E
Phone: 330-972-5226
Fax: 330-972-6020
Email: patnaik@uakron.edu
Website: http://www.ecgf.uakron.edu/~patnaik/

Biography

Education

  • Ph.D. (Structures), The University of Calgary
  • M.Tech. (Structural Eng.), Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
  • B.Sc. Eng (Honors), Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela

Experience

  • 08/2007 – present, Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Akron
  • 08/2001 – 08/2007, Associate/Assistant Professor, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota.
  • 09/2004 – 08/2007, Site Director, National Science Foundation (NSF) Center for Friction Stir Processing (CFSP), SDSM&T, Rapid City, SD.

Courses Taught

  • Reinforced Concrete Design
  • Steel Design (I and II)
  • Structural Analysis (I and II)
  • Senior Design (Capstone Design)
  • Advanced Reinforced Concrete Design
  • Prestressed Concrete Design
  • Adv FRP Applications in Civ Eng
  • Design of Tall Buildings
  • Advanced Steel Design

Awards and Honors

  • Lead Faculty Advisor of the winning team for 2010 Titanium Pedestrian Bridge Design Contest, The Defense Metals Technology Center, North Canton, OH. 
  • Lead Faculty Advisor of 1st Honorable Mention team for 2010 Titanium Pedestrian Bridge Design Contest, The Defense Metals Technology Center, North Canton, OH. 
  • Highly commendable paper award at the International Conference on Recent Advances in Concrete – RAC-2007, Washington D.C., Sep. 2007.
  • One of the most outstanding SAE technical papers of 2005 - judged by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE): 2005(A).
  • One of the most outstanding SAE technical papers of 2005 - judged by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE): 2005(B).
  • Fellowship of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, London, United Kingdom: 1999
  • Martin P. Korn award of the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute, Chicago IL: 1994.
  • Best paper award of the Indian Society for Earthquake Technology (ISET) in 1991.
  • Best paper award of the Indian Society for Earthquake Technology (ISET) in 1989.
  • Best student paper award at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, Vancouver, B.C. in 1991.

Current and Recent Research Interests

  • Structural engineering design, bridge design and construction
  • Corrosion of steel reinforcement in concrete
  • Built-up welded structures made from titanium and its alloys, and development of design guidelines
  • Fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) materials (internal and external FRP reinforcement for concrete)
  • Basalt fiber reinforced polymer (BFRP) reinforced concrete members
  • Basalt fiber and synthetic fiber reinforced concrete material behavior and structural applications
  • Structural health monitoring, rehabilitation, repair and strengthening of existing structures
  • Large scale laboratory and field tests with instrumentation
  • Construction and long term performance monitoring of bridge decks
  • Development of design equations for friction stir welded structures
  • Finite element modeling

Select Publications

  • Patnaik, A.K., Poondla, N., Bathini, U., and Srivatsan, T.S., “Fatigue Behavior of Built-up Welded Beams of Commercially Pure Titanium”, (in press 2010), Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance.
  • Patnaik, A.K., Poondla, N., Bathini, U., and Srivatsan, T.S., “On the Use of Gas Metal Arc Welding for Manufacture of Beams of Commercially Pure Titanium and a Titanium Alloy”, Manuscript # 2010-0174, (in press 2010), Journal of Materials and Manufacturing.
  • Bathini, U., Srivatsan, T.S., Patnaik, A., and Menzemer, C.C., “Mechanisms Governing the Cyclic Fatigue, Damage Evolution and Fracture Behavior of Commercially Pure Titanium”, Manuscript # ASENG128, (in press 2010), ASCE Journal of Aerospace Engineering.
  • Bathini, U., Srivatsan, T.S., Patnaik, A., and Quick, T., “A Study of the Tensile Deformation and Fracture Behavior of Commercially Pure Titanium and a Titanium Alloy: Influence of Orientation and Microstructure”, Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, Volume 19(8), Nov. 2010, pp. 1172-1182.
  • Srivatsan, T.S., Bathini, U., Patnaik, A., and Quick, T., “A Study of Cyclic Fatigue, Damage Initiation, Damage Propagation, and Fracture of Welded Titanium Alloys Plates, Materials Science and Engineering – A, 527 (2010), pp. 6649-6659.
  • Patnaik, A., Adhikari, S., Bani-Bayat, P., and Robinson, P., Flexural Performance of Concrete Beams Reinforced with Basalt FRP Bars, 3rd fib International Congress, Washington, D.C., May 2010, 12 pages.
  • Patnaik, A.K., Poondla, N., Bathini, U., and Srivatsan, T.S., Investigating and Understanding the Fatigue Response and Failure of Built-Up Welded Beams of a Titanium Alloy, in press, in Fatigue of Materials: Advances and Emergence in Understanding Materials Science and Technology (MS&T 10), Houston, TX, Oct. 2010, 20 pages.
  • Bathini, U., Srivatsan, T.S., Patnaik, A., Menzemer, C.C., and Quick, T., The Cyclic Fatigue and Final Fracture Behavior of a Titanium Alloy Taken from Weldments: Influence of Load Ratio and Orientation, in press, in Fatigue of Materials: Advances and Emergence in Understanding Materials Science and Technology (MS&T 10), Houston, TX, Oct. 2010, 27 pages.
  • Patnaik, A., Applications of Basalt Fiber Reinforced Polymer (BFRP) Reinforcement for Transportation Infrastructure, “Developing a Research Agenda for Transportation Infrastructure Preservation and Renewal”, Transportation Research Board Conference (TRB-2009), available online, Washington, D.C., Nov. 2009.
  • Poondla, N., Srivatsan, T.S., Patnaik, A., and Petraroli, M., “A Study of the Microstructure and Hardness of Two Titanium Alloys: Commercially Pure and Ti-6Al-4V”, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 486 (2009) 162–167.
  • Patnaik, A.K., Poondla, N., Bathini, U., and Srivatsan, T.S., Influence of Welding on the Performance of Titanium Alloy Built-Up Beams, Processing and Fabrication of Advanced Materials - XVIII, Vol. 2, Eds. M. Niimoni, M. Morinaga, M. Nakai, N. Bhatnagar and T.S. Srivatsan, Japan, Dec. 2009, pp. 679-700.
  • Patnaik, A.K., Poondla, N., Bathini, U., and Srivatsan, T.S., An Overview of Large Structures Fabricated from Titanium and Titanium Alloys, Processing and Fabrication of Advanced Materials - XVIII, Vol. 2, Eds. M. Niimoni, M. Morinaga, M. Nakai, N. Bhatnagar and T.S. Srivatsan, Japan, Dec. 2009, pp. 831-848.
  • Patnaik, A.K., MacDonald, C., MacDonald, M., and Ramakrishnan, V., Review of ASTM C1399 Test for the Determination of Average Residual Strength of Fiber Reinforced Concrete, Recent Advances in Concrete Technology (RAC07), Baltimore, MD, Sep. 2007, 10 pages.  This paper received “highly commendable” award of RAC2007.
  • Patnaik, A.K., Schurger, J., Steele, A., Allen, C.D., and Arbegast, W.J., Compression Buckling Behavior of 7075-T6 Aluminum Skin Stiffened Panels Fabricated by Friction Stir Welding, Paper No. 2005-01-3322, SAE 2005 Transactions Journal of Aerospace, Society of Automotive Engineers, March 2006, pp. 1053-1061.  This paper was judged as “most outstanding paper” by SAE.
  • Arbegast, W.J. and Patnaik, A.K., Process Parameter Development and Fixturing Issues for Friction Stir Welding of Aluminum Beam Assemblies, Paper No. 2005-01-3333, Society of Automotive Engineers, SAE 2005 Transactions Journal of Aerospace, March 2006, pp. 1093-1107. This paper was judged as “most outstanding paper” by SAE.
  • Patnaik, A.K., Koch, K., Arbegast, W.J., and Allen, C., Static Properties of  “Refill” Friction Spot Welded Skin Stiffened Compression Panels, Paper No. 2006-01-0967, SAE Special Publication No. SP-2034, 2006, Society of Automotive Engineering, pp. 155-162.
  • Patnaik, A.K., Ramakrishnan, V. and Ganesh babu, K., (Editors), Use of High Volume Fly Ash Concrete and the Related Environmental Effects, Proceedings of the National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored US-India Workshop – January 2004 conducted in Chennai, India. 215 pages.  Electronic version of these proceedings is also published.
  • Rangan, B. V. and Patnaik, A. K. (Editors), High Performance High Strength Concrete, the Proceedings of the International Conference, Perth, Australia, August, 1998, ISBN: 1 863 42 2846, 739 pages.
  • Ramakrishnan, V., Zellar, R., and Patnaik, A.K., Plastic Shrinkage Reduction Potential of a new High Tenacity Monofilament Polypropylene Fiber, in American Concrete Institute ACI/CANMET Special Publication SP243 on Recent Advances in Concrete Technology - Editor: V.M. Malhotra, May 2007, pp. 49-62.
  • Ramakrishnan, V., Zellar, R., and Patnaik, A.K., High Performance Synthetic Fiber for Enhancing Concrete Properties, in Fiber Reinforced Materials, Edited by C. Stanley, T.S. Lok, and P. Prochazka, Oct. 2006, pp. 45-56.
  • Patnaik, A.K. and Ramakrishnan, V., Research Needs for High Volume Fly Ash Concrete, ICI Journal, Vol. 5, No. 3, Nov.-Dec. 2004, pp. 13-18.
  • Patnaik, A.K., Puli, R.K., and Mylavarapu, R., Basalt FRP: A new FRP material for infrastructure market ?, ACMBS-IV - Editors:  M. El-Badry and L. Dunaszegi, Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, Montreal, Canada, July 2004, 8 pages.
  • Patnaik, A.K., and Bauer, C., Strengthening of Steel Beams with Carbon FRP Laminates, ACMBS-IV - Editors:  M. El-Badry and L. Dunaszegi, Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, Montreal, Canada, July 2004, 8 pages.
  • Becque, J., Patnaik, A.K. and Rizkalla, S.H., Analytical Models for Concrete Confined with FRP Tubes, Journal of Composites for Construction, American Society of Civil Engineers, February 2003, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 31-38.
  • Patnaik, A.K., Behavior of Composite Concrete Beams with a Smooth Interface, Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, April 2001, Vol. 127 No. 4, pp. 359-366.
  • Loov, R.E. and Patnaik, A.K., Horizontal Shear Strength of Composite Concrete beams, The PCI Journal, Chicago IL, Jan-Feb. 1994, pp. 48-69: This paper received the Martin P. Korn award of the PCI.

Total over 70 technical journal, conference, and proceedings publications, and over 85 research reports, project reports, design reports, and other publications.