Dr. Soham Roychowdhury Associate Professor
School of Mechanical Sciences

Research Interests

  • Computational Solid Mechanics

  • Mechanics of Inflatable Structures

  • Nonlinear Elasticity

  • Smart Structures

  • Structural Dynamics and Stability

  • Energy Harvesting

Contact Details

  • Room no. 110, School of Mechanical Sciences, IIT Bhubaneswar, Argul, Khordha - 752 050
  • 674-713-7110
  • soham@iitbbs.ac.in

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Education

 Degree Discipline Year School
  PhD Mechanical Engineering 2019 IIT Kharagpur
  MTech Mechanical Engineering 2014 IIT Kharagpur
  BE Mechanical Engineering 2012 BESU Shibpur (Presently IIEST Shibpur)
 

Biosketch

 

Teaching

NPTEL Online Certification Course:

  • Applied Elasticity (60 Lectures)

 UG Level Theory Courses:

  • Theory of Machines-I (Autumn 2025, Autumn 2024, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2020)
  • Theory of Machines-II (Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022)
  • Mechanics of Solids (Spring 2026)
PG Level Theory Courses:
  • Advanced Solid Mechanics (Autumn 2024, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2019)
  • Dynamics and Control of Mechanical Systems (Spring 2026, Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023)
  • Applied Elasticity (Autumn 2025, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020)
  • Vibration of Structures (Spring 2021, Spring 2020)
Laboratory Courses:
  • Machines and Mechanisms Lab (Spring 2022)
  • Mechanical Systems Simulation Lab I (Autumn 2022, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2020)
  • Mechanical Systems Simulation Lab II (Spring 2021, Spring 2020)
  • Introduction to Manufacturing Processes (Autumn 2019)
 

Projects

  1.  Stability and contact problems of inflatable structures funded by DST under INSPIRE Faculty Scheme

 

Recent Publications (International Journals)

1Nanda, P., Roychowdhury, S. 2025, Contact of an inflated circular magnetoelastic membrane with a rigid substrate under magnetic actuation, Mechanics of Materials 211, pp. 105503
2Sahoo, P. K., Roychowdhury, S., Arumuru. V. 2025, Fluid sloshing augmented parametric excitation for enhanced piezoelectric vibration energy harvesting, Sensors and Actuators: A. Physical 395, pp. 117061
3Chiranjib, C., Sahu, S., Roychowdhury, S. 2026, Inflated circular membrane in contact with finite indentors of different geometries, Acta Mechanica Sinica 42, pp. 424613
4Patra. S., Roychowdhury, S. 2025, Prismatic bifurcation of electro-mechanically loaded stacked di-electric cylinders, International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics 175, pp. 105119
5Sahu, S., Roychowdhury, S. 2025, Inflation of a toroidal membrane within a fluid-filled elastic spherical enclosure, Thin-Walled Structures 207, pp.112729
6Sahu, S., Roychowdhury, S. 2025, Static and dynamic analysis of a hyperelastic toroidal air-spring structure, European Journal of Mechanics-A/Solids 109, pp. 105461
7Satapathy, S., Sahu, S., Roychowdhury, S. 2023, Impact of a spherical body on an air-inflated membrane structure, Thin-walled Structures 191, pp. 111033
8Sahu, S., Roychowdhury, S. 2022, Fluid-filled toroidal membrane in contact with flat elastic substrate, Meccanica 57, pp. 2303-2321
9Sahu, S., Roychowdhury, S. 2022, An Anisotropic hyperelastic inflated toroidal membrane in lateral contact with two flat rigid plates, Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica 35, pp. 1068-1081
10Roychowdhury, S., DasGupta, A. 2018 Symmetry breaking during inflation of a toroidal membrane. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 121, pp.328-340
11Roychowdhury, S., DasGupta, A. 2018 Inflation mechanics of a membrane reflector supported by an inflated toroidal rim. European Journal of Mechanics-A/Solids 67, pp. 34-44
12Roychowdhury, S., DasGupta, A. 2015 On the response and stability of an inflated toroidal membrane under radial loading. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics 77, pp. 254-264
13Roychowdhury, S., DasGupta, A. 2015 Analysis of joint peeling in an inflated flat toroidal membrane. Thin-walled Structures 94, pp. 521-531
14Roychowdhury, S., DasGupta, A. 2015 Inflating a flat toroidal membrane. International Journal of Solids and Structures 67-68, pp. 182-191
 

Academic Honors & Awards

  • DST INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship Award
  • Director's Gold Medal, IIT Kharagpur
  • Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma Endowment Gold Medal, IIT Kharagpur
  • Institute Silver Medal, IIT Kharagpur
  • Institute Silver Medal, BESU Shibpur
 

Research Scholar

 

Research Scholar (Ongoing):

  1. Prasanna Kumar Malla
  2. Purushottam Nanda

Research Scholar (Completed): 

  1. Satyajit Sahu
 
MTech Project Students (Ongoing):
  1. Prithwish Paul
  2. Parichay Gupta
  3. Sarin Hassan Sheikh
  4. Ayush Kumar
 
MTech Project Students (Completed):
  1. Shashi Kant (2020-2021)
  2. Prasad Srichandan Dalei (2020-2021)
  3. Chirag Chiranjib (2020-2021)
  4. Manas Bagai (2020-2021)
  5. Subham Satapathy (2021-2022)
  6. Vikas Sharma (2021-2022)
  7. Advait Jayant Deshmukh (2021-2022)
  8.  Tapas Kumar Pal (2022-2023)
  9.  Stuti Ranjan Sahoo (2022-2023)
  10.  Siddhivinayak Raut (2022-2023)
  11.  Aayush Nimbe (2022-2023)
  12. Malyala Valli Supraja (2023-2024)
  13. Omkar Ghag (2023-2024)
  14. Madhu Chauhan (2023-2024)
  15. Joshi Hrushikesh Ashutosh (2024-2025)
  16. Aniket Singh (2024-2025)
BTech Project Students (Ongoing):
  1. Hrishikesh Bharali
  2. Hari Om Mishra
  3. Ansuman Agrawal
  4. Patil Vignesh Hindurao
 
BTech Project Students (Completed):
  1. Rahul Rajeev
  2. Sanjeet Patra
  3. Varun Varma Jaganath
  4. Ajinkya Sindhedkar
 

Professional Experience

Associate Professor, School of Mechanical Sciences, IIT Bhubaneswar (December 2025 - Till Date), Assistant Professor, School of Mechanical Sciences, IIT Bhubaneswar (July 2019 - December 2025) DST INSPIRE Faculty Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur (April 2019 - July 2019)

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