Vivek Khare, Ph.D.

Vivek Khare

Assistant Professor

Office: 324C Walker Engineering Building
vkhare@ae.msstate.edu
P 662.325.7085

Education

  • Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering,  Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, 2021.
  • M.Tech., Mechanical Engineering, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Prayagraj, India, 2014.
  • B.Tech., Mechanical Engineering, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University Lucknow, India, 2010.

Research Areas

  • Deployable Space Structures
  • Smart and Multifunctional Composite Structures
  • Structural Dynamics
  • Structural Health Monitoring
  • Experimental Solid Mechanics
  • Wind Tunnel Testing
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Physics Informed Machine Learning Models for Structures

Teaching Areas

  • Spacecraft Structures
  • Aerospace Structures
  • Solid Mechanics
  • Composites
  • Structural Health Monitoring

Taught Courses

  • EM 2413 Engineering Mechanics (Statics)

Select Journal Publications

  • Vivek Khare, Sudhir Kamle, Shruti Sharma, 2023. Flexible DIC system for wind tunnel testing of lightweight structures, ASCE, Journal of Aerospace Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1061/JAEEEZ.ASENG-4559.
  • Vivek Khare, Sudhir Kamle, 2022. Aero-structural evaluation of bioinspired chordwise flexible flapping wing, Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, https://doi.org/10.1080/15376494.2022.2153187.
  • Vivek Khare, Sudhir Kamle, 2022. Biomimicking and Evaluation of Dragonfly Wing Morphology with Polypropylene Nanocomposites, Acta Mechanica Sinica, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10409-022-21431-2
  • Vivek Khare, Sudhir Kamle, 2021. Effect of temperature and filler volume fraction on the creep and recovery behavior of MWCNT-COOH-reinforced polypropylene films, Archive of Applied Mechanics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00419-020-01800-5
  • Vivek Khare, Sudhir Kamle, 2020. Optimization and assessment of MWCNT dispersion in polypropylene nanocomposite films. Journal of Thermoplastic Composite Materials. https://doi.org/10.1177/0892705720962169
  • Vivek Khare, Sudhir Kamle, 2020. Development of master curves for nonlinear viscoelastic behavior of nanofiller-reinforced composites. International Journal of Advances in Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12572-020-00270-w
  • Vivek Khare, Shubham Srivastava, Sudhir Kamle, G. M. Kamath, 2019. Effect of Filler Functionalization on the Thermo-Mechanical behavior of Polypropylene Nanocomposites. Procedia structural integrity. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prostr.2019.05.028
  • Vivek Khare, Kawai Kwok. Manuscript to be submitted, Plastic Strain Accumulation in Polyethylene Thin Films under Small deformation.
  • Vivek Khare, Sudhir Kamle. Manuscript under preparation, String Suspension Balance System for Aerodynamic Experiments on Lightweight Structures.

Select Conference Proceedings

  • Vivek Khare, Milinda Yapa Hamillage, Rahul Raghu, Annan Mashin, Kawai Kwok, Serena Ferraro, January 2025. Shape Accuracy Analysis of Starshade Petal, AIAA SciTech 2025, Orlando, Florida, USA.
  • Vivek Khare, Kawai Kwok, Serena Ferraro, Ingie Baho, January 2024. High-Throughput Viscoelastic Testing for Composite Laminates, AIAA SciTech 2024, Orlando, Florida, USA, https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2024-0608.
  • Vivek Khare, Sudhir Kamle, Kawai Kwok, March 2023. DIC System with Euler Transformation for Structural measurements in Wind Tunnel, SPIE 2023, Smart structures and Nondestructive evaluation, Long Beach, California, USA, https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2658755.
  • Vivek Khare, Sudhir Kamle, December 2022. Spatial load distribution in composite flapping wings, SICE 2022, IIT Hyderabad, Telangana, India. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-6367-2_29.
  • Vivek Khare, Sudhir Kamle, December 2021. Measuring deformation in lightweight structures with revamped DIC system: wind tunnel study, ICTACEM 2021, IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal, India.
  • Vivek Khare, Sudhir Kamle, December 2020. Dynamic creep response of MWCNT-COOH-PP filled PP nanocomposites, SICE 2020, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India.
  • Vivek Khare, David Kumar, Sudhir Kamle, April 2020. Structural damage assessment of MAV flapping wings using DIC-wavelet technique, SPIE 2020, Smart structures and Non destructive evaluation, Anaheim, California, USA, https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2559758.
  • David Kumar, Swapnil Shandilya, Vivek Khare, Sudhir Kamle, Chih-hung Chiang, April 2020. Insect-inspired micro air vehicle with nanocomposite flapping wings and flexure joints, SPIE 2020, Anaheim, California, USA, https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2557471.
  • Edwin M Lau, David Kumar, Chih-hung Chiang, Jun-Duo Zhang, Wei-Xi Huang, Vivek Khare, April 2020. Pressure distribution of a deformable composite flapping wing, SPIE 2020, Anaheim, California, USA, https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2558461.
  • Vivek Khare, Sudhir Kamle, December 2019. On the Structural Dynamic Analysis of Bioinspired-biomimetic Composite Flapping Wings, BioTERM 2019, IIT Kanpur, India.
  • Vivek Khare, Sudhir Kamle, July 2019. Development of master curves for nonlinear viscoelastic behaviour of nano filler reinforced composites. Fourth Indian Conference on Applied Mechanics, INCAM 2019, IISc Bangalore, India.
  • Vivek Khare, Sudhir Kamle, February 2019. Damage detection in soft polymeric materials: Implementing continuous wavelet transform. Sixth International Conference on recent advancements in composite materials, IIT BHU, Varanasi, India.
  • Vivek Khare, Shubham Srivastava, Sudhir Kamle, G. M. Kamath, July 2018. Effect of Filler Functionalization on the Thermo-Mechanical behavior of Polypropylene Nanocomposites, Second Structural Integrity Conference and Exhibition, DMRL Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
  • Vivek Khare, David Kumar, G. M. Kamath, Sudhir Kamle, June 2018. Time-Temperature Dependent Creep and Recovery behavior of MWCNTs-Polypropylene Nanocomposites, SEM Annual Conference and Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, Hyatt Regency Greenville, South Carolina USA.
  • David Kumar, Vivek Khare, G. M. Kamath, P. M. Mohite, Sudhir Kamle, December 2017. Dynamic Studies of Flexible Sandwich Beams with Hyperviscoelastic Core using Digital Image Correlation. International Conference on Composite Materials and Structures, IIT Hyderabad, India.
  • Vivek Khare, David Kumar, Sudhir Kamle, July 2017. Dynamic Mechanical and Fracture Analysis of CNTs/Polypropylene Nanocomposites. Indian Conference on Applied Mechanics, MNNIT Allahabad, India.

Awards and Honors

  • University Rank-3 (B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering), 2010.
  • Academic Excellence Award, 2011.
  • MHRD India Fellowship for Graduate Studies, 2015.

Professional Memberships

  • American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
  • Society for Experimental Mechanics.
  • Society for Optics and Photonics.