Arisi Swamidas
Professor
B.E. (Hons.), M.Sc. (Eng.) (Madras), PhD. (IIT Madras),
P.Eng.
I was a post-doctoral fellow at Memorial University from 1975 to 1977
and after going back to India I returned to Memorial in 1981 as a
research fellow. I was appointed as a research engineer in 1984 and
became an associate professor of civil engineering in 1985. I was
promoted to professor in 1990. Before coming to Canada, I taught at
the Indian Institute of Technology and at the Coimbatore Institute of
Technology, both in India.
I have been carrying out research in the area of offshore and onshore structural analysis during the past 30 years and have gained expert knowledge in the area of damage detection using vibration- and wave-propagation- based procedures, in high- and low- frequency ranges (0 to 50,000 Hz). In particular I have been focusing my attention on detecting loss of integrity in structures due to the existence of very small flaws. Even though I have mainly focused my research on fatigue and other vibration-based cracking, the procedures I have developed could be used for identifying loss of structural integrity due to distributed cracking (as in concrete), corrosive loss of material thickness, etc.
I have published nearly 200 papers and reports, and supervised more than 30 graduate students in the area of analysis of static and dynamic behaviour of beams, plates, shells, framed/gravity structures, semi-submersibles, coastal structures, building materials, etc. Recently in collaboration with Dr. Haddara, I have been examining the feasibility of on-line detection of cracking in ship-structural components, using dynamic flexibility monitoring and neural network.
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