Publications

Journal Articles

• Chava, S.* and Namilae, S. “In-Situ Investigation of the Kinematics of Ply Interfaces During Composite Manufacturing.” In review.
• Gbaguidi, A.*, Madiyar, F., Kim, D. and Namilae, S. “Multifunctional Inkjet Printed Sensors for MMOD Impact Detection.” Smart Materials and Structures, 2020.
• Gbaguidi, A.*, Namilae, S. and Kim, D. “A Three-Dimensional Monte Carlo Model for the Synergistic Effect of Nanofillers inHybrid CNT-GNP Nanocomposites.” Nanotechnology 31 (25), 255704.
• Islam, S.*, Namilae, S., Prazenica, R. and Liu, D. “Fuel Shortages During Hurricanes: Epidemiological Modeling and Optimal Control." PLOS One, Accepted 15 (4), e0229957, 2020.
• Gola, Y.*, Kim, D. and Namilae S. “Piezoresistive Nanocomposites for Sensing MMOD Impact Damage in Inflatable Space.” Composites Communications 100375, 2020.
• Sadeghi, M., Islam, T., Srinivasan, A. and Namilae, S. "Constrained Linear Movement Model (CALM): Simulation of Passenger Movement in Airplanes." PLOS One, 15(3), e0229690, 2020.
• Derjany, P.*, Namilae, S., Liu, D. and Srnivasan, A. “Multiscale Model for Optimal Design of Pedestrian Queues To Mitigate Infectious Disease Spread." PLOS One, Accepted.
• Jiang. N.*, Namilae, S. and Unnikrishnan, V. “Biofidelic Piezoresistive Sandwich Composites.” ASME Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology, 142 1, 2020.
• Chen, J., Liu, D., Namilae, S., Lee, S., Thropp, J. and Seong, Y. “Effect of Exit Doors and Number of Passengers on Airport Evacuation Efficiency Using Agent-Based Simulation.” International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics and Aerospace, 6(5), 3, 2019.
• Gbaguidi, A.*, Namilae, S. and Kim, D. “Stochastic Percolation Model for the Effect of Nanotube Agglomeration on the Conductivity and Piezoresistivity of Hybrid Nanocomposites.” Computational Materials Science, 166, 9-19, 2019.
• Namilae, S. and Choudhary, S.* “Piezoresistive Nanocomposites for Sensing the Effectiveness of Composite Patch Repair.”Composite Communications, 10, 41-44, Dec 2018.
• Namilae, S., Li, J. and Chava, S. “Improved Piezoresistivity and Damage Sensing Capability of Hybrid Carbon Nanotube Sheet-Graphite Platelet Nanocomposites." Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, 1-9, Feb 2018.
• Gbaguidi, A.*, Namilae, S. and Kim, D. “Monte Carlo Model for Piezoresistivity of Hybrid Nanocomposites.” ASME Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology, 1,140, Jan 2018.
• Namilae, S., Derjany, P., Mubayi, A., Scotch, M. and Srinivasan, A. “Multiscale Model for Infection Dynamics During Air Travel.” Physical Review E, 002300, May 2017.
• Namilae, S., Srinivasan, A., Mubayi, A., Scotch, M. and Pahle, R. “Self-Propelled Pedestrian Dynamics Model: Application to Passenger Movement and Infection Propagation in Airplanes." Physical A 465, 248–260, Jan 2017.
• Namilae, S., Srinivasan, A., Mubayi, A., Scotch, M. and Pahle, R. “Self-Propelled Pedestrian Dynamics Model for Studying Infectious Disease Propagation During Air-Travel.” Journal of Transport & Health, 3 (2), S40, June 2016.
• Namilae, S., Radhakrishnan, B. and Morris, J.R. “Atomistic Simulation of the Effect of Ga on Crack Tip Opening in Al Bicrystals." Modeling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, 16, 0750011, Sep 2008.
• Namilae, S., Nicholson, D.M., Nukala, P.K.V.V., Gao, C.Y., Osetsky, Y.N. and Keffer, D.J. “Absorbing Boundary Conditions for Molecular Dynamics and Multiscale Modeling." Physical Review B 76, 144111, Oct 2007.
• Namilae, S., Radhakrishnan, B. and GB Sharma, G.B. “Atomic Simulations of Interfacial Sliding in Amorphous Carbon Nanocomposites." Composites Science and Technology, 67, 1302-1310, June 2007.
• Namilae, S., Fuentes-Cabrera, M., Radhakrishnan, B., Sharma, G.B. and Nicholson, D.M. “Energetics of Hydrogen Storage in Organolithium Nanostructures." Chemical Physics Letters, 436, 150-154, Feb 2007.
• S., Chandra, U., Srinivasan, A. and Chandra, N. “Study of Interfacial Behavior of Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Composites Using Parallel Molecular Dynamics Simulations.” Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences, 22(3), 189-202, March 2007.
• Namilae, S. and Chandra, N. “Role of Atomic Scale Interfaces in the Compressive Behavior of Carbon Nanotube-Based Composites." Composite Science and Technology, 66, 2030-2038, Oct 2006.
• Shen, G.A.*, Namilae, S. and N. Chandra, N. “Load Transfer Issues in Tensile and Compressive Behavior of Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes." Materials Science and Engineering A, 429, 66-73, Aug 2006. (Featured among top 25 downloaded articles in the journal, 2006).
• Chandra, N. and Namilae, S. “Tensile and Compressive Behavior of Carbon Nanotubes: Effect of Functionalization and Topological Defects." Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, 13, 115-127, Feb 2006.
• Namilae, S. and N Chandra, N. “Multiscale Model To Study the Effect of Interfaces in Carbon Nanotube Based Composites." ASME Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology, 127, 222-232, April 2005. (Featured among top 10 downloaded articles in the journal, 2006, 2007 and 2008).
• Shet, C., Chandra, N. and Namilae, S. “Defect-Defect Interaction in Carbon Nanotubes Under Mechanical Loading." Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures 12, 55-65, Feb 2005.
• Shet, C., Chandra, N. and Namilae, S. “Defect Annihilations in Carbon Nanotubes Under Thermomechanical Loading." Journal of Materials Science. 40, 27-36, Jan 2005.
• Kohle, J., Chandra, U., Namilae, S., Srinivasan, A. and Chandra, N. “Parallel Simulation of Carbon Nanotube Based Composites." Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3296, 211-221, Dec 2004.
• Namilae, S., Chandra, N. and Shet, C. "Mechanical Behavior of Functionalized Nanotubes." Chemical Physics Letters, 387, 247-252, April 2004.
• Chandra, N., Namilae, S. and Shet, C. “Local Elastic Properties of Carbon Nanotubes in Presence of Stone-Walls Defects." Physical Review B, 69, 094101, March 2004.
• Chandra, N. and Namilae, S. “Multi-Scale Modeling of Nanocrystalline Materials.” Material Science Forum, 273, 427-429, March 2003.
• Namilae, S., Chandra, N. and Nieh, T.G. “Atomistic Simulation of Grain Boundary Sliding in Pure and Magnesium Doped Aluminum Bicrystals.” Scripta Materialia, 46, 49-54, Jan 2002.
• Namilae, S., Chandra, N. and Nieh, T.G. “Atomistic Simulation of Effect of Trace Elements on Grain Boundaries of Aluminum.” Material Science Forum, 387, 357-359, March 2001.

Conference Presentations and Papers

• Namilae, S. "Multiscale Model for Pedestrian and Infection Dynamics During Air Travel." International Conference for Risk Analysis 2017 Chicago (Invited Presentation).
• Derjany, P., Namilae, S., Mubayi, A. Scotch, M. and Srinivasan, A. "Molecular Dynamics Like Numerical Approach for Studying Infection Propagation." International Conference of Composites Engineering ICCE, 2017.
• Namilae, S., Li, J., Jiang, N. and Zhao, Y. "Effect of Matrix Mechanical Behavior and Filler Morphology on the Piezoresistivity of Hybrid Nanocomposites." International Conference of Composites Engineering ICCE, 2017.
• Derjany, P., Namilae, S., Mubayi, A., Scotch, M. and Srinivasan, A." Multiscale Pedestrian Movement - Infection Dynamics Model for Transportation Hubs." Transportation Research Forum, Chicago, 2017.
• Gbagaudi, A., Kim, D. and Namilae, S. "Dynamic Piezoresistive Response of Hybrid Nanocomposite." SPIE Conference 2017.
• Muhammad, A., Gbagaudi, A., Namilae, S. and Kim, D. "Structural Health Monitoring of Inflatable Structures for MMOD Impacts." SPIE Conference 2017.
• Gbagaudi, A., Namilae, S. and Kim, D. "Numerical and Experimental Investigation of the Piezoresistive Behavior of Hybrid Carbon Nanotube Sheet – Graphene Nanocomposites." AIAA Scitech, 2017.
• Chava, S., Choudhary, S. and Namilae, S. "Delamination Detection in Carbon Fiber Composites Using Piezoresistive Nanocomposites." AIAA Scitech, 2017.
• Srinivasan, A., Sudheer, C.D. and Namilae, S. "Optimizing Massively Parallel Simulations of Infection Spread Through Air Travel for Policy Analysis." Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid), 2016 16th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on. IEEE, 2016.
• Namilae, S., Srinivasan, S., Mubayi, A. and Scotch, M. "Self-Propelled Pedestrian Dynamics Model for Studying Infectious Disease Propagation During Air Travel." Travel a Public Health Conference, San Jose, July 2016.
• Scotch, M., Beard, R., Pahle, R., Mubayi, A., Namilae, S. and Srinivasan, A. "Combining Human Movement Models With Phylogeography for Airplane Policy Options During Ebola Outbreaks." 13th International Conference on Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Antwerp, Belgium, May 2016.
• Li, J. and Namilae, S. "Nanotube Sheet - Graphite Hybrid Nanocomposite for Damage Detection." TMS Conference, Feb 201.
• Namilae, S. and Minguet, P. "Fracture Process Zone Length Using Cohesive Zone Models." Boeing Technical Excellence Conference, St Louis, June 2011.
• Nicholson, D.M., Namilae, S., Radhakrishnan, B. and Kulkarni, N.S. "Modeling Electron Transport in Copper Interconnect Microstructures." IEEE 2007 International Interconnect Technology Conference, Burlingame, CA.
• Namilae, S., Radhakrishnan, B. and Sharma, G.B., "Atomic Simulations of Interfacial Sliding in Amorphous Carbon Nano-Composites." TMS Annual Meeting, Feb 2007.
• Namilae, S., Radhakrishnan, B. and Sharma, G.B., "Stress-Assisted Grain Boundary Migration in Flat Grain Boundaries." TMS Annual Meeting, Feb 2007.
• Namilae, S. and Chandra, N. "Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Interfaces in Nanocomposites." International Conference of Plasticity, Kuaii, Hawaii, Jan 2005.
• Chandra, N. and Namilae, S. "Mechanics of Atomic Scale Interfaces in Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Composites." Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Computational and Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Madeira, Portugal, 26-29 July ‘04, Advances in Computational and Experimental Engineering and Science, Ed., SN Atluri and AJB Tadeu, ISBN 0-9657001-6-X , pp 351-356, 2004.
• Namilae, S. and Chandra, N. "Three Level Hierarchical Model To Incorporate Interface Effects in Carbon Nanotube-Based Composites." Proceedings of SECTAM XXII, Developments in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, edited by Hassan Mahfuz and Mahesh V Hosur, ISBN 0-615-12639-1, pp 33-41, 2004.
• Chandra, N., Namilae, S. and Srinivasan, A. "Linking Atomistic and Continuum Mechanics Using Multi-Scale Models." Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Numerical Methods in Industrial Forming Processes (Numiform 2004), AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 712, Issue 1, pp 1571-1576, June 13-17, Columbus, OH, 2004.
• Naveen, M., Namilae, S., Shet C. and Chandra, N. "Phase Space Distribution of Carbon Nanotubes in a Constant Temperature Molecular Dynamics Simulations." Proceedings of SECTAM XXII, Developments in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, edited by Hassan Mahfuz and Mahesh V. Hosur, ISBN 0-615-12639-1, pp 1-11, 2004.
• Kohle, J., Chandra, U., Namilae, S., Srinivasan A. and Chandra, N. "Parallelization of Molecular Dynamics for Modeling Interface Properties of Carbon Nanotube Based Composites." Proceedings of SECTAM XXII, Developments in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, edited by Hassan Mahfuz and Mahesh V Hosur, ISBN 0-615-12639-1, pp 23-32, 2004.
• Chandra, N. and Namilae, S. "Multi-Scale Modeling of Nanocrystalline Materials International Conference of Superplasticity in Advanced Materials, September 2003.
• Chandra, N., Namilae, S. and Shet, C. "Mechanics of Defects at Nanoscale." 16th U.S. Army Symposium on Solid Mechanics, Charleston, SC, May 2003.
• Chandra, N. and Namilae, S. "Computational Methodologies To Link Atomistic and Continuum Scales in the Design of Nanoscale Systems." AIAA/ISSMO Symposium on Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization, Atlanta, GA, September 2002.
• Namilae, S. and Chandra, N. "Application of Asymptotic Homogenization to Atomic Scale." 14th U.S. National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Blacksburg, VA, June 2002.
• Namilae, S., Chandra N. and Neih, T.G. "Atomistic Simulation of Effect of Trace Elements on Grain Boundaries of Aluminum." International Conference of Superplasticity in Advanced Materials, August 2000.