Faculty Directory
Sridhar Krishnaswamy

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Director of Center for Smart Structures and Materials

Contact

2145 Sheridan Road
Catalysis 323
Evanston, IL 60208-3109

847-491-4006Email Sridhar Krishnaswamy

Website

Center for Smart Structures & Materials

Centers

Center for Smart Structures & Materials

Departments

Mechanical Engineering

Affiliations

Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Graduate Program

Education

Ph.D. Aeronautics w/ minor in Materials Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

M.S. Aeronautics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

B.Tech. Aeronautics, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India


Research Interests

Multifunctional materials and systems; multiscale/multiphase 3D direct laser writing; photonic and ultrasonic sensors; smart structures.


Significant Recognition

  • VS Jain Memorial Award (ISNT 2011)
  • Fellow of ASME, 2006
  • Best paper Award for "Acoustic Nonlinearity Measurements for Fatigue Damage Monitoring," SPIE 2005
  • Applied Optics 1996 paper selected in SPIE"s Milestone Series: "Holographic Interferometry"
  • Optical Engineering 1993 paper selected in SPIE"s Milestone Series: "Speckle Interferometry"
  • Ernest Sechler Memorial Award (1989) for most significant contribution to teaching and research from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

Significant Professional Service

  • Associate Editor, Journal of Applied Mechanics, ASME (2005 - 2011)

Selected Publications

  • Heming Wei, Sridhar Krishnaswamy, “Comparative assessment of erbium fiber ring lasers and reflective SOA linear lasers for fiber Bragg grating dynamic strain sensing”, Applied Optics, (2017)
  • Heming Wei, Sridhar Krishnaswamy, “Polymer micro-ring resonator integrated with a fiber ring laser for ultrasound detection”, Optics Letters, (2017)
  • Biao Wu, Yong Huang, Xiang Chen, Sridhar Krishnaswamy, Hui Li, “Guided-wave signal processing by the sparse Bayesian learning approach employing Gabor pulse model”, Structural Health Monitoring, (2017)
  • Gautam Naik, Sridhar Krishnaswamy, “Room-Temperature Humidity Sensing Using Graphene Oxide Thin Films”, Graphene, (2016)
  • Heming Wei, Sridhar Krishnaswamy, “Direct Laser Writing Polymer Micro-Resonators for Refractive Index Sensors”, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, (2016)
  • Heming Wei, Tao Chuanyi, Zhu Yinian, Sridhar Krishnaswamy, “Fiber Bragg grating dynamic strain sensor using an adaptive reflective semiconductor optical amplifier source”, Applied Optics, (2016)
  • Heming Wei, Yinian Zhu, Sridhar Krishnaswamy, “Optofluidic Photonic Crystal Fiber Coupler for Measuring the Refractive Index of Liquids”, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, (2016)
  • Chuanyi Tao, Heming Wei, Yinian Zhu, Sridhar Krishnaswamy, “Grapefruit photonic crystal fiber sensor for gas sensing application”, Optical Engineering, (2016)