School of Mechanical Sciences

Dr. Soham Roychowdhury

Associate Professor
  • Room No:110, SMS
  • +91 674-713-7110
  • soham@iitbbs.ac.in
  • School of Mechanical Sciences
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Computational Solid Mechanics, Nonlinear Elasticity, Mechanics of Inflatable Membrane Structures, Smart Structures, Structural Dynamics and Stability, Energy Harvesting
  1.  Stability and contact problems of inflatable structures funded by DST under INSPIRE Faculty Scheme

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)

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
  1. Nanda, P., Roychowdhury, S. 2025, Contact of an inflated circular magnetoelastic membrane with a rigid substrate under magnetic actuation, Mechanics of Materials 211, pp. 105503
  2. Sahoo, 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
  3. Chiranjib, C., Sahu, S., Roychowdhury, S. 2026, Inflated circular membrane in contact with finite indentors of different geometries, Acta Mechanica Sinica 42, pp. 424613
  4. Patra. S., Roychowdhury, S. 2025, Prismatic bifurcation of electro-mechanically loaded stacked di-electric cylinders, International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics 175, pp. 105119
  5. Sahu, S., Roychowdhury, S. 2025, Inflation of a toroidal membrane within a fluid-filled elastic spherical enclosure, Thin-Walled Structures 207, pp.112729
  6. Sahu, S., Roychowdhury, S. 2025, Static and dynamic analysis of a hyperelastic toroidal air-spring structure, European Journal of Mechanics-A/Solids 109, pp. 105461
  7. Satapathy, S., Sahu, S., Roychowdhury, S. 2023, Impact of a spherical body on an air-inflated membrane structure, Thin-walled Structures 191, pp. 111033
  8. Sahu, S., Roychowdhury, S. 2022, Fluid-filled toroidal membrane in contact with flat elastic substrate, Meccanica 57, pp. 2303-2321
  9. Sahu, 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
  10. Roychowdhury, S., DasGupta, A. 2018 Symmetry breaking during inflation of a toroidal membrane. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 121, pp.328-340
  11. Roychowdhury, 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
  12. Roychowdhury, 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
  13. Roychowdhury, S., DasGupta, A. 2015 Analysis of joint peeling in an inflated flat toroidal membrane. Thin-walled Structures 94, pp. 521-531
  14. Roychowdhury, S., DasGupta, A. 2015 Inflating a flat toroidal membrane. International Journal of Solids and Structures 67-68, pp. 182-191
Institute / University Year  Degree Discipline
IIT Kharagpur 2019   PhD Mechanical Engineering
IIT Kharagpur 2014   MTech Mechanical Engineering
BESU Shibpur (Presently IIEST Shibpur) 2012   BE Mechanical Engineering

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)

  • 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 Shibpu
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