1. Advanced Finite Element Methods, Material Modelling and Smart Materials

1. Finite Element Methods

2. Material Modelling

3. Smart Materials and Structures

4. Thermoelectric and wearable devices

5. Cold Spray Coating

1. Fellowship from Technical University Dortmund, Germany, 2009-2012

2. Fellowship from Technical University Dortmund, Germany, 2008-2009

3. 'Best Faculty of the Institute' Award from Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Sriperumpudur, Chennai, 2005

4. Keynote Speaker at 28th National Convention of Mechanical Engineers, 2012, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India

5. Invited Talk delivered at "National Finite Element Developers Meet" conducted at ISRO, Bangalore, 2017

6. Awarded 'The Overall Best Paper' under Design category at the International Conference held at NIT Warangal, India, 2019 (Co-author: Jannatul B)

7. Invited Talk delivered at "4th Structural Integrity Conference and Exhibition" at IIT Hyderabad, 2022.

Teaching

1. Associate Professor, IIITDM Kancheepuram (Since July 2019)

2. Assistant Professor, IIITDM Kancheepuram, (July 2014-July 2019)

3. Associate Professor, Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore (May 2012-June 2014)

4. Senior Lecturer at Srivenkateswara College of Engineering (Under Anna University), Sriperumbudur, Chennai (June 2000-July 2005)

5. Lecturer at Hindustan College of Engineering (Under Madras University), Chennai (Jan 1997-May 2000)

Research

1. Senior Researcher - Post Doctoral Fellow at Technical University, Dortmund, Germany (Nov 2009 - Apr 2012)

2. Research Scholar at Technical University, Dortmund, Germany (Sep 2008 -March 2009)

3. Half-time Teaching/Research Assistant at IIT Madras (Aug 2005-Oct 2009)

Industry

1. Tamil Nadu Transport Corporation Ltd. Chennai. (Sep 1995 - Sep 1996 )

1. Board of Studies Member for PG (M.Tech. in Sports Technology) Program at Tamil Nadu Physical Education and Sports University, Chennai

2. Board of Studies and Academic Council Member for UG and PG programs for some institutes affiliated to Anna University, Chennai

3. Peer review committee member for few DRDO projects

1. Engineering Mechanics

2. Mechanics of Materials

3. Kinematics and Dynamics of Mechanisms

4. Design of Machine Elements

5. Finite Element Methods

6. Machine Drawing

7. Basic Materials and Mechanics Practice

8. Mechanical Design Practice

1. K. Jayabal and S. M. Sivakumar. Model for Piezoceramics (Chapter 40), Encyclopedia of Structural Health Monitoring, 2009, John Wiley & Sons Inc. U.K., ISBN: 0470058226 (on invitation)

1. Dheeraj Kailas Valecha, Jayabal K and Amirtham Rajagopal, "Temperature-dependent model for ferroelectrics embedded into two-dimensional polygonal finite element framework", Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, 2023, DOI:10.1080/15376494.2023.2169793

2. Mathusuthanan M, Manoj Gembali, Narayanan R and Jayabal K, "Analysis of micro-cracks evolution in silicon cell during entire solar photovoltaic module manufacturing process," Solar Energy, 224, 1160–1169, 2021.

3. Sathish Kumar R and Jayabal K, " A rate-dependent constitutive model incorporated in two-dimensional PolyFEM for Galfenol sensors", Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, 29(6), 2021, doi.org/10.1088/1361-651X/ac11bb.

4. Sivarenjini T M, Anshu Panbude, Suhasini S, Kumar R, JAYABAL KALIAPPAN, pandiyarasan veluswamy and Malik Maaza, Design and Optimization of Flexible Thermoelectric Coolers for Wearable Applications, ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology, 2021, Doi.org/10.1149/2162-8777/ac19c1

5. Anshu Panbude, Suhasini Sathiyamoorthy, R. Kumar, H. Shankar, S. Paulraj, V. Kathirvel, A.M. Adam, E.M.M. Ibrahim, K. Jayabal, Pandiyarasan Veluswamy, Incorporation of polyaniline on graphene-related materials for wearable thermoelectric applications, Materials Letters, 304(2021) 130576

6. M.P. Saravanan, K. Marimuthu, K. Jayabal, Characteristic Investigation of Macro Fiber Composite Structure using FE Model, Archives of Metallurgy And Materials, 66 (2021), 4, 1059-1066, 2021.

7. A.M.Adam, E.M.M.Ibrahim, AnshuPanbude, K. Jayabal, Pandiyarasan Veluswamy, A.K.Diab, Thermoelectric power properties of Ge doped PbTe alloys, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 872 (2021) 159630, 2021.

8. Mathusuthanan M, Narayanan R and Jayabal K, "In-plane residual stress map for Solar PV module: A unified approach accounting the manufacturing process," IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2020.3029226, 2020.

9. Pandiyarasan Veluswamy, Suhasini Sathiyamoorthy, P. Thanga Gomathi, Jayabal K, R. Kumar, Denis Kuznetsov, Hiroya Ikeda, “A novel investigation on ZnO nanostructures on carbon fabric for harvesting thermopower on textile”, Applied Surface Science, 496, 143658, 2019.

10. Sathish Kumar R and Jayabal K, "Micromechanically motivated constitutive model embedded in two-dimensional polygonal finite element framework for Magnetostrictive actuators", Journal of Applied Physics, 125(19), 4101, 2019.

11. Sathish Kumar R and Jayabal K, "A Simplified Micromechanically Motivated Constitutive Model for Magnetostrictive Materials with Rate Effects", IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 55(2), 1-13, 2019.

12. Jayabal Kalippan and Andreas Menzel, “Modelling of non-linear switching effects in piezoceramics: a three-dimensional polygonal finite-element-based approach applied to Oligo-crystals”, Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, 26(17), 2322-2337, 2015.

13. K. Jayabal and A. Menzel. Voronoi-based three-dimensional Polygonal finite elements for electromechanical problems. Computational Materials Science, 2012, 64, 66-70.

14. K. Jayabal and A. Menzel. Polygonal finite elements for three-dimensional Voronoi-cell-based discretisations. European Journal of Computational Mechanics, 21 (1-2), 92-102, 2012.

15. K. Jayabal and A. Menzel. On the application of the polygonal finite element method for two-dimensional mechanical and electromechanically coupled problems. Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, 73 (2), 183-207, 2011.

16. K. Jayabal, A. Menzel, A. Arockiarajanand S. M. Srinivasan. Micromechanical modelling of switching phenomena in polycrystalline piezoceramics - Application of a polygonal finite element approach, Computational Mechanics, 48:421-435, 2011.

17. P. Pavankumar, K. Jayabal and A. Arockiarajan. A comparative study between finite element and polygonal finite element approaches for electromechanical coupled linear problems. Integrated Ferroelectrics, 120(1), 90-101, 2010.

18. K. Jayabal, D. Srikrishna T.S. Abhinandan, A. Arockiarajan, and S.M. Sivakumar. A thermodynamically consistent model with evolving domain structures in ferroelectrics. International Journal of Engineering Science, 47 (10), 1014-1024, 2009.

19. K. Jayabal, A. Arockiarajan, and S. M. Sivakumar. Multiaxial behavior of ferroelectric single and polycrystals with pressure dependent boundary effects. Computational Materials Science, 44 (4), 1222-30, 2009.

20. K. Jayabal, A. Arockiarajan, and S. M. Sivakumar. A micromechanical model for polycrystal ferroelectrics with grain boundary effects. Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, 27 (2), 111-124, 2008

1. Srinivasagan M, Khirupasaagar R and Jayabal (2022). "Fracture Analysis on Micromechanical Modeled Ferroelectrics Embedded with Scaled Boundary Finite Element Method", 4th Structural Integrity Conference and Exhibition, IIT Hyderabad, December 14-16, 2022.

2. Rajendra Kumar R T P, Jayabal K, Kamaraj M, Srinivasa Rao Bakshi (2022). "Modeling of cold spray coating with different angle deposition for repairing Aircraft Aluminum alloy", 4th Structural Integrity Conference and Exhibition, IIT Hyderabad, December 14-16, 2022.

3. Jayabal K (2022). "Micromechanical Modelling of Smart Materials as Applied to Voronoi-Based Discretizations", 4th Structural Integrity Conference and Exhibition, IIT Hyderabad, December 14-16, 2022.

4. Mathusuthanan M, Narayanan R, Pandiyarasan Veluswamy1 and Jayabal K, "Evolution of stress and fracture in solar PV modules during manufacturing process", International Workshop on Energy Technology and Sensor Systems (TENSYS-2021), Malaysia, December 21-22, 2021.

5. Srinivasagan M, Mahesh A, Arun Krishna B J and Jayabal (2021). "Application of scaled boundary finite element method for piezoelectric material res", 2nd International Conference on Future Technologies in Manufacturing, Automation, Design and Energy, NIT Puducherry, December 16-18, 2021.

6. Rajendra Kumar RTP and Jayabal (2021). "Modelling of cold spray coating bonding mechanism for Aluminum alloy", 2nd International Conference on Future Technologies in Manufacturing, Automation, Design and Energy, NIT Puducherry, December 16-18, 2021.

7. Jannatul Bashar and Jayabal K (2021). "A Critical Analysis of Design, Development, and Failure of Existing Stents", The Sixth International Conference on Advanced Production and Industrial Engineering (ICAPIE-2021), Delhi Technological University, Delhi, June 18-19, 2021.

8. Sathish Kumar R, Poonami Kumari and Jayabal K (2021). "A constitutive Model for Terfenol-D Based on Mircoscale Events", The Seventh Asian Conference on Mechanics of Functional Materials and Structures, Tohoku University, Japan, March 13-15, 2021

9. Pandiyarasan Veluswamy, S. Sowimya and Jayabal K (2020). "Incorporation of polyaniline on graphene-related materials/ cotton-fabric of electrode material for wearable thermoelectric device” poster presentation online at European Thermoelectric Society Conference (DWST 2020), Germany, Dec 2020

10. Jannatul Bashar and Jayabal K (2019). Analysis and Selection of Bio-Stents Using Finite Element Method, International Conference on Applied Mechanical Engineering Research, May 2-4, 2019, NIT Warangal, India. (Awarded “The Overall Best Paper” under Design category)

11. Mathusuthanan M, Karthic Narayanan R and Jayabal K, Numerical simulation of solar PV manufacturing process, 10th International Conference on Advancements in Polymeric Materials (APM-2019), January 22-24, 2019, Central Institute of Plastics Engineering & Technology (CIPET), Chennai, India

12. Abhijeet M Giri, K. Jayabal (2017). A Simplified Approach for Modelling of Constant Pitch and Variable Pitch Wave Springs, International Conference on Composite Materials and Structures, December 27-29, 2017, IIT Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India

13. G V Balakrishna, Sathish Kumar R, K Jayabal (2016). Micromechanically Motivated Uniaxial Model for PZT, International Conference on Design and Manufacturing, December 16-17, IIITDM Kacheepuram, Chennai, India

14. Jubin Antony and Jayabal K (2016). Rollover Dynamics of a Narrow Tilting Three-Wheeled Vehicle, International Conference on Mechanical, Manufacturing, Modeling and Mechatronics, IC4M 2016, February 27-29, 2016, Kuala Lumber, Malaysia

15. Gauri R and Jayabal K (2015). Contact Stress Analysis of Human Lumbar Spine, International Conference on Modern, Intelligent and Green Manufacturing, ICMIGM 2015, December 11-12, 2015, Erode, India

16. Ganesh S and Jayabal K (2015). Development and testing of Energy Harvesting Tiles, International Conference on Advances in Industrial and Production Engineering, AIPE 2015, December 26-27, 2015, Kochi, India

17. A. Menzel and K.Jayabal (2011). Micromechanical Modelling of Switching Phenomena in Polycrystalline ferroelectrics, 21st International Workshop on Computational Mechanics of Materials, Limerick Ireland.

18. K. Jayabal and A. Menzel (2010). Micromechanical modelling of switching phenomena in ferroelectrics, International Conference on Theoretical, Applied, Computational and Experimental Mechanics, December 27-29, 2010, IIT Kharagpur, India

19. K. Jayabal and A. Menzel (2010). Micromechanical modelling of switching phenomena in polycrystalline ferroelectrics, GAMM 4thSeminaron Multiscale Material Modelling, July 9-10, 2010, Technical University Bochum, Germany.

20. K. Jayabal, A. Menzel, A. Arockiarajan, and S.M. Sivakumar (2010). A micromechanically motivated model for ferroelectrics combined with polygonal finite elements, 81st Annual Meeting of the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, March 22-26, 2010, Karlsruhe, Germany [GAMM Proceedings of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics 10(1):299-300, 2010.

21. K. Jayabal, A. Menzel, A. Arockiarajan, and S.M. Sivakumar (2009). On polygonal finite elements applied to the modelling of polycrystalline ferroelectrics, 1st International Conference on Material Modelling, September 15-17, 2009, Technical University Dortmund, Germany.

22. K. Jayabal, A. Menzel, A. Arockiarajan, and S.M. Sivakumar (2009). Micromechanically motivated finite element model for ferroelectric ceramics, 80th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, February 9-13, 2009, Gdansk, Poland [GAMM Proceedings of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 9(1):327-328, DOI: 10.1002/pamm.200910137]

23. K. Jayabal, A. Arockiarajan, A. Menzel and S. M. Sivakumar (2008). Multi-axial behavior of ferroelectrics with two types of micro-macro mechanical models, IUTAM-MMSS 08, December 10-13, 2008, IISc Bangalore [IUTAM Book Series, volume 19, Springer Conference Proceedings, ISBN: 978-90-481-3770-1]

24. K. Jayabal, A. Arockiarajan, S. M. Sivakumar and C. Sansour (2008). Studies on grain-boundary effects of ferroelectric polycrystals, Smart Devices: Modeling of Material Systems, January 10-12, 2008, IIT Madras, Chennai [AIP conference proceedings 1029: 221-235]

25. K. Jayabal, A. Arockiarajan, S. M. Sivakumar (2007). A micromechanical model for ferroelectric single crystals incorporating friction effects, International Conference on Theoretical, Applied, Computational and Experimental Mechanics, December 27-29, 2007, IIT Kharagpur.

1. Jayabal K and Jannatul B, 'A Stent Design with Varying Geometry and Thickness along the Circumferential Direction', 202041008482, Published 2020.

2. Pandiyarasan Veluswamy, Sivarenjini TM, Suhasini Sathiyamoorthy, Jayabal K, Smart Jacket for all weather conditions, 202141043353A, 2021 (Indian Patent - Published).

3. Pandiyarasan Veluswamy, Sivarenjini TM, Suhasini Sathiyamoorthy, Jayabal K, Smart Jacket for all weather conditions, PCT/IN2022/000005, 2022 (PCT Patent - Submitted).