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Journal Articles:

1.      Jitendra S. Tate and Ajit D. Kelkar; “Effect of Braid Angle on Fatigue Performance of Biaxial Braided Composites”, Accepted for Composites Part A: Applied Science and Engineering, 2005.    Pdf

2.      Ajit D. Kelkar and Jitendra S. Tate; “Low Cost Manufacturing of Textile Composite Using VARTM Process”, Published Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Research, vol. 1, July 2004     Pdf

3.      Jitendra S. Tate and Ajit D. Kelkar; “Stiffness Degradation Modeling of Biaxial Braided Composites”, Submitted to Composites Part B: Engineering, 2005     Pdf

4.      Jitendra S. Tate and Ajit D. Kelkar; “VARTM Manufacturing of Carbon Biaxial Braided Composites using Epoxy (EPON 9504) Resin System”, Submitted to Journal of Materials Processing technology (Elsevier), 2005     Pdf

5.      Tang, X., Whitcomb, J., Kelkar, A. D. and Tate, J.: “Progressive Failure Analysis of 2x2 Braided Composites Exhibiting Multiscale Heterogeneity”, Published Journal of Composites Science & Technology, 2005.     Pdf

 Conference Proceedings:

 1.      Ajit D. Kelkar, Jitendra S. Tate, Ronnie Bolick, and Pramod Chaphalkar; “Performance Evaluation of VARTM Manufactured Textile         

      Composites for Aerospace and Defense Applications”, The Third International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies 

      (ICMAT 2005) July 3-8, 2005 Singapore     Pdf

2.      Jitendra S. Tate and Ajit D. Kelkar; “Flexural Behavior of Biaxial Braided Composites”, ASME 2005 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Orlando, Florida, IMECE2005-81324, November 5-11, 2005     Pdf

3.      Ajit D. Kelkar, Jitendra S. Tate, John D. Whitcomb, and Deepak Goyal; “Behavior of Biaxial Braided Composites Subjected to Uniaxial Tensile Loading”, American Society for Composites, 20th Annual Technical Conference
September 7-9, 2005 - Philadelphia, PA     Pdf

4.      Jitendra S. Tate, Ajit D. Kelkar, and Ronnie Bolick; “Performance Evaluation of Notched Biaxial Braided Composites”, ASME 2004 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Anaheim, CA, IMECE2004-59883, Nov 13-19, 2004     Pdf

5.      Jitendra S. Tate and Ajit D. Kelkar; “Effect of Braid Angle on Fatigue Performance of Biaxial Braided Composites”, The 3rd Conference on Fatigue of Composites, Kyoto, Japan, Sep. 13-15, 2004     Pdf

6.      Jitendra S. Tate, Ajit D. Kelkar, and Ronnie Bolick; “Tension and Fatigue Behavior of Slit Sleeve Braided Composites”, 11th International Conference on Composites/Nano Engineering (ICCE11), South Carolina, Aug 11-14, 2004     Pdf

7.      Ajit D. Kelkar, Jitendra S. Tate, and John D. Whitcomb; “Durability of VARTM manufactured Textile Composites”, International Conference on Advances in Structural Integrity, Bangalore, India, July 14-17, 2004     Pdf

8.      Jitendra S. Tate, Ajit D. Kelkar and Vinaya A. Kelkar, “Failure Analysis of Biaxial Braided Composites under Fatigue Loading”, The 15th European Conference of Fracture, Stockholm, Sweden, August 11-13, 2004     Pdf

9.      Xiaodong Tang, John D. Whitcomb, Ajit D. Kelkar and Jitendra S. Tate; “Progressive Failure Analysis of 2x2 Braided Composites Exhibiting Multiscale Heterogeneity”, 18th ASC Technical Conference, Gainesville, Florida, USA, 18-22 October 2003     Pdf

10.  Jitendra S. Tate, Ajit D. Kelkar and John Rice; “Feasibility Study of VARTM Manufacturing of Carbon Biaxial Braided Composites using EPON 9504 Epoxy Resin System”, JISSE-8, 8th International SAMPE Symposium & Exhibition, Tokyo, 18-21 November 2003     Pdf

11.  Ajit D. Kelkar and Jitendra S. Tate; “Fatigue Behavior of VARTM Manufactured Biaxial Braided Composites”; ASME 2003 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and RD & D Exposition, Washington, D.C., USA, November 15-21, 2003     Pdf

12.  Ronnie Bolick, Ajit D. Kelkar and Jitendra S. Tate; “Fatigue Behavior of Post-Impacted VARTM Manufactured Woven Laminates”, 35th International SAMPE Technical Conference, Dayton, Ohio, USA, September 28-October 2, 2003      Pdf

13.  Anita A. Kelkar, Jitendra S. Tate and Ronnie Bolick; “Investigation of Braided Composites for Prosthetic Applications”, ICCE10, New Orleans, LA, USA, 20-26 July 2003, p 837-838     Pdf

14.  Ajit D. Kelkar, Jitendra S. Tate and Ron Bolick; “Introduction to Low Cost Manufacturing of Composite Laminates”, ASEE 2003 Annual Conference & Exposition, Nashville, TN, USA, June 22- 25, 2003     Pdf

15.  Ajit D. Kelkar and Jitendra S. Tate; “Effect of Fatigue Loading on the Stiffness Degradation of VARTM Manufactured Biaxial Braided Composites”; 9th International Conference on the Mechanical Behavior of Materials (ICM9), PALEXPO Congress Center, Geneva, Switzerland, May 25-29, 2003     Pdf

16.  Ajit D. Kelkar, Jitendra S. Tate, John Whitcomb and Xiaodong Tang; “Performance Evaluation and Modeling of Braided Composites”; 44th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference Norfolk, Virginia, USA, April 7-10 2003     Pdf

17.  Ajit D. Kelkar and Jitendra S. Tate; “Low Cost Manufacturing of Textile Composites Using Vacuum Assisted Resin Transfer Molding”, The 20th All India Manufacturing Technology, Design and Research Conference, AIMTDR, December 12-15, 2002, Ranchi, India, p712-716.    Pdf

18.  Ajit D. Kelkar, Jitendra S.Tate and Ron Bolick; “Low Cost Manufacturing of Biaxial Braided Composite Laminate” Ninth Annual International Conference on Composite Engineering, ICCE9, San Diego,USA, July 1-6, 2002,  p 373-374.     Pdf

19.  Ron Bolick, Ajit D. Kelkar and Jitendra S. Tate; “Comparative study of Riveted Joints and Adhesively bonded joints subjected to fatigue loading”, Eighth International Fatigue Congress, FATIGUE 2002, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2-7, 2002, p1087-1094.     Pdf