Education

• Ph.D., Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University, 1985.
• M.S., Structures, Indian Institute of Science, India, 1980.
• B.S., Civil Engineering, Punjab Engineering College, India, 1978.

Areas of Research

Dr. Saigal has a variety of research interests ranging from early interests in computational mechanics and nanotechnology-composite structures to recent projects in computational cardio-mechanics and orthopedic biomechanics.

Current Areas of Research

• Nanotechnology-composite structures
• Computational cardio-mechanics
• Orthopedic biomechanics.

Text

Ken Chong, Sunil Saigal, Stefan Thynell, Modeling and Simulation Based Life-Cycle Engineering, e-book. 

Publications

David White, Sunil Saigal, Steven J. Owen: Meshing complexity: predicting meshing difficulty for single part CAD models. Eng. Comput. (Lond.) 21(1): 76-90 (2005). 

David R. White, Sunil Saigal, Steven J. Owen: CCSweep: automatic decomposition of multi-sweep volumes. Eng. Comput. (Lond.) 20(3): 222-236 (2004). 

David R. White, Sunil Saigal, Steven J. Owen: Meshing Complexity of Single Part CAD Models. IMR 2003: 121-134 (2003). 

David R. White, Sunil Saigal: Improved Imprint and Merge for Conformal Meshing. IMR 2002: 285-295 (2002). 

Z. I. Salem, Sunil Saigal, Scott A. Canann: Mid-Node Admissible Space for 3D Quadratic Tetrahedral Finite Elements. Eng. Comput. (Lond.) 17(1): 39-54 (2001). 

Steven J. Owen, Matthew L. Staten, Scott A. Canann, Sunil Saigal: Advancing Front Quadrilateral Meshing Using Triangle Transformations. IMR 1998: 409-428 (1998).