Aditya Shankar Khanna

Dr. Aditya Shankar Khanna is a Lecturer in Applied Mechanics in the School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering at the University of Queensland, commencing in 2023. He earned a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (Honours) and a Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Adelaide. Before joining UQ, he served as an engineering consultant in dynamics and vibration at Vipac Engineers & Scientists Ltd and as an adjunct lecturer at the University of Adelaide. An affiliate of the Centre for Advanced Materials Processing and Manufacturing (AMPAM), his research focuses on stress analysis, fatigue and fracture assessment, structural dynamics, vibration control, and non-destructive testing. These interests span composite and hybrid materials, dynamics, geomechanics, materials engineering, numerical modelling, resources engineering, solid mechanics, and extractive metallurgy. He supervises PhD projects on dental crown failures, offshore wind-turbine dynamic failures, vibration instabilities, and chaotic flutter control. Current funding includes an NHMRC Ideas Grant (2025-2028) for tooth-mimicking zirconia crowns, an ARC Discovery Project (2025-2026) on fatigue life assessment, and the Grassie Rail Research Initiative (2024-2029) on railway squats and studs.

Khanna has authored over 50 publications since 2012, including journal articles such as "Geometric deviation and compressive failure of Ti-6Al-4V alloy honeycomb structures printed by laser powder bed fusion examined by X-ray microcomputed tomography" (Progress in Additive Manufacturing, 2026), "A compliance-based method for correcting fatigue crack growth data in the presence of residual stresses" (International Journal of Fatigue, 2025), "A method for the evaluation of crack tip opening loads based on strip yield modeling of a propagating crack" (Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures, 2025), "Fatigue crack growth rates and crack tip opening loads in CT specimens made of SDSS and manufactured using WAAM" (Materials, 2024), "Damage detection with the fundamental mode of edge waves" (Structural Health Monitoring, 2021), and "The potential for structural simulation to augment full scale fatigue testing: A review" (Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 2020). His conference papers address topics like continuum theories for solid-state electrolytes (2024) and vibration assessment of pressure vessels (2023). He is available for media on fatigue failures, stress analysis, vibration, and dynamics.

Professional Email: aditya.khanna@uq.edu.au