Assistant Professor
CS & AI
National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan.
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AI-Enabled Pipeline Failure Prevention and Thermo-Mechanical Analysis in Geotechnical environment using DEM–FEA Integration
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Computational Intelligence & Simulation Integration, DEM-FEA
Mail: mathivanan@sru.edu.in
Ph.D. in Graduate Institute of Manufacturing Technology, (Mechanical Engineering),National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan.
M.E. in Manufacturing Engineering (Mechanical Engineering), Thanthai Periyar Government Institute of Technology, Vellore, Anna University, India.
B.E. in Mechanical Engineering, Prince Dr. K. Vasudevan College of Engineering and Technology, Anna University, Chennai, India
Assistant Professor at SR University, Warangal, from 2025-09-12 to .
Postdoc Researcher at Hongik University, South Korea, from 2023-03-01 to 2025-02-28.
Assistant Professor at Thiruvalluvar College of Eng and Tech, Anna UniversityTamil Nadu, from 2017-06-01 to 2018-01-31.
Durai Mathivanan, Durai, M., Erusappan, E., Gopi, S. and Somu, P., 2026. Engineering atomic precision: MOF-derived single-and dual-atom catalysts for sustainable hydrogen production. Fuel, 413, p.138305.
Daniel, M.P., Kumar, P.S.M., Durai, M., Devanesan, S., Shanmugapriya, D., Durai, M., Lee, S.Y. and Wadaan, M.A., 2026. Harnessing TiO2–STA nano-interfaces with improved electrical conductivity for the efficient photocatalytic removal of methylene blue dye. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 48(2), p.77.
Durai Mathivanan, Srinivasan R, Gomez LA, Somu P, Gnanasekaran L, Thomas N, Erusappan E, Manivannan K, Periyasami G, Jeffery AA. MXene/CoP hybrid: Role of catalyst/support interaction on enhancing the electrocatalytic water oxidation performance. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 2025 Aug 20;160:150616.
Kumaravel S, Chandramoorthy C, Gnanasekaran L, Durai Mathivanan, Vijayakumar P, Durai M, Priya SD, Fatehmulla A, Alagarasan JK, Ahn YH. Multi-walled carbon nanotube integrated Ni–Co hydroxide/Cu2 (OH) 3NO3 heterostructures for efficient oxygen evolution in alkaline media. Electrochimica Acta. 2025 Nov 21:147859,
Kumaravel S, Chandramoorthy C, Durai M, Thirumurugan A, Sandoval-Hevia G, Somu P, Afzal M, Durai Mathivanan, Liu CM. Br-modified nitrogen-rich g-C3N5 integrated ?-Fe2O3 heterostructures for efficient electrocatalytic water splitting and norfloxacin detoxification under LED lighting. Separation and Purification Technology. 2025 Sep 23:135332
Majumder S, Karade SS, David A, Durai Mathivanan, Somu P, Sandoval-Hevia G, Alanazi AK, Kim KH. Eco-Friendly Deep Eutectic Solvent Mediated Synthesis of Dendritic FeCo2O4 Nanorods for High-Performance Supercapacitors. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects. 2025 Sep 17:138415.
Ragupathy S, Srividhya B, Durai M, Kumar DS, Erusappan E, Afzal M, Durai Mathivanan, Yadav AK, Ahn YH. Preparation and Characterization of an Activated Carbon?Derived from Almond Shell for the Removal of Rhodamine B Dye: Kinetics, Isotherm, and Thermodynamics Analysis. ChemistrySelect. 2025 Aug;10(32):e02146.
6. Sakthivel Kumaravel, Mani Durai, Elangovan Erusappan, Arun Thirumurugan, Gabriela Sandoval-Hevia, Mohd Afzal, Mathivanan Durai, Dae Sung Lee, Bifunctional RuO2/ZnO@rGO electrocatalysts for efficient alkaline seawater electrolysis and solar-light degradation of organic pollutants, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2025.
Cittrarasu vetrivel, Mani Durai, Daochen Zhua, Mathivanan Dura?, Shivakumara K N, Ayman A. Ghfar, M. Ajithkumar, B. Subash, Surya Chinnasamy?, Youn Ho Ah, Modern screen-printed carbon electrodes modified with multilayered double transition metals carbides (MXenes) for Ascorbic Acid Detection in Urine and sweat samples, Journal of Molecular Structure, Vol. 1342, 2025: 142738.
Anandhakumari G, Jayabal P, Balasankar A, Venkatesan R, Shazly GA, Oh TH, Durai Mathivanan, Somu P, Ramasundaram S. Investigating the structural and photocatalytic characteristics of SrO–SnO? nanocomposites. Scientific Reports. 2025 Jul 22;15(1):26594
Sakthivel Kumaravel, Subramaniyan Ramasundaram* Vijayakumar Paranthaman, Arulraj Simon Prabu, Praveen Barmavatu, Mohammad Rafe Hatshan, Jagadeesh Kumar Alagarasan* Mathivanan Durai*, Lalitha Gnanasekaran, Tae Hwan Oh, Hierarchical design of NiFe2O4@BN/g-C3N4 Z-scheme heterojunctions for enhanced photocatalytic detoxification of tetracycline: Optimization of key parameters, and H2 evolution, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Vol. 134, April, 2025: 268-282
K.Saravanakumar, Anand Viswanathan, K.Ravikumar, Mathivanan Durai, S.Devi, P.Shanmuga Priya, Deep learning-based Heart disease Risk prediction using Soft Max deep Scaling Gated Adverbial Neural Network ‘Rundschau,’ 2025,
R. Inbaraj, R.B.Dravidapriyaa, Naveenya B P, Mathivanan Durai, Integrating Deep Learning and Traditional Learning for Content Based Image Retrieval System in Lymphoma Diagnosis, ‘Rundschau,’ 2025,
Suppuraj Palusamy, Shalini Anbazhagan, Krishnakumar Balu, Mani Durai, Thirunarayanan Ganesamoorthy, Sranjeevi Ravichandran, Perwez Alam; Mathivanan Durai*, Young-Ho Ahn, Pd-TiO2/ZnFe2O4 photocatalyst for photocatalytic degradation of ciprofloxacin under solar light irradiation, Journal of Molecular Structure, Vol. 1339, 2025: 142352
Mohd Afzal, Pronab Kundu, Abdulnasser Mahmoud Karami, Tapas Kamilya, Ali Akhtar, Mani Durai, Krishnamoorthy Shanmugaraj, Jinhyoung Park, Praveen Barmavatu, Md Kasif, Mathivanan Durai*, Aniruddha Mondal, Young Ho Ahn, “Surface engineered naturally derived antioxidant carbon dots and its light triggered nitric oxide release behavior,” Diamond and Related Materials, Vol. 154, 2025: 112203, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diamond.2025.112203
H.N. Shwetha Shree, H.J. Arpitha, H.D. Priyanka, Nagma Banu, Ramachandran Srinivasan, S.M. Anush, Mohammad Khalid Al-Sadoon, Mathivanan Durai, Lalitha Gnanasekaran, Gurusamy Raman, Akhilesh Kumar Yadav, “Effective removal of metal ions using MoS2 functionalized chitosan Schiff base incorporated with C3N4 nanoparticle from aqueous solutions,” International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, Vol. 307, 2025: 141402.
Umaiyambika Neduvel Annal, Mary Sahaya Anisha John Bosco, Raman Gurusamy, Paskalis Sahaya Murphin Kumar, Mohd Afzal, Pankaj Khurana, Mathivanan Durai, “Ultrasound-Assisted Biodiesel Production from Peltophorum pterocarpum Oil: A Comparative Analysis of Prediction Accuracy between RSM and ANFIS,” Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology, Vol. 65, 2025, 103545,
Alshoaibi, Adil, N. C. H. Ramgopal, Subramaniyan Ramasundaram, K. Upendranath, Mallappa Mahanthappa, Mohd Fahad, Mani Durai, Barmavatu P, Oh TH, Vishwanath RS, Mathivanan Durai*, “NiS/NiS2-embedded sulfur-doped porous graphitic carbon nitride nanosheets as an efficient catalyst for 4-nitrophenol reduction,” Diamond and Related Materials, Vol. 153, 2025: 112110
Mathivanan Durai*, R. B. Dravidapriyaa, S.P. Prakash, Wanjale, K. H., M. Kamarunisha, & M. Karthiga. (2025). “Student Interest Performance Prediction Based On Improved Decision Support Vector Regression Using Machine Learning,” International Journal of Computational and Experimental Science and Engineering, 11(1), 2025
Sakthivel, K., Katla Venkata, R., Chandramoorthy, C., Lavanya G., Theophile, N., Elangovan, E., Mathivanan Durai, Imran, H., Mani, D. h, Krishnakumar B. “Fabrication and characterization of solar active BN coupled with ZnO composite catalysts for efficient photocatalytic detoxification of methyl orange dye under solar and visible light irradiation,” Optical Materials 150, 2024: 115236,
Mathivanan Durai*, Huang, C.W., Chi-Chuan, P., Lan, C.W., Son, K.J. and Chang, H., “Experimental Study on the Simulated Defects Detection in Submerged Transmission Pipeline,” Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, 2023 Dec 1;145(6
Ramamoorthy, M., Durai Mani, Margandan Karunanithi, J. Josphin Mini, A. Babu, Mathivanan Durai, S. Ragupathy, and Young-Ho Ahn. “Influence of metal doping and non-metal loading on photodegradation of methylene blue using SnO2 nanoparticles,” Journal of Molecular Structure, Vol. 1286, 2023: 135564
Durai, M., Chauhan, D., Mathivanan Durai, Saravanan, M., Kumaravel, S., Erusappan, E. and Ahn, Y.H., 2022, “Layered KTO/BiOCl nanostructures for the efficient visible light photocatalytic degradation of harmful dyes,” Chemosphere, Vol. 306, 2022 p.135659.
Mathivanan Durai*, Chou-Wei, Chang Ho, “In-line Detection of Defects in Steel Pipes using Flexible GMR Sensor Array,” Journal of King Saud University-Science, Vol. 34, 2022, p.101761
Mathivanan Durai*, Lin Zi-Qi, Lan Chou-Wei, Chang Ho, Peng Chi-Chuan, “Study of Defects in the Petrochemical Storage Tank Floor using the Magnetic Flux Leakage (MFL) Technique,” Journal of Failure Analysis and Prevention. Vol. 22, 2022, pp. 1-8.
Mathivanan Durai*, Peng Chi-Chuan, Chou-Wei Lan, Ho Chang, “Analysis of Leakage in a Sustainable Water Pipeline Based on a Magnetic Flux Leakage Technique,” Sustainability. vol. 14, no. 19, 2022, p.11853
Mani, D., Mathivanan Durai, Chang, Ho., Sakthivel, K., Elangovan, E., Sivakumar, T., Arivanandhan, M. and Jayavel, R., “A facile synthesis of novel ?-Fe2O3 grafted 2D h-BN nanostructures for enhanced visible active photocatalytic applications,” New Journal of Chemistry, Vol. 44, no. 28, 2020, pp. 12289-12298. SCIE, Q1, (Co-Author, I.F.: 2.7).
Kumaravel, S., Thiripuranthagan, S., Vembuli, T., Erusappan, E., Mathivanan Durai, Sureshkumar, T. and Durai, M., “Fabrication of mesoporous WO3-SBA-15 catalysts and enhanced photocatalytic degradation of harmful dyes,” Optik, Vol. 235, 2021, p.166599
Mathivanan Durai, Sivakumar Mani, Chang Ho., Young-Ho Ahn, and Durai, Mani, “An enhanced electrochemical energy storage performance based on porous activated carbon and hard carbon derived from natural maple leaf,” Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, Vol. 32, no. 3, 2021, pp. 3487-3497
Mathivanan Durai*, Yang-Min Hsu, and Chang Ho., “In-Line Inspection of Pipeline Defects Detection Using Ring-Type Laser,” World Journal of Engineering and Technology, Vol. 9, no.3, 2021, pp. 589-603.