Research Areas and Interests

EICMD lab works in the following research areas

• Micromechanical modeling of structural and engineering materials

• Crystal Plasticity Finite Element Modeling (CPFEM)

• Materials testing and characterization

• Digital Image of Correlation (DIC) for full field strain measurements

• Discrete Dislocation Dynamics (DDD)

• Constitutive modeling of different deformation mechanisms

• Mechanical twinning in HCP metals and alloys

• TRansformation and TWinning Induced Plasticity (TRIP & TWIP) in steels

• Aerospace Aluminum alloys (Al-Cu-Li)

• Ni-based superalloys for high temperature applications

• Field dislocation mechanics and dislocation density based non local CP models

• Multiscale modeling of materials

EICMD lab will explore the following broad research areas in the near future

• Structural alloys for nuclear energy Application

• Multiscale modeling of hydrogen Embrittlement in high strength steels

• Strategies for the parameter identification for different constitutive models