Long Term Goals

Inventing a transparent material with metal like strength and ductility.

Studying mechanical behavior of metals that are obtained from meteors and asteroids.

Strain Engineered Semiconductor Devices and Flexible Electronics

Non-newtonian fluid and rheological mixtures

About Myself

My passion lies in understanding mechanical behavior of materials at various length and time scales. I developed this interest in solid mechanics through finding answers to many of the questions that occurred to me at various periods of my undergraduate study. Few of those questions are listed here.

• How can materials behave differently under different conditions (Eg: Brittle and ductile behavior of same metal)?
• What causes plasticity and how is it a dissipative process?
• Why is an exact 45° failure plane not observed when one break a piece of chalk using torsion?
• Why should stress concentrate around a geometric discontinuity?
• How 1% alloying can significantly strengthen the material?

These queries exposed me to diverse and advanced topics in mechanics of materials such as dislocation dynamics, isogeometric analysis, metamaterials, active materials, and viscoelasticity. These inquiries act as a major source of curiosity. Especially that "aha" moment I experience once I figured answers to these doubts and the delight that I procure by comprehending the underlying physics deeply are the key factors that created interest towards mechanics of materials.