Hello!! This is Retam Paul, PhD (PMRF) from IIT Kanpur, India
"Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do" - Steve Jobs
About me
I am from the industrial town of Durgapur, West Bengal. I completed my 12th standard (AISSCE) from D.A.V. Model School, Durgapur (W.B). I did my B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Durgapur and currently pursuing my Ph.D. in Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (2018 onwards).
I enjoy problem solving, believe in second chances and the fact that eventually, everything will fall in its proper place. Am also an adept fiction lover / reader and a computer tech geek.
Ph.D. Thesis Topic
"Fracture Surface Topology via Phase Field Modeling (PFM)"
with Prof. (Dr.) P. Venkitanarayanan and Prof. (Dr.) Sumit Basu, IIT Kanpur
Overview of my work
Most experimental brittle fracture surfaces report persistent fracture profiles with high roughness/scaling exponents, whereas brittle linear elastic fracture surfaces report low roughness/scaling exponents. This scaling exponent is deemed universal. My work revolves around verification of this universality through computation, analytics and experimentation.
Research Interests
Computational Fracture mechanics, computational Solid mechanics, finite element method, phase field modeling, fracture surface topology, machine design
Updated CV
Salient course projects
Complex Variable analysis for a disc subjected to pressures subjecting different angles at the center.
Measurement of Stress Intensity Factor for a SEN(T) specimen with an inclusion
High Speed Experimental Mechanics (HSEM) Laboratory, Northern Lab (NL 216) Block, ME Department, IITK
Residence - Hall 11, Room C-305, IIT Kanpur, Kalyanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. PIN - 208016