Dr. Dhiraj K. Mahajan
Assistant Professor
Material engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Ropar
India
Biography
Dr. Dhiraj Mahajan joined IIT Ropar as Assistant Professor in 2013. Prior to this, he was a researcher at ICAMS (Interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Materials Simulations) in Ruhr University, Bochum (Germany), which he joined soon after his Ph.D from IIT Kanpur. His group at IIT Ropar is focused on correlating micro-structure, deformation and fracture mechanisms, mechanical properties and manufacturing of materials. They use experimental as well as multiscale simulation techniques such as molecular dynamics, crystal plasticity finite element method (CPFEM) and DFT.
Research Interest
Role of grain boundaries in fatigue failure of steels under hydrogen environment Crystal plasticity based modeling of metal plasticity Material behavior modeling based on Molecular Dynamics Mechanics and physics of polymeric materials Thermoplastic polymer-substrate adhesion improvement based on substrate surface modifications
Publications
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S. Basu, D. K. Mahajan, and E. Van Der Giessen. Micromechanics of the growth of a craze fibril in glassy polymers. Polymer, 46(18): 7504{7518, August 2005. doi:10.1016/j.polymer.2005.05.148
