News-and-Updates - Anand K Kanjarla | Laboratory for Mechanics of Microstructures

News and Updates

2023

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2022

November 2022 - Congratulations to Sanket Thakre for defending his PhD thesis successfully

November 2022 - Congratulations to Darshan Chalapathi for defending his PhD thesis successfully

October 2022 - A new paper from the group: Reduced-order damage assessment model for dual-phase steels: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40192-022-00282-3

July 2022 - Congratulations to Soumya Sourav Sarangi for defending his Masters thesis. Best wishes for his PhD journey at Purdue University, USA.

2021

2025

September - Congratulations to Vikrant on completing his PhD colloquium
September - Congratulations to Avinash for getting placed in "Skyroot".
July - A new paper from the group: On the nature of variant selection along build direction in additively manufactured Ti-6Al-4V walls
doi: 10.1016/j.mtla.2025.102500
June - Congratulations to Avinash on completing his PhD colloquium
June - A new paper from the group: Slip vs. Twin Martensite in Additively Manufactured Ti-6Al-4V: A Grain Boundary Perspective
doi: 10.1016/j.mtla.2025.102463
June - Mohit presented a poster titled "Experiment and crystal plasticity modelling study of room temperature fatigue of IN718" at the 10th Symposium for Multiscale Materials Mechanics: Mechanism and Modelling (SMMM10), held in Kyoto, Japan.
June - K. Harikrishna joins the group as Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome !!
June - Mohit delivered an oral presentation titled "Back stress evolution in a nickel-based superalloy as a function of prestrain" at the 20th International Conference on Strength of Materials (ICSMA20), in Kyoto, Japan.
June - Muhaiyuddin joins as a PhD student in the group. Welcome !!
June - Anirvin Yenni joins as M.Tech student in the group. Welcome !!
May - A new paper from the group in collaboration with Prof. S. Natarajan and Prof. R. K. Annabattula: Damage growth in multiphase composites subjected to thermo-mechanical fatigue loading based on phase field method
doi: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2025.119273
April - Congratulations to Shiva for defending his PhD research proposal successfully.
March - Mohit attended the Annual Spring Meeting of the Japan Institute of Metals and Materials (JIMM) in Tokyo, Japan.
February - A new paper from the group in collaboration with Prof. Illaksh Adlakha: Impact of hydrogen distributions near screw dislocations on yield stress in α-Fe
doi: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2025.02.435
February - A new paper from the group in collaboration with Prof. Sundararajan Natarajan: Octree-based scaled boundary finite element approach for polycrystal RVEs: A comparison with traditional FE and FFT methods.
doi: 10.1016/j.cma.2025.117864
January - Congratulations to Mohit for defending his PhD research proposal successfully.
January - Congratulations to Avinash on being awarded the "Best Oral Presentation" at NAMS 2025.
January - Avinash and Vikrant attended the NAMS 2025 conference at VSSC, ISRO Thiruvananthapuram.
January - Congratulations to Vikrant for defending his PhD research proposal successfully.
January - Congratulations to Sarnath for defending his PhD thesis successfully.

2024

November - Congratulations to Pavan for getting placed in "Agnikul"
October - Mohit presented a poster titled "Experiment and crystal plasticity modelling study of room temperature fatigue of IN718" at the symposium organized by the Indian Scientists Association in Tokyo, Japan (ISAJ)
October - Shiva delivered an oral presentation titled "Octree-based scaled boundary finite element approach for polycrystal RVEs: a comparison with FEM and FFT" at the SICE 2025 conference, NIT Nagpur.
July - Shiva visited CISM, Udine, Italy to attend a course on "Variational Fracture Mechanics and Phase-Field Models"
June - Pavan Kumar Taduvai and Shyam Sunder Prabhu S join as M.Tech students in the group. Welcome !!
May - Congratulations to Vishal and Abhineet for defending their MTech thesis successfully.
April - Congratulations to Mohit on being awarded International Cooperative Graduate Program(ICGP) by NIMS, Japan.
March - Congratulations to Avinash for defending his PhD research proposal successfully.
March - A new paper from the group: Deformation twinning and the role of stacking fault energy during cryogenic testing of Ni-based superalloy. doi: 10.1016/j.msea.2024.146404
March - A new paper from the group: Process parameter optimization for LDED of Ti6Al4V.
doi: 10.1016/j.optlastec.2024.110861
February - Congratulations to Sarnath on completing his PhD colloquium.
February - A new paper from the group in collaboration with Prof. Ratna Kumar Annabattula: Study of crack propagation in multi-phase composites using phase field method.
doi: 10.1088/1361- 651X/ad29ae

2023

November - Congratulations to Avinash on being selected for Advanced Research Opportunities Program (AROP) at RWTH Aachen University, Germany.
October - Congratulations to Mahesh on being selected as Prime Minister's Research Fellow.
September - Vikrant Saumitra joins the group as a PhD student. Welcome !!
September - Avinash attended the EUROMAT 2023 conference in Germany.
September - Congratulations to Sarnath for defending his PhD research proposal successfully.
August - Raghavendra joins the group as Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome !!
August - Mahesh Arunprasath joins as a PhD student in the group. Welcome !!
July - A new paper from the group in collaboration with Dr. Chaitanya Paramatmuni: Relationship between inclination angle and twin growth in uniaxial compression of Mg alloys.
doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2023.145374
July - Congratulations to Darshan on his offer to join Professor H. Abdolvand's research group as a postdoctoral fellow at Western University, Canada!
June - Vishal Kumar Kadambala and Abhineet Kumar Baba join as M.Tech students in the group. Welcome !!
June - A new paper from the group in collaboration with Prof. Illaksh Adlakha: Effect of hydrogen on plasticity in iron.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ijplas.2023.103613
May - A new paper from the group in collaboration with Dr. Chaitanya Paramatmuni: Anisotropic compression behavior of Mg-Sn-Ca alloy.
doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2023.169163
May - Congratulations to Sakthi and Subhash for defending their MTech thesis successfully.
April - Darshan visited Alleima, Sweden to perform experiments and have discussions on the project.
March - A new paper from the group: Quantification of similarity and physical awareness of microstructures using GAN.
doi.org/10.1016/j.commatsci.2023.112074
February - A new paper from the group: Biaxial deformation of duplex stainless steels.
doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2023.144597

2022

December - Congratulations to Jayavarshini for getting placed in "Ohmium".
December - Congratulations to Subhash for getting placed in "Quantiphi".
December - Congratulations to Sakthi for getting placed in "Tata Steel".
November - Congratulations to Sanket Thakre for defending his PhD thesis successfully.
November - Congratulations to Sukumar Agaram for defending his PhD thesis successfully.
November - Congratulations to Darshan Chalapathi for defending his PhD thesis successfully.
October - A new paper from the group: Reduced-order damage assessment model for dual-phase steels.
doi.org/10.1007/s40192-022-00282-3
September - Congratulations to Sanket for getting placed in "Bosch Global Software Technologies".
August - A new paper from group: Surface reconstruction in core@shell nanoalloys.
doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2022.118038
July - Shiva Kumar Gaddam joins as a PhD student in the group. Welcome !!
July - Congratulations to Soumya Sourav Sarangi for defending his Masters thesis. Best wishes for his PhD journey at Purdue University, USA.