Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Geometry and mechanics of defects and singular interfaces in thin structures (continuous distributions of point defects, dislocations, and disclinations; residual stresses); Topological and differential geometric methods in mechanics; Finite deformation plasticity (strain-gradient theory, interfaces, stability); Interfacial kinetics in solids (grain boundaries, incoherent phase fronts, and junctions); Nonlinear elasticity (biological growth mechanics); History and mechanics of Indian musical instruments (percussion and string instruments)
Office
FB-359 ,
Department of Mechanical Engineering
IIT Kanpur,
Kanpur 208016
Continuum mechanics; Elasticity; Plasticity; Slender structures
PhD, UC Berkeley 2008
Thesis Title:Plastic flow in solids with interfaces
Thesis Supervisor:David Steigmann
M.S. UC Berkeley, 2003
B.Tech IIT Roorkee, 2002
Mechanics of solids
Continuum mechanics
Applied Mathematics
Linear elasticity
Nonlinear elasticity
Plasticity
Micromechanics
Thin structures
Fracture mechanics
Musical acoustics