Assistant Professor
PhD (Indian Institute of Technology Patna)
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Research Interests: Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Implant Biomechanics, Additive Manufacturing, Constitutive Modelling of Materials, Finite Element Analysis, Fatigue and Fracture, Hydrogen Embrittlement
Professor Das obtained his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Patna and his MTech in Applied Mechanics from the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur.
He began his career as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. There, he worked to assess the material's low cycle fatigue and ratcheting performance for cryogenic application. Thereafter, he worked as Senior Engineer in the Methods Team at General Motors-TATA Consultancy Services, Bangalore
He has about 15 international publications in highly recognized journals such as the International Journal of Fatigue, Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, and the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. He has already amassed 200 citations to his publications.
He has conducted research work in collaboration with Tata Steel Limited, Jamshedpur, and General Motors, among others, to correlate laboratory-level experiments with a complete structural component failure analysis.
He also serves as a reviewer for highly rated journals in the field of design such as Material Science and Engineering A, International Journal of Fatigue, and International Journal of Hydrogen Energy.
Professor Das’ research focuses on the analysis of damage and deformation of engineering materials encountered during the service period of engineering components through Experiments and Constitutive Material Modelling. My interests span a wide range of research challenges that analyze the application of engineering materials and knowledge of Mechanics of solids and Machine Design in the safe design of an engineering component. A few of the areas are:
Low cycle and high cycle fatigue damage of Additive manufacturing and conventional materials
Design of biomedical implant
Constitutive Material Modelling (UMAT)- isotropic and kinematic hardening model
Ratcheting fatigue damage of metallic materials
Hydrogen embrittlement-fatigue interaction of high strength steel
Book Chapter
Conference Proceedings
Monsoon 2023
1. ENR 204- Mechanics of Rigid Bodies
2. ENR 100- Visualisation
Winter 2024
1. MEC206- Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing
2. ENR 100- Visualisation
1. Title: Development of mountaineering devices for cold climates
Funding agency: Indian Inovatix Limited
Duration-1 year
2. Title: Health monitoring and Structural Analysis of composite HAP panels
Funding agency: Tatvabodh Technology Private Limited
Duration-1 year
3. Title: Investigation of fatigue performance of additive manufacturing structural steel by experiment and constitutive material modeling
Funding agency: Ahmedabad University
Duration-1 year