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 was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay for two years.

Professor Das has worked at Tata Consultancy Services-General Motors, Bangalore. He has conducted research work in collaboration with Tata Steel Ltd and General Motors, among others, to correlate laboratory level experiments with a full structural component failure analysis.

He is a reviewer of highly rated international journals, such as, Material Science and Engineering A, and International Journal of Fatigue.

Professor Das’ research includes plasticity, fatigue and fracture, and constitutive modelling of materials, with focus on assessment of cyclic plasticity failure and the life of structural components. He has employed finite element modelling (ABAQUS®) as well as experimental techniques. In his doctoral dissertation, he investigated cornering fatigue life prediction of DP 600 steel wheel disc.

• Bimal Das, Akhilendra Sing, Puja Ghosal, Ashish Priya, R. Rohith Kumar Reddy. An experimental and numerical study on strain controlled fatigue response of TRIP steel under influence of hydrogen. International Journal of Fatigue. 2023; 173:107365 (SCI, IF- 5.489)
• Maharaja Hitarth Ajaybhai, Bimal Das, Amit Singh and Sushil Mishra. Comparative assessment of strain-controlled fatigue performance of SS 316L at room and low temperatures. International Journal of Fatigue. 2022:166:107251 (SCI, IF- 5.489)
• Bimal Das, Akhilendra Singh, Surajit Kumar Paul, Kanwer Singh Arora, Mahadev Shome. The effect of thickness variation and pre-strain on the cornering fatigue life prediction of a DP600 steel wheel disc. International Journal of Fatigue. 2020; 139. DOI:10.1016/ijfatigue.2020.105799. (SCI, IF- 5.489)
• Bimal Das, Akhilendra Singh, Surajit Kumar Paul, Kanwer Singh Arora, Mahadev Shome. Correlation between fatigue response of preformed bend DP600 steel specimen and wheel disc. Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering materials and Structures. 2020;43: 2842–2853. DOI: 10.1111/ffe.13299. (SCI, IF- 3.373)
• Bimal Das, Akhilendra Singh, Surajit Kumar Paul. Low cycle fatigue performance of DP600 steel under various pre-straining paths. International Journal of Fatigue. 2020;132. (SCI, IF- 5.489)
• Bimal Das, Akhilendra Singh, Kanwer Singh Arora KS, Mahadev Shome, Surajit Kumar Paul. Influence of pre-straining path on high cycle fatigue performance of DP 600 steel. International Journal of Fatigue. 2019;126: 369–380. (SCI, IF- 5.489)
• Puja Ghosal, Surajit Kumar Paul, Bimal Das, Manaswini Chinara, Kanwer Singh Arora. Notch fatigue performance of DP600 steel under different pre-straining paths. Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics. 2020;108. (SCI, IF- 4.374)
• Bimal Das, Akhilendra Singh. Influence of hydrogen on the low cycle fatigue performance of P91 steel. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 2020; 45(11):7151-7168. (SCI, IF- 7.139)
• Bimal Das, Akhilendra Singh. Understanding strain controlled low cycle fatigue response of P91 steel through experiment and cyclic plasticity modeling. Fusion Engineering and Design. 2019;138:125-133. (SCI, IF- 1.905)
• Pankaj Kumar, Bimal Das, Akhilendra Singh. Evaluation of Uniaxial Ratcheting and Post Ratcheting Tensile Performance of Aluminum Alloy 5754. IMech. E. Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science. 2019; 233: 5033-5047. (SCI, IF- 1.758)

Book Chapter

• Bimal Das, Akhilendra Singh. Low Cycle Fatigue Life Estimation of P91 Steel by Strain Energy-Based Approach. 2019. Mechanical Fatigue of metals. Springer.

Conference Proceedings

• Bimal Das, Akhilendra Singh. Cyclic mean stress relaxation behavior of P91 steel: Experiments and constitutive modeling. Procedia Structural Integrity. 2019;14:619-626. (Scopus)
• Bimal Das, Md Abu Bakkar, Niloy Khutia, Debdulal Das. Low Cycle Fatigue Performance Evaluation of TMT rebar. Materials Today Proceedings. 2017;4:2554-2563. (Scopus)

Professor Das will be teaching theory and laboratory-based courses on mechanics and related design courses.