Abhijit Brahme

Research interests:

• Microstructure
• Material Science
• Crystal Plasticity
• Modelling
• Mechanical Properties

Education:

• BSC, University of Pune, India
• MSC, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
• PhD, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Summary of work:

The current need for light weighting requires the development of new materials that meet the targets while still having desired mechanical properties. The typical development-to-deployment for new materials takes about 20 years; To fast track this process, a new set of computational tools need to be developed. This requires a thorough understanding of the material behavior and the factors that govern the behavior at multiple scales. My work focusses on analysis of material response of high strength aluminum alloys, advanced high strength steel as well as magnesium alloys and use it in the development of new physically based models using crystal plasticity. These can then be used in conjunction with other techniques, like ab-initio calculations, to bridge the scale or other methods, like cellular automata and Monte-Carlo methods, to develop through processing models, both of which are my interest areas. I also work on developing representative synthetic microstructures that capture the underlying relevant statistics.

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