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Prof. Lallit Anand
Warren and Townley Rohsenow Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Primary DLC
Department of Mechanical Engineering
MIT Room:
1-310E
(617) 253-1635
anand@mit.edu
Areas of Interest and Expertise
Materials Science and Continuum Mechanics
Applied Mechanics
Materials Processing
Fracture and Fatigue
Mechanical Behavior of Materials
Energy Efficiency
Research Summary
Professor Anand's research focuses on the development of a physical understanding and quantitative modeling of inelastic deformation and failure phenomena in engineering materials. He has experimentally studied, and theoretically and computationally modeled the deformation and failure response of a wide variety of materials, with particular emphasis on formulating mathematical theories for large deformations of polycrystalline metals, granular materials, and polymers, as well as studies of shear-band localization phenomena which lead to ductile fracture. His recent research includes developing constitutive theories for plasticity of shape-memory metals, amorphous metallic glasses, and nanocrystalline materials, as well as higher-order strain-gradient theories for metal plasticity.
Anand has made substantial contributions to the development of plasticity theories at large deformations, and to the development of robust numerical methods for the implementation of these theories in finite-element-based computer programs. In particular, the following body of his work is widely-cited:
(*) Large-deformation high-temperature isotropic viscoplasticity, and attendant computational procedures: This work forms the basis of the finite-element implementation of plasticity in various widely-used commercial finite-element codes. This theory is now routinely used in applications ranging from the computational design of three-dimensional deformation processes, to reliability prediction of solder-joints and thermal design of electronic packaging.
(*) Large-deformation crystal plasticity: This work includes a detailed accounting of the underlying inelastic deformation mechanisms of slip, twinning, and phase-transformations, and has been used to develop continuum-level models of the anisotropic response of fcc, bcc, and hcp polycrystalline materials. Robust computational procedures for these complex constitutive equations have been developed, and these procedures have been applied to study crystallographic texture evolution and anisotropy in a wide variety of deformation processing operations.
Recent Work
Projects
February 24, 2011
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Performance Evaluation and Life Prediction Modeling of Industrial Gas Turbine Blade Coatings Used in Saudi Arabia
Principal Investigator
Lallit Anand
March 16, 2006
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Solid Mechanics and Materials Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Lallit Anand
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