Amit Acharya-Civil and Environmental Engineering - Carnegie Mellon University

Amit Acharya

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Address:
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
Office: Porter Hall 101
Phone: 412-268-4566
Fax: 412-268-7813
Email: acharyaamit@cmu.edu
Website: http://www.ce.cmu.edu/~amita/

Education

Ph.D. 1994, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Research

Continuum dislocation mechanics, coarse-graining of nonlinear evolutionary systems, computational modeling of elastic and inelastic behavior of solids, nonlinear shell theory, fluid-structure interaction including mass transfer.

Publications

  • Fressengeas, C.; Acharya, A.; Beaudoin, A. "Dislocation mediated continuum plasticity: case studies on modeling scale-dependence, scale-invariance, and directionality of sharp yield point", Springer, pp. 277-309 (2010).
  • Puri, S.; Acharya, A.; Rollett, A. D. "Controlling Plastic Flow across Grain Boundaries in a Continuum Model, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions", Metallurgical & Materials Transactions (2010).
  • Acharya, A. "New inroads in an old subject: Plasticity, from around the atomic to the macroscopic scale", Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 58, pp. 766-778 (2010).
  • Acharya, A.; Matthies, K.; Zimmer, J. "Travelling wave solutions for a quasilinear model of field dislocation mechanics", Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 58, pp. 2043-2053 (2010).
  • Mach, J.; Acharya, A.; Beaudoin, A. "Continuity in the plastic strain rate and its influence on texture evolution", Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 58, pp. 105-128 (2010).