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

Amit Acharya, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering & Materials Science Engineering

Areas of Interest:

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

Education

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

Select Publications:

  • Acharya, A. (2007) Jump condition on GND evolution as a constraint on slip transmission at grain boundaries, Philosophical Magazine, 87, 1349-1359.
  • Roy, A., Puri, S., Acharya, A. (2007) Phenomenological Mesoscopic Field Dislocation Mechanics, Lower-Order Gradient Plasticity, and transport of mean excess dislocation density, Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, 15, S167-S180.
  • Varadhan, S. V., Beaudoin, A. J., Acharya, A., Fressengeas, C. (2006) Dislocation transport using and explicit Galerkin/least-squares formulation, Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, 14, 1245-1270.
  • Acharya, A., Sawant, A. (2006) On a computational approach for the aproximate dynamics of averaged variables in nonlinear ODE systems: toward the derivation of consitutive laws of the rate type, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 54, 2183-2213.
  • Sawant, A., Acharya, A. (2006) Model Reduction via Parametrized Locally Invariant Manifolds: Some Examples, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 195, 6287-6311.