Contact Info:
Kaushik Dayal
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
Office: 118J Porter Hall
Phone: 412-268-2949 Fax: 412-268-7813
Email: kaushik@cmu.edu
Website: www.ce.cmu.edu/~kdayal

Kaushik Dayal, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Areas of Interest:

mechanics of microstructure in materials, dynamics of active materials and phase transformations, ferroelectrics-based optical and electronic microstructured devices, molecular models of solids, mechanics of biological viruses and nanostructures

Education

Ph.D. 2007, California Institute of Technology

Select Publications:

• Kaushik Dayal and Kaushik Bhattacharya, Active tuning of photonic device characteristics during operation by ferroelectric domain switching, J. Appl. Phys., 102:064102, 2007.

• Kaushik Dayal and Kaushik Bhattacharya, A real-space, non-local, phase-field model of ferroelectric domain patterns in complex geometries, Acta Mater., 55:1907–1917, 2007.

• Mohamed El-Naggar, Kaushik Dayal, David Goodwin, and Kaushik Bhattacharya, Graded ferroelectric capacitors with robust temperature characteristics, J. Appl. Phys., 100:114115, 2006.

• Kaushik Dayal and Kaushik Bhattacharya, Kinetics of phase boundaries in the peridynamic formulation of continuum mechanics, J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 54:1811–1842, 2006.