Kaushik Dayal

Assistant Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University

Education and Experience

Assistant Professor, 2008 - present.
        Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

Postdoctoral Associate, 2006 - 2007.
        Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota
        Sponsors: Ryan S. Elliott and Richard D. James

Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering and minor in Materials Science), 2007.
        Nonlocal Microstructural Mechanics of Active Materials   (advised by Kaushik Bhattacharya)
        Division of Engineering, California Institute of Technology

M.S. (Aeronautics), 2001.
        Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories, California Institute of Technology (GALCIT)

B.Tech. (Naval Architecture), 2000.
        Ocean Engineering Center, Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Journal articles

Non-equilibrium Molecular Dynamics for the Viscometric Characterization of Bulk Materials and Nanostructures. Kaushik Dayal and Richard D. James. Preprint, 2009.

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

A real-space non-local phase-field model of ferroelectric domain patterns in complex geometries. Kaushik Dayal and Kaushik Bhattacharya. Acta Mater., 55:1907, 2007.
Recognized for the Acta Materialia Student Award 2008.

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

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

Patents

Ferroelectric nanophotonic devices. Harry Atwater, Kaushik Bhattacharya, Kaushik Dayal, Matthew Dicken, Demetri Psaltis, Axel Scherer, Guruswami Ravichandran. US Patent 7,346,248 B2. Issued Mar 18, 2008.

Contact information

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Civil and Environmental Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh PA 15213

Phone: +1-412-268-2949

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