ICME and Materials Genome Laboratory

This is research group of Prof. Alankar Alankar at Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Bombay. Alankar graduated with a B.Tech (Metallurgical Engineering) degree at IIT Roorkee, India, MASc (Materials Engineering) degree at The University of British Columbia, Canada and PhD (Mechanical Engineering) at Washington State University, USA under the supervision of Prof. David Field. After doctoral degree, he did postdoctoral research at Max-Planck Institut fur Eisenforshung, Germany under mentorship of Prof. Dierk Raabe and Prof. Philip Eisenlohr. His second post-doc stint was at Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA under the mentorship of Dr. Ricardo Lebensohn, Dr. Carlos Tome and Dr. Alfredo Caro. Subsequently he joined Modumetal, Inc. in Seattle, USA where he was responsible for design and architecture of metal nanolayered coatings. His area of research consists of dislocation theory, crystal plasticity modeling, multiscalemodeling of microstructure evolution, nanolayered materials, creep, irradiation damage, wear and degradation of materials and other regime of structure-property relationship.

We work in the area of development of improved methods of multiscale modeling of deformation and length scale bridging. The key areas of interests are Crystal Plasticity, Multiscale and Multi-physics problems, Dislocation Dynamics, Atomistic Simulations relevant to plasticity and deformation. Our major effort is in open-source code development or development of new modules for existing codes. For more info please visit https://www.me.iitb.ac.in/~alankar/