# overview
My research focuses on micromechanical modeling of heterogeneous materials; microstructure-based crystal plasticity finite element modeling; phase transformations, statistical fracture modeling; quantifying constitutive behavior of materials by small scale experiments; in-situ mechanical testing; failure analysis; and microstructure design.

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Computer-aided Materials Design; Integrated Computational Materials Engineering; Multi-phase Materials; Information Fusion; Optimal Materials Design

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Computational Materials Science And Engineering

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4019 Resources Engineering And Extractive Metallurgy

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University of North Texas - (Denton, Texas, United States)

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Brown University - (Providence, Rhode Island, United States)

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University of North Texas - (Denton, Texas, United States)

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University of North Texas - (Denton, Texas, United States)

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Efficiently exploiting process-structure-property relationships in material design by multi-information source fusion

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Phenomenological modeling of the effect of specimen thickness on the creep response of Ni-based superalloy single crystals

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Studies on the behavior of part-through circumferential crack at intrados in elbows under in-plane bending moment

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The effect of loading rate on ductile fracture toughness and fracture surface roughness

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Effect of specimen thickness on the creep response of a Ni-based single-crystal superalloy

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Influence of strain rate sensitivity on localization and void coalescence

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Flow behaviour of autoclaved, 20% cold worked, Zr2.5Nb alloy pressure tube material in the temperature range of room temperature to 800C

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Interaction of Void Spacing and Material Size Effect on Inter-Void Flow Localization

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Structural and microstructural influence on deformation and fracture of dual-phase steels

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Multi-Information Source Fusion and Optimization to Realize ICME: Application to Dual Phase Materials

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On the non-classical crystallographic slip in Tin+1AlCn MAX phases

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Effect of crystal orientation on porosity evolution in a creeping single crystal

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Materials Design Through Batch Bayesian Optimization with Multisource Information Fusion

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Mechanical properties and microstructure evolution of Ti2AlC under compression in 25-1100 degrees C temperature range

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Correlating Prior Austenite Grain Microstructure, Microscale Deformation and Fracture of Ultra-High Strength Martensitic Steels

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Dynamics of Necking and Fracture in Ductile Porous Materials

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Grain boundary crack growth in metastable titanium beta alloys

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Void growth versus void collapse in a creeping single crystal

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On the importance of microstructure information in materials design: PSP vs PP

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Effect of inclusion density on ductile fracture toughness and roughness

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Ductile fracture of dual-phase steel sheets under bending

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Implications of post-processing induced microstructural changes on the deformation and fracture response of additively manufactured Ti-6Al-4V

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Porosity evolution in a creeping single crystal

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Adaptive active subspace-based efficient multifidelity materials design

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Non-classical crystallographic slip in a ternary carbide - Ti2AlC

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Solid/Self-Lubrication Mechanisms of an Additively Manufactured Ni-Ti-C Metal Matrix Composite

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The combined effect of size, inertia and porosity on the indentation response of ductile materials

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Micromechanics of plastic deformation and phase transformation in a three-phase TRIP-assisted advanced high strength steel: Experiments and modeling

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Toughening of interface networks through the introduction of weak links

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Microstructure-Based Modeling of the Effect of Inclusion on the Bendability of Advanced High Strength Dual-Phase Steels

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Plastic collapse moment of 90 long radius elbows with internal circumferential surface crack at intrados under in-plane bending

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A low-cost hierarchical nanostructured beta-titanium alloy with high strength.

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An analysis of deformation and failure in rectangular tensile bars accounting for void shape changes

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Room temperature crack-healing in an atomically layered ternary carbide.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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Real-time characterisation of interfacial response of X52 steel under slow strain rate deformation in high-pH carbonate-bicarbonate solution

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A multiscale approach to modeling formability of dual-phase steels

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On the origin of kinking in layered crystalline solids

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Influence of Grain Size Distribution on Ductile Intergranular Crack Growth Resistance

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Efficient use of multiple information sources in material design

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DMREF: Collaborative Research:  Accelerated Development of Damage Tolerant and Oxidation Resistant Alumina-Forming MAX Phases

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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CAREER: Constrained Slip, Cracking and Instability in Extremely Anisotropic Nanolayered Solids

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Directorate for Engineering - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Multi-Information Source Value of Information Based Design of Multi-Phase Structural Materials

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Materials and Manufacturing Processes for the Army of the Future

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United States Army - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Cyber Training :  CIC: The Texas A&M University Computational Materials Science Summer School (CMS3)

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Texas A&M University; Materials Science & Engineering; 3003 TAMU

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Three Indian American Texas A&M Researchers Honored with NSF CAREER Awards