Amit Acharya
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Address:
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
Office: Porter Hall 101
Phone: 412-268-4566
Fax: 412-268-7813
Email: acharyaamit@cmu.edu
Website: http://www.ce.cmu.edu/~amita/
Education
Ph.D. 1994, University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignResearch
Continuum dislocation mechanics, coarse-graining of nonlinear evolutionary systems, computational modeling of elastic and inelastic behavior of solids, nonlinear shell theory, fluid-structure interaction including mass transfer.Publications
- Acharya, A., Fressengeas, C. (2012) Coupled Phase Transformations and Plasticity as a Field Theory of Deformation Incompatibility. International Journal of Fracture, 174, 87-94.
- Acharya, A., Dayal, K. (2012) Continuum Mechanics of Line Defects in Liquid Crystals and Liquid Crystal Elastomers. Accepted in Quarterly of Applied Mathematics.
- Slemrod, M., Acharya, A. (2011) Time-Averaged Coarse Variables for Multi-Scale Dynamics. Accepted in Quarterly of Applied Mathematics.
- Acharya, A., Tartar, L. (2011) On An Equation From the Theory of Field Dislocation Mechanics. To appear in the Bulletin of the Italian Mathematical Union, (9)IV, 409-444.
- Acharya, A. (2011) Microcanonical Entropy and Mesoscale Dislocation Mechanics and Plasticity. Journal of Elasticity, 104, 23-44.