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D-Index
48
Citations
9306
World Ranking
1285
National Ranking
519

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - William Prager Medal
  • 2015 - Daniel C. Drucker Medal, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Krishnaswa Ravi-Chandar is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States, focusing research primarily in the field of engineering. Their work spans several subfields including mechanics of materials, mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, molecular medicine, and materials chemistry.

Their research concentrates on key topics such as hydrogels synthesis, properties, and applications; elasticity and material modeling; infrastructure maintenance and monitoring; mechanical behavior of composites; textile materials and evaluations; metal forming simulation techniques; and metallurgy and material forming.

Frequent coauthors in Ravi-Chandar's publications include Si Chen, Jinlong Guo, Rui Huang, Javier García Molleja, and J.A. Rodríguez-Martínez.

Ravi-Chandar has published extensively in several venues, with notable contributions in:

  • International Journal of Fracture
  • Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
  • Research Square
  • Additive Manufacturing
  • International Journal of Solids and Structures

Significant recent papers authored or coauthored by Ravi-Chandar include:

  • "Tensile and ductile fracture properties of as-printed 316L stainless steel thin walls obtained by directed energy deposition," 2020, Additive Manufacturing
  • "Linear and nonlinear poroelastic analysis of swelling and drying behavior of gelatin-based hydrogels," 2020, International Journal of Solids and Structures
  • "Nonlinear poroviscoelastic behavior of gelatin-based hydrogel," 2021, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
  • "On crack nucleation and propagation in elastomers: I. In situ optical and X-ray experimental observations," 2023, International Journal of Fracture
  • "Rate-dependent fracture behavior of gelatin-based hydrogels," 2023, International Journal of Fracture

Ravi-Chandar's research has been recognized with awards including the William Prager Medal in 2020 and the Daniel C. Drucker Medal from The American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2015.

Best Publications

  • An experimental investigation into dynamic fracture: III. On steady-state crack propagation and crack branching

    Krishnaswa Ravi-Chandar;W. G. Knauss

  • An experimental investigation into dynamic fracture: I. Crack initiation and arrest

    Krishnaswa Ravi-Chandar;W. G. Knauss

  • An experimental investigation into dynamic fracture: II. Microstructural aspects

    K. Ravi-Chandar;W. G. Knauss

  • Thin films. Wrinkling of an elastic sheet under tension.

    E. Cerda;K. Ravi-Chandar;L. Mahadevan

  • On crack-tip stress state: An experimental evaluation of three-dimensional effects

    Ares J. Rosakis;Krishnaswa Ravi-Chandar

  • An experimental investigation into dynamic fracture: IV. On the interaction of stress waves with propagating cracks

    Krishnaswa Ravi-Chandar;W. G. Knauss

  • A cohesive zone model for fatigue crack growth in quasibrittle materials

    B. Yang;S. Mall;K. Ravi-Chandar

  • Dynamic Fracture of Nominally Brittle Materials

    K. Ravi-Chandar

  • On the role of microcracks in the dynamic fracture of brittle materials

    Krishnaswa Ravi-Chandar;B. Yang

  • On the dynamics of necking and fragmentation – I. Real-time and post-mortem observations in Al 6061-O

    H. Zhang;K. Ravi-Chandar

  • Direct extraction of rate-dependent traction–separation laws for polyurea/steel interfaces

    Yong Zhu;Kenneth M Liechti;Krishnaswa Ravi-Chandar

  • Some basic problems in stress wave dominated fracture

    W. G. Knauss;Krishnaswa Ravi-Chandar

  • Ductile failure under combined shear and tension

    S. S. Haltom;Stelios Kyriakides;Krishnaswa Ravi-Chandar

  • The Sandia Fracture Challenge: blind round robin predictions of ductile tearing

    B. L Boyce;S. L B Kramer;H. E Fang;T. E Cordova

  • Stretch-induced stress patterns and wrinkles in hyperelastic thin sheets

    Vishal Nayyar;Krishnaswa Ravi-Chandar;Rui Huang

  • Evaluation of elastic T-stress by the stress difference method

    B. Yang;Krishnaswa Ravi-Chandar

  • Dynamic crushing of aluminum foams: Part I – Experiments

    A.T. Barnes;K. Ravi-Chandar;S. Kyriakides;S. Gaitanaros

  • Dynamic implosion of underwater cylindrical shells: Experiments and Computations

    C. Farhat;K. G. Wang;A. Main;Stelios Kyriakides

  • A phase-field model for fatigue crack growth

    Yu-Sheng Lo;Michael J. Borden;K. Ravi-Chandar;Chad M. Landis

  • Criterion for initiation of cracks under mixed-mode I + III loading

    Bisen Lin;Mark E Mear;Krishnaswa Ravi-Chandar

  • Stretch-induced stress patterns and wrinkles in hyperelastic thin sheets

    Rui Huang;Vishal Nayyar;K Ravi-Chandar

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolfgang G. Knauss
Wolfgang G. Knauss California Institute of Technology
Rui Huang
Rui Huang The University of Texas at Austin
J. T. Oden
J. T. Oden The University of Texas at Austin
Stelios Kyriakides
Stelios Kyriakides The University of Texas at Austin
Erdogan Madenci
Erdogan Madenci University of Arizona
Jiun-Shyan Chen
Jiun-Shyan Chen University of California, San Diego
Anthony R. Ingraffea
Anthony R. Ingraffea Cornell University
Michael P Marder
Michael P Marder The University of Texas at Austin
Brad L. Boyce
Brad L. Boyce Sandia National Laboratories
Nicolas Triantafyllidis
Nicolas Triantafyllidis École Polytechnique

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