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Lallit Anand

Lallit Anand

D-Index & Metrics

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
73
Citations
22265
World Ranking
318
National Ranking
151

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to the development of plasticity for engineering technology: theory, experiment, and computation.
  • 2018 - William Prager Medal
  • 2014 - Daniel C. Drucker Medal, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • 2014 - Drucker Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • 2003 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Lallit Anand is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of engineering, with a specialized focus on biomedical engineering, materials chemistry, cell biology, mechanical engineering, and civil and structural engineering.

Their research spans a variety of topics centered on materials and mechanics, including:

  • Dielectric materials and actuators
  • Advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials
  • Advanced materials and mechanics
  • Vibration control and rheological fluids
  • Ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials
  • Hydrogels: synthesis, properties, applications
  • Elasticity and material modeling

Lallit Anand has published in key venues related primarily to solid mechanics and materials science, with frequent publications in:

  • Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
  • International Journal of Solids and Structures
  • Journal of The Electrochemical Society
  • Extreme Mechanics Letters
  • PubMed

Recent papers authored by Anand cover a range of topics and include:

  • Magneto-viscoelasticity of hard-magnetic soft-elastomers: Application to modeling the dynamic snap-through behavior of a bistable arch (2023, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids)
  • Fracture of amorphous polymers: A gradient-damage theory (2020, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids)
  • On Modeling the Detrimental Effects of Inhomogeneous Plating-and-Stripping at a Lithium-Metal/Solid-Electrolyte Interface in a Solid-State-Battery (2020, Journal of The Electrochemical Society)
  • Coupled electro-chemo-elasticity: Application to modeling the actuation response of ionic polymer-metal composites (2021, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids)
  • A coupled electro-chemo-mechanical theory for polyelectrolyte gels with application to modeling their chemical stimuli-driven swelling response (2021, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids)

Collaborators frequently working with Anand include:

  • Eric M. Stewart
  • Sooraj Narayan
  • Haiqian Yang
  • Thomas Henzel
  • Ming Guo

Throughout their career, Anand has been recognized with several awards related to engineering and mechanics. These include:

  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2018) for contributions to the development of plasticity for engineering technology: theory, experiment, and computation
  • William Prager Medal (2018)
  • Drucker Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2014)
  • Daniel C. Drucker Medal, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2014)
  • Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2003)

Best Publications

  • The Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Continua

    Morton E. Gurtin;Eliot Fried;Lallit Anand

  • Crystallographic texture evolution in bulk deformation processing of FCC metals

    S.R. Kalidindi;C.A. Bronkhorst;L. Anand

  • An internal variable constitutive model for hot working of metals

    Stuart B. Brown;Kwon H. Kim;Lallit Anand

  • Constitutive equations for hot-working of metals

    Lallit Anand

  • Finite deformation constitutive equations and a time integrated procedure for isotropic hyperelastic—viscoplastic solids

    Gustavo Weber;Lallit Anand

  • A constitutive model for hcp materials deforming by slip and twinning: application to magnesium alloy AZ31B

    A. Staroselsky;L. Anand

  • Constitutive Equations for the Rate-Dependent Deformation of Metals at Elevated Temperatures

    L. Anand

  • A computational procedure for rate-independent crystal plasticity

    L. Anand;M. Kothari

  • Polycrystalline plasticity and the evolution of crystallographic texture in FCC metals

    C. A. Bronkhorst;S. R. Kalidindi;L. Anand

  • A coupled theory of fluid permeation and large deformations for elastomeric materials

    Shawn A. Chester;Lallit Anand

  • A theory of strain-gradient plasticity for isotropic, plastically irrotational materials. Part I: Small deformations

    Morton E. Gurtin;Lallit Anand

  • On H. Hencky’s Approximate Strain-Energy Function for Moderate Deformations

    L. Anand

  • Grain-boundary sliding and separation in polycrystalline metals: application to nanocrystalline fcc metals

    Y.J. Wei;L. Anand

  • Polycrystalline shape-memory materials: effect of crystallographic texture

    T Prakash G. Thamburaja;L. Anand

  • A theory of amorphous solids undergoing large deformations, with application to polymeric glasses

    Lallit Anand;Morton E. Gurtin

  • A thermo-mechanically coupled theory for large deformations of amorphous polymers. Part II: Applications

    Nicoli M. Ames;Vikas Srivastava;Shawn Alexander Chester;Lallit Anand

  • Thermodynamics applied to gradient theories involving the accumulated plastic strain : The theories of Aifantis and Fleck and Hutchinson and their generalization

    Morton E. Gurtin;Lallit Anand

  • A thermo-mechanically coupled theory for fluid permeation in elastomeric materials: Application to thermally responsive gels

    Shawn A. Chester;Lallit Anand

  • A theory for amorphous viscoplastic materials undergoing finite deformations, with application to metallic glasses

    L. Anand;C. Su

  • Elasto-viscoplastic constitutive equations for polycrystalline metals: Application to tantalum

    M. Kothari;L. Anand

  • The Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Continua: Single-Crystal Plasticity at Small Length Scales: A Large-Deformation Gradient Theory

    Morton E. Gurtin;Eliot Fried;Lallit Anand

Frequent Co-Authors

Morton E. Gurtin
Morton E. Gurtin Carnegie Mellon University
Eliot Fried
Eliot Fried Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Surya R. Kalidindi
Surya R. Kalidindi Georgia Institute of Technology
Chee Yoon Yue
Chee Yoon Yue City University of Hong Kong
Yujie Wei
Yujie Wei Chinese Academy of Sciences
Antonios Zavaliangos
Antonios Zavaliangos Drexel University
Yee Cheong Lam
Yee Cheong Lam Nanyang Technological University
Naveen Garg
Naveen Garg Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

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