- Associate Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Mike & Sugar Barnes Faculty Fellow, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Affiliated Faculty, Materials Science & Engineering
- Phone: 979-458-2370
- Email: dinakar@tamu.edu
- Office: ETB 4068
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Materials Engineering, Purdue University - 2013
Research Interests
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- Advanced materials and manufacturing
- Subtractive machining and forming processes
- Friction, adhesion and wear of materials
- High-speed imaging techniques for in-situ process characterization and control
- Soft magnetic materials
- Innovative technologies for metal production
- Inverse problems in manufacturing
Awards & Honors
- College of Engineering Research Excellence Award, Texas A&M University, 2026
- TEES Faculty Fellow Award, College of Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2025
- Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, 2021
- Breakthrough Energy Fellow, 2021
Selected Publications
- J. T. Mathews, H. Chawla, and D. Sagapuram. On the nature of contact friction and stress distribution in cutting: In-situ photoelastic study. Tribology Letters, 73(3):95, 2025
- A. Yalamanchili, D. Sagapuram, and P. R. Pagilla. Real-time control of strip thickness in metal peeling. ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, 147(10): 104501, 2025
- H. Chawla, S. Yadav, H. Aprahamian, and D. Sagapuram. Determining large-strain metal plasticity parameters using in-situ observations of plastic flow past a wedge. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 479:20230061, 2023
- G. Feng and D. Sagapuram. A strong basis for friction as the origin of size effect in cutting of metals. International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture, 168:103741, 2021 (journal cover)
- K. Viswanathan, S. Yadav, and D. Sagapuram. Shear bands in materials processing: Understanding the mechanics of flow localization from Zener’s time to the present. Applied Mechanics Reviews, 72:060802, 2020
- S. Yadav and D. Sagapuram. In-situ analysis of shear bands and boundary layer formation in metals. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 476:20190519, 2020 (journal cover)