- Associate Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
- Phone: 979-458-9841
- Email: ankit.sri@tamu.edu
- Office: RDMC 211
- Website: Research Website
Educational Background
- Postdoc, School of Engineering, Brown University 2013-2015
- Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, University of North Texas - 2013
- M.S., Physics, University of North Texas - 2013
- M.S., Materials Science and Engineering, University of North Texas - 2011
- B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering, Kamla Nehru Institute of Technology, India - 2007
Research Interests
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- Micromechanical Modeling of Heterogeneous Materials
- Microstructure-based Crystal Plasticity Finite Element Modeling
- Damage and Fracture Mechanics
- In-situ and Small-Scale Mechanical Testing
- Failure Analysis
- Microstructure Design
Awards & Honors
- 2023 Texas A&M Dean of Engineering Excellence Award – Associate Professor Level.
- 2022 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Sia Nemat-Nasser Early Career Award.
- 2022 Journal of Applied Mechanics Award for the paper entitled, “Dynamics of Necking and Fracture in Ductile Porous Materials.”
- 2022 American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) Finalist Medal for the paper entitled, “Microstructure-Based Modeling of the Effect of Inclusion on the Bendability of Advanced High Strength Dual-Phase Steels.”
- 2022 TMS (The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society) – AIME (The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers) Robert Lansing Hardy Award.
- 2021 American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) Finalist Medal for the paper entitled, “Structural and Microstructural Influence on Deformation and Fracture of Dual-Phase Steels.”
- 2020 Texas A&M Engineering Experimentation Station (TEES) Engineering Genesis Award for Multidisciplinary Research.
- 2020 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation – Mechanics of Materials and Structures Program.
- 2017 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Haythornthwaite Foundation Research Initiation Award.
- 2016 American Chemical Society – Petroleum Research Fund (ACS-PRF) Doctoral New Investigator (DNI) Award.
- 2012 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) – International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE), First Place in the Applied Mechanics Division Best Student Paper Competition.
- 2012 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Haythornthwaite Foundation Student Travel Award.
Selected Publications
- • Zheng, X., Battalgazy, B., Molkeri, A., Tsopanidis, S., Osovski, S. and Srivastava, A., 2023. Role of length-scale in machine learning based image analysis of ductile fracture surfaces. Mechanics of Materials, p.104661.
- • Asim, U.B., Zhan, Z., Radovic, M. and Srivastava, A., 2022. Modeling the nonclassical crystallographic slip in MAX phases. International Journal of Plasticity, 157, 103399.
- • Chiu, E. and Srivastava, A., 2022. Intergranular ductile failure of materials with plastically heterogeneous grains. Materialia, 23, p.101439.
- • Molkeri, A., Khatamsaz, D., Couperthwaite, R., James, J., Arróyave, R., Allaire, D. and Srivastava, A., 2022. On the importance of microstructure information in materials design: PSP vs PP. Acta Materialia, 223, p.117471.
- • Rathod, H.J., Ouisse, T., Radovic, M. and Srivastava, A., 2021. Room temperature crack-healing in an atomically layered ternary carbide. Science Advances, 7(33), eabg2549.
- • Chiu, E., Demkowicz, M.J. and Srivastava, A., 2021. Toughening of interface networks through the introduction of weak links. Acta Materialia, 215, p.117090.
- • Khatamsaz, D., Molkeri, A., Couperthwaite, R., James, J., Arróyave, R., Allaire, D. and Srivastava, A., 2021. Efficiently exploiting process-structure-property relationships in material design by multi-information source fusion. Acta Materialia, 206, p.116619.
- • Liu, Y., St-Pierre, L., Fleck, N.A., Deshpande, V.S. and Srivastava, A., 2020. High fracture toughness micro-architectured materials. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 143, p.104060.
- • Zhan, Z., Chen, Y., Radovic, M. and Srivastava, A., 2020. Non-Classical crystallographic slip in a ternary carbide – Ti2AlC. Materials Research Letters, 8(7), pp.275-281.
- • Liu, Y., Fan, D., Bhat, S.P. and Srivastava, A., 2020. Ductile fracture of dual-phase steel sheets under bending. International Journal of Plasticity, 125, pp.80-96.