Dr. Srihari Dodla

Assistant Professor
Department/School/Unit Name
Department of Mechanical Engineering IIT(BHU)
Phone No(s): 8978007660
Email: sdodla.mec@itbhu.ac.in
Area of Interest: Multiscale material modelling of polycrystalline materials, Homogenization, Micromechanical formulation, Texture evolution, Machining, Parameter identification using ML and AI

Dr. -Ing. Srihari Dodla
Assistant Professor

Machine Design Division,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi,
Varanasi - 221005
Phone : +91 8978007660
Landline: +915427165585
Email: sdodla.mec@itbhu.ac.in

Area of Interest

  • Multiscale material modeling of polycrystalline materials
  • Crystal plasticity
  • Micromechanical formulation
  • Polycrystalline machining
  • Material modeling using ML and AI
  • Polymer composites

Education:

Degree Institute Year
PhD Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany March 2015
MTech Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India May 2011
BTech Sri Venkateswara University Tirupathi, India May 2009

Experience:

Designation Institute Year
Assistant Professor Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT (BHU) Varanasi 31st May 2021 onwards
Research Assistant Professor Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, SRM IST Kattankulathur, India May 2018 - May 2021
Postdoctoral Fellow Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Israel May 2017 - Oct 2017
Research Assistant Wolfson School, Loughborough University, United Kingdom July 2015 - Nov 2016

Undergraduate

   

Course Code Course Name Year
ME214 Mechanics of Materials JULY - NOV'21, JULY - NOV'22
ME221 Mechanical Measurements MAY - JUNE '21, DEC'21 -APRIL'22
ME224 Mechanics of Deformable Solids DEC'21 - MAY'22, DEC'22-APRIL'23
ME104 Engineering Drawing DEC'21 - APRIL'22, JUL'22 - NOV'22, DEC -APR'23
ME101 Fundamentals of Mechanical Engineering JUL'23-NOV'23
ME102 Engineering Mechanics JUL'23-Nov'23

 

Postgraduate

Course Code Course Name Year
ME508 Experimental Mechanics & NDT JULY-NOV'21, JULY-NOV'22

 

 

UG/PG ​​​​​LAB

Course Code Course Name Year
ME-500 Machine Design Practical JULY-NOV'21, JULY-NOV'22
ME-224 Mechanics of Deformable Solids DEC 21 - MAY'22, DEC-APRIL'23

 

 

 

                                            

  • Multiscale material modeling of polycrystalline materials
  • Micromechanical formulation of composites
  • Crystal plasticity
  • Polycrystal machining
  • Material modeling using ML and AI
  • Polymer composites

Publications:

2024

19. M. Singh, S. Dodla, R K Gautam, V. Chauhan, Enhancement of Mechanical and Tribological Properties in Glass Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites with Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes and ANN-Based COF Prediction, Composite Interfaces, 2024 (in Press) (I. F. 2.5).

18. Jacob Aboudi, S. Dodla, Rivka Gilat, Microscopic Instabilities in Single Crystal Matrix Composites, International Journal of Solids and Structures, 2024 (in press) (I.F. 3.4).

17. Pujari Chinna Peddaiah, Srihari Dodla, Experimental and Numerical Investigations of Aerospace Alloys: Effect of Machining, Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering, Part E, 2024 (in press) (I. F. 2.3).

16. Mayank Singh, Ritendra Yadav, Rupesh Kumar, Srihari Dodla, R K Gautam, Development and Characterization of Hybrid Polymer Composite Materials with Reinforcement of Glass/Carbon Fibers for Enhanced Mechanical Properties: An Experimental and Numerical Approach, The Journal of the Textile Institute, 2024 (in press) (I. F. 1.5).

15. M Singh, S Dodla, R K Gautam, Mechanical and tribological properties of CNTs coated aramid fiber-reinforced epoxy composites, Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, 179,108061, 2024 (I.F. 8.1).

14. Srihari Dodla, V. Anirudh, Atomistic simulations of Cu-Ag bicrystal for a uniaxial tensile test, Phy. of Met. and Metall., 2024 (in press) (I.F. 1.32).

2023

13. A S Mohammed, S Dodla, J K Katiyar, M A Samad, Prediction of friction coefficient of su-8 and its composite coatings using machine learning techniques, J Engineering Tribology, 237(4), 943-953, 2023 (DOI:10.1177/13506501221138382) (I.F. 1.8).

12. M Singh, S Dodla, R K Gautam, V K Srivastava, Effect of load, sliding frequency, and temperature on tribological properties of graphene nanoplatelets coated carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites, Journal of Composite Materials, 57(1), 121-132, 2023 (DOI: 10.1177/13506501221138382) (I.F. 2.5).

2022

11. S. Dodla, Experimental investigations of tool wear in vibration-assisted turning of Inconel 718, Arch. Metall. Mater., 67(3), 949-953, 2022 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.24425/amm.2022.139687)

10. N K Jha, S Kumar, S Dodla, 3D waviness effect of carbon nanotubes on fundamental natural frequency and modeling of resonance of nanocomposite structure, Inter. J. of Comp. Mat. Sci. and Eng. 11(2), 2150031, 2021.

 

Before 2021

9. S. Dodla, Micromechanical Analysis for Iron-Based Composites Under Large Deformations, Journal of Electronic Materials,  2021 (I.F. 1.938)

8. Dodla, S., Deformation behavior of nickel-based superalloy predicted by spherical representative volume element approach, Physics of Metals and Metallography, 2021 (DOI:10.1134/S0031918X21140064) (I.F. 1.319)

7. Dodla, S., Microstructural Investigations and Numerical Simulations of Polycrystalline Nickel, Physics of Metals and Metallography, 121(14), 2020, 1418-1423 (I.F. 1.319)

6. Dodla, S., Micromechanical analysis for two-phase copper-silver composites under large deformations, Journal of Composites Science, 2(1), 2018, 1. (I.F. 3.49)

5. Liu, Q., Dodla, S., Roy, A., Silberschmidt, V. V., Crystal-plasticity simulation of micromachining of single-crystal metal: Methodology and analysis, Advanced Structured Materials, 60, 2016, 165-183.

4. Dodla, S., Bertram, A., Numerical study of the deformation behavior of eutectic Cu/Ag polycrystals, Technische Mechanik, 36(3), 2016, 155-165

3. Dodla, S., Thiem, P., Krueger, M., Dietrich, D., Bertram, A., Microstructure, flow behavior, and bulk texture evolution of cold drawn copper-silver composites, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 647, 2015, 519-527. (I.F. 6.371)

2. Dodla, S., Bertram, A., Krueger, M., Simulation of flow behavior and texture evolution of Cu-Ag composites incorporating XRD data, Technische Mechanik, 35(2), 2015, 71-79.

1. Dodla, S., Bertram, A., Krueger, M., Finite element simulation of lamellar copper-silver composites, Computational Materials Science, 101, 2015, 29-38. (I.F. 3.572)

 
Proceedings

 

  1. Dodla, S., Kirpalani Idnani, K.J., Katyal, A., Finite element machining simulations of aerospace materials, Materials Today Proceedings, 2021, 46, pp. 991–998
  2. Dodla, S., Numerical Investigations of flow behavior for a directionally solidified columnar Inconel 718 super alloy, Materials Today Proceedings, 2020, accepted.
  3. Dodla, S., Comparison of lamellar nanostructured cubical and spherical statistical volume elements in terms of crystallographic texture and deformation behavior, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 912(5), 052001, 2020.
  4. Dodla, S., M. Anirudh, E Rohith, SVK Reddy, Characterization of fully lamellar Ti6Al-4V alloy, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 912 (2), 022035, 2020.
  5. Dodla, S., S Agarwal, R T Reddy, S Sahu, Microstructura characterisation for polycrystalline nickel, IConETech2020.
  6. Dodla, S.,  A. Roy, VV Silberschmidt, Characterisation of aerospace alloys:Effect of machining, BSSM's 11th International conference on Advances in Experimental Mechanics, 1-2, 2016.
  7. Dodla, S., Experimental characterization and numerical simulation of Inconel 718 under large plastic deformation, ICCM2016.
  8. Dodla, S., A. Bertram, M. Krueger, Experimental Identification and Numerical Simulation of Lamellar Cu-Ag Composites under Large Plastic Deformations, ICCMS2014, 1199-1206, 2014.
  9. Dodla, S. (2024). Study of representative volume elements in terms of morphology. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, Springer, Singapore.
  • Faculty In-Charge, Strength of Materials Laboratory
  • Faculty In-Charge, Experimental Mechanics Laboratory
  • Member, Department Space Committee (2021-22)
  • Member, Faculty Forum (2021-2022)

Research Group

Ph.D. Students (Ongoing)

  1. Mr. Mayank Singh
  2. Ms. G. Akhila
  3. Mr. Vatsalya Raghuvanshi (Co-Supervisor)

Ph.D. Students (Completed)

2023

  1. Mr. Narendra Kumar Jha (Co-Supervisor)

MTech Students (Ongoing)

  1. Mr. Abinash Nayak
  2. Mr. Pankaj Paliwal

IDD students (Ongoing)

  1. Mr. Utkarsh Verma

     

    Former Members

    MTech

    2023

    1. Name: Anirudh Venkatesan, HPCL, Salem

    Topic: Atomistic simulations

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    2. Name: Pujari Chinna Peddaiah, VE Commercial Vehicles Pvt. Ltd., Indore

    Topic: Finite element machining analysis

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    2024

    3. Name: Vishal Chauhan, Bajaj Auto Limited, Pune

    Topic: CNT-based  polymer composites

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    4. Name: Abhishek Krishna

    Topic: Effect of orientation on polymer composites

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    5. Vijayant Chauhan, Associate Tech. Professional, Kellogg Brown & Root Eng. and Construction India Pvt. Ltd.

    Topic: Design of parts of Rotating Packing Bed 

    IDD

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    2023

    1. Name: N Vineeth Kumar, EXL Services, Bangalore

    Topic: Study of FCC-FCC bicrystal 

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    2024

    2. Name: Sai Krishna S, Trainee Analyst, Tiger Analytics, Chennai 

    Topic: Study of deformation behavior for Duralumin

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    1. SERB/SRG grant: 2021-2023 (9,88,900 INR)  - Completed
    2. SEED grant, IIT(BHU) Varanasi: 2022-2024  (10,00,000 INR)  - Ongoing
    3. DRDO: 2024-2027 (34,52,000 INR)  - Ongoing
    • An ISAM-sponsored research workshop on "Multiscale Modelling in Solid Mechanics", 13th- 14th July 2023. 
    • Summer School on Numerical Modeling and Simulations in Manufacturing Technologies (A curtain raiser event for AIMTDR-2023), 4th - 6th May 2023. 
    • 08/2024, Invited talk, ICTAM2024, Daegu, Republic of Korea
    • 06/2019, RTG828/1554: Colloquium in Magdeburg, Germany
    • 09/2018, EESTER-2018, SRM IST and IIT Madras, India
    • 09/2016, EUROMECH COLLOQUIUM 584-Porto, Portugal
    • 09/2016, BSSM-University of Exeter, UK
    • 08/2016, ICCM2016, Berkeley, CA, USA
    • 10/2014, 24th International Workshop on Computational Mechanics of Materials (IWCMM24), Madrid, Spain
    • 07/2014, GAMM Seminar-Multiscale Material Modelling, Technische Universitaet Hamburg-Harburg, Germany
    • 02/2014, Mikrostrukturmechanik im Fachaussschuss Computer simulation der DGM, Kassel, Germany
    • 08/2012, 38th SOLID MECHANICS CONFERENCE, Warsaw, Poland