Dr. Yashashree Kulkarni, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Cullen College of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering

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• Areas of expertise

  • Nanostructured materials
  • Computational mechanics
  • Materials science
  • Twin boundaries

• Awards

  • ASME Sia Nemat-Nasser Early Career Award, 2017
  • Outstanding Teacher Award, UH, 2012.
  • Bill D. Cook Faculty Scholarship, UH, 2012.
  • DARPA Young Faculty Award, 2010.
  • Charles D. Babcock Teaching Assistant Award, Caltech, 2005.
  • Robert T. Knapp fellowship, Caltech, 2001-2002.
  • Institute Silver Medal, I.I.T. Bombay, 2001.

• Publications

  • Chen, and Y. Kulkarni, Thermal Fluctuations as a Computational Microscope for Studying Crystalline Interfaces: A Mechanistic Perspective, Journal of Applied Mechanics, Accepted (2017). (pdf)
  • D. Chen, and Y. Kulkarni, Effect of impurities on grain boundary motion from interface random walk, In Review (2017).
  • F. Hammami and Y. Kulkarni, Rate dependence of grain boundary sliding via time-scaling atomistic simulations, Journal of Applied Physics, 121, 085303 (2017). (pdf)
  • S. Jiao, and Y. Kulkarni, Molecular dynamics study of creep mechanisms in nanotwinned metals, Computational Materials Science, 110, 254 (2015). (pdf)
  • D. Chen, and Y. Kulkarni, Entropic interaction between fluctuating twin boundaries, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 84, 59 (2015). (pdf)
  • D. Chen, and Y. Kulkarni, Atomistic study of the thermal stress due to twin boundaries,    Journal of Applied Mechanics, 82, 021005 (2015). (pdf)
  • T. Sinha, and Y. Kulkarni, Alternating brittle and ductile response of twin boundaries in nanotwinned structures, Journal of Applied Physics, 116, 183505 (2014). (pdf)
  • F. Hammami, and Y. Kulkarni, Size effects in twinned nanopillars, Journal of Applied Physics, 116, 033512 (2014). (pdf)
  • S. Tang, and Y. Kulkarni, The interplay between strain and size effects on the thermal conductance of grain boundaries in graphene, Applied Physics Letters, 103, 213113 (2013). (pdf)
  • D. Chen, and Y. Kulkarni, Elucidating the kinetics of twin boundaries from thermal fluctuations, MRS Communications, 3, 241 (2013). (pdf)

  For more publications, see here.

• Patents

  • None available.

• Grants and Funded Research

  • DARPA Young Faculty Award, $ 226,358 (2010–2012), PI: Kulkarni, 100%
  • NSF, $ 349,867 (2010–2013), PI: Kulkarni, 60%
  • GEAR, University of Houston, $ 25,000 (2010–2011), PI: Kulkarni, 100%
  • New Faculty Award, University of Houston, $ 6,000 (2010), PI: Kulkarni, 100%
  • TcSUH (Texas Center for Superconductivity University of Houston), $15,000 (2009-2010), PI: Kulkarni, 100%

• Curriculum Vitae

  • Yashashree Kulkarni CV

• Contact information