Aditya Kumar
I am an Assistant Professor in the Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Materials group in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech.
I work in the area of applied mechanics. Specifically, I am interested in solving fundamental problems in mechanics with a combination of new mathematical and computational tools. Current focus areas include fracture, evolving biological materials, and 3D printing of polymer composites.
I got my Bachelor's degree from IIT Delhi.
I received my PhD from Illinois, where I was advised by Oscar Lopez-Pamies. My thesis work was on developing a unified theory of nucleation and propagation of fracture and healing in elastomers.
Afterwards, I was a postdoctoral researcher in Aerospace Engineering at Illinois, advised by Philippe Geubelle.
Current Research Areas:
Homogenization of fracture
Fracture in soft to ultra soft materials, including biological tissues
Unified theory for nucleation and propagation of fracture
Mechanics of growth, remodeling and aging
3D printing of soft viscoelastic materials