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Dr. Moirangthem Dinachandra

Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering

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Dr. M. Dinachandra is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Manipur. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from BMS College of Engineering, Bengaluru. Subsequently, he secured an AIR-157 in GATE 2012 (ME Stream) and joined for Ph.D. programme at IIT Madras in 2012 in the area of computational mechanics. Afterwards, he received Institute Post-Doctoral fellowship from IIT Bombay in 2018 wherein he worked on Adaptive FEM for phase field problems and high performance scientific computing. Later, he joined IIT Delhi in  2021 as a Principal Project Scientist wherein he gained experience in the field of biomechanics. Later, he moved to industry in Dassault Systemes in 2022. During his industrial experience, he has provided  technical assistance to world-wide customers for SIMULIA products such as Abaqus/CAE, Abaqus/Standard Abaqus/Explicit, Fe-Safe, and the 3DExperience platform. The areas are mainly in solver-related areas and hence spans several domains. Some of the specific domains are Tire Industry, Additive Manufacturing, Design Optimization in Abaqus etc. 

Research interests: 

FEM, Scientific Computing, Phase-Field Modeling, Inverse problems, Computational Solid Mechanics, Machine & Deep Learning in Mechanics etc.

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Profile



Paper Published

Publications

  1. Dinachandra, M., Sethuraman Raju. Isogeometric Analysis for Acoustic Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 131-32, 2017, 8-25. [IF 7.1]
  2. Dinachandra, M., Sethuraman Raju.  Plane Wave Enriched Partition of Unity Isogeometric Analysis (PUIGA) for 2D Helmholtz problems. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 335, 2018, 380-402.  [IF 6.9]
  3. Durga Rao, S.S, M. Dinachandra and Raju Sethuraman.  Free vibration analysis of FGM plates with internal defects using extended isogeometric hybrid collocation–Galerkin method. International Journal for Computational Methods in Engineering Science and Mechanics, 19(6), 2018, 405-411.  [IF 2.1]
  4. Dinachandra, M., Sethuraman Raju.  A Variable Wave Number Plane Wave Enriched Partition of Unity Isogeometric Analysis for Acoustic Problems in Heterogeneous Media. Acta Acustica united with Acustica, 104(6), 2018, 1130-1133. [IF 1.037]
  5. Dinachandra, M., Alankar, A. A phase field study of crack propagation and branching in functionally graded materials using explicit dynamics. Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, 109, 2020, 102681. [IF 5.0]
  6. Dinachandra, M., Alankar, A. Static and dynamic modeling of functionally graded Euler-Bernoulli microbeams based on reformulated strain gradient elasticity theory using isogeometric analysis. Composite Structures, 280, 2022, 114923. [IF 6.3])
  7. Dinachandra, M., Alankar, A. Adaptive finite element modeling of phase-field fracture driven by hydrogen embrittlement. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 391, 2022, 114509. [IF 6.9]
  8. Abhilash, A., Dinachandra, M., Mahajan, P., Suri, A., Roy, S. MatNLI: An Open-source MATLAB-based solver for the Non-linear Inversion in Elastography. Advances in Engineering Software, 181, 2023,103476. [4.0]
  9. Ashish, M., Dinachandra, M., Alankar, A. Crystal plasticity analyses around grain boundaries using a dislocation dynamics finite element model. Journal of Multiscale Modelling, (Accepted for publication).     https://doi.org/10.1142/S1756973723500142

 

Book Chapters

  1. Dinachandra, M., Rao, S.S.D.,  Sethuraman, R., (2021) Isogeometric Collocation for Time-Harmonic Waves in Acoustic Problems. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering:543–554.   doi: 10.1007/978-981-15-5862-7_44

Academic Information

Academics

  1. Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering
    BMS College of Engineering, Bengaluru
    Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum

  2. Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering
    Research Area : Computational Mechanics
    Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India

 

Experience

  1. Institute Post-Doctoral Fellow (2018 - 2021)
    Department of Mechanical Engineering
    Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

  2. Principal Project Scientist (2021-2022)
    Department of Applied Mechanics
    Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

  3. User Success Engineering Specialist (2022-2025)
    Dassault Systemes Solutions Lab, Pune

Other Activity Information

Responsilities at the Department/Institute:

  1. Faculty Member in JoSAA 2025 Counselling
  2. Department Training and Placement Coordinator,  ME Department  (Apr 2025 - Continuing)
  3. Assistant Time Table Coordinator of the ME Department (Apr 2025 - Continuing)
  4. Department mentor cum coordinator for CBDE activities, ME Department (Apr 2025 - Continuing)
  5. Member of DUPC Committee, ME Department  (Apr 2025 - Continuing)
  6. Member of CPDA Committee, ME Department  (Apr 2025 - Continuing)
  7. Department Alumni In-Charge, ME Department  (Apr 2025 - Continuing)

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