School of Mechanical Sciences

Dr. Mahendaran Uchimali

Assistant Professor
Computational Solid Mechanics; Discrete Element Modelling; Shape Memory Alloys;Thermal Shock Behaviour of Ceramics

I was born and raised in Ambasamudram, a small town in the southern part of Tamil Nadu, India. I completed my bachelor’s course (B.E.) in the department of mechanical engineering at PSG College of Technology (Anna University) in 2011. After graduation, I worked at Larson & Toubro Pvt. Ltd. as an executive engineer for a couple of years. After which, I joined as a M.S. research scholar in the department of engineering design at IIT Madras in 2013 and I continued my doctoral degree. I defended my doctoral thesis in September 2020. After working as a postdoctoral scholar for a couple of years in the Czech Republic, I am currently working as an assistant professor in the school of mechanical sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneshwar.

  • Theory of Composite Materials
  • Theory of Plasticity
  • Mechanical Systems Simulation Lab II
  1. V Ananchaperumal, S Vedantam, Mahendaran Uchimali (2025), Development of coupled thermoelastic discrete model for thermal shock cracking in brittle materials: Parametric analysis of crack patterns and material properties, Materials Science and Engineering: A, 148600.
  2. V Ananchaperumal, S Vedantam, Mahendaran Uchimali (2025), Modelling Delamination of Elastic Layers from Shape Memory Alloy Substrates, Shape Memory and Superelasticity, 1-10
  3. Mahendaran Uchimali, P Sittner (2024), A Brief Review on Discrete Modelling of Martensitic Phase Transformations, Shape Memory and Superelasticity, 10, 2–15
  4. V Ananchaperumal, S Vedantam, M Uchimali, (2022) A discrete particle model study of the effect of temperature and geometry on the pseudoelastic response of shape memory alloys, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences 230, 107527
  5. M Uchimali, S Vedantam, (2022) Modeling stress-strain response of shape memory alloys during reorientation of self-accommodated martensites with different morphologies, Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures 29 (27), 6948-6956
  6. M Uchimali, (2021) Effect of stress on the thermal hysteresis of martensitic transformations – A continuum based particle dynamics model, Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, 1-13
  7. M Uchimali, BC Rao, S Vedantam, (2021) Modeling size and orientation effects on the morphology of microstructure formed in martensitic phase transformations using a novel discrete particle model, Acta Materialia 205, 116528
  8. M Uchimali, BC Rao, S Vedantam, (2020) Constitutively informed multi-body interactions for lattice particle models, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 366, 113052
  1. 18th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM18)
  2. 24th International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM24)
  3. 5th Indo-Austrian Symposium on Materials Engineering, IASME 2024
  4. The 3rd Virtual Conference on Computational and Experimental Mechanics (2024)
  5. Nano & Makro Mechanics (NMM 2021)
  6. 8th International Conference on Discrete Element Methods (DEM8) (2019)
  7. Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting, Boston Massachusetts (2015)
  1. National Conference on Advanced Materials, Manufacturing, and Metrology (2019)
Institute / University Year  Degree Discipline
Indian Institute of Technology Madras 2020   Doctor of Philosophy Computational Mechanics
Indian Institute of Technology Madras 2020   Master of Science Engineering Design
PSG College of Technology, Anna University Chennai 2011   Bachelor of Engineering Mechanical Engineering

Executive Engineer in Larsen Toubro Limited at chennai from 2011 to 2013. Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Czech Technical university, Prague April 2021 – April 2022. Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Science in Prague May 2022 – November 2022.

Innovative Student Project Award by Indian National Academy of Engineering

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