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Dr. Mohammed Masiur Rahaman
Associate Professor, Civil Engineering · Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar (IIT Bhubaneswar) · Bhubaneswar
IMPARC ID IMP-MM-ENGG-OR-IN-2026-2554
Member since 2026
Expertise
- Carbon Materials
- Ceramic Engineering
- Composite Materials
- Nanotechnology & Nanomaterials
- Structural Chemistry
- Structural Engineering
- Applied Mechanics
- Civil Engineering
- Fracture Mechanics
- Materials Science & Engineering
- Quantum Mechanics
- Engineering
Mentorship offered
- Operations Consulting
- Manufacturing Consulting
- Scientific and Technical Consulting
- Quality Assurance & Control (QA/QC)
- Manufacturing
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About
Mohammad Masiur Rahaman is an Associate Professor in the School of Infrastructure at IIT Bhubaneswar, specializing in structural engineering, computational solid mechanics, fracture mechanics, continuum mechanics, composite materials and phase-field modelling. He holds a Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, and has research experience spanning viscoplasticity, damage mechanics, fracture modelling, computational mechanics and high-performance composite systems. His academic profile includes externally funded research projects, Ph.D. and M.Tech supervision, international research experience, journal publications and conference presentations.
Publications 11
Journal articles
- (2025). A Phase-Field Length Scale Insensitive Model for Fatigue Failure in Brittle Materials. International Journal of Fatigue.
- (2025). A Micropolar Phase-Field Model for Size-Dependent Electro-Mechanical Fracture. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences.
- (2025). A Microstructural Defect-Orientation Informed Phase Field Model. European Journal of Mechanics- A/Solids.
- (2024). A Phase-Field Length Scale Insensitive Mode-Dependent Fracture Model for Brittle Failure. Engineering Fracture Mechanics.
Conference papers
- (2024). A Combined Volumetric Deviatoric and Spectral Decomposition-Based Phase-Field Model for Brittle Fracture. ECCOMAS 2024.
- (2024). Anisotropic Phase-Field Modeling of Brittle Fracture under Thermomechanical Loading. ECCOMAS 2024.
- (2024). Phase-Field Modeling of Fatigue Failure with Orthogonal Decomposition of Constitutive Models under Anisotropic Crack Propagation. ECCOMAS 2024.
- (2024). Phase Field Modeling of Brittle Fracture in Nacre-Inspired Composites under Dynamic Loading. ECCOMAS.
- (2023). A Residual Stress-Dependent Length Scale Insensitive Phase-Field Model for Fracture in Ceramic Laminates. ICCMS 2023, IIT Gandhinagar.
- (2023). A Phase-Field Model for Chemo-Mechanical Fracture with an Open-Source Implementation Using Gridap in Juliav. ICCMS 2023, IIT Gandhinagar.
- (2023). A Phase-Field Model for Fatigue Failure of Ceramic Laminates under Residual Stress Field. ICCMS 2023, IIT Gandhinagar.
Experience
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Associate Professor
IIT Bhubaneswar
December 2025 - Present (current)
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Postdoctoral Research Associate
Brown University, USA
June 2018 - September 2019
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Research Assistant
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
January 2018 - May 2018
Education
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2011-2013
M.Tech., Structural Engineering
Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore
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2006- 2010
B.Tech., Civil Engineering
Jadavpur University
Supervision & projects
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Funded project · Development of a Simplified Model for Partial Infill RC Frames
Co-PI · 2023-2026
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Funded project · A Thermodynamically Consistent Model for Designing High-Performance Ceramic Laminates with Tailored Residual Stresses
PI · December 2021 - December 2023
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Funded project · Modeling of Topologically Interlocked High-Performance Composites
PI · February 2021 - February 2023
- Ongoing
Funded project · Microstructure-informed nonlocal fracture modelling of polymer composites
PI · 2026 - 2029
Awards
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Institute Medal for Best Thesis
Institute Mathematics Initiative, IISc Bangalore · 2018
Events & training
- 2024
International Conference · Lisbon Congress Center, Portugal
ECCOMAS Congress
- 2022
Conference · IIT Indore
ICCMS
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