Lallit Anand
· ProfessorMassachusetts Institute of Technology · Mechanical Engineering
Active 1975–2025
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About
Lallit Anand is the Warren & Towneley Rohsenow Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. His research focuses on the mechanics of materials, solid mechanics, and plasticity, including crystal-mechanics based large-deformation plasticity theory, strain-gradient plasticity, coupled diffusion-deformation-damage theories, gel mechanics, Li-ion batteries, and hydrogen embrittlement in steels. Anand holds a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology and advanced degrees from Brown University, including a Ph.D. in 1975. He has made significant contributions to the development of plasticity theories at large strains, high-temperature isotropic viscoplasticity, large-deformation crystal plasticity, and robust numerical methods. Anand has received numerous honors, including the Daniel C. Drucker Medal, William Prager Medal, and election to the National Academy of Engineering for his contributions to the development of plasticity for engineering technology. He has also been recognized for his excellence in teaching, notably receiving the J. P. Den Hartog Distinguished Educator Award at MIT. Anand has served in various professional roles, including program director at the NSF, and has held visiting professorships at Caltech and the Indian Institute of Science.
Research topics
- Materials science
- Structural engineering
- Mechanics
- Composite material
- Engineering
- Physics
- Thermodynamics
- Classical mechanics
- Mathematical analysis
- Mathematics
Selected publications
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids · 2023-06-23 · 59 citations
articleSenior authorCorrespondingIntroduction to fracture mechanics
Oxford University Press eBooks · 2022 · 52 citations
1st authorCorrespondingAbstract This chapter introduces the important topic of fracture of materials and discusses the difference between brittle and ductile mechanisms of fracture; this distinction is discussed at both the local level in a process zone at a crack tip, and at the structural level. A criterion for the brittle fracture of a component which fractures by a locally brittle cleavage mechanism is derived by considering the locally elevated level of tensile stress at a crack tip in relation to the ideal cleav…
Fracture of amorphous polymers: A gradient-damage theory
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids · 2020 · 48 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingMagnetostriction of soft-magnetorheological elastomers
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids · 2024-11-10 · 15 citations
articleSenior authorCorrespondingJournal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids · 2023-01-06 · 12 citations
articleSenior authorCorresponding
Recent grants
Manufacturing Processes for Polymer-Based Microfluidic Devices
NSF · $275k · 2005–2011
NSF · $200k · 2006–2011
A Chemo-Thermo-Mechanics Theory: Application to High-Temperature Thermal Barrier Coatings
NSF · $403k · 2011–2016
Frequent coauthors
- 136 shared
Morton E. Gurtin
Carnegie Mellon University
- 123 shared
Eliot Fried
- 68 shared
Sanjay Govindjee
- 35 shared
Ken Kamrin
- 21 shared
Shawn A. Chester
New Jersey Institute of Technology
- 14 shared
Vikas Srivastava
- 12 shared
C. Y. Yue
- 10 shared
David L. Henann
John Brown University
Awards & honors
- Eric Reissner Medal (1992)
- Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2003)
- Khan International Medal (2007)
- Daniel C. Drucker Medal (2014)
- J. P. Den Hartog Distinguished Educator Award (2017)
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