Dongare, Avinash

Avinash Dongare

Professor, Materials Science & Engineering

Email dongare@uconn.edu
Phone (860) 486-2592
Mailing Address Materials Science and Engineering 25 King Hill Road, Unit 3136 University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06269-3136
Campus Storrs
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Brief Bio

Dr. Avinash M. Dongare is a Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Connecticut. He also holds joint appointments in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Physics. Dongare is also associated with UConn's Institute of Materials Science (IMS). He was recently appointed interim head of the Materials Science and Engineering Department. 

  • Mechanics of nanostructured materials
  • Corrosion related degradation and failure in extreme environments
  • Electronic properties of nanostructured materials
  • Materials in extreme environments (Shock, high strain rates, high pressures, high temperatures)
  • Thermodynamics and phase transformations
  • Interfaces effects on mechanical behavior
  • Atomic Scale Modeling,
  • Mesoscale Modeling,
  • Microstructural Evolution,
  • Mechanics of Materials,
  • Defects,
  • Interfaces,
  • Materials Under Extreme Environments
  • Ma and A. M. Dongare, Role of α-ε-α Phase Transformation on the Spall behavior of Iron at Atomic Scales, J. Mater. Sci. 57, 12556 (2022). [Link]
  • Mishra, K. Ma, and A.M. Dongare, Virtual diffraction simulations using the quasi-coarse-grained dynamics method to understand and interpret plasticity contributions during in situ shock experiments, J. Mater. Sci. 57, 12782 (2022). [Link]
  • Mishra, M. J Echeverria, K. Ma, S. Parida, C. Chen, S. Galitskiy, and A. M. Dongare, Virtual texture analysis to investigate the deformation mechanisms in metal microstructures at the atomic scale, J. Mater. Sci. 57, 10549 (2022). [Link]
  • Mishra, J. Lind, M. Kumar, and A. M. Dongare, Understanding the Phase Transformation Mechanisms that affect the Dynamic Response of Fe-based Microstructures at the Atomic Scales, J. Appl. Phys. 130, 215902 (2021). [Link]
  • Ghosh, M. K. Singh, S. Parida, A. Dobley, A. M. Dongare, C. B. Carter, Characterizing Li in partially lithiated layer materials using atomic-resolution imaging, modeling, and simulation, J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 105, 1581 (2021). [Link]
  • J. Echeverria, S. Galitskiy, A. Mishra, R Dingreville, A. M. Dongare, Understanding the plasticity contributions during laser-shock loading and spall failure of Cu microstructures at the atomic scales, Comp. Mater. Sci. 198, 110668 (2021). [Link]
  • Mishra, C. Kunka, M. J. Echeverria, R. Dingreville, A. M. Dongare, Fingerprinting shock-induced deformations via diffraction, Scientific Reports 11, 9872 (2021). [Link]
  • Ma, J. Chen, A. M. Dongare, Role of pre-existing dislocations on the shock compression and spall behavior in single-crystal copper at atomic scales, J. Appl. Phys. 129, 175901 (2021). [Link]
  • Galitskiy, and A. M. Dongare, Modeling the damage evolution and recompression behavior during laser shock loading of aluminum microstructures at the mesoscales, J. Mater. Sci. 56, 4446 (2021). [Link]
  • Ghosh, M. K. Singh, S. Parida, M. T Janish, A. Dobley, A. M. Dongare, C B. Carter, Phase evolution and structural modulation during in situ lithiation of MoS 2, WS 2 and graphite in TEM, Scientific Reports 11, 9014 (2021). [Link]
  • Parida, A. Mishra, J. Chen, J. Wang, A. Dobley, C. B. Carter, A. M. Dongare, Vertically Stacked 2H‐1T Dual‐Phase MoS2 Microstructures during Lithium Intercalation: A First Principles Study, J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 103, 6603 (2020). [Link]
  • Agarwal, R. R. Valisetty, and A. M. Dongare, Shock Wave Compression Behavior and Dislocation Density Evolution in Al Microstructures at the Atomic Scales and the Mesoscales, Int. J. Plast., 128, 102678 (2020). [Link]
  • J Flanagan, S. Vijayan, S. Galitskiy, J. Davis, B. A Bedard, C.L Williams, A. M. Dongare, M.Aindow, and S.-W. Lee, Shock-induced deformation twinning and softening in magnesium single crystals, Materials & Design 194, 108884 (2020). [Link]
  • Chen, S. Mathaudhu, N. Thadhani, and A. M. Dongare, Unravelling the Role of Interfaces on the Spall Failure of Cu/Ta Multilayered Systems, Sci. Rep. 10, 208 (2020). [Link]
  • M. Dongare, Viewpoint: Challenges to model the role of heterogeneities on the shock response and spall failure of metallic materials at the mesoscales, J. Mater. Sci. 55, 3157 (2020). [Link] [Cover Feature, Vol 55, Issue 8 (2020)]
  • Suresh, S-W Lee, M. Aindow, H. Brody, V. R. Champagne, and A. M. Dongare, Mesoscale modeling of jet initiation behavior and microstructural evolution during cold spray single particle impact, Acta Mater. 182, 197 (2020). [Link]
  • Chen, E. Han, A. M. Dongare, and S. Fensin, Understanding and Predicting Damage and Failure at Grain Boundaries in BCC Ta, J. Appl. Phys. 126, 165902 (2019). [Link] [Cover Feature, Vol 126, Issue 16 (2019)]
  • Galitskiy, D. S. Ivanov and A. M. Dongare, Dynamic evolution of microstructure during laser shock loading and spall, J. Appl. Phys. 124, 205901 (2018). [Link] [Cover Feature, Vol 124, Issue 20 (2018)]
  • McCreary, R. Ghosh, M. Amani, J. Wang, K.-A. N. Duerloo, A. Sharma, K. Jarvis, E. Reed, A. M. Dongare, S. K. Banerjee, M. Terrones, R. R. Namburu and M. Dubey, Effects of uniaxial and biaxial strain on CVD-grown few-layered terrace structures of MoS2, ACS Nano 10, 3186 (2016). [Link]
  • M. Dongare, Quasi-coarse-grained dynamics: modeling of metallic materials at mesoscales, Phil. Mag. 94, 3877 (2014). [Link]