Assistant Professor
School of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Purdue University
West Lafayette
IN, 47907
United States
PH: +1 (765) 494-3423
Fax: +1 (765) 494-0307
Email: tomar@purdue.edu
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Background
Vikas Tomar earned his bachelor's degree from the National Institute
of Technology (India) and his master's degree from the Indian Institute
of Technology and the University of Stuttgart (Germany). He received his PhD
degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He comes to Purdue from the
University of Notre Dame, where he was an assistant professor.
Dr. Tomar's main research thrust is in the area of computationally and
experimentally analyzing new classes of ceramics matrix composites for extreme
environments with a view of applications such as nuclear environments, nanoscale
high voltage ionized environments, and high temperature environments. Another
thrust is in analyzing bio-motivated polymer matrix composites such as tropocollagen
(TC)-hydroxyapatite (HAP) materials and their use in structural mechanics, medicine,
and energy related applications. The emphasis is on primarily understanding
the interplay of length scale and time scale related effects which could be
manipulated in order to either develop new technologies or modify the existing
technologies for serving aerospace, energy, and medicine fields. Research methods
are based on, but not limited to, using cohesive finite element method, molecular
dynamics method, Monte Carlo method, and quantum mechanical simulations and
combining them with Scanning Probe Microscopy, Electron Microscopy, and nanoscale
mechanical testing approaches for nanoscale fatigue and fracture strength measurements.