Ph.D.

Madhu Sudan

Discrete Element Modelling of Granular materials
Geomechanics
Constitutive modelling of Geomaterials
Transportation Geotechnics

d20013@students.iitmandi.ac.in

About

Currently working on micromechanical analyses employing the Discrete Element Method (DEM) to determine the influence of particle shape on mechanical behavior and instability response of granular materials. Based on this, a stress-fabric-dilatancy relationship incorporating particle shape descriptors will be developed and integrated into a critical state based constitutive framework.

Supervision

Supervisor

Mousumi Mukherjee

Education

B.Tech. Baddi University
2013-2017
M.Tech. (Transportation Engineering) Punjab Engineering College
2017-2019
Ph.D. Indian Institute of Technology Mandi
2020 - ongoing

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor (Chandigarh Group of Colleges Jhanjheri)
2019

Awards and Honours

Best Oral Presentation in Anusandhan 2022, organised by Society of Collaborative Research and Innovation (SCRI), IIT Mandi
2022
SERB International Travel Grant to attend 10th European Conference on Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering in Imperial College London (U.K.)
2023

Publications

Journal Article

1	Sudan, M., & Mukherjee, M. (2023). Investigation on instability modes of sand under biaxial shearing accounting various specimen generation techniques in DEM. Advanced Powder Technology, 34(8), 104081. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apt.2023.104081	View More

Conference Paper

1	Sudan, M., & Mukherjee, M. (2023, June). A DEM based micromechanical study on influence of lateral boundaries on instability response of sand under biaxial shearing. 10th European Conference on Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering, Imperial College London	View More
2	Sudan, M., & Mukherjee, M. (2022, July). Assessment of macro and micro level heterogeneities for characterizing mechanical behavior of sand in biaxial test employing DEM. 15th World Congress on Computational Mechanics and 8th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics, Yokohoma, Japan	View More
3	Sudan, M., Mukherjee, M., & SV, R, D. (2023, December). Implications of Adopting Up-scaled Particle Size Distribution in DEM for Simulating the Mechanical and Instability Response of Sand. 9th International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulations (9ICCMS), IIT Gandhinagar	View More
4	Sudan, M., & Mukherjee, M. (2022, December). Effect of Sample Preparation Technique on Strain Localisation of Dense Sand under Biaxial Test Condition. Indian Geotechnical Conference 2022, Kochi, India	View More