High strain rate micromechanics:
Deformation and adiabatic heating of single crystalline and nanocrystalline Ni micropillars at high strain rates, Extreme Mechanics Letters
77 (2025) 102336
In-situ SEM micropillar compression and nanoindentation testing of SU-8 polymer up to 1000 s−1 strain rate, Materials Letters 358 (2024) 135824
Exceptional Microscale Plasticity in Amorphous Aluminum Oxide at Room Temperature, Advanced Materials 35 (2023) 2303142
Transient, time-dependent plasticity (strain rate sensitivity and stress relaxation):
Room temperature stress relaxation in nanocrystalline Ni measured by micropillar compression and miniature tension, Journal of Materials Research, 31 (2016) 1085-1095
Elevated temperature, strain rate jump microcompression of nanocrystalline Nickel, Philosophical Magazine, 95 (2015) 1878-1895 Special Issue: Nano-mechanical Testing in Materials Research and Development IV
Comparison of in-situ micromechanical strain rate sensitivity measurement techniques, JOM 67 (2015) 1684-1693, Special topic collection: In Situ Mechanical Testing in Electron Microscopes
High and cryo- temperature micromechanics:
Novel high temperature vacuum nanoindentation system with active surface referencing and non-contact heating for measurements up to 800° C, Review of Scientific Instruments, 90 (2019) 045105
Elevated and cryogenic temperature micropillar compression of magnesium–niobium multilayer films, Journal of Materials Science, 54 (2019) 10884
Dynamic cryo-mechanical properties of additively manufactured nanocrystalline nickel 3D microarchitectures, Materials & Design 220 (2022) 110836
Fatigue and fracture:
Size effects in fatigue crack growth in confined volumes: A microbending case study on nanocrystalline nickel, Materials & Design, 241 (2024) 112880
Bridging macro to micro-scale fatigue crack growth by advanced fracture mechanical testing on the meso-scale, Materials Science and Engineering: A
884 (2023) 145452
The Effect of Elastic–Plastic Mismatch and Interface Proximity on the Fracture Toughness of Ti-TiN Thin Films, Advanced Engineering Materials, (2025) 2500285
Microscale fracture of chromia scales, Materialia, 8 (2019) 100465
Interplay of stresses, plasticity at crack tips and small sample dimensions revealed by in-situ micro-cantilever tests in tungsten, Materials Science and Engineering A, 710 (2018) 400-412
Microscale resolution fracture toughness profiling at the zirconia-porcelain interface in dental prostheses , Proceedings of SPIE, 9668 (2015) 96685S1-11D.
In-situ EBSD and synchrotron x-ray micromechanics:
Interplay of stresses, plasticity at crack tips and small sample dimensions revealed by in-situ micro-cantilever tests in tungsten, Materials Science and Engineering A, 710 (2018) 400-412
In situ micromechanical testing of tungsten micro-cantilevers using HR-EBSD for the assessment of deformation evolution, Materials and Design, 117 (2017), 265-266
Mapping strain fields induced in Zr-based bulk metallic glasses during in-situ nanoindentation by X-ray nanodiffraction, Applied Physics Letters, 108 (2016) 031907 1-4
Metals and alloys:
Local Mechanical Properties at the Dendrite Scale of Ni-Based Superalloys Studied by Advanced High Temperature Indentation Creep and Micropillar Compression Tests, Superalloys 2020 (2020) 273-281
Deformation of lamellar γ-TiAl below the general yield stress, Acta Materialia 163 (2019) 122-139
Transverse deformation of a lamellar TiAl alloy at high temperature by in situ microcompression, Acta Materialia, 166 (2019) 166
Longitudinal twinning in TiAl alloy at high temperature by in situ microcompression, Acta Materialia, 148 (2018) 202-215
Grain Refinement Mechanism of Nickel-Based Superalloy by Severe Plastic Deformation-Mechanical Machining Case, Acta Materialia, 180 (2019) 2
Ceramics:
Exceptional Microscale Plasticity in Amorphous Aluminum Oxide at Room Temperature, Advanced Materials 35 (2023) 2303142
Evolution of alumina phase structure in thermal plasma processing, Ceramics International, 49 (2023) 21346-21354
A Comparative Transmission Electron Microscopy, Electron Diffraction Spectroscopy and Spatially Resolved Micropillar Compression Study of the Yttria Partially Stabilised Zirconia–Porcelain Interface in Dental Prosthesis , Thin Solid Films 596 (2015) 222-232
Microscale resolution fracture toughness profiling at the zirconia-porcelain interface in dental prostheses, Proceedings of SPIE, 9668 (2015) 96685S1-11D.
Polymers and composites:
Performing Polarized Raman and Digital Image Correlation Analysis to Understand the Increased Ductility of Microscale Epoxy Materials, Polymer Science, 63 (2025) 2091-2101
In-situ SEM micropillar compression and nanoindentation testing of SU-8 polymer up to 1000 s−1 strain rate, Materials Letters 358 (2024) 135824
Length-scale discrepancy in the properties of epoxy resin specimens, Polymer 283 (2023) 126148
Multistage Reversible Tg Photomodulation and Hardening of Hydrazone-Containing Polymers, Journal of American Chemical Society, 143 (2021) 16348−16353
Fiber push-in failure in carbon fiber epoxy composites, Procedia Structural Integrity, 28 (2020) 538-545
Additive manufacturing:
Correlated high throughput nanoindentation mapping and microstructural characterization of wire and arc additively manufactured 2205 duplex stainless steel, Welding in the World, 68 (2024) 2247–2257
Tribological behavior and biocompatibility of novel Nickel-Free stainless steel manufactured via laser powder bed fusion for biomedical applications, Materials & Design, 242 (2024) 113013 1-13
Dynamic cryo-mechanical properties of additively manufactured nanocrystalline nickel 3D microarchitectures, Materials & Design 220 (2022) 110836
Grain-boundary refinement in wire-arc directed energy deposition of duplex stainless steel via in-process ultrasonic vibration, Welding in the World (2025)
Thin films and coatings:
Glass and nanocrystalline phase formation in CuZrAg alloys: Insights from combinatorial thin film libraries studied by mapping synchrotron X-ray diffraction, Materials & Design, 244 (2024) 113144
Structural characterisation of Cu-Zr thin film combinatorial libraries with synchrotron radiation at the limit of crystallinity, Materials & Design 218 (2022) 110675
An exploratory study on strengthening and thermal stability of magnetron sputtered W nanoparticles at the interface of Cu/Ni multilayer films, Materials & Design, 195 (2020) 108907
Electrodeposition of dilute Ni-W alloy with enhanced thermal stability: accessing nanotwinned to nanocrystalline microstructures, Materials Today Communications, 12 (2017) 63-71
Gaurav Mohanty
