Materials Science & Engineering

Biography

Dr Raj Das is a Faculty Member of the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is a principal investigator of the Centre for Advanced Composite Materials and leads the computational modelling research. His current areas of interest include simulation of composite processing and manufacturing, impact response and failure analysis of composite materials, numerical modelling using finite element and mesh-less methods, dynamic fracture and fatigue, and structural optimisation. Dr Raj Das has established strong linkages with composite and material processing industries and active collaboration with national and international academic institutions. He has published more than 150 papers in international journals and conferences. Dr Das is a member of the National Committee on Applied Mechanics, and is an adjunct academic of the University of Quebec, Canada. He has received various international awards and fellowships, such as the ‘CONICYT award’ from the Government of Chile, ‘UQAC Visiting Fellowship’ from the University of Quebec, and ‘Certificate of Merit Award’ from the International Association of Engineers, Hong Kong. He is on the editorial board and review panel of several journals and funding agencies. Dr Das also serves on the scientific committees of more than 80 international conferences. He is the only New Zealand member of the 'International Society for Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (the most prestigious society in optimisation), the National Committee on Applied Mechanics, Australia, and the SPH European Research Interest Community.

Research Interest

Material Processing, Composite Materials, Computational Material Modelling, Fatigue/Fracture Mechanics of Materials, Process Optimisation