University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt | Germany
Publication Profile
DR. VINIT VIJAY DESHPANDE– BIOGRAPHY 🌱📚
📍 PhD in Computational Mechanics | Researcher, Educator, Innovator
Education 🎓
PhD in Computational Mechanics (Expected Feb 2025)
University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany
- Thesis: “Computational strategies for characterization, reconstruction, and property estimation of ceramic foam” (magna cum laude)
- Advisor: Prof. Dr. Romana Piat
Master of Technology in Engineering Mechanics (May 2013)
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India
Invited Talks 🗣️
- Use of image segmentation to characterize failure modes of struts in ceramic foam under compression
49th International Conference and Expo on Advanced Ceramics and Composites (ICACC 2025), Daytona Beach, Florida, USA
- Application of skeletonization algorithm to investigate failure modes of ceramic foam in uniaxial compression
4th International Workshops on Advances in Computational Mechanics (IWACOM-IV), Kitakyushu, Japan
Conference Presentations 📅
- Investigating microstructure failure modes of ceramic foam under uniaxial compression – 16th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM 2024)
- Artificial microstructure reconstruction algorithm for stiffness property estimation – 48th ICACC 2024
- Computational methodology for the relation between volume fraction and compression strength of ceramic foam – 21st International Conference on Fracture and Damage Mechanics (FDM 2023)
(For the complete list of conferences, refer to the original document.)
Patents 📑
- 12 Patents on combined braking systems for two-wheelers.
- 2 Patents on innovative stand concepts for two-wheelers.
Awards & Recognitions 🏆
- Best Paper Award, Collaborative European Research Conference (CERC) 2020
- Lieutenant Arpan Banerjee Award for securing the highest CGPA in MTech and D.I.I.T programmes at IIT Delhi (2012-13)
Scholarships 💡
- Doctoral Fellowship, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt
- DAAD Sandwich Scholarship for master’s thesis in Germany
Teaching Experience 👨🏫
- Teaching Assistant: Laboratory course for ‘Numerical Solutions to Partial Differential Equations’ since Fall 2020
Student Advising 👨🎓
- Supervised 6 Master’s Thesis students in the field of computational mechanics.
Research Interests 🔬
- Microstructure reconstruction algorithms
- Constitutive modeling
- Surrogate modeling using machine learning
- Microstructure segmentation algorithms
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Research Associate – University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt (Sept 2024 – Present)
Focus: Conductive polymer composites & microstructure algorithms
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Scientific Assistant – University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt (Dec 2019 – Aug 2024)
Focus: Porous ceramics, fracture modeling, and transfer learning-based neural networks
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Research Assistant – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Sept 2012 – Mar 2013)
Focus: Topology optimization of carbon-carbon composites
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Research Assistant – IIT Delhi (June 2012 – Aug 2012)
Focus: Elastic properties of carbon-carbon composites
Industry Experience 🏭
- Analyst – Vehicle Dynamics Simulation, Hero MotoCorp (Aug 2013 – Dec 2019)
Focus: Multibody simulations, vehicle dynamics, stability, ride-comfort, and braking systems
- Trainee – Computer Aided Engineering, Tata Technologies Ltd (July 2010 – July 2011)
Focus: Mesh modeling of four-wheelers for safety and durability analysis
Technical Skills 💻
- Advanced simulation software
- Computational algorithms for material modeling
- Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and multibody dynamics simulations
- Machine learning for data-driven modeling
Top Notes Publications 📚
Biaxial compression failure of brittle foams: A transfer learning-based strategy
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- Authors: Vinit Vijay Deshpande; Romana Piat
- Journal: Procedia Structural Integrity
- Year: 2024
Numerical Strategies to Study Compression Failure in Brittle Foams with 3D Realistic Microstructures
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- Authors: Vinit Vijay Deshpande; Romana Piat
- Journal: Advanced Structured Materials
- Year: 2024
Numerical studies of the elastic properties of ceramic foam by creation of the artificial microstructures after processing of computed tomographic images
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- Authors: Romana Piat; Vinit Vijay Deshpande
- Journal: AIP Conference Proceedings
- Year: 2023
Compression failure of porous ceramics: A computational study about the effect of volume fraction on damage evolution and failure
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- Authors: Vinit Vijay Deshpande; Romana Piat
- Journal: Mechanics of Materials
- Year: 2023
Application of statistical functions to the numerical modelling of ceramic foam: From characterisation of CT-data via generation of the virtual microstructure to estimation of effective elastic properties
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- Authors: Vinit Vijay Deshpande; Kay André Weidenmann; Romana Piat
- Journal: Journal of the European Ceramic Society
- Year: 2021