Publications

  1. N. C. Admal, E. B. Tadmor. “A unified interpretation of stress in molecular systems.” Journal of Elasticity, 100:63–143, 2010
  2. N. C. Admal, E. B. Tadmor. “Stress and heat flux for arbitrary multibody potentials: A unified framework.” The Journal of Chemical Physics, 134:184,106, 2011
  3. N. C. Admal, E.B. Tadmor. “The non-uniqueness of the atomistic stress tensor and its relationship to the generalized Beltrami representation.” Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 93:72 – 92, 2016. Special Issue in honor of Michael Ortiz
  4. N. C. Admal, Ellad B Tadmor. “Material fields in atomistics as pull-backs of spatial distributions.” Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 89:59–76, 2016
  5. N. C. Admal, J. Marian, Giacomo Po. “The atomistic representation of first strain-gradient elastic tensors.” Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 99:93 – 115, 2017
  6. N. C. Admal, Giacomo Po, Jaime Marian. “Diffuse-interface polycrystal plasticity: Expressing grain boundaries as geometrically necessary dislocations.” Materials Theory, 1(1):6, 2017
  7. Giacomo Po, Markus Lazar, N. C. Admal, Nasr Ghoniem. “A non-singular theory of dislocations in anisotropic crystals.” International Journal of Plasticity, 103:1–22, 2018
  8. N. C. Admal, Giacomo Po, Jaime Marian. “A unified framework for polycrystal plasticity with grain boundary evolution.” International Journal of Plasticity, 106:1–30, 2018
  9. Giacomo Po, N. C. Admal, Markus Lazar. “The Green tensor of Mindlin’s anisotropic first strain gradient elasticity.” Materials Theory, 3(1):3, Mar 2019.
  10. N. C. Admal, Javier Segurado, Jaime Marian. “A three-dimensional misorientation axis- and inclination-dependent Kobayashi–Warren–Carter grain boundary model.” Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2019.
  11. G. Po, N. C. Admal, B. Svendsen. “Non-local Thermoelasticity Based on Equilibrium Statistical Thermodynamics.” Journal of Elasticity 139 (1), 37-59, 2020.
  12. M. Shi, N. C. Admal, E. B. Tadmor. “Noise filtering in atomistic stress calculations for crystalline materials.” Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 144, 1040831
  13. Jaekwang Kim, Matt Jacobs, Stanley Osher, Nikhil Chandra Admal. “A crystal symmetry-invariant Kobayashi–Warren–Carter grain boundary model and its implementation using a thresholding algorithm.” Computational Materials Science, 199:110,575, 2021.
  14. Junyan He, Nikhil Admal. “Polycrystal plasticity with grain boundary evolution: A numerically efficient dislocation-based diffuse-interface model.” Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering 30, no. 2 (2021): 025006.
  15. Ananthakrishnan, Ganesh, Mitisha Surana, Matthew Poss, Jad Jean Yaacoub, Kaihao Zhang, Nikhil Admal, Pascal Pochet, Sameh Tawfick, and Harley T. Johnson. “Graphene-mediated stabilization of surface facets on metal substrates.” Journal of Applied Physics 130, no. 16 (2021): 165302
  16. Himanshu Joshi, Junyan He, Nikhil Admal. “A finite deformation theory for grain boundary plasticity based on geometrically necessary disconnections.” Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids (2022): 104949.
  17. Suranaa, Mitisha, Tusher Ahmed, and Nikhil Chandra Admal. “Interface mechanics of 2D materials on metal substrates.” Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 163 (2022): 104831.
  18. Nikhil Admal, Tusher Ahmed, Enrique Martinez, and Giacomo Po. “Interface dislocations and grain boundary disconnections using Smith normal bicrystallography”. Acta Materialia (2022), 118340.
  19. Nikhil Admal, Jaekwang Kim. “A stochastic framework for evolving grain statistics using a neural network model for grain topology transformations”. Computational Materials Science, 216:111,812, 2023.
  20. Mitisha Surana, Ganesh Ananthakrishnan, Matthew M Poss, Jad Jean Yaacoub, Kaihao Zhang, Tusher Ahmed, Nikhil Chandra Admal, Pascal Pochet, Harley T Johnson, Sameh Tawfick. “Strain-driven faceting of graphene-catalyst interfaces.” Nano letters, 23(5):1659– 1665, 2023
  21. Md Tusher Ahmed, Chenhaoyue Wang, Amartya S Banerjee, Nikhil Chandra Admal. “Bicrystallography-informed Frenkel–Kontorova model for interlayer dislocations in strained 2d heterostructures.” Mechanics of Materials, 190:104,903, 2024
  22. Jaekwang Kim, Nikhil Chandra Admal. “Statistics of grain microstructure evolution under anisotropic grain boundary energies and mobilities using threshold-dynamics.” Modeling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, 32(3):035,022, Feb 2024.
  23. Himanshu Joshi, Ian Chesser, Brandon Runnels, Nikhil Chandra Admal. “An atomistic survey of shear coupling in asymmetric tilt grain boundaries and interpretation using the disconnections framework.” Acta Materialia, 275:119,994, 2024
  24. Himanshu Joshi, Ian Chesser, Brandon Runnels, Nikhil Chandra Admal. “Energetics of the nucleation and glide of disconnection modes in symmetric tilt grain boundaries.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.16854, 2025
  25. Shailendra Joshi, Ashley Bucsek, Darren Pagan, Samantha Daly, Suraj Ravindran, Jaime Marian, Miguel A Bessa, Surya R Kalidindi, Nikhil C Admal, Celia Reina, et al. “Integrated experiment and simulation co-design: A key infrastructure for predictive mesoscale materials modeling.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.09793, 2025
  26. Md Tusher Ahmed, Moon-ki Choi, Harley T Johnson, Nikhil Chandra Admal. “Quantifying superlubricity of bilayer graphene from the mobility of interface dislocations.” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2025