Professor

Additional Campus Affiliations

Director, International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research (I2CNER), Grainger College of Engineering
James W. Bayne Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering
Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering
Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Professor, Materials Research Lab

Recent Publications

Nguyen, L. T. H., Edalati, K., Kshitij, V., Dadfarnia, M., Staykov, A., Tsuchiyama, T., Kubota, M., Matsunaga, H., Krogstad, J. A., & Sofronis, P. (2026). Assessing machine learning predictions of austenitic steel compositions for optimum mechanical response. Materials Science and Engineering: A, 953, Article 149714. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2025.149714

Vijayvargia, K., Hosseini, Z. S., Dadfarnia, M., Somerday, B. P., Krogstad, J. A., Kubota, M., Tsuchiyama, T., Sofronis, P., & Aravas, N. (2026). On hydrogen-induced shear localization in austenitic steels triggered by dislocation interactions with short-range order. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 324, Article 113662. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2025.113662

Xenos, S., Papadioti, I., Kamoutsi, E., Haidemenopoulos, G. N., Sofronis, P., & Aravas, N. (2026). Hydrogen embrittlement: Modelling material degradation and computational issues. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 208, Article 106486. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2025.106486

Hosseini, Z. S., Dadfarnia, M., Kubota, M., Nagao, A., Somerday, B. P., Sofronis, P., & Ritchie, R. O. (2025). Mechanistic model for hydrogen accelerated fatigue crack growth in a low carbon steel. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 136, 722-730. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2024.05.351

Vijayvargia, K., Nguyen, T., Dadfarnia, M., Staykov, A., Sofronis, P., Kubota, M., Martin, M. L., & Pugh, J. A. (2025). On the chemomechanics of bubble growth in hydrogen attack of plain carbon steels. Corrosion Science, 253, Article 112999. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.corsci.2025.112999

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