Nanocrystalline Materials
This research focussed on developing a multiscale constitutive model for nanocrystalline materials to predict the deformation and failure at microscale by taking into account loading rates and underlying physics in a phenomenological manner.

Selected Publications
A. Siddiq, T. El Sayed, A variational multiscale constitutive model for intergranular failure in nanocrystalline materials, Materials Letters, 107, 56-59, 2013.A. Siddiq, T. El Sayed, A multiscale phenomenological constitutive model for strain rate dependent tensile ductility in nanocrystalline metals, Materials Letters, 142, 60-63, 2015.