Sharat Paul - Department of Mechanical Engineering

Assistant Professor

1300 West Park Street, Butte, MT 59701
Science and Engineering Building (S&E) 323B
Phone: 406-496-4147
E-mail: spaul@mtech.edu

Biography

Sharat earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Utah in 2025, where his doctoral research focused on wave propagation, phononic crystals, and dispersion customization. Prior to that, he earned an M.S. from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2019. He also earned an M.S. and B.S. from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 2018 and 2016, respectively.

Before joining Montana Tech in Fall 2026, he conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Connecticut. His research focuses on the mechanics and physics of wave propagation in architected materials and structures, with particular emphasis on phononic and elastic metamaterials, nonlocal interactions, and inverse design.

Research Interests

  • Phononic Crystals
  • Elastic Metamaterials
  • Wave Propagations
  • Nonlocal Metamaterials

Courses Taught

  • Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning (EMEC 448)
  • Advanced Engineering Analysis (EGEN 505)

Selected Publications and Presentations

  1. Paul, Sharat, Md Nahid Hasan, Henry Chien Fu, and Pai Wang. "Complete inverse design to customize two-dimensional dispersion relation via nonlocal phononic crystals." Physical Review B 110, no. 14 (2024): 144304.
  2. Paul, Sharat, Johannes TB Overvelde, Jacob Hochhalter, and Pai Wang. "Effects of void geometry on two-dimensional monolithic porous phononic crystals." Applied Physics Letters 124, no. 21 (2024).
  3. Hasan, Md Nahid, Taylor E. Greenwood, Sharat Paul, Bolei Deng, Qihan Liu, Yong Lin Kong, and Pai Wang. "Beyond von Mises truss models: Emergent bistability in mechanical metamaterials." Physical Review Applied 25, no. 1 (2026): 014029.
  4. Hasan, Md Nahid, Sharat Paul, Taylor E. Greenwood, Robert G. Parker, Yong Lin Kong, and Pai Wang. "Harmonically induced shape morphing of bistable buckled beam with static bias." Extreme Mechanics Letters 76 (2025): 102299.
  5. Sharat Paul, Md Nahid Hasan, Yunya Liu, and Pai Wang. "Analytical solution of Dirac degeneracy in one-dimensional nonlocal phononic crystals." In APS March Meeting Abstracts, 2025.
  6. Sharat Paul, Md Nahid Hasan, Henry Chien Fu, and Pai Wang, "Complete Inverse Design to Customize Two-dimensional (2D) Dispersion Band via Non-local Phononic Crystals." In IDETC-ASME, 2024.   
  7. Sharat Paul, Hongsup Oh, Jacob Hochhalter, and Pai Wang. "Effects of pore shape contour on band gaps of 2D periodic structures." In APS March Meeting Abstracts, 2023.