Milad Khajehvand

Milad Khajehvand

Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Riverside

About

Hello. I'm a computational materials scientist specializing in the mechanical and physical behavior of metallic materials. I received my Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Santa Clara University under the supervision of Professor Panthea Sepehrband. I have experience in atomistic simulations (molecular dynamics), machine learning (graph neural networks), mechanical testing, and materials characterization. My work has focused on contact formation, interfaces, diffusion, and deformation in metals, with applications in joining processes, additive manufacturing, and lattice metamaterials.

Publications

  1. Structure-dependent diffusion at bonded Al/Al interfaces

    A. Shashaani, M. Khajehvand, P. Sepehrband

    Computational Materials Science 273, 114934 (2026)

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  2. Critical Impact of Experimentally-Driven Strut Level Anisotropic Material Models in Advanced Stress Analysis of Additively Manufactured Lattice Structures

    S. Sahoo, M. Khajehvand, J. R. Mayeur, K. Hazeli

    Additive Manufacturing 102, 104724 (2025)

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  3. Bond-Pad Damage in Ultrasonic Wedge Bonding

    M. Khajehvand, H. Seppänen, P. Sepehrband

    Microelectronics Reliability 152, 115279 (2024)

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  4. Interface-Mediated Shear Behavior of Bonded Aluminum Substrates

    M. Khajehvand, H. Seppänen, P. Sepehrband

    Journal of Materials Science 57, 20957–20973 (2022)

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  5. Nanoscale Contact Behavior of (111) FCC Metallic Surfaces

    M. Khajehvand, H. Seppänen, P. Sepehrband

    Computational Materials Science 170, 109149 (2019)

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  6. The Effect of Crystallographic Misorientation and Interfacial Separation on Jump-to-Contact Behavior and Defect Generation in Aluminum

    M. Khajehvand, P. Sepehrband

    Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering 26, 055007 (2018)

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