Publications in the Year-1996
  1. Ambat, R. and Dwarakadasa, E.S.
    Effect of hydrogen in aluminium and aluminium alloys : A review
    Bull. Mater. Sci. 19 (1996) 103-114.

  2. Anand, P., Modak, J.M. and Natarajan, K.A.
    Biobeneficiation of bauxite using Bacillus polymyxa : Calcium and iron removal
    Int. J. Miner. Process. 48 (1996) 51-60.

  3. Ananth, D., Gothe, N.N. and Subramanian, S.
    Studies on reduction of silica in siliceous limestones of Gulbarga for cement manufacture
    in Proc. of the All India Seminar on "Minerals in the Economy of India",The Institution of Engineers (India), Bangalore, ( 1996) pp.117-125.

  4. Ananthasivan, K., Kaliappan, I., Anthonysamy, S., Chandramouli,V., Vasudeva Rao, P.R., Mathews, C.K. and Jacob, K.T.
    Gibbs energy of formation UMoC1.7 and UMoC2
    J. Alloys Compd. 245 (1996) 40-46.

  5. Anthonysamy, S., Ananthasivan, K., Kaliappan, I., Chandramouli, V., Vasudeva Rao, P.R., Mathews, C.K. and Jacob, K.T.
    Gibbs energy of formation of chromium carbides
    Metall. Mater. Trans. 27A (1996) 1919-1924.

  6. Bag, A., Ray, K.K., Aprameyan, K. and Dwarakadasa, E.S.
    Effect of morphology and distribution of martensite on the mechanical properties of ferrite-martensite insitu composite microstructure
    in Proc. of the Second Int. Conf. on "Advances in Composites, ADCOMP-96", (Eds.) Dwarakadasa, E.S. and Krishnadas Nair, C.G., Bangalore, (1996) pp. 303-308.

  7. Bravo-Leon, A., Jimenez Melendo, M., Dominguez Rodriguez, A. and Chokshi, A.H.
    The role of a threshold stress in the superplastic deformation of fine-grained yttria -stabilised zirconia polycrystals
    Scripta Materialia 34 (1996) 1155-1160.

  8. Chattopadhyay, K., Wang, X.M., Aoki, K. and Masumoto, T.
    Metastable phase formation during mechanical alloying of Al-Ge and Al-Si alloys
    J. Alloys Compds. 232 (1996) 224-231.

  9. Chitralekha, J., Srinivasan, A., Chattopadhyay, K. and Rajagopal, E.S.
    Influence of the mechanical and chemical thresholds on the microhardness of ternary chalcogenide glasses
    Phys. Stat. Sol. 197 (1996) 343-348.

  10. Chokshi, A.H.
    An analysis of creep deformation in nanocrystalline materials
    Scripta Materialia 34 (1996) 1905-1910.

  11. Chokshi, A.H. and Langdon, T.G.
    A model study of cavity growth in superplasticity using single premachined holes
    Metall. Mater. Trans. 27A (1996) 2532-2539.

  12. Chokshi, A.H.
    The densification, superplastic deformation and fracture characteristics of a 3 mol% Yttria stabilized zirconia
    in "Progress in Advanced Materials and Mechanics" (Eds.) Wang Tzuchiang and Tsu-Wei Chou, Peking University Press, China, (1996) pp.

  13. Das, A. and Mishra, A.K.
    Role of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans and sulphur (sulphide) dependent ferric ion-reducing activity in the oxidation of sulphide minerals
    Appl. Microbiol Biotechnol. 45 (1996) 377-382.

  14. Devasia, P., Natarajan, K.A. and Rao, G.R.
    Role of bacterial growth conditions and adhesion in the bioleaching of chalcopyrite by Thiobacillus ferrooxidans
    Minerals and Metallurgical Processing, 13 (1996) 82.

  15. Dutta, B.
    Role of reinforcing phases on microstructure evolution during solidification of a composite slurry
    in Proc. of the Second Int. Conf. on "Advances in Composites, ADCOMP-96", (Eds.) Dwarakadasa, E.S. and Krishnadas Nair, C.G., Bangalore, (1996) pp. 261-268.

  16. Dutta, B., Mannikar, S. and Surappa, M.K.
    Solidification studies in aluminium matrix composites
    in "Inorganic Matrix Composites" (Ed.) Surappa, M.K., The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, USA, (1996) pp. 15-30.

  17. Gandhi, A.S., Saravanan, A. and Jayaram, V.
    Containerless processing of ceramics by aerodynamic levitation
    Mater. Sci. Engg. A221 (1996) 68.

  18. Gopala Krishna, V., Prasad, Y.V.R.K., Birla, N.C. and Sambasiva Rao, G.
    Hot-deformation mechanisms in near-alpha titanium alloy 685
    J. Metals, July (1996) 56.

  19. Goswami, R. and Chattopadhyay, K.
    The solidification behaviour of Bi particles embedded in an Al matrix
    Acta Materialia 44 (1996) 2421-2429.

  20. Goswami, R. and Chattopadhyay, K.
    Depression of melting point of multidomained bismuth in aluminium based metallic glass nanocomposites
    Appl. Phys. Lett. 69 (1996) 1-3.

  21. Gundiah, N., Jacob, K.T. and Menon, A.G.
    Revision of JANAF (1985) data for C2H2 (g)
    Calphad 20 (1996) 171-174.

  22. Gupta, D. and Lahiri, A.K.
    Cold model study of the surface profile in a continuous slab casting
    mould : Effect of second phase
    Metall. Mater. Trans. 27B (1996) 695.

  23. Gupta, D. and Lahiri, A.K.
    Cold model study of slag entrainment into liquid steel in a continuous
    slab caster
    Ironmaking Steelmaking 23 (1996) 361-363.

  24. Gupta, D and Lahiri, A.K.
    A water model study of flow asymmetry in a continuous casting mould Metall. Mater. Trans. 27B (1996) 757.

  25. D. Gupta, Chakrovarty, S. and Lahiri, A.K.
    Fluid flow in continuous casting mould
    in "Transport Phenomena in Metallurgical Processes" (Eds.) S. Prakash and P. Ramachandra Rao, National Metallurgical Laboratory, (1996) pp. 115.

  26. Gupta, S.K. and Lahiri, A.K.
    Role of alternative processes of iron making and the direction of future developments with specific reference to global competitiveness
    in Alternative routes to iron and steel, Tata Steel, Jamshedpur, (1996) pp. 1.

  27. Hajra, J.P. and Divakar, M.
    Applicability of Butler's equation in interpreting the thermodynamic behaviour of surfaces and adsorption in Fe-S-O melts
    Metall. Mater. Trans. 27B (1996) 241-253.

  28. Hajra, J.P.
    Authors reply : Derivation and consistency of the partial functions of the ternary system involving interaction coefficients
    Metall. Mater. Trans. (1999) 326-327.

  29. Hanabe, M., Jayaram, V. and Bhaskaran, T.A.
    Growth of Al2O3/Al composites from Al-Zn alloys
    Acta Materialia 44 (1996) 819-826.

  30. Jacob, K.T. and Varghese, V.
    Controversy on the free energy of formation of CaO - Additional evidence in support of thermochemical data
    Metall. Mater. Trans. 27B (1996) 647-651.

  31. Jacob, K.T., Gundiah, N. and Menon, A.G.
    A thermodynamic criterion for selection of gas compositions for diamond deposition
    High Temp. Mater. Process 15 (1996) 223-235.

  32. Jacob, K.T. and Seetharaman, S.
    Phase equilibria, oxygen potentials and activities in the Ni-Co-Si-O system at 1373 K
    J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 79 (1996) 2815-2820.

  33. Jayaganthan, R. and Hajra, J.P.
    Thermodynamics and phase equilibria in the Al-Ga system
    Mater. Sci. & Engg. 388 (1996) 96-102.

  34. Jayaram, V., Manna, R., Kshetrapal, M.G., Sarkar, J. and Biswas, S.K.
    Microstructural control and wear of Al2O3-SiC-(Al, Si) composites made by melt oxidation
    J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 388 (1996) 770-772.

  35. Jayaram, V.
    The role of volatile solute elements in directed melt oxidation of Al-alloys
    J. Mater. Sci. 31 (1996) 4591-4598.

  36. Jayaram, V.
    Synthesis and characterisation of metastable ceramic oxides
    in "Advances in Physical Metallurgy" (Eds.) Banerjee, S. and Ramanujam, R.V., Gordon and Breach Publishers Inc., Pennsylvania, USA, (1996) pp. 455-461.

  37. Jayaram, V., Sandeep Kumar, Mani, I.V., Saifullah, M.S.M., Sarkar, J. and Warrier, K.S.K.
    Infiltration and Al2O3 - Al composition into coated silicon carbide
    in "Inorganic Matrix Composites" (Ed.), Surappa, M.K., The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, USA, (1996) pp. 193-206.

  38. Karan, G., Natarajan, K.A. and Modak J.M.
    Estimation of mineral adhered biomass of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans by protein assay - Some problems and remedies
    Hydrometallurgy 42 (1996) 169-175.

  39. Kishore, Ramanathan, S. and Rao, R.M.V.G.K.
    Repeated drop weight impacts and post-impact ILSS tests on glass-epoxy composites
    Bull. Mater. Sci. 19 (1996) 1133-1141.

  40. Kutty, T.R.G., Ganguly, C. and Sastry, D.H.
    Development of creep curves from hot indentation hardness data
    Scripta Materialia 34 (1996) 1833-1838.

  41. Kutty, T.R.G., Ganguly, C., Bandopadhyay, A.K., Mangsulikar, M.D. and Sastry.D.H.
    Evaluation of elastic constants of Al-U and Al-U-Zr alloys by ultrasonic technique
    in Proc. Of 14th World Conf. on "Non Destructive Testing", New Delhi, India, (1996) pp.

  42. Kutty, T.R.G., Ganguly, C. and Surappa, M.K.
    Evaluation of hot hardness, creep, coefficient of thermal expansion and high temperature microstructure of 6061 Al-SiCp composites
    Trans. Indian. Inst. Met. 49 (1996) 39-45.

  43. Krishnakumar R., Sinha, S.K. and Lahiri, A.K.
    Real time simulator for runout table of hot strip mills
    in Conf. IAS. Tech. Meeting 4 (1996) 2547.

  44. Lahiri, A.K.
    Blast furnace hot metal quality, mechanism, prediction and control
    in 4th Indian Ironmaking Conf., RDCIS, Ranchi (1996) pp. 399.

  45. Louis, K.T., Subramanian, S., Prasad, A.B.K., Indira, R. and Rajagopalan, S.
    Characterization and cyanide leach amenability studies on gold ore samples from some exploratory deposits of South India
    in Proc. Int. Conf. On "Mining and Metallurgy in a Changing Environment", Zimbabwe, (1996), pp. 74-80.

  46. Majumdar, B. and Chattopadhyay, K.
    The Rayleigh instability of the origin of rows of droplets in the
    Monotectic microstructure of zinc-bismuth alloys
    Metall. Mater. Trans. 27A (1996) 2053-2057.

  47. Manna, R., Sarkar, J. and Surappa, M.K.
    Effect of second phase precipitates on recovery and recrystallisation behaviour of cold-worked Al2024- SiCp composites
    J. Mater. Sci. 31 (1996) 1625-1631.

  48. Modak, J.M., Natarajan, K.A. and Mukhopadhyay, S.
    Development of temperature-tolerant strains of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans to improve bioleaching kinetics
    Hydrometallurgy 42 (1996) 51-61.

  49. Modak, J.M., Natarajan, K.A. and Saha, B.
    Biosorption of copper and zinc using waste Aspergillus niger biomass
    Minerals and Metallurgical Processing, 13 (1996) 52.

  50. Mukhopadhyay, N.K., Chattopadhyay, K. and Ranganathan, S.
    Ordering transformation in icosahedral quasicrystals and related crystalline phases
    Bull. Mater. Sci. 19 (1996) 717-723.

  51. Mukhopadhyay S. and Jacob, K.T.
    Phase equilibria in the system CaO-CoO-SiO2 and Gibbs energies of formation of the quaternary oxides CaCoSi2O6, Ca2CoSi2O7 and CaCoSiO4 Am. Mineral. 81 (1996) 963-973.

  52. Murali, S., Ramachandra, M., Murthy, K.S.S. and Raman, K.S.
    Development of electropolishing techniques on metals and alloys
    Prakt. Metallogr. 33 (1996) 6.

  53. Murali, S., Raman, K.S. and Murthy, K.S.S.
    Al-7Si-0.3Mg cast alloy: Formation and crystal structure of ?-FeSiAl5 and
    (Be-Fe)BeSiFe2Al8 phases
    Materials Science Forum (1996) 217-222.

  54. Murali, S., Raman, K.S. and Murthy, K.S.S.
    Al-7Si-0.3Mg cast alloy : A new approach to property improvement
    AFS Transactions 165 (1996) 1175

  55. Murthy, K.S.N. and Dwarakadasa, E.S.
    Studies on the mechanism of formation of lithium containing passive film on 8090-T851 alloy
    in Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Progress in Advanced Materials and Mechanics, (Eds.) Wang Tzuchiang, and Tsu-Wei Chou, Peking University Press, Beijing, China, (1996) pp. 1192-1197.

  56. Nagarajan, R., Ranganathan, S. and Chattopadhyay, K.
    Synthesis of nanostructured titanium alloys
    Metals, Materials and Proces, (1996) 7.

  57. Nagendra, N. and Jayaram V.
    Microstructure and mechanical properties of Al2O3 (Al-AlN) composites fabricated by pressureless infiltration of Al-alloys
    in Proc. of the Second International Conf. On "Advances in Composites, ADCOMP-96", (Eds.) Dwarakadasa, E.S. and Krishnadas Nair, C.G., Bangalore, (1996) pp. 111-117.

  58. Natarajan, K.A.
    Laboratory studies on ball wear in the grinding of a chalcopyrite ore
    Int. J. Miner. Process. 46 (1996) 205-213.

  59. Natarajan, K.A.
    Biobeneficiation of bauxite for refractory applications
    in Proc. 2nd India Int. Refractory Congress, Indian Refractory Makers Association, Calcutta, (1996) pp. 184-185.

  60. Pramila, T., Ramananda Rao, G., Natarajan, K.A. and Durga Rao, C.
    Differential influence of ions on the copy number of plasmids in Thiobacillus ferrooxidans
    Current Microbiology 32 (1996) 57-63.

  61. Pramila Bai, B.N., Saravanan, R.A. and Surappa, M.K.
    Tribological studies on aluminium matrix composites
    in "Inorganic Matrix Composites", (Ed.) Surappa, M.K., The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, USA, (1996) pp. 171-191.

  62. Prasad, Y.V.R.K.
    Author's reply : Dynamic materials model : Basis and principles
    Metall. Mater. Trans. 27A (1996) 235-236.

  63. Ranganathan, S., Murty, B.S., Nagarajan, R. and Chattopadhyay, K.
    Nanostructured titanium-nickel alloys :A comparison of processing routes
    in "Processing and Properties of Nanocrystalline Materials" (Eds.) Suryanarayana, C., Singh J. and Froes, F.H., The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, Talhouse, USA, (1996) pp. 37-48.

  64. Rao, T.V.L.N., Bhat, M.V. and Sastry, D.H.
    Corrosion and stress corrosion behaviour of an Mg-Li-Al alloy in presence of inhibitors in aqueous environments
    Br. Corros. J. 31 (1996) 44-48.

  65. Ravi, M., Pillai, U.T.S., Pai, B.C., Damodaran, A.D. and Dwarakadasa, E.S.
    A study of the influence of mischmetal additions to Al-7Si-0.3Mg (LM 25/356) alloy
    Metall. Mater. Tans. 27A (1996) 1283-

  66. Ravikumar, N.V., Pai, B.C. and Dwarakadasa, E.S.
    Effect of particle content and matrix strength on the mechanical properties of Al-Zn-Mg/SiCp composites
    in Proc. of the Second International Conf. on "Advances in Composites, ADCOMP-96" (Eds.) Dwarakadasa, E.S. and Krishnadas Nair, C.G., Bangalore, (1996) pp. 295-302.

  67. Ravikiran, A. and Surappa, M.K.
    Tribological studies on Mg-SiCp, Al-SiCp and Al-Al2O3 composites
    in Proc. of the Int. Conf. on "Mining and Metallurgy in a Changing Environment", Zimbabwe, June (1996).

  68. Ray, K.K., Bag, A., Bandopadhyay, P. and Dwarakadasa, E.S.
    Fracture behaviour of a dual phase steel having a high percentage of martensite

  69. Sastry, D.H. and Sundar, R.S.
    Effect of alloying elements on high temperature creep of nickel and iron aluminides
    in Proc. of the Int. Symp. on "Nickel and Iron Aluminides: Processing, Properties and Applications", Ohio,( 1996) pp. 123-144.

  70. Singh, A. and Ranganathan, S.
    Indexing of decagonal quasicrystals I, The T8-phase
    Phil. Mag. A 74 (1996) 821-840.

  71. Singh, A. and Ranganathan, S.
    Indexing of decagoanal quasicrystals II, A comparison of zone-axis pattern maps of decagonal phases of different periodicities
    Phil. Mag. A 74 (1996) 841-859.

  72. Srinivasan, V.S., Valsan, M., Bhanu Sankara Rao, K., Mannan, S.L. and Sastry, D.H.
    Low cycle fatigue behaviour of a nitrogen modified 316L stainless steel at 823 K
    Trans. Indian Inst. Metals 49 (1996) 489-495.

  73. Srivastava, A.K. and Ranganathan, S.
    Quasicrystals, crystals and multiple twins in rapidly solidified Al-Cr-Si, Al-Mn-Si and Al-Mn-Cr-Si alloys
    Acta Materialia 44 (1996) 2935-2946.

  74. Srivastava, A.K.
    Evolution of microstructure during spray atomization and deposition of Al-Fe-V-Si and Al-Mn-Cr-Si alloys
    in "Advances in Physical Metallurgy" (Eds.) Banerjee, S. and Ramanujan, R.V., Gorden and Breach Publishers Inc., Pennsylvania, USA, (1996) pp. 212-215.

  75. Subramanian, S.
    Scope for small scale mineral based industries - Selected examples
    in Proc. of the Workshop on Mineral Based Industries in Karnataka - Potential and Prospects, Bangalore, (1996) pp. 1-15.

  76. Subramanian, S.
    An overview of IISc-IBM point project on beneficiation of low grade magnesite from Salem
    in Proc. of the Regional Ore Dressing Laboratory - Mineral Industry Meet, Indian Bureau of Mines, Bangalore, July (1996) pp. 60-64. li>Subramanian, S. and Lahiri, A.K.
    Green processes in process metallurgy
    in Proc. of the National Seminar on "Environmental and Waste Management in Metallurgical Industries", (Eds.) Bandopadhyay, A., Goswami, N.G. and Ramachandra Rao, P., NML, Jamshedpur, (1996) pp. 22-29.

  77. Sundar, R.S. and Sastry, D.H.
    Effect of microstructure on the creep behaviour of Ti-24Al-11Nb
    Trans. Indian. Inst. Metals 49 (1996) 437-441.

  78. Sundararajan, S., Giridhar, R., Mahadevan, R. and Dwarakadasa, E.S.
    Thermal aging behaviour of Al-Si-SiCp composites
    in Proc. of Technical Seminar on "Recent Trends in Materials and Processes", IIT, Madras, (1996) pp. 141.

  79. Sundararajan, S., Giridhar, R., Mahadevan, R. and Dwarakadasa, E.S.
    Impact fracture behavior of Al-12SiCp composites
    in Proc. of the Second Int. Conf. on "Advances in Composites, ADCOMP-96", (Eds.) Dwarakadasa, E.S. and Krishnadas Nair, C.G., Bangalore, (1996) pp. 309-315.

  80. Sundararajan, S., Giridhar, R., Mahadevan, R. and Dwarakadasa, E.S.
    Interface characterization of Al-12Si-SiCp composites
    in Proc. of the Second Int. Conf. on "Advances in Composites, ADCOMP-96", (Eds.) Dwarakadasa, E.S. and Krishnadas Nair, C.G., Bangalore,(1996) pp. 71-75.

  81. Sundararajan, S., Giridhar, R., Mahadevan, R. and Dwarakadasa, E.S.
    Thermal aging behaviour of Al-Si-SiCp composites
    in Proc. of Intl. Conf. on "Progress in Advanced Materials and Mechanics",(Eds.) Wang Tzuchiang and Tsu-Wei Chou, Peking University Press, Beijing, China, (1996) pp. 1221- 1226.

  82. Venkateshwaran, B. and Hajra, J.P.
    A generalized quaternary liquid solution model and its application to the
    Ga-In-As-P system
    Mater. Sci. & Engg. B41 (1996 ) 362-367.

  83. Venkataraman, S. and Kishore
    Study of fracture features in foam bearing glass epoxy composites subjected to repeated impact
    Bull. Mater. Sci. 19 (1996) 1143-1153.

  84. Yu Fuxiao, Dwarakadasa, E.S. and Ranganathan, S.
    The microstructural evolution of Al-Si eutectic alloy during spray forming
    in Proc. of the Third Intl. Conf. on "Spray Forming Tofal Technology for
    Advanced Materials", TMS, U.K., (1996) pp. 313-320. BOOKS

  85. Surappa, M.K. (Ed.)
    Inorganic Matrix Composites
    The Metals, Minerals & Materials Society, (1996)

  86. Dwarakadasa, E.S. and Krishnadas Nair, C.G. (Eds.)
    Proc. of the 2nd Int. Conf. On "Advances in Composites", ADCOMP (1996).