Research

Over the past decade, there has been an increasing research in developing concentrated alloys like Al0.3CoCrCuFeNi, NbMoTaW and FeNiCrCuMn. A thorough understanding of strengthening in highly concentrated solid solutions is necessary to understand the mechanical properties of these special class of materials. Since atomic distribution, i.e., clustering or ordering of solutes, in a solid solution is expected to influence the motion of dislocation and thereby strengthening, our present study is dedicated to understand and predict the atomic distribution in highly concentrated solid solutions through modelling techniques. Alloy systems whose mutual binaries have isomorphous phase diagrams were identified for the current study; the Co-Ni-Pd alloy system which forms a single phase FCC solid solution at room temperature was selected on this basis. The methodology involved a multiscale coupling of thermodynamic data from First principles electronic structure calculations and Monte Carlo techniques.

Awards and Honours

• Gold Medalist, NIT Warangal 2011
  
  
• Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) – WISE 2010 Internship