Group Alumni

Ph.D. Alumni

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  Dr. Faizan Hijazi
  Thesis: High-throughput bending tests for investigating creep behavior affected by structural and microstructural inhomogeneities
  Presently at: Johns Hopkins University (Post-Doctoral Fellow)
  Submitted
• 33
  Dr. Sachin Kumar
  Thesis:
  Presently at:
  Submitted
• 32
  Dr. Mahesh Kumar Kumawat
  Thesis: Uniaxial fatigue behavior of freestanding Platinum Aluminide (Pt-Al) bond coat
  Presently at: DMRL (Scientist-E)
  January-2024
• 31
  Dr. Ananya Tripathi
  Thesis: Comprehensive investigation of effect of composition, orientation and temperature on mechanical behavior of NiAl-X (X=Pt,Pd) alloys
  Presently at: GE Global Research
  October-2023
• 30
  Dr. Priya Goel
  Thesis: Extraction of equivalent uniaxial plastic and viscoplastic behavior from bending using a mechanistic approach.
  Presently at: GE Global Research (Research Scientist)
  September-2022
• 29
  Dr. N. Esakkiraja
  Thesis: Processing, microstructure, and fracture characteristics of high volume fraction (Al2O3/Al-AlN) matrix composites
  Presently at: University of Munster (Post-Doctoral Fellow)
  June-2021
• 28
  Dr. Syed Idrees Afzal Jalali
  Thesis: Bending-Creep, High Throughput Testing, Size Effects in Creep.
  Presently at: Johns Hopkins University (Assistant Research Professor)
  September-2020
• 27
  Dr. Devi Lal
  Thesis: Effect of Sintering on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Air Plasma Sprayed 7 wt.% Y203 Stabilized ZrO2.
  Presently at: IIT Jammu (Assistant Professor)
  June-2020
• 26
  Dr. Manu S Mohan
  Thesis: Microstructure and Shape Memory Behavior of Quaternary Ni (50-x)-(Pt/Pd)x-Ti(50-y)-(Hf/Zr)y Alloys
  June-2020
• 25
  Dr. Gopakumar P (ERP)
  Thesis: Influence of surface topography and tribosystem on reciprocating friction in sparsely lubricated contacts.
  June-2018
• 24
  Dr. Senthilkumar S (ERP)
  Thesis: Studies on Internal Reforming Solid Oxide Fuel Cell.
  June-2018
• 23
  Dr. Kaustubh Venkatraman
  Thesis: Testing Methodologies for Porbing Site Specific Fatigue Response of Graded Coatings.
  Presently at: GE Aerospace Research (Research Scientist)
  June-2018
• 22
  Dr. Sumanth G
  Thesis: Effect of humidity and temperature on wear of TiN and TiAIN coatings
  Presently at: NIT Karnataka (Assistant Professor)
  December-2017
• 21
  Dr. Adarsh K. Hegde
  Thesis: Dry Sliding Wear of Saffil Short Fibre Reinforced AZ91D Mg Alloy Composite.
  Presently at: BiSS (Application Scientist)
  2017
• 20
  Dr. Tomoghna Chakrabarti
  Thesis: Study on Reactive Hot Pressing of Zirconium Carbide
  Presently at: IIT Patna (Assistant Professor)
  2014
• 19
  Dr. Nagamani Jaya B
  Thesis: Micro-scale fracture testing of graded (Pt,Ni)Al bond coats
  Presently at: IIT Bombay (Associate Professor)
  2014
• 18
  Dr. Soupitak Pal
  Thesis: Microstructural Developments and Mechanical Properties of Electroless Ni-B Coatings
  Presently at: Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute (Senior Scientist)
  2014
• 17
  Dr. Manish Patel
  Thesis: Densification, Oxidation, Mechanical and Thermal Behaviour of Zirconium Diboride (ZrB2) and Zirconium Diboride-Silicon Carbide (ZrB2-SiC) Composites.
  Presently at: DMRL (Scientist)
  2014
• 16
  Dr. Praveena M
  Thesis: Design, Fabrication and Application of In situ Total Internal Reflection (TIR) Raman Tribometer For the Chemical analysis of Tribological Systems.
  2010
• 15
  Dr. Md. Zafir Alam (ERP)
  Thesis: Tensile Behavior Of Free-Standing Pt-Aluminide(PtA) bond Coats
  Presently at: DMRL
  2013
• 14
  Dr. Nisha Verma
  Thesis: Mechanism and modeling of contact damage in ZrN-Zr and TiAIN-TiN multilayer hard coatings
  Presently at: NIT Jaipur
  2013
• 13
  Dr. R. Krishnan (ERP)
  Thesis: Investigations on the properties of TiN, NbN thin films and multilayers by Reactive pulsed laser deposition
  2011
• 12
  Dr. Arindam Paul
  Thesis: The Processing, Consolidation the Deformation Behavior of Bulk Amorphous Al2O3-Y2O3 Ceramics
  Presently at: NIT Rourkela
  2010
• 11
  Dr. Bhaskar Prasad Saha
  Thesis: Processing of Zirconia based honeycombs and Evaluation of thermo-mechanical properties
  Presently at: ARCI, Hyderabad (Scientist)
  2009
• 10
  Dr. L. Rangaraj (ERP)
  Thesis: Reactive Hot Pressing of ZrB2 Based Ultra High Temperature Ceramic Composites
  Presently at: NAL
  2009
• 9
  Dr. S J Suresha
  Thesis: Processing, interface microstructure and mechanical properties of monolithic and multilayer columnar ceramic films
  Presently at: IISc Bangalore (COO, MNCF)
  2007
• 8
  Dr. Debdutt Patro
  Thesis:Kinetics of pressureless infiltration of Al-Mg alloys into Al2O3 preforms: A non-uniform capillary model
  Presently at: Ducom Instruments
  2007
• 7
  Dr. R. Kavitha
  Thesis: Development and Study of Oxide Films by Combustion Flame Pyrolysis
  2005
• 6
  Dr. Sanjit Bhowmick
  Thesis: The Nature of Contact-Induced Deformation and Fracture in TiN Films on Steel
  Presently at: Bruker Corporation
  2004
• 5
  Prof. Ashutosh Suresh Gandhi
  Thesis: The processing of bulk metastable amorphous and nanocrystalline ZrO2-Al2O3 ceramics by pressure consolidation of amrophous powders
  Presently at: IIT Bombay (Professor)
  2001
• 4
  Dr. B. Srinivasa Rao
  Thesis: Pressureless infiltration of A1-Mg based alloys into Al2O3 preforms
  2000
• 3
  Dr. S. Prakash Narayan
  Thesis: The effect of strain rate and temperature on the development Of magnetic properties in nanocrystalline Nd-Fe-B alloy
  1998
• 2
  Dr. Tania Bhatia
  Thesis: Phase evolution in MgO-MgAl2O4 under non-equilibrium processing conditions
  Presently at: Collins Aerospace
  1998
• 1
  Dr. N. Nagendra
  Thesis: Processing, microstructure and fracture characteristics of high volume fraction (Al2O3/Al-AlN) matrix composites
  1998