Materials Engineering

Research Activities

Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Current Research Activities

Development of small scale techniques for deformation, creep and fracture of coatings and high temperature systems
Bending creep of cantilevers and their application to residual life assessment in steam and gas turbine materials
Fracture in bond coats based on Pt-Ni-Al under monotonic and cyclic loading
Fracture in thermal barrier coatings

Fracture

Functional properties of Materials

Introduction to Materials Science & Engineering

Mechanical properties of thin films and interfaces

Phase diagrams, free energy curves, diffusion

Engineering ceramics

Principles of ceramics, bonding, defects, electrical properties, diffusion

Powder processing

X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy (theory)

Scanning and transmission electron microscopy laboratory

* currently offered

Tribology of Al and Mg-alloy based composites
Processing of refractory Ti, Zr based boride / carbide ceramics by reactive hot pressing
Synthesis, densification, deformation and nanocrystallization of metastable oxides from solution precursors
Fabrication of thin oxide films by combustion spray pyrolysis
Processing of ceramic-metal composites by infiltration methods

§ on-going