Technical Session 3 (13th December, 10:00 - 11:45)

3A: Fracture and Fatigue of Materials [Venue: LHC-M6]

Chair: RN Singh              Co-chair: Abhishek Tiwari


Keynote

10:00 R N Singh (BARC, Mumbai) - Hydride induced Degradation of Mechanical Properties of Zr-2.5Nb alloy

Invited

10:30 Himanshu Pathak (IIT Mandi) - Fracture and crack growth modelling using extended finite element modelling

10:50 M Nani Babu (IGCAR Kalpakkam) - Evaluation of Fatigue Crack Growth Behaviour of Austenitic Stainless Steels Using a Unified Approach

Contributed

11:10 Rajesh Kumar Rai (MNIT Jaipur) - Low cycle fatigue behaviour of a directionally solidified Ni-based superalloy

11:22 Rohit Upadhyay (IIT Ropar) - Effects of crack and hole interaction on crack driving force and crack trajectory

11:34 B Kalita (IIT Madras) - Effect of Stress Ratio on Fatigue Crack Growth of Additively Manufactured 17-4 PH Stainless Steel

3B: Materials Processing II [Venue: LHC-M5]

Chair: Suhrit Mula              Co-chair: Pratik K Ray


Keynote

10:00 Suhrit Mula (IIT Roorkee) - Flow stress modeling of cast alloy 625 and its deformation micro-mechanisms

Inviyted

10:25 Mahesh Kumar Talari (NIT Warangal) - Development of High Chromium White Cast Iron Hardfacing Alloys

Contributed

10:45 Aman Gupta (Sunchon National Univ., Korea) - Friction Stir Processing: A Novel way to Increase Bendability in AA6xxx Alloys

11:00 Vishnu Girish (IIT Ropar) - Polymer-Derived Si-based Ceramic Reinforced Aluminium Matrix Composites

11:15 Sonika (IIT Roorkee) - Deformation micromechanisms and phase transformation kinetics of a large-grained homogenized cast Superni 625 alloy

3C: Fundamental aspects of Corrosion and Oxidation [Venue: ME-Seminar Hall]

Chair: Chandan Srivastava              Co-chair: Durga Prasad


Keynote

10:00 Chandan Srivastava (IISc Bangalore) - Microstructure-Corrosion Property Correlation in Chromium Containing Coatings

Invited

10:25 S.B. Arya (NITK Surathkal) - Metallic Passivity and Corrosion

10:45 Durga Prasad (Tata Steel) - The quantification the hydrogen damage to API Pipeline Grade Steel

Contributed

11:05 Purnendu Nasker (IIT BHU Varanasi) - Microstructure and corrosion response of Mg-Al-Ca-Mn alloy with SiC nanoparticles additions

11:20 Chetan Kadgaye (IIT Roorkee) - Role Cerium on the Aqueous Corrosion Behaviour in Low Carbon Steels

11:35 Rajesh Bura (IIT Ropar) - Polymer-Derived Ceramic Coatings for Corrosion Resistance

3D: Iron and Steel Making II [Venue: LHC-M4]

Chair: Pradeep Kumar Jha              Co-chair: Prince Kumar Singh


Keynote

10:00 Pradeep Kumar Jha (IIT Roorkee) - Application of MHD technology in continuous casting mold towards clean steel production

Invited

10:25 Rahul Sarkar (IIT Kanpur) - Particle Kinetics of Reduction of hematite concentrates using pure hydrogen at moderate temperatures

10:45 Ashok Kamaraj (IIT Hyderabad) - Simulation of in-Mould Phenomena During Continuous Casting of Crack Sensitive Steel Grades

Contributed

11:05 Somenath Mukherjee (IIT ISM Dhanbad) - Experimental and numerical investigations on the microwave heating behaviour of iron ore pellets

11:20 Suresh Chand (PEC, Chandigarh) - Thermodynamic study of third generation advanced high strength steels