PUBLICATIONS 

BOOK(S)

1. Avala Lavakumar Divisional Editor for the topic "Testing, Characterization, and Quality Assurance of Renewable Materials" in the ASM Handbook: Volume 27 - Renewable Materials (Expected in 2027)

2. Avala Lavakumar, Concepts in Physical Metallurgy: Concise Lecture Notes, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, San Rafael, CA, 2017. doi:10.1088/978-1-6817-4473-5 

18. Lokesh K. Singh, Avala Lavakumar, Rajeshwar R. Eleti "Coarse slip bands and non-Schmid’s translational slip lead to shear bands formation in body-centered cubic HfNbTaTiZr high-entropy alloy" Scientific Report (Accepted)

17.Sukyoung Hwang, Myeong-heom Park, Yu Baia, Takumi Suzumura, Ryo Asada, Avala Lavakumar, Jesada Punyafu, Akinobu Shibataa, Hiroki Adachi, Toshiyuki Fujii, Nobuhiro Tsuji "Dynamics of Portevin-Le Chatelier banding revealed through grain refinement in high-Mn austenitic steel: sequential overcoming of necking" Journal of Materials Science & Technology (2025) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmst.2025.08.017

16. Arun Kumar Patro, Kolli Venkatesh, Shashishekhar Prajapati, Trinath Talapaneni, Prince Kumar Singh, Avala Lavakumar, Beyond the Blade: A Microstructural Investigation of an Ancient Indian Steel Sword, Metallography, Microstructure, and Analysis (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13632-025-01226-x

15. S.S. Chandel, A. Lavakumar, N.S. Randhawa, P.K. Singh, Unique hot stage modification technique to enhance cementitious properties of electric arc furnace steel slag, Journal of Environmental Management 376 (2025) 124398. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.124398

14. A. Lavakumar, S. Hwang, K. Okada, M. Park, A.H. Chokshi, N. Tsuji, Real-time Observation of Stress-strain Behavior beyond Necking in Martensitic Steel by in-situ Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction, ISIJ International 64 (2024) 1847–1852. https://doi.org/10.2355/isijinternational.ISIJINT-2024-093

13. D. Narsimhachary, A. Lavakumar, P.K. Katiyar, S.M. Shariff, A. Basu, Effect of wire deposition rate on macro and microscopic characteristics of laser weld-brazed AA5083 aluminum alloy to galvanized steel joints and their corrosion response, Advances in Materials and Processing Technologies (2024) 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/2374068X.2024.2402964

12. S. Hwang, H. Kato, K. Okada, M. Park, A. Lavakumar, R. Gholizadeh, H. Adachi, M. Sato, N. Tsuji, Exploring unusual Lüders deformation in ultrafine-grained high-Mn austenitic steel, Materials Research Letters 12 (2024) 571-579. doi:10.1080/21663831.2024.2359611

11. S. Hwang, M.-H. Park, Y. Bai, A. Lavakumar, A. Shibata, H. Adachi, M. Sato, N. Tsuji, Mechanism of DSA effect correlating to the macroscopic PLC banding in high-Mn austenitic steel, Scripta Materialia 249 (2024) 116183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2024.116183

10. P.K. Katiyar, A. Lavakumar, R. Maurya, P.K. Singh, High entropy alloys (HEAs) as a binder material for heavy tungsten alloys, tungsten carbide hardmetals, and titanium carbo-nitride based cermet composites - a comprehensive review, Advances in Materials and Processing Technologies 9 (2023) 1979–2016. https://doi.org/10.1080/2374068X.2022.2142397

9. A. Lavakumar, S. Yoshida, J. Punyafu, S. Ihara, Y. Chong, H. Saito, N. Tsuji, M. Murayama, Yield and flow properties of ultra-fine, fine, and coarse grain microstructures of FeCoNi equiatomic alloy at ambient and cryogenic temperatures, Scripta Materialia 230 (2023) 115392. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2023.115392.

8. A. Lavakumar, M. Park, R. Gholizadeh, R.K. Ray, M. Murayama, N. Tsuji, Unique microstructure formations during low-temperature partitioning after intercritical annealing in low alloy multi-phase TRIP steel and their mechanical behavior clarified by in-situ synchrotron X-Ray diffraction, Materials Science and Engineering: A 878 (2023) 145214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2023.145214

7. A. Lavakumar, M. Park, S. Hwang, H. Adachi, M. Sato, R.K. Ray, M. Murayama, N. Tsuji, Role of surrounding phases on deformation-induced martensitic transformation of retained austenite in multi-phase TRIP steel, Materials Science and Engineering: A 874 (2023) 145089. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2023.145089.

6. S.S. Sarangi, A. Lavakumar, P.K. Singh, P.K. Katiyar, R.K. Ray, Indentation size effect in steels with different carbon contents and microstructures, Materials Science and Technology 39 (2023) 338–346. https://doi.org/10.1080/02670836.2022.2113157.

5. S. Ihara, H. Saito, M. Yoshinaga, L. Avala, M. Murayama, Deep learning-based noise filtering toward millisecond order imaging by using scanning transmission electron microscopy, Scientific Reports 12 (2022) 13462. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-17360-3.

4. A. Lavakumar, S.S. Sarangi, V. Chilla, D. Narsimhachary, R.K. Ray, A “new” empirical equation to describe the strain hardening behavior of steels and other metallic materials, Materials Science and Engineering: A 802 (2021) 140641. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2020.140641.

3. P.K. Singh, A. Lavakumar, P.K. Katiyar, R. Maurya, Agglomeration behaviour of steel plants solid waste and its effect on sintering performance, Journal of Materials Research and Technology 6 (2017) 289–296. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmrt.2016.11.005.

2. P.K. Katiyar, P.K. Singh, R. Singh, A. Lavakumar, Modes of failure of cemented tungsten carbide tool bits (WC/Co): A study of wear parts, International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials 54 (2016) 27–38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrmhm.2015.06.018.

1. P.K.Singh, P.K.Katiyar, A. Lavakumar, D.K. Mishra, A. Behera Agglomeration behavior of solid waste materials in steel plants, Emerging Materials research (2016) Vol.5: Issue 171-176. https://doi.org/10.1680/jemmr.15.00014

1. A. Lavakumar, M. H. Park, S. Gao, A. Shibata, Y. Okitsu, W. Gong, S. Harjo and N. Tsuji, In-situ neutron diffraction study on the deformation of a TRIP-assisted multi-phase steel composed of ferrite, austenite and martensite, IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng., 580 (2019) 012036. doi:10.1088/1757-899X/580/1/012036 

2. S.S. Sarangi, A. Lavakumar, Application of Rietveld refinement and Williamson Hall analysis in ultra-low carbon to high carbon steels, Mater. Sci. Forum, 969 (2019) 3-8. doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/msf.969.3 

3. S.S. Sarangi, A. Lavakumar, D. Narsimhachary, Wear resistance of structural steels having ultra-low carbon to high carbon concentration, in: H.K. Voruganti, K.K. Kumar, P.V. Krishna, X. Jin (Eds.), Advances in Applied Mechanical Engineering - Select Proceedings of ICAMER 2019, Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, Springer, Cham, 2020, pp. 817-822. doi:10.1007/978-981-15-1201-8_87 

4. A. Lavakumar, N. Bhargav Chaitanya, B. Shiva Kumar, Virinchi Sai Nath, P.K. Singh, Study of tensile fracture mechanisms of a Ni-base superalloy Supercast 247A, Procedia Mater. Sci., 5 (2014) 1090-1096. doi:10.1016/j.mspro.2014.07.402 

5. P.K. Singh, P.K. Katiyar, A. Lavakumar, B. Chaithnya, S. Pramanik, Effect of sintering performance of the utilization of blast furnace solid wastes as pellets, Procedia Mater. Sci., 5 (2014) 2468-2477. doi:10.1016/j.mspro.2014.07.498 

6. A. Lavakumar, P.K. Singh, S. Srivastava, S. Kori, L.A. Kumar, Gamma prime coarsening behavior of nickel super alloy Supercast 247A after prolonged thermal exposures, IOSR J. Mech. Civ. Eng., (2013) 37-42. https://www.iosrjournals.org/iosr-jmce/papers/RDME-Volume4/RDME-36.pdf 

7. A. Lavakumar, M. Bheema, P.K. Singh, R.K. Rai, S.K. Srivastava, Measurement of thermo physical properties of nickel based superalloys, in: Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Manufacturing and Materials Engineering (AMME 2013), 2013. https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:212748817 

8. A. Lavakumar, Ch.V.S. Murthy, R. Chkravorty, N. Eswara Prasad, Effect of microstructure on the ambient tensile deformation behavior of nickel-based superalloy Supercast 247A, in: Proceedings of the PSRC International Conference on Advances in Manufacturing and Materials Engineering (ICMMME'13), Johannesburg, South Africa, April 15-16, 2013

9. P.K. Singh, A. Lavakumar, R.K. Rai, S. Srivastava, Recycling of environmental hazardous wastage of integrated steel plants, in: Proceedings of the PSRC International Conference on Innovations in Civil, Water, Materials and Geo-Environmental Engineering (ICIWMGEE'13), Johannesburg, South Africa, April 15-16, 2013. ]