Ph.D. Thesis

Evolution of Texture and Microstructure during processing of Pure Magnesium and the Magnesium Alloy AM30

Patents & Copyrights

2023

•  Cold Rolled Low Carbon Microalloyed Steel and Method of Manufacturing Thereof: A. K. Singh, S. Biswas, B. Bhattacharya, D. K. Chouhan, M. Dutta, International Patent Application No: PCT/IB2023/050288 

2022

• Method of Manufacturing Cold Rolled Low Carbon Micro-alloyed Steel Having High Strength, Ductility, and Formability Combination: A. K. Singh, S. Biswas, B. Bhattacharya and D. K. Chouhan, Indian Patent Application No. IN 202231001905 dated 13.01.2022 

• Cold Rolled Low Carbon Microalloyed Steel and Method of Manufacturing Thereof: A. K. Singh, S. Biswas, B. Bhattacharya, D. K. Chouhan and M. Dutta, Indian Patent Application No. IN 202231002137 dated 13.01.2022. 

2021  

• Low Carbon Mirco-alloyed Steel Having Good Ductility, Strength and Isotropy Combination and Method of Manufacturing Thereof: A. K. Singh, S. Biswas, B. Bhattacharya and D. K. Chouhan, Indian Patent Application No. IN 202131043212 dated 23-09-2021.

2019

• A Semi-automatic metallographic sample preparation system, Somjeet Biswas. Jugal K Banikya, Devesh Kumar Chouhan; Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, Indian patent Application no.: 201931038369, dated September 23, 2019.

• System and method to produce nanostructure titanium with high strength and ductility combination by adapting ambient temperature multiaxial-plane-strain forging, S. Biswas. D.K. Chouhan, A.K. Singh, A.J. Shukla, Indian patent Application no. 201931045383 Dated Nov. 7, 2019.

• Semi-Automatic Metallographic Sample Polishing Arm, Somjeet Biswas. Jugal K Banikya, Devesh Kumar chouhan; Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India.  Design Registration Ref. no./Application no.: 321814001, dated September 19, 2019.

2010

• A method to process interstitial-free (IF) steels by adapting multi-axial, Satyam Suwas, Somjeet Biswas, Satyaveer Singh D., Ayan Bhowmik, D. Bhattacharjee, R.K. Ray; Indian Institute of Science Bangalore and TATA Steel, India, Indian No.:  WO/2010/049949, International patent: PCT/IN2009/000607 issued May 06, 2010. 

2009

• Method to produce ultrafine grains of magnesium of order of nanometers at room temperature and magnesium billet thereof, Somjeet Biswas, Satyaveer Singh D., Satyam Suwas; Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India. 1457/CHE/2008, Indian Patent, issued on December 12, 2009.

Publications

2023

• Role of slip and twinning on strain hardening, and correlation with geometric hardening, latent hardening, and grain boundary strengthening in Titanium, Devesh Kumar Chouhan, Soumita Mondal, Basudev Bhattacharya, Somjeet Biswas,  International Journal of Plasticity, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijplas.2023.103516

• High strength-ductility combination by quenching and partitioning of a low carbon microalloyed dual-phase steel, Alok Kumar Singh, Devesh Kumar Chouhan, Basudev Bhattacharya, Somjeet Biswas, Materials Science and Engineering: A , https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2023.144854 

2022

• Effect of Aluminum on Microstructural Evolution and Mechanical Properties of Laser Beam Welded Alxcocrfeni High Entropy , Ayush Sourav , J Arout Chelvane, VL Niranjani, Baswanta Patil, Somjeet Biswas, V Karthik, H Natu, Shanmugasundaram Thangaraju , Available at SSRN 4248665,  https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4248665

2021

• Quantitative phase prediction in dual-phase high entropy alloys: Computationally aided parametric approach, A. S. Negi, A. Sourav, M. Heilmaier, Somjeet Biswas, T. Shanmugasundaram, Physica Status Solidi (B), Wiley, 258, 2100106. doi.org/10.1002/pssb.202100106

• Microstructure and micro-texture evolution in rapidly solidified melt-spun Ni50Mn28Ga22 ribbons,  DK Satapathy, S Biswas, S Aich, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 527, 167784, 2021. doi.org/10.1016/j.jmmm.2021.167784 

• On the possibility to reduce ECAP deformation temperature in magnesium: Deformation behaviour, dynamic recrystallization and mechanical properties, PC Gautam, S Biswas, Materials Science and Engineering: A, 141103, 2021. doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2021.141103

• Multiaxial plane-strain forging and rolling of biomedical grade titanium: Evolution of microstructure, texture, and mechanical properties, DK Chouhan, S Biswas, Materials Letters, 129540. doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2021.129540 

• Fracture toughness of hot rolled pure magnesium: Correlation with microstructure and texture, PC Gautam, HN Bar, S Sivaprasad, S Tarafder, Somjeet Biswas, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 1121, 012028. The 19th International Conference on Textures of Materials (ICOTOM19 2021) 1st – 4th March 2021, Virtual Conference, Japan.

• Twin induced Strain Hardening, Grain Fragmentation, and Texture Evolution during Cold Compression of CP-Ti, DK Chouhan, S Biswas, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 1121, 012026. The 19th International Conference on Textures of Materials (ICOTOM19 2021) 1st – 4th March 2021, Virtual Conference, Japan.

• Improving Ductility in Dual-Phase Steel by Cold Rolling and Intercritical Annealing, AK SIngh, S Biswas, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 1121,  012025. The 19th International Conference on Textures of Materials (ICOTOM19 2021) 1st – 4th March 2021, Virtual Conference, Japan.

• Effect of ECAP temperature on the microstructure, texture evolution and mechanical properties of pure magnesium, PC Gautam, S Biswas, Materials Today: Proceedings, 2021. doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2021.01.689

• Microstructure and texture evolution during multi-direction forging of titanium, DK Chouhan, S Biswas, Materials Today: Proceedings, 2021. doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2021.02.490 

• Simultaneous improvement in strength and ductility in low carbon steel via intercritical annealing and quenching treatments, AK Singh, B Bhattacharya, S Biswas, Materials Today: Proceedings, 2021. doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2021.01.687 

2020

• High tensile strength-ductility combination in cold multiaxial plane-strain forged and rolled nanostructured Titanium, Devesh K Chouhan, Somjeet Biswas, Alok K Singh, Aman J Shukla, Materialia, 11, 2020, 100698. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtla.2020.100698 

• Evolution of microstructure and crystallographic texture in α-β Brass during equal channel angular pressing, S S Dhinwal, A J Shukla, S Biswas, D K Chouhan, Materials Characterization, 110270, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchar.2020.110270 

• Strain hardening, twinning and texture evolution in magnesium alloy using the all twin variant polycrystal modelling approach, S K Sahoo, Somjeet Biswas, L S Toth, P C Gautam, B Beausir, International Journal of Plasticity, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijplas.2020.102660 

• Dynamic Recrystallization and its effect on Microstructure and Texture Evolution in Magnesium alloys, Somjeet Biswas, P. C. Gautam, Aman J. Shukla, Devesh K. Chouhan, Encyclopedia of Smart Materials, Elsevier.

• Nanostructuring of materials by Severe Deformation Processes, Aman J Shukla, Devesh K. Chouhan, Somjeet Biswas, Composite Materials: Properties, Characterisation, and Applications, CRC Press.

2019

• An analytical model to predict strain-hardening behaviour and twin volume fraction in a profoundly twinning magnesium alloy, S K Sahoo, L S Toth, Somjeet Biswas, International Journal of Plasticity, 119, 273, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijplas.2019.04.007 

• On the Strain-Hardening Behavior and Twin-Induced Grain Refinement of CP-Ti Under Ambient Temperature Compression, DK Chouhan, AK Singh, S Biswas, C Mondal, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 50, 2169, 2019.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-019-05181-5 

• An Overview on the Texture Evolution of Cold Rolled IF Steels and Zn Coating During Galvanizing and Galvannealing, S Biswas, S Samanta, AK Singh, B Bhattacharya, SB Singh, Reference Module in Materials Science & Materials Engineering, 2019.

• Microstructure, texture evolution and dynamic recrystallization in Magnesium, S Biswas, S K Sahoo, D K Chouhan, P C Gautam, A J Shukla, Reference Module in Materials Science & Materials Engineering, 2019.

• On the texture and electronic properties of Cu thin-film interconnects, S Biswas, S Das, S Bhattacharya, A K Singh, Reference Module in Materials Science and Materials Engineering, 2019.

2018

• Deformation behavior and evolution of microstructure and texture during hot compression of AISI 304LN stainless steel, M. Rout, Somjeet Biswas, R. Ranjan, S. K. Pal, S. B. Singh, Metallurgical and Materials Transaction A. DOI 10.1007/s11661-017-4447-5.

2016

• Twinning-Induced Elasticity in NiTi Shape Memory Alloys, Thorsten Birk, Somjeet Biswas, Jan Frenzel, Gunther Eggeler, Shape Memory and Superelasticity, Special Issue: Research on Biomedical Shape Memory Alloys, Invited Paper, Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2016, Pages 145 – 159.

• Evolution of Microstructure and Texture in 304 Austenitic Stainless Steel by Two Different Modes of Hot Rolling, Matruprasad Rout, Surjya K Pal, Shiv B. Singh, Somjeet Biswas, Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Materials and Manufacturing, (ICAMM), Hyderabad, pp 411- 416, 2016.  

2015

• Thermal Response on the Microstructure and Texture of ECAP and Cold-Rolled Pure Magnesium, Somjeet Biswas, D.S. Singh, B. Beausir, L.S. Toth, S. Suwas. Metallurgical and Materials Transaction A, Volume 46, June 2015, pages 2598 – 2613.   

• Role of deformation temperature on the evolution and heterogeneity of texture during equal channel angular pressing of magnesium, Somjeet Biswas, H.-G. Brokmeier, J.-J. Fundenberger, S. Suwas. Materials Characterization, Volume 102, April 2015, pages 98-102. 

• Notes on representing grain size distributions obtained by electron backscatter diffraction, L.S. Toth, Somjeet Biswas, C.F. Gu, B. Beausir. Materials Characterization, Volume 84, 2013, pages 67 – 71.    

2013

• Evolution of texture and microstructure during hot torsion of a magnesium alloy, Somjeet Biswas, B. Beausir, L.S. Tόth, S. Suwas; Acta Materialia. Volume 61, Issue 14, August 2013, pages 5236-5277.      (The article was ranked # 6 (Top 25 hottest articles) amongst papers published in Acta Materialia during July-September 2013.)    

• Relationship between the 3D porosity and β-phase distributions and the mechanical properties of a high pressure die cast AZ91 Mg alloy; Somjeet Biswas, F. Sket, M. Chiumenti, I. Gutiérrez-Urrutia, J.M. Molina-Aldareguía, M.T. Pérez-Prado, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, Volume 44, Issue 9, September 2013, pages 4391-4403.   

2012

• Corrosion Behavior of Ultra Fine Grain Pure Magnesium for Automotive Applications, P. K. A. Babu, A. S. Nilawar, P. Vishvakarma, Somjeet Biswas, S. Suwas, G. Manivasagam, SAE Technical papers, 7th International Mobility Conference (SIIMC), SAE International, January 2012.

• Asymmetric and symmetric rolling of Magnesium: Evolution of microstructure, texture and mechanical properties, Somjeet Biswas, Dong-Ik Kim, Satyam Suwas, Materials Science and Engineering A, Volume 550, 30 July 2012, Pages 19-30.      

• Evolution of sub-micron grain size and weak texture in magnesium alloy AM30 by multi axial forging – Effect on mechanical properties, Somjeet Biswas, Satyam Suwas, Scripta Materialia, 66, January 2012,  89–92.    (The article was ranked # 21 (Top 25 hottest articles) amongst papers published in Scripta Materialia during October-December 2011.) 

• Microstructure and Texture Evolution in Interstitial-free (IF) Steel processed by Multi-Axial Forging, A. Bhowmik, Somjeet Biswas, Satyaveer Singh D., A. Sarkar, R.K. Ray, D. Bhattacharjee, Satyam Suwas, Materials Science Forum, vols. 702-703, 2012, Pp 774-777.

2011     

• Analysis of texture evolution in pure magnesium and the magnesium alloy AM 30 during rod and tube extrusion, Somjeet Biswas, Satyam Suwas, R. Sikand, Anil K. Gupta, Materials Science and Engineering A, 528, 10-11, 25 April 2011, Pp. 3722-3729.    

• Microstructure and Texture Evolution of Pure Magnesium during ECAE, Somjeet Biswas, Satyaveer Singh D., Satyam Suwas, Frontiers in Mechanochemistry and Mechanical Alloying, 2011, pages 159-163.   

2010 

• Room temperature ECAE of pure Magnesium, Somjeet Biswas, Satyaveer Singh Dhinwal, Satyam Suwas; Acta Materialia, 58, 9, May 2010, Pp. 3247-3261.  (The article was ranked # 9 (Top 25 hottest articles) amongst papers published in Acta Materialia during April-June 2010.) 

2009      

• Analysis of microstructure and texture evolution in pure magnesium during symmetric and asymmetric rolling, Benoît Beausir, Somjeet Biswas, Dong -Ik Kim, László S. Tόth, Satyam Suwas; Acta Materialia, 57, 17, October 2009, Pp 5061-5077.

• Evolution of grain-boundary microstructure and texture in interstitial-free steel processed by equal-channel angular extrusion, Ayan Bhowmik, Somjeet Biswas, Satyam Suwas, R.K. Ray and D. Bhattacharjee; Metal Mater Trans A, 40, 11, 2009, Pp. 2729-2742.  

• Deformation characteristics of superplastic AA7475 alloy, P. Mukhopadhyay, Somjeet Biswas, A. H. Chokshi; Transaction of Indian Institute of Metals, Volume 62, Issue 2, April 2009, Pp. 149-152. 

• Grain growth in ECAE processed pure magnesium, Somjeet Biswas, Satyaveer Singh D., Satyam Suwas; Microstructure and Texture in Steels and some other materials, Ed.: A.Haldar, S. Suwas, D. Bhattacharjee, Publisher-Springer Verlang London., 2009, Pp. 465-473.

• Ultra-fine Grain Materials by Severe Plastic Deformation: Application to Steels, Satyam Suwas, Ayan Bhowmik, Somjeet Biswas ; Microstructure and Texture in Steels and some other materials, Ed.: A.Haldar, S. Suwas and D. Bhattacharjee, Publisher-Springer Verlang London., 2009, Pp. 325-344.

• Evolution of crystallographic texture during Equal Channel Angular Extrusion (ECAE) of (α+β) brass, Satyaveer Singh D., Ayan Bhowmik, Somjeet Biswas, Satyam Suwas, K. Chattopahayay; Microstructure and Texture in Steels and some other materials, Ed.: A.Haldar, S. Suwas and D. Bhattacharjee, Publisher-Springer Verlang London., 2009, pp. 457-464.

2008

• Study of Texture Evolution of pure magnesium during ECAE using EBSD, Somjeet Biswas, Satyaveer Singh D., Ayan Bhowmik, Satyam Suwas; Materials Science Forum, vols. 584-586, 2008, Pp. 343-348.

• Texture and grain boundary character distribution during Equal Channel Angular Extrusion of some two phase copper alloy, Satyam Suwas, Somjeet Biswas, Satyaveer Singh D. and K. Chattopadhyay; Materials Science Forum, vols. 584-586, 2008, Pp. 585-590.

2007  

• Load history effect on FCGR behaviour of 304LN stainless steel, Somjeet Biswas, S. Sivaprasad, N. Narasaiah, S. Tarafder and P.C. Chakraborti; International Journal of Fatigue, Elsevier Science, Volume 29, Issue 4, April 2007, Pp. 786-791.

Invited Talks

1. Twin-induced compressive strain hardening behaviour in Titanium, NanoSPD8, 26th Feb to 3rd March 2023, IISc Bangalore, India. 

2.  On the twin induced strain hardening, microstructure & texture evolution in Titanium, AMALGAM-23, 21st to 24th April, IIT Madras, Chennai, India. 

3. Twin induced compressive strain hardening behaviour, microstructure and texture evolution in Titanium, Somjeet Biswas, Devesh Kumar Chouhan, ICSMA-19, 26th June to 1st July 2022, Metz, France. 

4.Extension twin induced strain hardening and texture evolution in AM30 alloy: Experiments and crystal plasticity modelling, MS&T, Columbus, Ohio, USA, October 17-21, 2021.

5. Modeling of deformation twinning behavior and texture evolution in a magnesium alloy using polycrystal plasticity, International journal of plasticity, Mexico, 1st – 6th Jan 2020.

6. Modeling of deformation twinning in Mg-alloys using polycrystal plasticity, International conference on advanced materials and processes for defence applications (ADMAT), Hyderabad, Sept 23-25, 2019.

7. Deformation behavior of Magnesium alloys useful for automobile and aerospace applications, 10th Indo-German Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, Potsdam, Germany, 24-26 May 2018.

8. Microstructure and Texture Evolution during Multi-Axial Forging of Magnesium alloy Mg–3Al–0.4Mn, Magnesium Innovations Center (MagIC), Institut für Werkstoffforschung, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Germany, July 2018.

9.      Evolution of microstructure and texture during MAF of Mg alloys, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Sasketchwan, Saskatoon, Canada, 20 Nov 2017.

10.      Microstructure and texture evolution during modified multi-axial forging of Magnesium alloy Mg–3Al–0.4Mn, International conference on Texture of Materials (ICOTOM) 2017, Saint George, Utah, US, 05 -10 Nov 2017.

11.      Evolution of Microstructure and texture during plastic deformation of metals and alloys, R&D and Scientific Services of Tata Steel Limited on 20th September 2017

12. Application of EBSD in various metals and alloys, IIM - JSW joint workshop, JSW Steel, Salem Works, Tamil Nadu, 30 August – 01 September 2017. 

13. Texture and light alloys, Dept. of Materials Engg., DIAT (DU), Girinagar, Pune, 10 – 14 July 2017

14. Microtexture using Electron Microscopy, Processing & Characterization of Materials (PCM), by QIP, AICTE in Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Sambalpur, Odisha, 24th – 29th April, 2017.

15. X-ray diffraction, Processing & Characterization of Materials (PCM), by QIP, AICTE in Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Sambalpur, Odisha, 24th – 29th April, 2017.

16. Grain refinement and texture evolution by Free end torsion test and Equal channel angular pressing of Mg based light alloys, Conference on Deformation and Texture in Materials, TEQIP-II, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Jadavpur University, 16th February 2017.

17. Evolution of Microstructure and Texture by Severe Plastic Deformation of Magnesium alloys, International Conference on Texture, Micro-texture and Mechanical Behaviour-2017 (Texture 2017) in IISc Bangalore. 13 – 15 February 2017

18. Keynote on ‘Microstructure and texture evolution by Severe Plastic Deformation: Application to Magnesium alloys’ at NMD-ATM, 11 – 14 November 2016.

19. Free End Torsion tests of Mg alloys, The fourth International Conference on Advances in Materials and Materials Processing (iCAMMP-iv) in IIT Kharagpur, 05 – 07 November 2016.

20.   Mechanism of Texture formation, UGC-NRCM Workshop on Texture of Materials, Dept of Matererials Engg., IISc Bangalore (1 Hr 30 min). 15-19 February 2015.

21.      Texture in Magnesium alloys, UGC-NRCM Workshop on Texture of Materials, Dept of Matererials Engg., IISc Bangalore (1 Hr 30 min). 15-19 February 2015. 

22.      Effect of Thermo-Mechanical Processing Strain on the Pseudoelastic Effect of Ti-Ni SMA at Humboldt - Universität zu Berlin (15 mins). 2014.

23.      Deformation processing of Magnesium and single phase Mg-Al alloys at LabEx DAMAS, LEM3, UMR 7239, CNRS, Université de Lorraine – Metz, France (1 Hr) Nov 2013. 

24.      Evolution of microstructure and texture during severe plastic deformation and annealing of magnesium alloys S. Suwas, R.K. Sabat, Somjeet Biswas, R.K. Mishra, Fifth International Conference on Recrystallization and Grain Growth" Sydney, Australia; 5 - 10 May 2013. 

25.      Electron Back-scatter Diffraction Study of Deformed and Annealed Materials S. Suwas, Somjeet Biswas, Shibayan Roy, XXXI Annual General Meeting of Electron Microscopy Society of India (EMSI), BARC, Mumbai, 8-10th March, 2010.