News
2024
April 12th, 2024: Dhiraj successfully defended his BS thesis work. Congrats & best wishes :-)
March 1st, 2024: Shubham, Jana, and Chethan's collaborative work on "Towards reducing tension-compression yield and cyclic asymmetry in magnesium and its alloys" won one of the ACS best oral Presentation awards at the 37th Annual Materials Engineering Students’ Symposium 2024. Congrats :-)
February 24th, 2024: Simran and Chethan's collaborative work on "Quasi-static and dynamic response of AA-2219-T87 aluminium alloy" published in Materials Today Communications. Congrats :-)
2023
December 22nd, 2023: Chethan presented one of his research works at the 7th International Indentation Workshop (IIW7) from 17-21 December 2023 at the University of Hyderabad, India.
November 23rd, 2023: Shubham presented one of his research works at The 77th Annual Technical Meeting of The Indian Institute of Metals and International Conference on Metals at KIIT, Bhubaneshwar, India, from 22nd to 24th November 2023.
October 30th, 2023: One of our works related to machine learning and nuclear materials (Machine learning-based predictions of yield strength for neutron-irradiated ferritic/martensitic steels) was highlighted in news articles of the Hindu and TOI.
October 30th, 2023: Abhinav was selected for a prestigious PMRF fellowship. Congrats :-)
September 11th, 2023: Shubham, Jana, and Chethan collaborative work on "Towards reducing tension-compression yield and cyclic asymmetry in pure magnesium and magnesium-aluminum alloy with cerium addition" published in the Materials Science and Engineering: A. Congrats :-)
August 21st, 2023: Jai's work "Machine learning-based predictions of yield strength for neutron-irradiated ferritic/martensitic steels" published in Fusion Engineering and Design. Congrats :-)
August 4th, 2023: Abhinav rejoins our group as a Ph.D. student. Welcome :-)
July 27th, 2023: Chethan's work on the "Incipient Plasticity of a Non-equiatomic Co21.5Cr21.5Fe21.5Mn21.5Ni14 Multi-principal Element Alloy" published in Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A. Congrats :-)
June 21st, 2023: Maadhav and Jai successfully defended their M.Tech. Thesis works. Maadhav joined Cradlewise, Bengaluru, as a lead design engineer, and Jai will be heading to the University of Cambridge, UK, to pursue Ph.D.. Congratulations & best wishes to both of them :-)
May 20th, 2023: Chethan's collaborative work on the "Microstructure and defect evolution in oxygen ion-irradiated pure nickel – Insights from experimental probes and molecular dynamics simulations" published in Materials Chemistry and Physics. Congrats :-)
May 19th, 2023: Shubham's work on the "Cyclic deformation behavior of an equiatomic CrFeNi multi-principal element alloy" published in the International Journal of Fatigue. Congrats :-)
May 15th, 2023: Srujana (Intern from IIT Jammu) joins our group. Welcome :-)
April 26th, 2023: Chethan and Shubham presented their respective research works at The 4th International Workshop on High Entropy Materials (IWHEM 2023) at DAE Convention Centre, BARC, Mumbai, India from 23-25th April 2023.
January 2nd, 2023: We have an opening for a Project Assistant/Associate (details).
2022
December 26th, 2022: Shubham and Jai's collaborative work on the "Effective and back stress evolution upon cycling oxide-dispersion strengthened steels" published in the International Journal of Fatigue. Congrats :-)
December 22nd, 2022: Shubham and Jai presented posters on their respective research works at the Platinum Jubilee Conference of our department entitled ‘Perspectives in Materials Research’ from 21st to 23rd December 2022.
December 16th, 2022: Heartiest congratulations to Maadhav for getting a job offer from Cradlewise. :-)
December 12th, 2022: Saurabh (Project assistant) joins our group. Welcome :-)
December 1st, 2022: Jai's first paper on the "Machine learning-based predictions of fatigue life for multi-principal element alloys" published in Scripta Materialia. Congrats Jai :-)
November 30th, 2022: Prof. Kevin Hemker and other renowned materials experts from the US visited our Lab.
Professor Hemker is a well-known materials expert from Johns Hopkins University, where he focuses on the mechanical behavior of materials. He also happens to be our PI's Post-Doc advisor! Professor Hemker and the students enjoyed discussing their shared academic family tree!
From Left: Prof. Hemker, Bright, Maadhav, Jai, Shubham, Ankur
From Left: Prof. Hamish Fraser, Prof. Yunzhi Wang, Prof. Tresa Pollock, Dr Daniel Miracle, Prof. Kevin Hemker and Ankur
November 21st, 2022: We have an opening for a Project Assistant/Associate (details).
September 24th, 2022: Syed (M.Tech. student) joins our group. Welcome :-)
September 9th, 2022: Abhinav (Project assistant) joins our group. Welcome :-)
August 1st, 2022: Simran (Project assistant) joins our group. Welcome :-)
August 1st, 2022: Bright (Ph.D. student) joins our group. Welcome :-)
June 1st, 2022: Jana successfully defended his MS thesis work. Congrats & best wishes :-)
March 29th, 2022: We have an opening for a Project Assistant/Associate (details).
March 8th, 2022: Deepshree (Project assistant) joins our group. Welcome :-)
March 1st, 2022: 50kN Servo Electric Creep Fatigue Machine commissioned.
February 1st, 2022: Double Disc grinding and polishing machine commissioned.
January 1st, 2022: Shubham (Ph.D. student) joins our group. Welcome :-)
2021
December 10th, 2021: Dipl.-Ing. Fabian Knöpfle from KIT, Germany, delivered a research seminar on the topic: "Low-Cycle Fatigue Behavior of Al0.5CoCrFeMnNi High-Entropy Alloy and CoCrNi Medium-Entropy Alloy".
November 11th, 2021: Our first Master's students, Maadhav, Jana, and Jai, join our group. Welcome :-)
September 20th, 2021: We have an opening for a Post-doctoral fellow. Experience in mechanical testing and electron microscopy (EBSD and TEM) will be helpful (details).
September 8th, 2021: We have an opening for a Project Assistant/ Associate (details).
August 4th, 2021: Our first Ph.D. student Chethan Konkati joins our group. Welcome :-)