Dr Arivarasu M M.E., PhD

Additive Manufacturing | High Entropy Alloys | Metal Joining 

Mechanical Behavior of Materials ( Creep & Fatigue)

Thermal Spray coatings | High Temperature Corrosion Studies | Tribology  

Bio-Materials | Energy Storage Materials

• Professor, VIT University, Vellore , India, July 2024- till date

• Associate Professor, VIT University, Vellore , India, May 2016- June 2024

• Assistant Prof. ( Sr.) , Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (University), Coimbatore, India, May 2015 – Apr  2016

• Research Fellow | Air force Research & development Board (AR&DB),  VIT University, Vellore , India, Jun  2012– Apr 2015 

• Quality control Inspector | Welding\Piping ,  MMG Group , Dammam, Saudi Arabia,  Apr  2009 – May 2010 

• Senior Engineer,  Manufacturing and QA | M/s Cethar Vessels Limited, Tiruchirappalli, India,  Sep.  2005 – Mar  2009 

• Production Engineer,  Ragam Metal Products Pvt. Ltd., Chennai ,  May  2003– Aug  2005 

• Improving the fatigue life of API (X70) line pipe steel weld joint by Laser Shock Peening , Tata Steel R&D, Jamshedpur, 2018, INR 10.03 Lakhs  ( Completed)

• High Temperature Corrosion Testing Equipment Development & Testing, FLSmidth R&D, Chennai | 2019| INR  11.95 Lakhs| Ongoing

• Mineralogical Studies on clay shale as supplementary cemetacious material: Investigation of thermal treatment, grinding, pigmentation, pozzolonic activity and strength , FLSmidth R&D, Denmark, | 2020| INR  14.02 Lakhs| Ongoing 

• Development of coating parameters for two-source evaporation to create sequentially deposited EBC coatings by application of EB-PVD technology |  DST-NAWA (Indo-Poland) | 2020| 16.5 Lakhs| Ongoing 

• Thermit Welding as an Additive Manufacturing Technique for Refurbishing Worn Parts | FLSmidth R&D, Denmark | 2019| INR 10.63 Lakhs| Ongoing

Hot Corrosion of Weldments  

Hot Corrosion of Superalloys in Boilers for Ultra-Supercritical Power Plants

• Calvin Samuel. S, Arivarasu.M*, T.Ram Prabhu  High temperature dry sliding wear behaviour of laser powder bed fused Inconel 718, August 2020, Additive Manufacturing, Volume 34, 101279

• SM Muthu, M Arivarasu*, TH Krishna, S Ganguly, KVP Prabhakar, Improvement in hot corrosion resistance of dissimilar alloy 825 and AISI 321 CO2-laser weldment by HVOF coating in aggressive salt environment at 900°C International Journal of Minerals, Metallurgy and Materials 27, 1-15

• Jithesh, K., Arivarasu, M*. Comparative studies on the hot corrosion behavior of air plasma spray and high velocity oxygen fuel coated Co-based L605 superalloys in a gas turbine environment (2020) International Journal of Minerals, Metallurgy and Materials, 27 (5), pp. 649-659.

• Muthu, S.M., Arivarasu, M*. Investigations of hot corrosion resistance of HVOF coated Fe based superalloy A-286 in simulated gas turbine environment (2020) Engineering Failure Analysis, 107, art. no. 104224,

• Sheth, M., Sheth, N., Radadia, N., Parsana, S., Savsani, V., Mishra, R.K., Arivarasu, M*., Prabhu, T.R. Optimization of WEDM parameters for Mg-Zn-RE-Zr alloy using Passing Vehicle Search algorithm (2019) Materials Research Express, 6 (12), art. no. 1265K6.

• Jithesh, K., Arivarasu, M*. An investigation on hot corrosion and oxidation behavior of cobalt-based superalloy L605 in the simulated aero-engine environment at various temperatures. Materials Research Express (2019) Materials Research Express, 6 (12), art. no. 126530.

• Muthu, S.M., Arivarasu, M*. Oxidation and hot corrosion studies on Fe-based superalloy A-286 pulsed current GTA weldments in gas turbine environment (2019) Materials Research Express, 6 (11), art. no. 116577

• Prabhu, T.R., Arivarasu, M*., Chodancar, Y., Arivazhagan, N., Sumanth, G., Mishra, R.K. Tribological Behaviour of Graphite-Reinforced FeNiCrCuMo High-Entropy Alloy Self-Lubricating Composites for Aircraft Braking Energy Applications (2019) Tribology Letters, 67 (3), art. no. 78, . 

• Muthu, S.M. and Arivarasu, M*., Air Oxidation and Hot Corrosion Behavior of Bare and CO 2 Laser-Welded Superalloy A-286 at 700° C. (2019) Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals, pp.1-6.

• Roshith, P., Arivarasu, M*., Arivazhagan, N., Srinivasan, A. and KV, P.P., (2019). Investigations on induced residual stresses, mechanical and metallurgical properties of CO2 laser beam and pulse current gas tungsten arc welded SMO 254. Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 44, pp.81-90.

• Mohanty, S., Arivarasu, M*., Arivazhagan, N., Phani Prabhakar, K.V. The residual stress distribution of CO2 laser beam welded AISI 316 austenitic stainless steel and the effect of vibratory stress relief (2017) Materials Science and Engineering A, 703, pp. 227-235.

• Arivarasu, M*., Roshith, P., Padmanaban, R., Thirumalini, S., Phani Prabhakar, K.V., Padmanabham, G. Investigations on metallurgical and mechanical properties of CO2 laser beam welded Alloy 825 (2017) Canadian Metallurgical Quarterly, 56 (2), pp. 232-244.  

• Arivarasu, M., Venkatesh Kannan, M., Devendranath Ramkumar, K., Arivazhagan, N. Hot-corrosion resistance of dissimilar AISI 4340 and AISI 304L weldments in the molten salt environment at 600°C (2017) Corrosion Engineering Science and Technology, 52 (2), pp. 114-123.

• Arivarasu, M., Ramkumar, K.D., Arivazhagan, N. Characterization of tensile strength and impact toughness of autogenous PCGTA weldments of aeronautical steel and austenitic stainless steel (2016) Kovove Materialy, 54 (4), pp. 279-288. 

• Arivarasu. M, Devendranath Ramkumar K, Arivazhagan. N. “Effect of continuous and pulsed current on the metallurgical and mechanical properties of Gas Tungsten Arc Welded AISI 4340 Aeronautical and AISI 304 L Austenitic Stainless Steel Dissimilar Joints”(2015)Vol. 18 Issue (1) Materials Research DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1516-1439.269714.

• Devendranath Ramkumar, Ankur Bajpai, Shubham Raghuvanshi, Anshuman Singh, Aditya Chandrasekhar, Arivarasu M, Arivazhagan N  “Investigations on structure - property relationships of activated flux TIG weldments of Super-Duplex/Austenitic stainless steels 2015. Materials Science and Engineering: A  DOI: 10.1016/j.msea.2015.04.041  Vol.638, pp. 60-68 (Impact Factor 2.238)

• Devendranath Ramkumar Kasinath, Anshuman Singh, shubham Raghuvanshi, Ankur Bajpai, Tathagat Solanki, Arivarasu M, Arivazhagan N, Narayanan. “Metallurgical and Mechanical Characterization of Dissimilar Welds of Austenitic Stainless Steel and Super-Duplex Stainless Steel - A Comparative Study” (2015) DOI: 10.1016/j.jmapro.2015.04.005. Journal of Manufacturing Processes 

• Devendranath Ramkumar, K., Bajpai, A., Raghuvanshi, S., Singh, A., Chandrasekhar, A., Arivarasu, M., Arivazhagan, N.Investigations on structure-property relationships of activated flux TIG weldments of super-duplex/austenitic stainless steels (2015) Materials Science and Engineering A, 638, pp. 60-68. 

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• Participated in a two day workshop on "High Temperature Tribology Conference" at NIAS, IISC Bangalore on 3-4th September 2018

• Participated and presented a paper on hot corrosion of superalloys in a two day pre-conference workshop and structural integrity conference (SICE2018) organised by DMRL, Hydrebad 23- 27th July 2018.

• ·Participated in a two day Indo-Australian workshop on “Advances in Materials and Additive Manufacturing (AM2)” on 21-22 March 2018 at IIT madras Research Park Jointly organised by IIT Madras and

• Participated in One day Nano-characterization workshop on 15th Sep 2017 at Central Manufacturing Technology Institute, Tumkur Road, Bangalore

• Participated in One Day Workshop on “Challenges in Joining of Advanced Materials (CJAM)” on 26th May 2017 organised by The Indian Institute of Welding Hyderabad Branch, at Nuclear Fuel Complex (NFC), DAE Housing Colony, Secunderabad,

• Participated in science Academies’ Lecture Workshop on “Frontiers in corrosion Engineering and Technology” 12-13 Feb 2016, conducted by Indian Academy of sciences, at BIT, Sathyamangalam.

• Underwent week training on “Advanced Laser Material Processing, Characterization Techniques and Engineered Coatings” at  ARCI, Hyderabad 14th  to 18th December  2016

• Participated in a three day International Conference on “Application of Lasers in Manufacturing”  09-11 September, 2015, organised by ARCI, at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, India

• University Grants Commission-NRCM workshop on “Advances in Corrosion Engineering” conducted by Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore on 22- 24 December 2014.

• A certificate course on "Quantitative Microscopy" conducted at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras on 12th -13th December 2013

• Attended two day National workshop on “Welding Research Today: Challenges & Opportunities” conducted at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in association with The Indian Institute of Welding Chennai chapter on 23rd &24th November 2012.

• Faculty Development Programme on “Advanced Materials for Gas Turbine – An overview” conducted by Academic Staff College of VIT University