December 2023

• Eswar, Sourav, and Aman attended the International Indentation Workshop - 7 organized at the University of Hyderabad. Our group Alumni Dr. Vaibhav has presented a contributory talk on his work. 

  • Eswar presented an Invited talk titled "Understanding the deformation behavior of Nano and Metallic glasses using indentation" 

  • Sourav presented a poster on Tribological behavior of DED printed SS 316L alloys and composites

  • Aman presented a poster on the Laser Shock Peening of Inconel 718. 

• Vijay, Sanidhya, and Sanket have successfully completed their BTP. 

April - November 2023

• Our proposal on " Characterization of idols, coins, ornaments, and other metallic monuments from ancient and medieval times in the Malwa region using In-situ and ex-situ experimental techniques" to SHRI committee of DST has been accepted for funding. (October 2023). Congratulations to the co-PIs for their inputs and efforts (Profs. Venkat Raman, LN, and Vamsi) 

• Sourav is selected for Prime Minister Research Fellowship. Congratulations Sourav. Wish you the best

• Tulika, Abhinav, Ayush, Rama, Manish, and Arpit got their degree in the 8th Convocation of the Institute in July 2023. Congratulations all and Wish you the best!

• Aman has joined the group for Masters project in April 2023. He will be working on Laser Shock Peening of superalloys, May 2023

• Sanidhya, Vijay, and Sanket have joined for the final year BTP, May 2023

March 2023

• Our collaborative work with Prof. Lakshmi Narayanan of IITD has resulted in publication in JALCOM titled "Bio-Tribocorrosion of Selective Laser Melted Titanium-25%Niobium and Conventionally Manufactured Ti-6Al-4V in Inflammatory Conditions". Thank you Dr. Chakravathy and Prof. LN for the collaborative efforts!!

• Our group involved in organizing Dhara conference on Bharatiya Dhatu Shastra during March 20-21, 2023. Thanks to Prof. Ganti Suryanarayana Murty, National coordinator IKS, MoE and Ministry of Culture for giving us an opportunity to host his event at IIT Indore

• Lekhana's manuscript titled Modeling the failure of silicon carbide under high strain-rate compression: A parametric study is accepted in Materials Today Proceedings!. Congratuations and Lekhana and other co-authors and thanks to Prof. Ratna Kumar for collaboration. 

February 2023

• BIG congratulations to Rama for getting admission into Harvard University for the Master's degree!!! Congratulations Rama and wish you the best!!!

January 2023

• Eswar has visited Singapore and presented an invited talk at the Advances in Structural Alloys and Their Manufacturing (ASATM-2023) held at NTU Singapore from Jan 10-14, 2023.

December 2022

• Tulika successfully defended her PhD thesis titled "Mechanical and Electrochemical behavior of Ti6Al4V alloys" on December 21, 2022. Congratulations Dr. Tulika. 

• Tulika soon will be joining as a postdoc in the X-STRM lab led by Prof. Leslie Lamberson at Colorado School of Mines, USA. Congratulations Tulika and wish you all the best, Keep working hard.

• Eswar, Tulika, and Lekhana attended the SICE -2022 conference held at IIT Hyderabad. 

• Abhinav will be soon joining as a Postdoc with Prof. Jason Trelewicz at the Department of Materials Science Engineering, Stony Brook University, USA. Congratulations Abhinav and wish you all the best, Keep working hard

• Aayush got placed in Volvo Eicher. Congratulations Ayush!!!

November 2022

• Tulika's manuscript "Effect of temperature and sliding speed on the dry sliding wear behavior of as-cast Boron modified Ti-6Al-4V alloys" is accepted for publication in Lubricants 2022. Congratulations Tulika!!

• Sandeep is joining "Skyroot aerospace private limited as an R&D Engineer". Congratulations Sandeep and wish you the best!!

October 2022

• Tulika submitted her Ph.D. thesis on October 6, 2022. Congratulations Tulika!!

• Tulika's manuscript titled "On the corrosion behavior of selective laser melted Ti-6Al-4V alloys: role of mesostructures, crystallographic texture, and phase fractions" is accepted in Transactions in Indian Institute of Metals. Congratulations Tulika!!

• Our Alumnus Sonakshi Gupta has received "IIM Vidya Bharti Prize 2022 under the UG category". Congratulations Sonakshi!!

• Abhinav's manuscript titled "Role of Indenter geometry on the deformation behavior in a Pd-Si based metallic and nanoglass" is accepted for publication in JALCOM. Congratulations Abhinav!!!!

September 2022

• Tulika presented her open seminar on September 15, 2022. Congratulations Tulika!!

• Abhinav successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on September 30, 2022. Congratulations Dr. Abhinav. Keep working hard and wish you the best for your future!!! 

August 2022

• Lekhana, Sandeep, Sonakshi, and Yash receive their degrees in the 10th Convocation held on August 13, 2022. Congratulations all! Wish you the best!!

• Sonakshi received the Institute Silver Medal in the Department of MEMS. Congratulations Sonakshi!!

July 2022

• Abhinav presented his open Seminar on July 5, 2022.

• Sourav Kumar joins the MoM group as JRF in the AICTE-sponsored project.

• Abhinav has submitted his Ph.D. thesis, July 23, 2022

• Sourav joins as a Ph.D. student in the group

June 2022

• Eswar visited the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, NTU Singapore. 

• Abhinav's manuscript titled "Strain rate sensitivity of a Cu60Zr40 Metallic and Nanoglass" is accepted for publication in JALCOM. 

• Sandeep and Lekhana have completed their Master's project and successfully defended it. Sandeep has worked on high strain rate deformation of Boron modified Ti64 alloys while Lekhana worked on characterizing the failure of armor ceramics using both experiments and simulations. Both of them have done a wonderful job. Congratulations to you both Sandeep and Lekhana!  

May 2022

• Ramanand's manuscript titled "Microindentation response of relaxor ferroelectric PMN-0.32PT single crystal" is accepted for publication in Ceramics International 

• Sonakshi and Yash have presented their final BTP. Sonakshi has used ML to address the inverse problem of indentation while Yash has used it to quantify the fracture of Ti64-xB  alloys.

April 2022

• Prof. Ramamurty has visited our Lab and the MEMS Department. He interacted with the students and gave an insightful lecture on the Structural Integrity of Additively Manufactured Alloys" 

• Tulika, Sandeep, and Lekhana's abstracts are accepted for the IMPLAST conference. 

March 2022

• One of the proposals titled "Investigation of traditional iron monuments in central India and understanding their metallurgical origins" submitted to IKS, AICTE is approved. Thanks to Prof. K. Venkatraman of PMB Gujarat Science College Indore for extending their help as a co-PI in the project.

• Sonakshi has got admission into PhD program of Georgia Tech. Congratulation Sonakshi!! 

February 2022

• The manuscript titled "Analysis of groove quality and machining behavior of Zr-based metallic glass through laser grooving and electro-jet machining" got accepted in Journal of Laser Applications. Thanks to Srikant and Mullick of IIT BBSR for the fruitful collaboration.

• Three student interns (Tejas, Roshan, Farhan) join the group as a part of the IKS@AICTE initiative and will be working on the traditional pratices of ancient metallurifical heritage of India

January 2022

• Tulika proposal submitted to CISKS is accepted. Congratulations Tulika!

• Raineesh's manuscript "Indentation size effect in Magnesium single crystals of different crystallographic orientations" got accepted in Journal of Materials Research. Congratulations Raineesh!!

December 2021

• Tulika has won the best oral presentation award in the International Conference on Advanced Materials and Microstrucutral Characterization-2021. Congratulations Tulika!

• Tulika, Abhinav, and Lekhana have presented their work in the ICAMMC-2021. Congratulationa all!

• The manuscript titled "Investigation of softening induced indentation size effect in Nanoglass and Metallic glasss" is accepted for publication in Journal of Non-crystalline Solids. Congratulations Hirmukhe. 

November 2021

• Vaibhav, Raineesh, Chaitanya, Yashwant, Vartika, Prathmesh have formally received the degrees during 9th Convocation. Congratulations to all

• Raineesh's Masters project has been awarded AK Bose metal from Indian Institute of Metals,. Congratulations Raineesh!!

• Tulika, Abhinav, and Vartika have presented their work in the NMD - ATM 2021. Congratulationa all

• Vartika is awarded for the best oral presentation in the Industry 4.0 theme. Congratulations Vartika!

October 2021

• The manuscript titled "Modelling the tribological response in dry sliding of boron modified as-cast Ti6Al4V on hardened steel" is accepted for publication in Journal of Engineering Tribology. Thanks to the efforts of Prof. Abhjit of MU. 

• Prathamesh has successfully defended his Master thesis. Congratulations Prathamesh!!

August 2021

• • The collaborative proposal on Creep and fatigue of selective laser melted Ti-6242 alloy submitted to ARDB along with Dr. Srikant Gollapudi (IIT BBSR) is accepted. Thank you Sri for the efforts and looking forward work with you on this project.

  • Vaibhav has defended his PhD thesis on August 24,2021. Congratulations Dr. Vaibhav and wish you the best for your future endeavors!!

  • Harshal will be joining for his Master's program in the Department of Materials Science Engineering at UCLA. Wish you the best, Harshal!

  • Vartika's BTP work on "Machine Learning Techniques for Fractographic Analysisis" is awarded the best BTP for the year 2021. Congratulations on the commendable work Vartika!!  

  • Raineesh is selected for the Institute Silver Medal from the graduating batch of M.Tech students! Congratulations Raineesh!

  • Vaibhav's manuscript "Direct observations of changes in ferroelectric domain configurations around the indentation and ahead of the crack front" got accepted in Materialia. Congratulations Vaibhav!!

July 2021

• • Chaitanya got placed in IOCL. Congratulations Chaitanya! and wish you the best!! 

  • Raineesh's manuscript "Novel approach to characterize the deformation under Berkovich and spherical indentations: Study on magnesium single crystals" got accepted in Physical Review Materials. Congratulations Raineesh!!

  • Our "Miniature split Hopkinson bar" is arrived and the trials are under way. This can be used to determine material's mechanical properties at ultrahigh strain rates. Thanks to good friend Syed for the help in setting up the bar!!!

  • Vaibhav is selected for "Future Talent program of Tu-darmstadt". He will be working with Prof. Karsten Durst. Congratulations and Wish you the best Vaibhav!

June 2021

• • Tulika presented her 3rd CERP on the role of microstructure of Additively Manufactured Ti6Al4V alloys on the mechanical and corrosion behavior.

  • Tulika's manuscript "Effect of powder layer thickness and scan orientation on the deformation and failure of Selectively Laser Melted Ti-6Al-4V alloy over six decades of strain rates" is accepted in Materials Science & Engineering A. Congratulations Tulika!

  • Raineesh got admitted to PhD in the Department of Materials Engineering, IISc. Congratulations and wish you the best!!

  • Hirmukhe's manuscript "Finite element analysis of deformation and failure mechanisms in nanoscale hexagonal cellular structures of metallic glasses" is accepted in Mechanics of Materials journal. Congratulations Hirmukhe!

  • Raineesh has completed his Master's thesis. Congratulations Raineesh!

  • Abhinav's manuscript titled "Effect of structural relaxation on the indentation size effect and deformation behavior of Cu-Zr based nanoglasses" is accepted in Frontiers in Materials. Congratulations Abhinav and all the coauthors!!!

  • Vaibhav's manuscript titled " Tailoring nanomechanical properties of hard and soft PZT piezoceramics via selective annealing" is accepted in Materials today communications. Congratulations Vaibhav and all the other co-authors!!!

May 2021

• • Vartika's BTP has been selected as the best BTP of the MEMS department. Congratulations Vartika for the wonderful work!!!

  • Vartika, Chaitanya, and Yashwant have successfully presented their BTP and completed their Bachelor degree. Congratulations!!!

  • Vaibhav has submitted his PhD thesis. Congratulations Vaibhav!!!