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Postdoctoral Fellows
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Anil Bandi Jul 2021 - Apr 2022 Current Affiliation: Assistant Manager at Amara Raja Batteries Ltd. Research: Mechanical anisotropy of rare-earth free Mg alloys.
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Vijayavarman Chakkravarthy Mar 2022 - Oct 2022 Current Affiliation: Research Fellow at Cranfield University, UK. Research: Additive manufacturing
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Nandu V Namboothiri May 2022 - Feb 2023 Current Affiliation: Senior Associate Engineer at Caterpillar Inc Research: Effect of microstructure on fatigue crack propagation of engineering materials using crystal plasticity finite element method.
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Darshan Chalapathi Jan 2023 - Jul 2023 Current Affiliation: Postdoctoral Associate at Western University, Canada. Research: Deformation behaviour of Alloy 625 at different temperatures.
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Ph.D. Students
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Narasimha Manoj Settem Jul 2017 - Oct 2020 Current Affiliation: PostDoc at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Thesis: Atomistic modelling of the structure and the stability of silver-copper nanoalloys
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Darshan Chalapathi Jul 2016 - Nov 2022 Current Affiliation: Postdoctoral Associate at Western University, Canada. Thesis: Micromechanics of duplex stainless steels: experiments and crystal plasticity modelling
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Sukumar Agaram Jan 2016 - Nov 2022 Current Affiliation: Principal Engineer at GE Power Thesis: Multiscale modeling of stability of residual stress due to shot peening in IN718 Co-Guide: Prof. M S Sivakumar (Applied Mechanics)
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Sanket Sanjay Thakre Jul 2018 - Nov 2022 Current Affiliation: Specialist - Digital twin at Bosch Global Software Technologies Thesis: Materials informatics enabled quantification of structure-property correlations: Application to DP steels
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MS Students
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Avinash Hariharan Nov 2015 Current Affiliation: Scientist, Steel Institute at RWTH Aachen University Thesis: Crystal Plasticity Finite Element Modeling of High Temperature Low Stress Creep in Two-Phase Superalloys
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Chaitanya Paramatmuni Jan 2014 - Nov 2016 Current Affiliation: Research Associate at The University of Sheffield Thesis: Modeling deformation and texture evolution of hexagonal close-packed materials using crystal plasticity fast Fourier transforms : Application to magnesium alloy AZ31
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Nitesh Raj Jaladurgam Jul 2014 - Jul 2017 Current Affiliation: Analysis Engineer Consultant, Condesign AB, Sweden Thesis: Dynamic recrystallization and microstructure evolution of Ni based superalloy Hastelloy C-276
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Bhavanish Kumar Singh 2019 Current Affiliation: Process Assurance Manager (R&D), DoDP, Government of India Thesis: Microstructure evolution in niobium rich gamma titanium aluminide alloy during hot compression.
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Srinivas Chakrapani Yamujala Jul 2018 - May 2021 Current Affiliation: PhD Student at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Thesis: An FFT based strain gradient crystal plasticity study of grain boundaries
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Siddhant Lama 2021 Current Affiliation: Mahindra & Mahindra, Bombay Thesis: Numerical study of the grain boundary stress using fielddislocation mechanics and a fast Fourier transformation based method Co-Guide: Prof. Parag Ravindran (Mechanical)
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Deepika Tirumalasetty 2018-2021 Current Affiliation: Associate Analyst, Lennox India Technology Centre Thesis: Study of the influence of orientation relationships on the deep drawability of two-phase steels Co-Guide: Prof. Sankaran S (MME)
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Soumya Sourav Sarangi Jul 2019 - Jul 2022 Current Affiliation: PhD student, Purdue University Thesis: An atomistic study of the influence of carbon on the core structure of screw dislocation in BCC Fe and its consequences on non-Schmid behavior
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Rahul Soni July 2018 - Current Affiliation: Thesis:
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Jayavarshini E Jan 2021 - Jul 2023 Current Affiliation: Process Engineer, Ohmium Operations pvt. ltd. Thesis: Electrochemical and hydrogen permeation study of pearlitic steel. co-guided with: Prof. Lakshman Neelakantan (MME)
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M.Tech. Students
Abhineet Kumar 2024 Thesis: Study of low cycle fatigue behaviour of nickel based superalloy.
Vishal Kumar Kadambala 2024 Thesis: Effect of heat treatment on 3d printed alpha + beta titanium alloys.
Sakthi Gnanavel S 2023 Thesis: Finite Element Modelling of residual stress evolution during Directed Energy Deposition of Ti-6Al-4V.
GVS Subhash 2023 Thesis: Prediction of deformation behavior of materials using machine learning.
Manvendra Misra 2022 Thesis: Molecular dynamics study on the effect of deformation temperature on the tension compression behaviour of single crystal Mg and Mg-Al alloy.
Ankit Surana 2020 Thesis: Molecular dynamics study of dislocation-precipitate interaction in Ni-Ni3Al system.
K Sumanth 2019 Thesis: Modelling static recrystallization using cellular automata.
B Maheswara 2019 Thesis: Finite element modelling of sheet metal forming processes.
Faisal Waqar 2018 Thesis: Structure-property correlations in two phase titanium alloy BT-14.
P. Sandeep 2018 Thesis: Finite element simulations of sheet metal forming using anisotropic yield criteria.
M Lakshmi Sravani 2017 Thesis: Processing-structure-property correlations in titanium alloy BT-14.
CNV Chiranjeevi 2017 Thesis: Finite element simulations of springback in sheet metal forming.
Prince Gideon 2015 Thesis: Nucleation and growth of deformation twins in magnesium alloy AZ31.
Pawar Kishore Kundlik 2014 Thesis: Study of intragranular misoreintations in cubic polycrystalline materials.
Dual Degree Students
Mayank Raj 2021 Thesis: Material informatics: Establishing structure-property linkages using machine learning techniques. co-guided with: Prof. Ratnakumar Annabatula (Mechanical)
Mythreyi Ramesh 2020 Thesis: Application of a dual grid rigid viscoplatic spectral formulation for the estimation of micromechanical fields in polycrystals.
Chirag Bhattad 2019 Thesis: Building a fatigue strength predictor for steel using an ensemble deep learning model.
Harshit saxena 2018 Thesis: Quantitative characterization of microstructural images.
Srihari Sundar 2017 Thesis: GPU implementation of a Fourier transform based spectral solver for mechanical boundary value problem.
Ankita Naik 2017 Thesis: Application of materials informatics for structure-property correlations.
Aaditya Lakshmanan 2016 Thesis: Dislocation and defect density based modeling of deformation behavior of irradiated FCC polycrystals.
Siddarth KrishnaKumar 2016 Thesis: Effect of microstructural features on the deformation behaviour of dual phase steels using finite element method.
Jatin Mandawat 2015 Thesis: Molecular dynamics study of dislocation interaction with gamma channel in nickel based superalloys.
Siddarth Thota 2014 Thesis: Atomistic modelling of interaction energies between point defects and other crystal defects.
B.Tech. Students
S R Naveen 2018 Thesis: Microstructure evolution using cellular automata.
Rohit Pinnamaraju 2017 Thesis: Modelling of phase transformations in steels.
Suryanarayan Raju 2016 Thesis: Effect of grain size on processing maps of nickel based superalloys.
Hari Prasad Bukke 2014 Thesis: Modelling of defects in nuclear materials.
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Mechanics of Microstructures
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