Abstract:
To develop and develop high strength to weight ratio materials and components and to carry out R &D activities leading to it, which will finally improve the efficiency & performance of materials/components across various industries.
Goals / Objectives:
- Design and Development of High Strength to Weight Ratio Materials
- Develop advance light weight materials and composite materials and product/component
- Develop Cellular materials and sandwich panels/structures
- Design of new alloys/composite and meta materials
- Develop High temperature alloys & composite
- Evaluation of materials & components performance through modelling & simulation
- Develop Techno- economic processes & design of components
- Develop materials, processes & components for space, strategic, defence, automobile & construction sectors.
Research Area:
- Insitu MMC Composite
- Al Closed Cell Foam and Foam Core Sandwich Panel
- Al Open cell foam and Foam core sandwich panel
- Carbon Foam
- Metallic Hollow Spheres
- AlMMC Composite Component
- Mg alloy and composite
- High Entropy alloy and foam
- Cu/Graphene Based coating on Mg Alloy (AZ91E)
- Design, simulation and performance evaluation of materials/component through modelling and simulation
Notable Achievements:
- Stir casting technique for SiC reinforced Aluminium Composite to M/s Exclusive Magnesium Pvt. Ltd, Hyderabad
- Aluminium metal matrix composites manhole covers to M/s V S Enterprises, Bhopal
- In-situ MMC Composite
- Al Closed Cell Foam and Foam Core Sandwich Panel
- Al Open cell foam and Foam core sandwich panel
- Synthesis of Carbon Foam
- Metallic Hollow Spheres
- Al MMC Composite Component using pressure die casting
- Cu/Graphene Based coating on Mg Alloy (AZ91E)
- Stir casting technique for the synthesis of AlMMC composite
- Process for preparation of closed-cell foam through melt route technique using Mg-Al-Zn mixture and SiC particles, 2024, application No. 202411095855
- Method for preparation of hollow metallic spheres by powder route, filed 2021
- Tifoam (Gaurav)
- A process for preparation of Cu-Al based shape memory alloys using elemental powders, Patent No. 466763, dated 07th Nov 2023.
- Synthesize Al alloys & fine particle reinforced Al MMCs through stirring casting and Ultrasonication facility
- In-situ Al & Copper MMCs synthesis.
- Pressure die – casting facility and semi solid processing
- Hot and cold rolling, forging, heat treatment facilities
- Material synthesis via powder and liquid metallurgy route
- Powder mixing/milling processes to ensure uniform distribution of particles/fibers
- Various fiber coating process established
- Facilities of synthesizing different types of metallic foams (Open/Closed/Hybrid/Hollow sphere) using Al, Mg, Gold, Carbon, Ti, SS, Nickel, Copper
- Sandwich panels with different face sheets (fiber reinforced polymer/ Metal sheets with polymer or metal binder)
- Modified investment casting technique was also established
- Facilities to work in Mg alloys/composite via green processing. Initiation was also taken up in the filed of developing aluminium based high entropy alloys and its foam.
- Different facilities like optical emission spectrometer, microscopy, Hardness, XRD, Particle size analysis, DSC, Raman Spectrometry, thermal conductivity, Electrochemical analysis etc. Fatigue rated servo-hydraulic Universal testing facility for low, ambient and high (1000oC) temperature conditions.
- Design, modelling and simulation of materials, processing, components, exact foam structure modelling using micro-CT scanning
- Experimental fatigue and fracture evaluation and its and numerical predictions
- Product development cycle was also established for the development of new materials, processes and components.
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