Dr. Nilesh Prakash Gurao
Professor
Email: npgurao@iitk.ac.in
Hi, I am Nilesh Prakash Gurao, a Professor at the Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. My research interests include mechanical behaviour of materials, diffraction, in situ experiments and crystal plasticity simulations. We have set up the Microstructure - Texture - Stress Laboratory in our department at IITK.
I am looking forward to work with motivated students in the area of texture, microstructure and stress of various engineering materials using state of the art experimental and simulation tools. Our research focuses on using X-ray diffraction and Electron Back Scatter Diffraction as well as synchrotron and neutron diffraction to probe the evolution of texture, microstructure and stress at different length scales during processing and testing. We have carried out research to address fundamental issues like effect of grain size, strain rate and stacking fault energy on texture evolution as well as applied research on understanding forming processes like pilgering and rolling. We have carried out investigations on variety of materials ranging from pure metals like nickel and OFHC copper to advanced alloys like TWIP steel, 2099 Al-Li alloy and biomedical Ti-Nb-Zr alloy. Our present focus is on in situ experiments using electron backscatter diffraction, constitutive modelling, crystal plasticity simulations and understanding the deformation behaviour of complex concentrated alloys or high entropy alloys.
We are carrying out efforts to establish processing-microstructure-texture-residual stress-mechanical behaviour paradigm in additive manufactured alloys. There is emphasis on carrying out high throughput experiments for accelerated material and process development with major focus on correlative structural, microstructural and mechanical characterization. We also use crystal plasticity simulations using elasto and visco plastic self consistent simulations, VPFFT, CPFEM, commercial FEM software as well as in house built codes to further our understanding of deformation mechanics of materials.
So if you are interested to work across length and time scales of materials using experiments and simulations appreciate hyper-dimensional compositional space and can imagine in real and reciprocal space, you are right fit for our group.
You can contact me at nileshgurao@gmail.com or npgurao@iitk.ac.in.
I follow an open door policy and can be reached at FB-408 or you can call me on 6688 to fix an appointment.
Students interested to work with us as summer intern can visit http://www.iitk.ac.in/surge/ for more details.
