Publications


International Journal Publications


  • S Anand Kumar, R Sundar, SGS Raman, R Gnanamoorthy, R Kaul, K Ranganathan, K S Bindra, Effect of laser peening on fretting wear behaviour of alloy 718 fretted against two different counter body materials (2017) Proc of the Inst of Mech Engineers, Pt J: Journal of Engg Tribology, (in press) .
  • C Gurunathan, R Gnanamoorthy, S Jayavel, Effect of reinforcement forms in selectively reinforced polymeric composite : temperature distribution under sliding contact conditions, (2016) Int J Plastics Technology roc of the Inst of Mech Engineers, Pt J: Journal of Engg Tribology, 20 (2), pp. 265-278.
  • C Gurunathan, R Gnanamoorthy, S Jayavel, Prediction of frictional heating and temperature distribution in selective ceramic-reinforced polymer composite, (2014) Proc of the Inst of Mech Engineers, Pt J: Journal of Engg Tribology, 228 (12), pp. 1433-1442.
  • SA Kumar, S Pradhan, SGS Raman, R Gnanamoorthy, Performance of alumina coatings prepared by hard anodizing, micro arc oxidation and detonation spray Processes on Al–Mg–Si alloy under fretting wear loading, (2014) Proc of the Inst of Mech Engineers, Pt J: Journal of Engg Tribology, 228 (4), pp. 454-462.
  • Gurusami, K., ShanmugaSundaram, K., R Gnanamoorthy, R., Velamurali, Azhagarasan, N.S., Vijay, R., Harish Gopal, G. Experimental study on micro-structure, Fracture surface characterization and mechanical properties of ND: Yag laser surface treated commercially pure titanium and cobalt-chromium alloy (2014) Int J of Applied Engg Research, 9 (23), pp. 22107-22130.
  • Anand Kumar, S., Ganesh Sundara Raman, S., Sankara Narayanan, T.S.N., R Gnanamoorthy, R. (2013) Prediction of fretting wear behavior of surface mechanical attrition treated Ti-6Al-4V using artificial neural network Materials and Design, 49, pp. 992-999.
  • Kumar, S.A., Sai, S.K., Raman, S.G.S., R Gnanamoorthy, R.Fretting wear behaviour of 304 stainless steel fretted against different counterbody materials, (2013) Tribology - Materials, Surfaces & Interfaces, 7 (4), 168-174 .
  • Charles, D.F., R Gnanamoorthy, R., Parag, R. (2013) The effect of nanoclay reinforcement on the rolling contact fatigue behaviour of polyamide Proc of Inst of Mech Engineers, Part J: J of Engg Tribology, 227 (1), pp. 84-95.
  • Anand Kumar, S., Ganesh Sundara Raman, S., Sankara Narayanan, T.S.N., R Gnanamoorthy, R. (2013) Influence of counterbody material on fretting wear behaviour of surface mechanical attrition treated Ti-6Al-4V Tribology Int, 57, pp. 107-114.
  • Arun Prakash, N., R Gnanamoorthy, R., Kamaraj, M. (2012) Surface nanocrystallization of aluminium alloy by controlled ball impact technique Surface and Coatings Technology, 210, pp. 78-89.
  • Arun Prakash, N., R Gnanamoorthy, R., Kamaraj, M. Fretting wear behavior of controlled ball impact treated aluminium alloy under dry sliding condition (2012) Surface and Coatings Technology, 207, pp. 450-460.
  • Arun Prakash N, R Gnanamoorthy, R and Kamaraj (2012) ‘Fretting wear behaviour of fine grain structured aluminium alloy formed by oil jet peening and Process under dry sliding condition’, Wear, 294-295, p.427-437.
  • Kodeeswaran M, R Gnanamoorthy R (2012) ‘A novel controlled impact Process for the formation of nanostructured surface in AISI304 stainless steel’, Surface & Coatings Technology, 207, pp. 227-232.
  • Anandakumar S, Ganesh Sundra Raman, T S N Sankaranarayanan, R Gnanamoorthy R Fretting Wear Behaviour of surface mechanical attrition treated alloy 718’ Surface & Coatings Technology, 206 (2012) 4425-4432.
  • Anandakumar S, Ganesh Sundra Raman, T S N Sankaranarayanan, R Gnanamoorthy R (2012) ‘Fretting Wear Behaviour of Laser Peened Ti-6Al-4V’ Tribology Trans 55 (5), pp. 615-623.
  • S Kirupa Sankar, C Gurunathan. R Gnanamoorthy, (2012) ‘Transmission efficiency of polyamide nanocomposite spur gears”, Materials & Design, 39, 2012, p.338-343.
  • Anandakumar S, Ganesh Sundra Raman, T S N Sankaranarayanan, R Gnanamoorthy R ‘Influence of surface mechanical attrition treatment on the fretting wear behaviour Ti-6Al-4V", Advanced Materials Research, 463-464, p316-320.
  • Gurunathan, C., Kirupasankar, S., R Gnanamoorthy, R. Wear characteristics of polyamide nanocomposite spur gears (2011) Proc of the Inst of Mech Engineers, Part J: Journal of Engg Tribology, 225 (5), pp. 299-306.
  • Timmaraju V M, K Kannan, R Gnanamoorthy R Influence of imbibed moisture and organoclay on tensile and indentation behavior of polyamide 66/hectorite nanocomposites ", Composites Part B: Engineering 42 (3), pp. 466-472.
  • Timmaraju V M, K Kannan, R Gnanamoorthy R ‘Effect of environment on flexural fatigue behavior of polyamide 66/hectorite nanocomposites", Int J of Fatigue 33 (4), pp. 541-548.
  • Timmaraju V M, K Kannan, R Gnanamoorthy R Effect of initial imbibed moisture content on flexural fatigue behavior of polyamide 66/hectorite nanocomposites at laboratory condition", Materials Science and Engineering A 528 (6), pp. 2960-2966.
  • Saravanan R, Raghu V Prakash, R Gnanamoorthy R, Vinodkumar, B, (2011) Analysis of crack severity on power density increment on gears’, AMAE Int J Manuf and Materials Engineering 1 (1), pp. 7-11.
  • Mihitha. N, Gurunathan. C, R Gnanamoorthy. R, ‘FE simulation of sliding wear in metallic material, Int J of Applied Engg Research, Vol.6, No.5, 2011, pp. 727-732.
  • Arun Prakash N, R Gnanamoorthy, R and Kamaraj (2010) Dry sliding wear behavior of oil jet peened aluminum alloy, AA6063-t6’, Proc. IMechE Pt J: J. Engg Tribology, 224 (11), pp. 1189-1196.
  • Finney Charles D, R Gnanamoorthy R, Parag Ravindran, ‘Rolling contact fatigue behavior of polyamide clay reinforced nanocomposite - Effect of Load and Speed’, Wear 269 (7-8), pp. 565-571.
  • Rajeesh, R Gnanamoorthy R, Velumurugan, ‘Effect of moisture content on tensile behaviour of polyamide 6 nanocomposites’, Proc of I Mech: J. Materials: Design & Applications 224 (4), pp. 173-176.
  • Arun Prakash N, R Gnanamoorthy, R and Kamaraj (2010) Microstructural Evolution and Mechanical Properteis of oil jet peened aluminium alloy, Materials & Design, 31 (9), pp. 4066-4075.
  • Ramkumar A, R Gnanamoorthy R Effect of nanoclay addition on the displacement-controlled Flexural Fatigue Behavior of a polymer, J Mat Sci 45 (15), pp. 4180-4187.
  • Timmaraju V M, K Kannan, R Gnanamoorthy R Influence of organoclay on flexural fatigue behavior of polyamide 66/hectorite nanocomposites at laboratory condition", Polymer Composites 31 (11), pp. 1977-1986.
  • Rajeesh K R, R Gnanamoorthy, R and Velmurugan R (2010) ‘Effect of Humidity on the Indentation Hardness and Flexural Fatigue Behavior of Polyamide 6 Nanocomposite, Mat. Sci. Eng A; A 527 2826–2830.
  • A Sahaya Grinspan and R Gnanamoorthy (2010)’ Impact force of low velocity liquid droplets measured using piezo electric PVDF film’, Colloids & Surfaces A: Physiochemical and Engineering Aspects, 356, (1-3) 162-168 (JIF 1.926) .
  • Arun Prakash N, R Gnanamoorthy, R and Kamaraj (2009) ‘Friction and wear behaviour of surface nanocrystallized Al alloy under dry lubricated conditions’, Mat. Sci. Eng B 168 176-181 (JIF 1.577) .
  • Ramkumar A, K Kannan, R Gnanamoorthy R (2010) ‘Experimental and theroritical investigation of a polymer subjected to cyclic loading’ Int. J. Eng. Sci., 48 (2) 101-110 (JIF 1.366) .
  • Kirupasankar, S., R Gnanamoorthy, R., Velmurugan, R. Effect of apparent area, load, and filler content on sliding friction characteristics of polymer nanocomposites (2010) Proc of the Inst of Mech Engineers, Part J: J of Engg Tribology, 224 (2), pp. 133-138.
  • M Mubarak Ali, Ganesh Sundara Raman S, Pathak SD, R Gnanamoorthy R, (2010) ‘Influence of plasma nitriding on fretting wear of Ti-6Al-4V’, Tribology Int, 43 (1-2) 152-160.
  • A Sahaya Grinspan and R Gnanamoorthy (2009) ‘Development of a Novel Oil Cavitation Jet Peening System and Cavitation Jet Erosion in aluminum alloy, AA 6063 T6’, Trans ASME. J Fluid Engg, 131 (6) Art No. 061301.
  • P Navaneethakrishnan, Ganesh Sundara Raman S, R Gnanamoorthy, Ravi, P (2009) ‘Relative performance of hydrogenated, argon incorporated and nitrogen incorporated diamond like carbon -coated Ti-6Al-4V samples under fretting wear conditions’, Thin Solid Films, 517 (15) 4365-4371.
  • Ganesh Sundara Raman S, P Navaneethakrishnan, R Gnanamoorthy (2009) ‘Influence of counter body material on fretting wear behaviour of uncoated and diamond-like carbon-coated Ti-6Al-4V’, Proc. IMechE Pt J: J. Engg Tribology, 223 (2)227-232.
  • Navaneethakrishnan P, Ganesh Sundara Raman S, Pathak SD, R Gnanamoorthy R, Ravi N (2009) ‘Fretting wear studies on diamond-like carbon coated Ti-6Al-4V’, Surface and Coatings Tech, 203(9): 1205-1212.
  • Senthilvelan S, R Gnanamoorthy (2009) ‘Efficiency of injection molded polymer gear’ Proc. IMechE Pt J: J. Engg Tribology 223 (6), pp. 925-928.
  • Ali, M.M., Raman, S.G.S., Pathak, S.D., R Gnanamoorthy, R. Fretting wear behaviour of plasma nitrided Ti-6Al-4V fretted against unnitrided Ti-6Al-4V and alumina counterbodies (2009) Trans of the Indian Institute of Metals, 62 (1), pp. 59-64.
  • Kodeeswaran M, R Gnanamoorthy R (2008) ‘Effect of strain rate on nanocrystalline surface formation in controlled ball impact Process in AISI 304 SS’, Materials Letters, 62 (30), 4516-4518.
  • Ramkumar A, R Gnanamoorthy R (2008) ‘Axial fatigue behaviour of polyamide-6 and polyamide-6 nanocomposites at room temperature’ Composites Sci and Tech, 68 (15-16), 3401-3405.
  • N Govindarajan, R Gnanamoorthy (2008) ‘Computation of sliding friction and ratcheting of sintered and hardened steel under rolling contact fatigue’, ASME J of Tribology, 130 (4), Art. no. 041602 .
  • S Dhanasekaran, R Gnanamoorthy (2008) ‘Gear tooth wear in sintered steel gears under dry running conditions’ Wear, 265, 81/87 [JIF=1.404] .
  • S Senthilvelan, R Gnanamoorthy (2008) ‘Influence of reinforcement on composite gear metrology’ Mechanism and Machine Theory, 43 (9), 1198-1209 [JIF=0.75] .
  • Shanmugavel M, Nandagopal M, Sandya R, Bhanusankara Rao K, R Gnanamoorthy R, (2008) ‘Evaluation of activation energy for dynamic strain aging Process in 316l(n)/316(n) SS weld joints’ Trans of Indian Inst of Metals. 61 (4) 301-306.
  • S Dhanasekaran and R Gnanamoorthy (2007) ‘Heat generation in Fe-C-Cu-MoS2 sintered spur gears under unlubricated conditions’, Proc. IMechE Pt J: J. Engg Tribology, 221(J6), 645-652.
  • G Srinath, R Gnanamoorthy (2007) ‘Effect of organoclay addition on the two-body abrasive wear characteristics of polyamide nanocomposites’, J Mat Sci, 42, 8326-8333 [JIF=0.91] .
  • A Sahaya Grinspan, R Gnanamoorthy (2007) ‘Effect of nozzle traveling velocity on oil cavitation jet peening of aluminum AA 6063 -T6’, ASME J Engg Mat & Tech 129 (4), 609-613.
  • A Sahaya Grinspan, R Gnanamoorthy (2007) ‘Fatigue behavior of oil jet peened Al alloys AA6063 T6’, JSME J Solid Mech & Mat Engg, 1, 875-885.
  • Aravind Vadiraj, M Kamaraj and R Gnanamoorthy (2007) ‘Fretting wear studies on PVD TiN coated ion implanted, thermally oxidised biomedical titanium alloys’, Surf Engg, 23, 209 [JIF=0.44] .
  • S Dhanasekaran and R Gnanamoorthy (2007) ‘Microstructure, strength and tribo behavior of Fe-C-Cu-Ni sintered steels containing MoS2’, J Mat Sci, 42 4659-4666.
  • N Govindarajan and R Gnanamoorthy (2007) ‘Rolling / sliding contact fatigue life prediction of sintered and hardened steels’, Wear, 262, 70-78 [JIF=1.404] .
  • A Sahaya Grinspan and R Gnanamoorthy (2007) ‘Effect of oil jet peening duration on surface modification and fatigue behaviour of medium carbon steel AISI 1040’, Mat Sci & Eng A, 456, 210-217. [JIF=1.35] .
  • A Sahaya Grinspan, R Gnanamoorthy (2007) ‘Surface modification and fatigue behaviour of oil jet peened medium carbon steel, AISI 1040’, ASME J Manf Sci 129 (3), 601-6624.
  • R Ramesh, R Gnanamoorthy (2007) ‘An investigation on the fretting wear behavior of MoS2 bonded coating on AISI 1040 Proc. IMechE Pt J: J. 221, 41-47.
  • S Dhanasekaran and R Gnanamoorthy (2007) ‘Abrasive wear behavior of sintered steels prepared with MoS2 addition’ Wear, 262, 617-623. [JIF=1.404] .
  • Dipa Roy, R Gnanamoorthy (2007) ‘Friction and wear behaviour of vinyl ester resin matrix composites filled with fly ash particles’ J Reinf. Plastics & Comp, 26, 5-13.
  • G Srinath, R Gnanamoorthy (2007) ‘Sliding wear performance of polyamide 6 – clay nanocomposites in water’ Comp Sci & Tech. 67, 399-405 [JIF=2.184] .
  • N Govindarajan, R Gnanamoorthy (2007) ‘Study of damage mechanisms and failure analysis of sintered hardened steels under rolling/sliding contact conditions’, Mat Sci & Engg A A445, 259-268. [JIF=1.35] .
  • Aravind Vadiraj, M Kamaraj, R Gnanamoorthy (2007) ‘Fretting wear studies on uncoated, plasma nitrided, and laser nitrided biomedical titanium alloys’, Mat Sci & Engg A 445, 446-453. [JIF=1.35] .
  • R Ramesh and R Gnanamoorthy (2007) ‘Artificial neural network prediction of fretting wear behavior of structural steel against bearing steel’ ASM J Mat Engg & Perf 16 (6), 703-709 [JIF=0.816] .
  • R Ramesh R Gnanamoorthy (2007) ‘Effect of hardness on fretting wear behaviour of structural steel, En24 against bearing steel, En31’ Mat & Design, 28, 1447 .
  • S Dhanasekaran and R Gnanamoorthy (2007) ‘Dry sliding friction and wear characteristics of Fe-C-Cu alloy containing molybdenum di sulphide’, Mat & Design 28, 1135-1141. [JIF=0.785] .
  • S Senthilvelan and R Gnanamoorthy (2007) ‘Effect of rotational speed on the performance of unreinforced and glass fibre reinforced nylon 6 spur’, Mat & Design, 28, 7652 [JIF=0.785] .
  • Sahaya Grinspan and R Gnanamoorthy (2007) ‘Surface modification of steel using liquid jet peening – fatigue performance’, Mat Sci Forum, 539, 1140-1145.
  • G Srinath and R Gnanamoorthy (2006)‘Two-body abrasive wear characteristics of nylon clay nanocomposites - effect of grit size, load, and sliding velocity’ Mat Sci & Engg A. 435-436, 181-186. [JIF=1.35] .
  • S Senthilvelan and R Gnanamoorthy (2006) ‘Fibre reinforcement in injection molded nylon 66 spur gears Appl Comp Mat, 13, 237-248. [JIF=0.84] .
  • A Sahaya Grinspan and R Gnanamoorthy (2006) ‘Surface modification induced in 6063-t6 & AA6061-t4 by oil jet peening: I. Residual stress & hardness, Appl Surf Sci 253, 989. [JIF=1.263] .
  • A Sahaya Grinspan and R Gnanamoorthy (2006) ‘Surface modification induced in 6063-t6 & 6061-t4 by oiljet peening: II. Surface morphology, erosion & mass Loss’ Appl Surf Sci, 253, 998. [JIF=1.263] .
  • A Sahaya Grinspan and R Gnanamoorthy (2006) ‘A novel surface modification technique for introduction compressive residual stress and studies on 6063’ Surf & Coat Tech, 201, 1768.
  • S Senthilvelan and R Gnanamoorthy (2006) ‘Selective carbon fiber reinforced nylon 66 spur gears: development and performance’ Appl Comp Mat, 13, 43-56. [JIF=0.84] .
  • S Senthilvelan and R Gnanamoorthy (2006) ‘Effect of gear tooth fillet radius on the performance of injection molded nylon 66 gears’, Mat & Design, 27, 632-639.
  • R Ramesh and R Gnanamoorthy (2006) ‘Effect of post oxidation on the fretting wear performance of liquid nitrided En24 steels’, Surf & Coat Tech, 200, 3926-3932.
  • P Jawahar, R Gnanamoorthy and M. Balasubramanian (2006) ‘Tribological behaviour of clay – thermoset polyester nanocomposites’ Wear, 261, 835-840.
  • S Senthilvelan, R Gnanamoorthy (2006) ‘Damping characteristics of unreinforced, glass and carbon fiber reinforced nylon 66 spur gears’, Polymer Testing, 25, 56-62.
  • R Ramesh and R Gnanamoorthy (2006) ‘Fretting wear behavior of as received, hardened - tempered and liquid nitrided structural steel, En24, against bearing steel, En31’, J Mat Proc Tech, 171, 61-67. [JIF=0.6] .
  • R Ramesh and R Gnanamoorthy (2006) ‘Development of a fretting wear test rig and preliminary studies for understanding the fretting wear properties of steels’, Mat & Design, 27, 141. [JIF=0.79] .
  • S Senthilvelan and R Gnanamoorthy (2005) ‘Surface failure analysis of unreinforced, glass and carbon fibre reinforced Nylon 6/6 gears’ Int J of Plastics Tech, 9, 444.
  • S Senthilvelan and R Gnanamoorthy (2005) ‘Reinforced polymer gear fatigue and failure analysis’ Tran Ind Inst of Metals, 58, 249-253.
  • G Srinath and R Gnanamoorthy, (2005) ‘Effect of nanoclay reinforcement on tensile and tribo behavior of nylon 6’, J Mat Sci, 40, 2897-2901. [JIF=0.91] .
  • G Srinath and R Gnanamoorthy, (2005) ‘Effect of short fibre reinforcement on the friction and wear behaviour of nylon 66’, Appl Comp Mat, 12, 369-383. [JIF=0.84] .
  • P Jawahar, R Gnanamoorthy, and M Balasubramanian (2005) ‘Flexural and tribological properties of polyester clay nanocomposities, J Mat Sci Let, 40, 4391.
  • R Gnanamoorthy, N Govindarajan, and Y. Mutoh, (2004) ‘Effect of slide-roll ratio on contact fatigue behavior of sintered steels’ ASM J Fail Anal & Prev, 4, 78.
  • S Senthilvelan and R Gnanamoorthy (2004) ‘Damage mechanisms in injection molded unreinforced, glass and carbon reinforced nNylon 66 spur gears’ Appl Comp Mat, 11, 377-397. [JIF=0.84] .
  • S Senthilvelan and R Gnanamoorthy (2004) ‘Wear characteristics of injection molded unfilled and glass filled nylon 6 spur gears’, Proc. IMechE Pt J: J. Engg Tribology, 218, 495.
  • N K Ramakrishna Naidu, S Ganesh Sundara Raman and R Gnanamoorthy, (2003) ‘Fretting fatigue behaviour of an aluminium alloy (6061) under plane bending’ Trans Ind Inst of Metals, 56, 513-520.
  • R Gnanamoorthy and Rosi Reddy. (2002) ‘Fretting fatigue in AISI 1015 Steel’, Bull Mat Sci, 25, 109-114. [JIF=0.78] .
  • R Gnanamoorthy, N Rajiv, K Gopinath, Y Miyashita Y Mutoh, (2002) ‘Rolling contact fatigue behavior of sintered and hardened steels’, ASM Int J Prac Failure Anal, 2, 71.
  • R Gnanamoorthy, and Y Mutoh, (1999) ‘Fatigue crack growth behavior of gamma base titanium aluminides at different test conditions’, Bull Mat Sci, 22, 933-939.
  • S H Ko, R Gnanamoorthy and S Hanada, (1997) ‘Effect of environment on tensile ductility & fracture of FeAl’, Mat Sci & Eng A, 222, 133. [JIF=1.35] .
  • K Gopinath and R Gnanamoorthy, (1997) ‘Analytical estimation and experimental confirmation of safe operating regime of the sintered gears’, Int J Mat & Prod Tech, 12, 4, 346.
  • R Gnanamoorthy and S Hanada, (1996) ‘Microstructure and strength of binary and tantalum alloyed two phase Nbss/Nb3Al base alloys’, Mat Sci & Eng, A, 207, 129-134.
  • R Gnanamoorthy, S Hanada and K Kamata, (1996) ‘Ductile phase toughening and fatigue crack growth in Nb3Al base alloys’, Scripta Metal et Mat, 34, 999 – 1003.
  • R Gnanamoorthy, Y Mutoh, N Masahashi and Y Mizuhara, (1996) ‘Fatigue crack growth characteristics and effect of microstructure in TiAl, J Soc Mat Sci, 45, 919.
  • R Gnanamoorthy, Y Mutoh and Y Mizuhara, (1996) ‘Influence of microstructure on fatigue crack growth of equiaxed, duplex & lamella microstructure TiAl, Intermetallics, 4, 525. [JIF=1.557] .
  • R Gnanamoorthy, Y Mutoh, N Masahashi and Y Mizuhara, (1995) ‘Fracture toughness of gamma base titanium aluminides’, Metal and Mat Trans A, 26A, 305-313. [JIF=1.232] .
  • R Gnanamoorthy, Y Mutoh, N Masahashi and Y Mizuhara, (1995) ‘Influence of microstructure on the sustained load cracking characteristics in TiAl’’, Intermetallics, 3, 271-280. [JIF=1.557] .
  • R Gnanamoorthy, Y Mutoh, N Masahashi and Y Mizuhara, (1995) ‘Effect of Cr addition on sustained load cracking and environmental effects TiAl’, Mat Sci & Eng, A, 194, 35-41. [JIF=1.35] .
  • R Gnanamoorthy, Y Mutoh, N Masahashi and Y Mizuhara, (1995) ‘Flexural strength of gamma base TiAl alloys at room and elevated temperatures’, Mat Sci & Eng, A, 197, 69-77. [JIF=1.35] .
  • R Gnanamoorthy, Y Mutoh, N Masahashi and Y Mizuhara, (1995) ‘Influence of lamella lath orientation on the fatigue crack growth behavior of TiAl, Scripta Metall, 33, 907-914. [JIF=2.22] .
  • R Gnanamoorthy, Y Mutoh and Y Mizuhara, (1995) ‘Effects of niobium addition on fracture properties of gamma titanium aluminides’, Mat Sci & Eng A, 203. 348-355.
  • S Hanada, T Tabaru and R Gnanamoorthy, (1995) ‘Processing and properties of Nb3Al’, Acta Metall Sin., 8, 47-54.
  • R Gnanamoorthy and K Gopinath, (1994) ‘Surface durability studies on sintered low alloy steel gears’, Powder Metall Sci & Tech, 5, 29-35.
  • R Gnanamoorthy, Y Mutoh, N Masahashi and Y Mizuhara, (1994) ‘Temperature dependence of strength and fracture toughness in TiAl ’, J Soc Mat Sci, 43, 190.
  • R Gnanamoorthy, Y Mutoh, N Masahashi and Y Mizuhara, (1994) ‘Fracture properties of gamma base tial alloys with lamella microstructure at room temperature’, Mat Sci & Eng, A, 184, 4415. [JIF=1.35] .
  • R Gnanamoorthy, Y Mutoh, N Masahashi and Y Mizuhara, (1994) ‘Effect of isothermal forging on fracture properties of binary TiAl’, Scripta Metal, 31, 215.
  • R Gnanamoorthy, Y Mutoh, N Masahashi and Y Mizuhara, (1994) ‘Flexural strength, fracture toughness and crack growth behavior of cr alloyed TiAl’, J Mat Sci, A, 29, 5199-5206. [JIF=0.91] .
  • R Gnanamoorthy, Y Mutoh, N Masahashi and Y Mizuhara, (1993) ‘High-temperature strength and fracture toughness in gamma phase titanium aluminides’, J Mat Sci, 28, 6631-6637. [JIF=0.91].

Refereed National Journals


  • Govindarajan N, R Gnanamoorthy, Ferrography - A procedure for measuring wear rate, Indian J of Engg and Materials Sciences, V15, Issue 5, Pages 377-381, 2008.
  • R Gnanamoorthy, C Madhavan and K Gopinath, (1990) ‘Powder Metallurgy Gear Testing’, Trans of PMAI, Vol. 17, 111 –118.

Presented at International Conferences


  • Gurunathan C, R Gnanamoorthy R, Jayavel S. Wear Resistance of Polymeric Material with Selective Reinforcement - Effect of Material Combination, ICEMA, IIT Roorkee, Apr 2014.
  • Gurunathan C, R Gnanamoorthy R, Neeruthirajan R. Erosive Wear Rate Prediction Using Stochastic Finite Element Analysis, ICEMA, IIT Roorkee, Apr 2014.
  • Sagar Dolas, Gurunathan C, R Gnanamoorthy R. Life Estimation of Cardiovascular Stents Using Numerical Approach – Effect of Ageing, ICAD&M 2014, NIT Trichy, Dec 2014.
  • D. Finney Charles, R. R Gnanamoorthy, and Parag Ravindran, ‘Influence of stress on nanoclay reinforced Polyamide 6 subjected to rolling contact fatigue’ ASME Int Mech Engineers Congress and Exposition (IMECE-2012), Nov 09-15, Houston, Texas, USA.
  • Timmaraju, M, R. R Gnanamoorthy, “Effect of sea water environment on flexural fatigue behavior of polyamide 66/hectorite nanocomposites’ Asian Symp for Materials and Processing (ASMP 2012), IIT Madras, Chennai.
  • N. Arun Prakash, A. John Purushottam, M. Kamaraj, R. R Gnanamoorthy and T. S. N. Sankara Narayanan "Tribo – behavior of severe surface deformed aluminium alloy, AA6063-T6", The 3rd Asian Symp on Materials and Processing (ASMP 2012), 30 – 31 August 2012, IIT Madras, Chennai.
  • Timmaraju, M, R. R Gnanamoorthy, “Influence of sea water immersion on mechanical behavior of polyamide nanocomposites’ Int Conf on Recent Trends in Advanced Materials (ICRAM-2012), VIT, Vellore.
  • Anand Kumar, S., Ganesh Sundara Raman, S., Sankara Narayanan, T.S.N. and R Gnanamoorthy, R., Influence of Surface Mechanical Attrition Treatment on Fretting Wear Behaviour of Ti-6Al-4V, 2nd International Conference on Advanced Material Research (ICAMR 2012), Chengdu, China, January, 2012.
  • R Gnanamoorthy, Timmaraju M “Fatigue behaviour of Polyamide Nanocomposites’ Ist Int Conf on Composites and nanocomposites’ ICNC 2011, 7-8, Jan 2011, Kottayam, p 41.
  • D. Finney Charles, Parag Ravindran, R. R Gnanamoorthy, ‘Constitutive Modelling of Polymer Nano composite subjected to cyclic contact loading’ Int Conf on Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology (ICNANO 2011), 18-21 Dec 2011, Delhi.
  • D. Finney Charles, R. R Gnanamoorthy, Parag Ravindran, Polymer Nano composite and its Application in Rolling Contact Fatigue’ Int Conf on Recent Advances in Materials and Processing (RAMP 2011), 23-24 Dec 2011, Coimbatore.
  • N. Arun Prakash, R. R Gnanamoorthy M. Kamaraj "Microstructural evolution and tribo – behavior of severe surface deformed metallic materials", Int conf on Recent Advances in Materials and Processing (RAMP 2011), 23-24 Dec 2011, Coimbatore.
  • A. John Purushottam, N. Arun Prakash, M. Kamaraj, R. R Gnanamoorthy T. S. N. Sankara Narayanan "Dry sliding wear behavior of surface mechanical attrition treated aluminium alloy, AA6063-T6", Int Conf on Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology (ICNANO 2011), 18-21 Dec 2011, Delhi.
  • A. John Purushottam, N. Arun Prakash, M. Kamaraj, R Gnanamoorthy, T. S. N. Sankara Narayanan "Formation of nanostructured surface layer on aluminium alloy, AA6063-T6 by means of surface mechanical attrition treatment", Int Conf on Advances in Materials and Materials Processing (ICAMMP 2011), 9-11 Dec 2011, IIT Kharagpur, India.
  • Timmaraju M, R. R Gnanamoorthy, K Kannan “Effect of frequency on fatigue behaviour of polymer clay nanocomposites’ ISRS, Chennai 2010.
  • N. Arun Prakash, R. R Gnanamoorthy and M. Kamaraj "Fretting wear behavior of surface modified aluminium alloy by severe deformation Process", Int Symp for Research Scholars on Metallurgy, Material Science and Engineering (ISRS 2010), 20-22 Dec 2010, IIT Madras, Chennai, India.
  • N. Arun Prakash, M. Kodeeswaran, R. R Gnanamoorthy and M. Kamaraj "Formation of nanostructured surface layer on AISI 304 stainless steel by severe surface deformation Process", 10th Int Conf on Nanostructured Materials (NANO 2010), 13-17 Sept 2010, University LA SAPIENZA, Roma, Italy.
  • N. Arun Prakash, R. R Gnanamoorthy and M. Kamaraj "Fretting wear behavior of controlled ball impact treated aluminium alloy", 24th Int Con on Surface Modification Technologies (SMT 24), 7-9 Sept 2010, Dresden, Germany.
  • Timmaraju M, R. R Gnanamoorthy, K Kannan “Mechanical and temal characteristics of polyamide 66 clay nanocomposites’, Polymer Congress – Vision and Scenerio, APA, New Delhi 2009.
  • Arun Prakash N, R. R Gnanamoorthy, M. Kamaraj, “Formation of nanocrystalline structure in aluminium alloys by Severe surface deformation Processes” 23rd Int Conf on Surface Modification Technologies (SMT 23), Nov 2009, Chennai, p.55.
  • R Gnanamoorthy R, Kodeeswaran M, and Arun Prakash N, “Controlled ball impact Process – A new approach for the development of nanocrystalline surfaces”, 4th Int Conf on Recent advances in Materials, Minerals & Environment and 2nd Asian Symp on Materials & Processing (RAMM & ASMP 2009), 1–3 June 2009, Penang.
  • Arun Prakash N, R. R Gnanamoorthy, M. Kamaraj, “Nanocrystalline structure formation in aluminium alloy by controlled ball impact technique” 1st Int conf on Nanostructured Materials and Nanocomposites’ 6-8 Apr 2009, Kottayam, India.
  • Rajeesh. K. R, R. R Gnanamoorthy, R. Velmurugan "Effect of humidity on the flexural creep behavior of polyamide 6 and polyamide 6 nanocomposites", 1st Int Conf on Nano Structured Materials and Nanocomposites (ICNM), April 6-8, 2009, Kottayam, India, Paper ID: IL 173.
  • Kirupa sankar S, R. R Gnanamoorthy, R. Velmurugan "Performance of polymer Nano composite gears’, 1st Int Conf on Nano Structured Materials and Nanocomposites (ICNM), April 6-8, 2009, Kottayam, Paper ID: IL 173.
  • Rajeesh. K. Ravindran, R. R Gnanamoorthy, R. Velmurugan ‘Effect of Humidity on the Flexural Fatigue Behavior of Polyamide 6 and Nanocomposites’, Proc. 2nd Int Symp on Adv Materials & Polymers for Aerospace and Defense Applications (SAMPADA), Dec. 8-12, 2008, Pune, Paper ID: PS-S21-OR-1.
  • Arun Prakash N, R. R Gnanamoorthy, M. Kamaraj, ‘Friction and wear behavior of surface nanocrystallisation of aluminium alloy under dry sliding condition’, Proc. 2nd Int Symp SAMPADA, Dec. 8-12, 2008, Pune, Paper ID: S6-OR-17
  • Arun Prakash N, R. R Gnanamoorthy, M. Kamaraj, ‘Dry sliding wear behavior of oil jet peened aluminium alloy AA6063-T6’, Proc. 6th Int Conf on Industrial Tribology (ICIT - 08), Nov. 6-8, 2008, New Delhi, Paper ID: P025
  • Finney Charles D, R Gnanamoorthy, Parag Ravindran, ‘Effect of Rolling Speed on Rolling Contact Fatigue Behaviour of Polymer Clay Based Nanocomposites’, Proc. 6th ICIT - 08, Nov. 6-8, 2008, New Delhi, Paper ID: P023.
  • Kirupasankar S, R. R Gnanamoorthy, R. Velmurugan, ‘Sliding Frictional Behaviour of Polyamide 6 and Nanocomposite– Effect of Apparent Area of Contact‘, Proc. 2nd Int Symp SAMPADA, Dec. 8-12, 2008, Pune, Paper ID: S17-OR-50.
  • Timmaraju V. M, R Gnanamoorthy R, Krishna Kannan, ‘Flexural Fatigue Behavior of Nylon 66 in Humid Conditions’, Proc. Int Symp For Research Scholars (ISRS – 08) Dec. 10-12, 2008, Chennai, Paper ID: M1-03.
  • Ramkumar A and R Gnanamoorthy, ‘High Temperature Flexural Fatigue Behavior of Polyamide 6 Nanocomposites’, IISc Centenary – Int Conf on Advances in Mechanical Engg (IC-ICAME), Bangalore, July 2-4, 2008 p7.
  • Kodeeswaran M and R Gnanamoorthy, ‘A novel controlled impact surface modification Process for nanocrystallization’, IISc Centenary – Int Conf on Advances in Mechanical Engg (IC-ICAME), Bangalore, July 2-4, 2008, p6.
  • Finney Charles D and R Gnanamoorthy, ‘Rolling Contact Fatigue Behavior of Polyamide 6 Nancocomposites’, IISc Centenary – Int Conf on Advances in Mechanical Engg (IC-ICAME), Bangalore, July 2-4, 2008, p54.
  • Govindarajan N and R Gnanamoorthy, ‘Ferrography - An approach for Measuring Wear Rate’, IISc Centenary – Int Conf on Advances in Mechanical Engg (IC-ICAME), Bangalore, July 2-4, 2008, p 57.
  • Ramkumar A and R Gnanamoorthy, ‘Flexual and axial fatigue behaviour of polyamide 6 nanocomposites’, Proc Int Conf INCCOM-6 on Future Trends in Comp Materials and Processing, IIT Kanpur, 12-14 Dec 2007, p.204-207.
  • S Senthilvelan and R Gnanamoorthy ‘Influence of carbon fiber reinforcement over the accuracy of injection molded polymer gear’ 9th Int Symp on Measurement & Quality Control, Chennai, 21-24 Nov 2007, pp237-242.
  • R Gnanamoorthy, ‘Wear mechanisms – An overview’, Advances in Surface Technology – International Workshop, Chennai June 29-30. p 1.
  • Ramkumar A and R Gnanamoorthy, ‘Modulus drop due to fatigue in polyamide 6 nanocomposites’, Int Conf on Adv in Materials Engg, Bangalore, July 2007, p.51.
  • Navaneethakrishnan, P, S Ganesh Sundara Raman, S D Pathak, R Gnanamoorthy an N Ravi, ‘Fretting wear behaviour of diamond like carbon coated titanium alloy Ti-6Al, 4V’, Int Conf on Adv in Materials Engg, IISc Bangalore, 4-6 July 2007, p.47.
  • Dipa Roy, R Gnanamoorthy, A K Mohanty, L T Drzal, and M Misra, ‘A study of the mechanical, thermal and wear behaviour of fly ash filled vinylester rein matrix composites’, 2nd Int Conf on Recent Advances in Composite Materials, New Delhi, Feb 2007, p.32
  • A Sahaya Grinspan and R Gnanamoorthy ‘Cavitation Oil Jet Peening Process – A New Surface Modification Process: Studies on AA6063 T6’, Int Symp for Research Scholars, IIT Madras, Chennai, 18-20 Dec 2006, p. 60.
  • Dharmendra Sharma and R Gnanamoorthy ‘Effect of Surface Roughness on the Fretting Wear Behaviour of Nylon 6 Clay Nanocomposites’, Int Symp for Research Scholars, IIT Madras, Chennai, 18-20 Dec 2006, p. 68.
  • S Dhanasekaran and R Gnanamoorthy ‘A Novel Fe C CU Ni MoS2 Sintered Alloys for Gear Applications’, ISRS, IIT Madras, Chennai, 20 Dec 2006, p. 139.
  • Aravind Vadiraj, M Kamaraj and R Gnanamoorthy, ‘Fretting Wear Studies of Surface Modified Biomedical Titanium Alloys’, Int Symp on Tribo Corrosion 2006, Non Ferrous Materials Tech Dev Cenre, Hyderabad, 4-5 Dec 2006, p. 22.
  • N Govindarajan, R Gnanamoorthy, C Bhaskaran and B P Shastry ‘Fatigue Life Prediction of Porous Steels under Rolling / Sliding Contact Conditions by Fracture Mechanics Approach’, Int Conf on Industrial Tribology, ICIT 2006, IISc, Bangalore, Nov 2006, p. 93.
  • C Gurunathan and R Gnanamoorthy, ‘Wear Characteristics of Nylon Polymer Clay Nanocomposite Gears’, Int Conf on Industrial Tribology, ICIT 2006, IISc, Bangalore, 30 Nov 2006, p. 117.
  • M Dharmendra Sharma and R Gnanamoorthy ‘Fretting Wear Characteristics of Nylon 6 Clay Nanocomposite’, Int Conf on Industrial Tribology, ICIT 2006, IISc, Bangalore, 30 Nov 2006, p. 118.
  • A Sahaya Grinspan and R Gnanamoorthy ‘Fatigue Behaviour of Oil Jet Peened Aluminium Alloy, AA 6063-T6’ ASMP 2006, Asian Symposium on Materials and Processing, Bangkok, Thailand, 9-10 November 2006, p. 103.
  • R Gnanamoorthy and S Dhanasekaran ‘Effect of MoS2 Addition on the Performance of Sintered Spur Gears under Unlubricated Conditions’, Asian Symposium on Materials and Processing, Bangkok, Nov 2006, p. 84.
  • S Dhanasekaran and R Gnanamoorthy ‘Wear Characteristics of Spur Gears mad using Fe-C-Cu+MOS2 Sintered Alloys’, MS&T 2006, Materials Science and Technology Conf and Exh 2006 Oct 2006, Cincinnati, USA.
  • A Sahaya Grinspan and R Gnanamoorthy ‘Surface Modification of Steel Using Liquid Jet Peening (Fatigue Performance)’ Int Conf on Processing & Manufacture of Advanced Materials, Vancouver, July 2006, p. 205.
  • A Sahaya Grinspan and R Gnanamoorthy ‘Effect of Peening Duration on the Fatigue Behaviour of Oil Jet Peened Medium Carbon Steel’ Int Seminar on the Fatigue, Fracture and Durability, Bangalore, India, 26-28 June 2006.
  • A Sahaya Grinspan and R Gnanamoorthy ‘Finite Element Study on the Residual Stress Formation in Oil Jet Peening’ Int Seminar on the Fatigue, Fracture and Durability, Bangalore, India, 26-28 June 2006, p.
  • A Sahaya Grinspan and R Gnanamoorthy ‘Fatigue Behavior of Oil Jet Peened Carbon Steels’ Int Conf on Pressure Vessels and Piping, Chennai, Feb 2006.
  • G Srinath and R Gnanamoorthy, ‘High Temperature Tribo behaviour Of Nylon 6 Clay Nanocomposites’ Int Conf Advances in Mat and Proc 2006 Kharagpur.
  • S Dhanasekaran and R Gnanamoorthy ‘Development Of A New N2+H2 Sintered Steels Containing MoS2 and its Mechanical Properties’, ICAMMP-2006, Feb 2006 Kharagpur.
  • A Sahaya Grinspan and R Gnanamoorthy ‘Liquid Jet Peening – A Novel Surface Modification Process; Studies on Al Alloy Aa6063-T6 and Aa6061-T4’ ICAMMP-2006, 3-5 Feb 2006 Kharagpur.
  • S. Dhanasekaran and R Gnanamoorthy ‘Effect of solid lubricant addition on the tribological behavior for sintered steels’, The global happening on particulate materials for automotive and engineering industry, Int Conference With Trade Exhibition And Particulate World, Feb 2005.
  • S Senthilvelan and R Gnanamoorthy ‘Performance of polymer composite gears-effect of tooth deflection’ 63 SPE Annual Tech Conf Boston, May 2005, 1504-1508.
  • A Sahaya Grinspan and R Gnanamoorthy ‘Studies on Surface Morphology and Mass Loss Rate in the Oil Jet Peened Al Alloy’, Int Conf on Advances in Materials, Product Design & Manf Systems, Sathyamangalam, 12-14, Dec 2005.
  • S Senthilvelan and R Gnanamoorthy ‘Contact stress analysis of unreinforced, glass and Carbon reinforced nylon 6/6 spur gears the Int Conf on Advances in Materials, Product Design & Manf Systems, Sathyamangalam, 12-14, Dec 2005.
  • S Senthilvelan and R. R Gnanamoorthy. ‘New thermoplastic polymer composite gear for automotive applications’, Int Exhibition & Conf on Advancement in Materials & Processes for Transportations Sector, Mumbai, Nov 2004.
  • G. Srinath and R. R Gnanamoorthy, ‘Tribo-behaviour of Advanced Reinforced Nylons, Int Exhn & Conf on Adv in Matls & Proc for Trans Sector, Mumbai, Nov 2004.
  • G Srinath and R. R Gnanamoorthy, ‘Friction and wear characteristics of nylon-clay nanocomposites under dry sliding conditions’ 1st Int Conf on Advanced Tribology, Singapore, Dec 2004, B-13.
  • R. Ramesh and R Gnanamoorthy ‘Fretting wear behaviour of borided structural steel, En24, against bearing Steel, En31’ 1st Int Conf on Advanced Tribology (iCAT2004), Dec 2004, Singapore, p.B-7
  • G. Srinath and R. R Gnanamoorthy, ‘Processing and abrasive wear behaviour of Nylon nanocomposites’ ISRS, IIT Madras, Dec 2004.
  • S. Dhanasekaran, and R Gnanamoorthy ‘Development of self lubricating sintered steels for tribological applications’, ISRS, Dec 2004, p68.
  • R. Ramesh and R Gnanamoorthy ‘Effect of nitriding condition on fretting wear of En24 steel, ‘Proc of Int Conf on Heat Treatment ASM, Chennai, 2004, p.A29.
  • R. Ramesh and R Gnanamoorthy ‘Effect of post oxidation on the fretting wear performance of liquid nitrided En24 steels’, Int Conf on Surface Engineering, INCOSURF2004, Aug 25-27, Bangalore, India.
  • S Senthilvelan and R. R Gnanamoorthy, “Performance and Failure Analysis of Injection Molded Carbon Reinforced Nylon Gears”, 7th Biennial ASME Conf Engineering Systems Design And Analysis, July 19-22, 2004, University of Manchester, U K. Paper no. ESDA 2004-58303( .21-22).
  • R. Ramesh and R Gnanamoorthy ‘An investigation on fretting wear properties of MoS2 bonded solid lubricant coatings’, Proc Indo-Japan Conf on Damage Tolerant Design & Materials, Dec 2004, Chennai, p.175.
  • S Senthilvelan and R Gnanamoorthy ‘Effect of fiber length on surface failure of injection molded glass reinforced Nylon gears’, Indo Japan Conf on Damage Tolerant Design and Materials, Chennai, Dec 2004, 277-280.
  • N Govindarajan and R Gnanamoorthy Contact Fatigue life Prediction of Sintered steels Indo-Japan Conf on Damage Tolerant Design & Materials, IIT Madras Dec 2004, 129 –135.
  • T Nagahama, Y Yoshimura, H Morikoshi, R Gnanamoorthy, Y Miysahita and Y Mutoh ‘Rolling Contact Fatigue Beahviour of sitnerd alloy’ Indo-Japan Conf on Damage Tolerant Design & Materials, IIT Madras Dec 2004, 236-239.
  • R. R Gnanamoorthy, “Processing and Properties of in situ niobium aluminide intermetallic”, Int Conf on Non Ferrous Metals, Varanasi, p141-149, July 2003.
  • N K Ramakrishna Naidu, S Ganesh Sundara Raman, and R. R Gnanamoorthy, ‘Plane Bending Fretting Fatigue Behavior of an Aluminium Alloy (6061-T6)”, Int Conf on Non Ferrous Metals – 2003, Varanasi, p. 151-159, July 2003.
  • R Gnanamoorthy and J Krishnakumar ‘Rolling Contact Fatigue Behavior of Surface Treated Sintered Steels’ Proc of Int Conf on Advances in Surface Treatment Research and Application (ASTRA), Nov, 2003, Hyderabad, India.
  • S Senthilvelan and R Gnanamoorthy ‘Reinforced polymer gear fatigue and failure analysis” 4th Conf on Creep Fatigue and Creep Fatigue Interaction, Kalpakkam, Oct, 2003, C127-C133.
  • R. Ramesh and R Gnanamoorthy ‘Fretting wear behavior of liquid nitrided En24 steel fretted with hardened En 31 bearing steel’, Proc Int Conf on Adv in Surf Treatment Res and Application (ASTRA), Nov Hyderabad, 2003, p. 321.
  • R Gnanamoorthy “Fracture toughness of niobium aluminide base intermetallics in air and vacuum” Proc of Int Conf On Advances in Materials and Materials Processing (ICAMMP-2002), Kharagpur, 2002.
  • R. R Gnanamoorthy, N. Rajiv, K. Gopinath, Y. Miyashita and Y. Mutoh “Damage Mechanisms Under Rolling Contact Fatigue of Sintered and Hardened Steels” Proc of Int Conf on Advances in Materials and Materials Processing, Kharagpur, 2002.
  • N Govindarajan, R. R Gnanamoorthy, Y. Miyashita and Y. Mutoh “Rolling And Sliding Contact Fatigue Behavior Of Sintered Steel”, Proc of Int Conf on Powder Metallurgy for Automotive Components, New Delhi, 203- 209, Jan, 2002.
  • R Gnanamoorthy, Bharathi Sekar, N Govindarajan, Y. Miyashita and Y. Mutoh “Influence of Processing Parameters on Rolling Contact Fatigue Behavior Of Automotive Sintered Steel”, Proc of Int Conf on Metals and Materials for Automobile Industry, IIM, New Delhi, .159-167, Sep 13 & 14 2002.
  • R Gnanamoorthy, ‘Microstructure and strength of powder metallurgically Processes niobium aluminide base intermetallic composites’, Proc of Int Conf on Mechanical Alloying, Jaipur, 165-172, Feb 2001 .
  • R Gnanamoorthy, Y Miyahsita, M Horikokshi, J Q Xu, Y Mutoh, H Fukuhara, ‘Effect of Density on Contact Fatigue Behavior of and Damage Mechanisms of Sintered Alloys”, 9th Materials and Processing Conf (M & P) JSME, 2001.
  • I Vikram Kumar Reddy, R. R Gnanamoorthy, and N Siva Prasad, ‘Analysis of prestresses in multi-layered filament wound cylindrical pressure vessels’, Int Conf Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering, 44th SAMPE Millennium, California, v 44, pt 1, 1999, 204-215.
  • R Gnanamoorthy, Y Mutoh, M Masahashi, Y Mizuhara, ‘Static and cyclic crack growth behavior of gamma base titanium aluminides’, The 5th IUMRS Int conference in Asia, Bangalore, 463-468, 1998.
  • Y Mutoh, T Moriya, S H Zhu, R. R Gnanamoorthy, Y Mizuhara, ‘Small fatigue crack growth behavior in gamma base titanium aluminides’, Conf Proc 3rd Pacific Rim Int Conf on Advanced Materials & Processing, Tokyo, 2311-2367, 1998.
  • S Zhu, R. R Gnanamoorthy, Y Mutoh and Y Mizuhara, ‘Effect of Ternary Element on High-Temperature Toughness in -based TiAl Intermetallics’, in ‘Proc of Int Conf on Materials and Mechanics’ 97 Tokyo, JSME, 321-326, 1997.
  • R Gnanamoorthy, S Hanada and K Kamata, ‘Influence of Microstructure on the Fracture Toughness and Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior of Nbss/Nb3Al Base Intermetallic Compounds’, in ‘Proc of Int Conf on Recent Advances on Materials Processing’, I I Sc, Bangalore, 653-659, 1997.
  • R Gnanamoorthy, S Hanada and K Kamata, ‘High-Temperature Strength and Room Temperature Fracture Toughness and Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior of Nbss/Nb3Al Base Intermetallic Compounds Containing Carbon’, in ‘Int Conf on Recent Advances on Materials Processing’, Bangalore, 659 – 665, 1997.
  • S Hanada, T Tabaru, E Miura, R. R Gnanamoorthy, Y Murayama, ‘High Temperature Strength and Ambient Temperature Fracture Toughness of Nb3Al-Nbss in-situ composites’, THERMEC7 Int Conf on Thermo-mechanical Processing of Steels & Other Materials, Australia, 1583 – 1588, 1997.
  • R Gnanamoorthy, Y Mutoh, N Masahashi and Y Mizuhara, ‘SCC Behavior & Fatigue Crack Growth in TiAl’, ‘Fracture Mechanics Symp, Japan Mat Soc, Kyoto, 1995.
  • R Gnanamoorthy, S Hanada and K Kamata, ‘Fracture Toughness and Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior of Nb3Al Base Intermetallic Compounds’, in ‘Fracture Mechanics Symposium’, Japan Materials Society, Kyoto, 1995.
  • R Gnanamoorthy, Y Mutoh and Y Mizuhara, ‘Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior of Gamma Base Titanium Aluminides’, in ‘Material and Mechanics Engineering Symposium’, Fuji, Japan Soc of Mech Engs, 1994.
  • R Gnanamoorthy, Y Mutoh and Y Mizuhara, ‘Effect of Microstructure and Ternary Addition on Fracture Toughness of Gamma Base TiAl’, in ‘Conf Proc of Japan Soc of Mech Engs, Hiroshima, 223 - 230, 1993.
  • R Gnanamoorthy, Y Mutoh and Y Mizuhara, ‘Fracture Toughness of Gamma Base Titanium Aluminides With Ternary Additions At Room and Elevated Temperatures’, in ‘Critical Issues on the Development of High Temperature Structural Materials’, Engineering Foundation Conferences, Hawaii, .217-222, 1993.
  • R Gnanamoorthy and K Gopinath, ‘Surface Durability Studies on As-Sintered Low Alloy Steel Gears’, in ‘Advances in Powder Metallurgy & Particulate Materials’, Vol 6, Non Ferrous Metallurgy, San Francisco, Metal Powder Industries Federation, New York, USA, .237-244, 1992.
  • R Gnanamoorthy and Y Mutoh, ‘Fracture Toughness of Intermetallic Compounds TiAl and TiAlCr at Elevated Temperatures’, in ‘Materials and Mechanics’, Vol B, JSME, Kanagawa, Japan, 330-336, 1991.

Presented at National Conferences


  • Gurunathan, C, R Gnanamoorthy R, Jayavel S. Frictional Heat Generation in Selective Ceramic Reinforced Polymer Composites - Effect of Particle Size, AIMTDR 2014, IIT Guwahati, 12 -14 Dec 2014.
  • Anand Kumar, S., Ganesh Sundara Raman, S., Sankara Narayanan, T.S.N. and R Gnanamoorthy, R., Fretting Wear Behavior of Surface Mechanical Attrition Treated Alloy 718, 65th Annual Technical Meeting, IIM, Hyderabad, November, 2011.
  • Rajeesh. K. R, R. R Gnanamoorthy, R. Velmurugan, “Polyamide 6 nanocomposites for automotive applications; Moisture effect on tensile behaviour” IPRoMM 2009, IIT Madras, July 10-11, 2009, p 128.
  • Timmaraju V. Mallina, R.R Gnanamoorthy, Krishna Kannan, “Polyamide clay nanocomposites for automotive applications; Thermal characteristics in different environmental conditions” IPRoMM 2009, IIT Madras, July 10-11, 2009, p 116.
  • Arun Prakash N, R. R Gnanamoorthy, M. Kamaraj., “Friction and wear behavior of fine grain structured aluminium alloy formed by severe deformation Processes” IPRoMM 2009, IIT Madras, July 10-11, 2009, p 122.
  • S Dhanalakshi, N Balasubramani, P Sivakumar R Gnanamoorthy and M Balasubramaniam, ‘Effect SiC on the dry sliding wear behaviour of Al-SiC composite produced by stir casting’, National Seminar on Advanced Materials for Hostile Environment, Thiruvananthapuram, March 2007.
  • Navaneethakrishnan, P., Ganesh Sundara Raman, S., Pathak, S. D.,R Gnanamoorthy, R. and Ravi, N., Fretting Wear Behaviour of Diamond-like Carbon Coated Titanium Alloy Ti-6Al-4V, Diamond Jubilee Symposium on Advances in Materials Engineering, IISc, Bangalore, July, 2007.
  • S Senthilvelan and R Gnanamoorthy ‘Effect of short fiber reinforcements on the damping characteristics of polymer composite gears’, National Conf on Industrial Problems in Machines & Mechanisms Kharagpur, Feb 2005, 139-144.
  • A Sahaya Grinspan and R Gnanamoorthy ‘Development of a Novel Surface Modification Technique For The Introduction Residual Stress And Preliminary Studies On Alloy Steel, En 8’, NMD ATM 2005 , Chennai Nov, 2005.
  • G Srinath and R Gnanamoorthy ‘Processing and Characterization of Polyamide organoclay nanocomposites prepared by melt intercalation technique’, NMD ATM 2005, Chennai Nov 14-16.
  • Shanmugavel M, Nandagopal M, Sandya R,. Valsan M Bhanusankara Rao K,. Mannan S.L and. R Gnanamoorthy R, (2005) ‘Temperature Dependence of Tensile behaviour of 316L(N) SS weld joints’’ NMD-ATM-2005 IIT, Madras.
  • S Senthilvelan and R Gnanamoorthy ‘Efficiency of short glass and carbon fiber reinforced injection molded nylon 6/6 gear ISAMPE National Conference on High Performance Composite Materials Coimbatore, Dec 9-10, 2005, .267-269.
  • G Srinath and R Gnanamoorthy ‘Processing and Characterization of Polyamide organoclay nanocomposites prepared by melt intercalation technique’, NACOMM 2005, 12th National Conference, IIT Guwahati, 16-17 Dec, 2005, 331-336.
  • S Dhanasekaran and R Gnanamoorthy ‘Abrasive wear behavior of Fe C Cu Sintered Steels containing MoS2, Processing and Characterization of Polyamide organoclay nanocomposites prepared by melt intercalation technique’, NACOMM 2005, 12th National Conference, IIT Guwahati, 16-17 Dec, 2005, 304-309.
  • S Senthilvelan and R Gnanamoorthy ‘Design and manufacturing of short fiber reinforced thermoplastic composite gears’, 3rd ISAMPE National Conf on Composites, Pune, Oct 2004, 176-181.
  • S Senthilvelan and R Gnanamoorthy ‘Effect of gear tooth fillet radius on the performance of injection molded polymer gears’, 21st AIMTDR Conference, 20-22 Vellore, Dec 2004. 762-767.
  • K. C. Gopalakrishnan and R. R Gnanamoorthy, “Design and Analysis Of Oral Simulator” 11th National Conf of Machines & Mechanisms, New Delhi, Dec 2003.
  • S Senthilvelan and R Gnanamoorthy ‘Condition monitoring and failure analysis of composite gear’, 11th National Conf of Machines and Mechanisms, New Delhi, Dec 2003, 278-282.
  • R. Ramesh and R. R Gnanamoorthy, ‘Fretting wear behaviour of as received, through hardened En24 steel against bearing steel’, 11th National Conf of Machines and Mechanisms (NaCoMM), Dec, 2003,IIT New Delhi, p. 660.
  • J. Krishnakumar, N. Govindarajan, and R. R Gnanamoorthy, ‘Failure analysis of powder metal parts under Rolling contact fatigue (Ferrographic approach)’, Fourth NSRS, Indian Institute of Metals, Chennai, 2002.
  • R Gnanamoorthy, ‘Powder Metal Gear Performance and Contact Fatigue Performance’, National Symp on Materials Processing, IGCAR, 2002, 33-41.
  • S. Senthilvelan, R. R Gnanamoorthy, and G. Srinath, ‘Tribological Behaviour of Few Engineering Plastics" 4th NSRS, IIT Madras, Sept 2002.
  • R Rosi Reddy and R Gnanamoorthy, ‘Fretting fatigue behavior of steels: Design and Development of the Fretting Fatigue Test Rig’, MRSI, Kolkata, 2001.
  • H Ram Prasad, M M Mayuram and R. R Gnanamoorthy, Scuffing Behavior of EN 24 Steel, Materials Research Society of India, Kolkata, 2001.
  • N Rajiv, N Govindarajan, R. R Gnanamoorthy, K Gopinath, Y Miyashita, Y Mutoh, ‘Influence of density on the rolling contact fatigue behavior of sintered steels’, Powder Metal Assn of India, Jaipur, p 37, 2001.
  • N Rajiv, R Gnanamoorthy and K Gopinath, ‘Rolling Contact Fatigue behavior of sintered steels, Indian Institute of Metals, Bhilai, p 182, 2000.
  • R Gnanamoorthy and N Arun Kishore, ‘Friction and wear behavior of intermetallics’, Indian Institute of Metals, Bhilai, p 195, 2000.
  • N Arun Kishore and R. R Gnanamoorthy, ‘Sliding friction behavior of Niobium aluminides base intermetallics’ Natl Conf Machines & Mechanisms, Bombay, 1999.
  • V Kripa Kiran, R. R Gnanamoorthy, and K Gopinath, ‘Friction and wear behavior of Electrolysed Hard Chromium Coatings Lubricated with Water’, Materials Research Society of India, Ninth AGM, Madras, p 67, 1998.
  • K Sato, R Gnanamoorthy and S Hanada, ‘Microstructure and Strength of Nb/Nb3Al Containing Boron’, Japan Metal Society, Tokyo, 1996.
  • S H Ko, R Gnanamoorthy and S Hanada, ‘Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of In-Situ Fe3Al Ceramic Composites’, Japan Metal Society, Tokyo, 1996.
  • K Sato, R Gnanamoorthy and S Hanada, ‘Influence of Vol. Fraction of Ductile Phase on Nb3Al Containing Boron’, Japan Metal Society, Hokkaido, 1996.
  • R Gnanamoorthy and S Hanada, ‘Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Ta Alloyed Niobium Aluminides’, Japan Metal Society, Tokyo, 1995.
  • R Gnanamoorthy, Y Mutoh, N Masahashi and Y Mizuhara, ‘SCC Behavior of Gamma Base Titanium Aluminides’, Japan Soc of Mech Engineers, Tokyo, 1995.
  • S H Ko, R Gnanamoorthy and S Hanada, ‘Effect of Environment on Tensile Ductility and Fracture Toughness of Iron Aluminide’, Japan Metal Society, Tokyo, 1995.
  • T Hanson, R. R Gnanamoorthy, Y Mutoh, A Sakurai Y Mizuhara, ’High-Temperature Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior in TiAl’, Japan Metal Society, Tokyo, 1995.
  • R Gnanamoorthy and S Hanada, ‘Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Ta Alloyed Niobium Aluminides’, Japan Metal Society, Tokyo, 1995.
  • R Gnanamoorthy, Y Mutoh, N Masahashi and Y Mizuhara, ‘Influence of Isothermal Forging on Fracture Properties of Gamma TiAl’, Japan Metal Society, Fuji, 1994.
  • R Gnanamoorthy, Y Mutoh, N Masahashi and Y Mizuhara, ‘Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior in Gamma Base TiAl’, Japan Metal Society, Tokyo, 1994.
  • R Gnanamoorthy, Y Mutoh, N Masahashi and Y Mizuhara, ‘Effect of Niobium Addition on Fracture Properties of TiAl’, Japan Metal Society, Nagoya, 1993.
  • R Gnanamoorthy, Y Mutoh, N Masahashi and Y Mizuhara, ‘SCC Behavior Gamma Base TiAl’, Japan Metal Society, Nagoya, 1992.
  • R Gnanamoorthy, Y Mutoh, N Masahashi and Y Mizuhara, ‘Effect of Ternary Elements on Flexural Strength and Fracture Toughness of Titanium Aluminides’, Japan Metal Society, Chiba, 1992.
  • R Gnanamoorthy, Y Mutoh, N Masahashi and Y Mizuhara, ‘Effect of Microstructural Parameters on Fracture Properties of TiAlCr’, Japan Metal Society, Toyama, 1992.
  • R Gnanamoorthy, C Madhavan and K Gopinath, ‘Powder Metallurgy Gear Testing’, 16th ATM and National Conf on Powder Metallurgy, Bombay 1990.

Non-refereed Journals, Seminars


  • Timmaraju V. M, R.R Gnanamoorthy, Krishna Kannan, “Organoclay influence on polyamide-nanocomposite failure” Society of Plastics Engineers – Plastics Research Online.
  • R Gnanamoorthy and S Senthilvelan, ‘FRP Gears ‘AICTE - ISTE STTP on Advances in Composite Manufacturing Tech, Mecpo Schlenk Engg College Nov 22-27, 2004.
  • R Gnanamoorthy, “Polymer and Polymer Composite Gears”, Invited Lecture Series on Short Term Training Program on Design and Manufacture of Composite Components, June 2003, PSG Tech, Coimbatore, 54-62.
  • R Gnanamoorthy, “Contact Fatigue”, Lecture on Short Term Training Program on Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics, IIT Madras, 2002, 88-94.

Contact Details


 : Room No.211, Machine Design Section

: Department of Mechanical Engineering

: IIT Madras

: gmoorthy@iitm.ac.in

 : +91-44-2257-4691