Students


B.Tech/M.Tech/Ph.D students: If you are interested in understanding the mechanical behaviour of metals through applications of metal forming and looking for an opportunity, please write to me at hariharan@iitm.ac.in

Ph.D Scholars

  • Ms.Harita Seekala (External- jointly with Dr.Sudarshan Phani, ARCI) (Jan 2020 to present)
  • Mr.Achyut Deshmukh (External- Mahindra) (Jul 2019 to present)
  • Mr.Ranjith Kumar (jointly with Prof.Ravi Kumar Kottada) (Jul 2019 to present)
  • Mr.Sahil Bharti (Jointly with Prof. Sushanta Panigrahi) (July 2017 to present)
  • Mr.Vikram Balaji (PMRF scholar), since 2018
  • Mr.Shashank Tiwari (jointly with Prof.Uday Chakkingal)
  • Mr.Rajesh (jointly with Prof.Ratna Kumar Annabattula
  • Mr.Devendre (jointly with Prof.Murugaiyan)
  • Mr.Sherin (QIP- jointly with Prof.Murugaiyan
  • Mr.Eldho Paul (QIP- jointly with Prof.Riby Abraham

    • M.S Scholars

  • Mr. Mohd.Firoz Alam (jointly with Prof.Uday Chakkingal)
  • Mr. K.Dinesh (jointly with Prof.Sankaran)

    • Alumni

  • Dr.Sunil Kumar (Jointly with Prof. D. Ravikumar), Email: mez158170@mech.iitd.ac.in (July 2015 to Dec 2019), IIT Delhi
  • Dr.Kandarp Changela (Jointly with Prof. D. Ravikumar), `Mechanical Behaviour and Deformation Kinetics of Ultra-fine grained Aluminium alloys Developed by Cryorolling and Constrained Groove Pressing', IIT Delhi, Ph.D - Feb 2020 (Current Affiliation: Saint Gobain Ltd, Chennai)
  • Dr.Anand Varma, `Experimental and Microstructural Investigation on the Mechanism and Phenomenological Modelling of Stress Relaxation Behaviour for Ductility Improvement in SS316L Stainless Steel and Pure Magnesium' (Joint advising, Primary advisor: Prof.Jayant Jain) IIT Delhi,Ph.D - July 2022 (Current Affiliation: NETRA-NTPC Ltd, New Delhi)
  • Dr.KaliPrasad, `Theoretical and experimental investigations on the stress relaxation behaviour of metallic materials' IIT Madras, Ph.D - Mar 2023 (Current Affiliation:Post doc POSTECH Univ, South Korea) Winner Institute Research award, 2021, Prof. M S Shanmugam endowment prize, IIT Madras for Ph.D thesis)
  • Dr.Jai Tiwari, (jointly with Prof.Murugaiyan) `Investigations on the mechanism of electroplastic behaviour in high strength alloys by experimental and numerical approaches' IIT Madras, Ph.D - Oct 2023 (Current Affiliation:Post doc at Seoul National University) Winner Institute Research award, 2023, IIT Madras)