IITKGP

Responsibilities

  • Member and Co-Principal Investigator, SPARC
  • Associate Dean, Research & Development

Research Areas

Research Group website link: https://sites.google.com/view/debalaychakrabarti/welcome

Research Areas:

I am a dedicated researcher on physical and mechanical metallurgy of Steel and my interest areas can be classified into the following broad categories:
(1) Development of microstructure and texture in steel during thermo-mechanical processing.
(2) Studying the effect of microstructure and texture on mechanical properties of steel: especially ductile-to-brittle transition behaviour and low-temperature toughness.
(3) Development of steel grades having high strength and high toughness.
(4) Characterization of macro- and micro-segregation in continuous cast slab and studying their effect on slab-reheating, rolling and final mechanical properties.
(5) Developing novel grain structures in low-carbon (ferritic) steels, such as, ultra-fine grain structure or bimodal grain structures, and evaluating their effect on the mechanical properties (primarily tensile properties and toughness).
(6) Understanding the role of so-called harmful inclusions, such as, TiN and MnS and precipitates in generating ductile and brittle fracture in steel and improving the mechanical properties in spite of the presence of large inclusions, by controlling the microstructure (through careful processing and heat-treatment).
(7) Studying the formation of various microalloy precipitates, such as, Nb(C,N), V(C,N), (Ti, Mo)C during hot-rolling, thermo-mechanical controlled rolling and also cold-rolling and annealing treatments of HSLA steels and evaluating the effect of those precipitates on the microstructure, texture and mechanical properties.
(8) Defect initiation and its control in metals and alloys.
  • Micromechanics of cleavage fracture and the associated tongue formation in ferritic steel Barik R., Biswal S. , Bhandari K. , Ghosh A. , Chakrabarti D. By Materials Science and Engineering A 885 145616- (2023)
  • Interactive Data-driven Multiobjective Optimization of Metallurgical Properties of Microalloyed Steels using the DESDEO Framework Saini B. S., Chakrabarti D. , Chakraborti N. , Shavazipour B. , Miettinen K. By Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 120 105918-105918 (2023)
  • Comparative interplay of C and Mn on austenite stabilization and low temperature impact toughness of low C medium Mn steels Bhattacharya A., Biswal S. , Barik R. , Mahato B. , Ghosh M. , Mitra R. , Chakrabarti D. By Materials Characterization 2024 113658- (2023)
  • Effect of solute distribution on the screw dislocation motion in bcc Fe-based systems Barik R. K., Biswal S. , Dutta A. , Chakrabarti D. , Ghosh A. By Computational Materials Science 226 112211- (2023)
  • Effect of martensite twins on local scale cleavage crack propagation in a medium carbon armor grade steel Bhattacharya A., Barik R. K., Nandy S. , Sen M. , Prithiv T. , Patra S. , Mitra R. , Chakrabarti D. By Materialia 30 101800- (2023)
  • The relative effect of boron and nitrogen concentrations on microstructure and creep resistance of weld simulated heat-affected zones of modified 9Cr-1Mo steel Ravindran R., Biswal S. , Mitra R. , Chakrabarti D. , Das C. , Albert S. K. By Materials Science and Engineering A 145417- (2023)
  • Unravelling the mechanisms of copper precipitation-induced strengthening in austenitic stainless steels: An atomistic approach Biswal S., Barik R. K., Neogy S. , Tewari R. , Dutta A. , Chakrabarti D. By Materialia 101962- (2023)
  • Deformation-induced martensite transformation and variant selection in AISI 316L austenitic stainless steel during uniaxial tensile deformation Hasan S. M., Ghosh A. , Chakrabarti D. , Singh S. B. By Materials Science and Engineering A 872 144930-144942 (2023)
  • Effect of austenite reversion and its stability on the tensile and impact transition behavior of high strength naval steel Biswal S., M. , Barik R. , Rarhi N. , Balamuralikrishnan R. , Chakrabarti D. By Steel Research International 2300586- (2023)

Principal Investigator

  • A fresh perspective on the evolution of atom clusters and microalloy precipitates in steels and their effects on properties Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF)
  • Mechanical Testing of Materials VARIOUS PRIVATE/GOVERNMENT ORGANISATIONS

Co-Principal Investigator

  • Charge for XRD and FESEM at DHI CoE AMT Various Government and Non-Government Organisations
  • Designing a synthetic slag for inclusion control of LCAK structural steel (DHI part) Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, GoI,TATA STEEL LIMITED
  • Designing a synthetic slag for inclusion control of LCAK structural steel (Industry part) TATA STEEL LIMITED,Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, GoI
  • Evaluation of Mechanical Properties such as Tensile, Creep, LCF, KIC values of an Important Cast Ni Based Superalloy (BZL-12Y) Aeronautics R and D Board
  • Microalloyed Bainitic Steels with High Strength, Toughness and Fatigue Resistance for Auto Components Ramkrishna Forgings Limited,Department of Heavy Industries (DHI)
  • Non Metallic Inclusions (NMI) and its Control, New Steel Products through Energy Efficient EAF at HEC Department of Heavy Industries (DHI) ,Heavy Engineering Corporation Limited
  • Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC) MHRD
  • Study of crack growth mechanism of nickel base super alloy GTM Su 718 under constant load at elevated temperature Defence Research and Development Orgn. (DRDO)

Ph. D. Students

Amir Hasan

Area of Research: Effect of Silicin on Nickel based superalloys

Anmol Bakshi

Area of Research: Damage evolution during deformation in metallic alloys

Anupam Kundu

Area of Research: Electron Beam Welding

Kumar Aniket Anand

Area of Research: Processing, microstructure, and property relationship in Vanadium microalloyed structural steels

N Surya Prakash

Area of Research: Steel in biomedical application

Pongurusenthil P

Area of Research: Microstructure-toughness relationship in High Strength Bainitic Steel

Sankalp Biswal

Area of Research: Fatigue crack propagation in high temperature materials