IITKGP
Sumantra Mandal, IIT Kharagpur

Sumantra Mandal

Ph.D., IIT Madras, Chennai

Professor

Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

+91-3222-2+91-3222-282878

sumantra.mandal@metal.iitkgp.ac.in

Responsibilities

  • Associate Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture (FoE&A)

Research Areas

  • Alloy Design
  • Grain Boundaries and Interfaces
  • Aqueous and High Temperature Corrosion
  • Creep, Fatigue and Fracture
  • Computational Materials Modeling
Dr. Mandal and his research team are involved in designing new alloys with improved mechanical and corrosion properties. Further, his group is also involved in improving the material properties and performance of the existing alloys employing microstructure engineering approach. They have undertaken a systematic campaign to understand, evaluate and establish the various grain boundary related specific materials properties as a function of five microscopic degrees of freedom of boundaries for a range of bulk polycrystalline materials. Materials properties are being improved by understanding the synergistic influence of various microstructural features like grain boundary character, grain boundary morphology, micro-texture, grain size, precipitate morphology and its distribution etc. A systems and optimisation approach has been undertaken whereby certain property packages, rather than just a single property is achieved through this new strategy to microstructure engineering.
  • A novel approach to measure grain boundary segregation in bulk polycrystalline materials in dependence of the boundaries five rotational degrees of freedom, by Mandal S., Pradeep K. , Zaefferer S. , Raabe D. Scripta Materialia 81 16-19 (2014)
  • Grain boundary microstructural control through thermo-mechanical processing in a Titanium modified austenitic stainless steel by Mandal S., Sivaprasad P. , Raj B. , Sarma V. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A 39 3298-3307 (2008)

Principal Investigator

  • CALPHAD guided alloy design of refractory multi-component alloys: next generation alternatives to Ni-based superalloy for high-temperature applications Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF)
  • Corrosion Equipment Service to Various Government and Non-Government Organisations Various Institutes / Organisations
  • Material Study and Analysis for Downhole Specimen Vedanta Limited
  • RCA (failure analysis) of GT 3 Turbine Blades - Stage 1 for NTPC Jhanor NTPC LIMITED

Co-Principal Investigator

  • Design and Development of Porous MOFs and Their Composites with Organic Polymers as Solid-State Proton Conductors in H2 Fuel Cell, Corrosion Protection, and Water Treatment IIT KHARAGPUR
  • Design and Synthesis of Dual Functional Porous HOFs and Porous PCPs for Energy Efficient Gas Separations and Solid-State Ionic Conductors in Electrochemical Energy Devices IIT KHARAGPUR
  • Developing a novel rare-earth modified AlSi10Mg alloy via laser additive manufacturing for high-temperature automobile and aerospace applications Various internal users of the Institute
  • Development of Fe-Ni Cation-Ordered-Phase Based Rare-Earth-Free Room-Temperature Permanent Magnets Directorate of Futuristic Technology Management (DFTM), Defence Research and Development Organisation, Ministry of Defence
  • Process for selective recovery of rare earth elements REEs from spent neodymium iron boron NdFeB magnets Department of Science and Technology (DST)
  • Production of rare earth permanent magnets from spent magnets and primary rare earth oxides Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC), Apex Committee of SPARC, Ministry of Education

Ph. D. Students

Abhisek Jena

Area of Research: Advanced steel

Abhishek Kumar Arya

Area of Research: Advanced Material

Humera Parwin

Area of Research: Advanced Material

K Poorna Chander

Area of Research: Grain boundary engineering and its effect on grain growth and phase transformation in steels

Prahlad Halder

Area of Research: Power Plant Materials

Sarojini Sahu

Area of Research: Thermo-mechanical processing

Sarthak Roy

Area of Research: High temperature materials

Subhrajit Patnaik

Area of Research: Permanent Magnet

Sudipta Roy

Area of Research: Structure-Property Relations in Nanocrystalline Thin Films.