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Capabilities:
- Type of Work:
Collaborative R&D work with industries,
consultant on materials and surface modification,
testing and characterization.
- Technical Areas:
Coatings for aerospace and resource industries,
microstructural characterization, deformation
behavior of materials, metallurgical failure
analysis
- Location:
Ottawa/Canada and Northeastern USA.
Background:
- Senior Research Officer,
National Research Council Canada, for 22 years,
in the Institute for Aerospace Research (IAR) and
in the Institute for Research on Construction
(IRC). Project Manager in collaborative R&D
projects with several companies in the aerospace
and resource industries.
- Visiting Scholar in the
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
- Research Physicist in the US
Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering
Laboratory
- Member of the faculty of
Metallurgical Engineering in Mysore University,
India.
- Senior Scientific Officer in
the Defense R&D Organization, Defense
Metallurgical Research Laboratory, Hyderabad,
India
- Education: B.Sc. (Chemistry),
B. Tech (Hons) in Metallurgical Engineering and
Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering (from
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL)
Some representative projects:
- Development of erosion
resistant hard coatings (TiN derivatives) for
compressor blades of aero gas turbine engines and
wear resistant coatings (WC-Co etc.) for resource
industry.
- Zirconia based thermal barrier
coatings for turbine blades and vane segments
- Hard corrosion resistant
intermetallic coatings by an IVD process.
- Installation of a magnetron
sputtering unit in NRC/IAR, with associated
characterization equipment
- Metal injection molding and
vacuum induction melting and casting of aerospace
components
- Development of a high
strength, rollable aluminum alloy containing
large volume fractions of intermetallics
- Failure analysis of armament
components, materials and heat treatment
specifications, interaction with Ordnance
factories
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