Mechanical Metallurgy: Mechanical behavior of materials at ambient, high and low temperature under slow and nominal strain rate. Effect of material chemistry, microstructure, cold work, temperature, prior deformation etc. on the mechanical behavior of metals, alloys, composites (metal-matrix and ceramic matrix composites). Mg & Al based alloys and composites developments. Physical Metallurgy: Structure-Property correlationship of metals and alloys, characterization of degraded microstructure using SEM, XRD, TEM, EPMA etc. Residual life estimation by measuring the degraded properties of materials including non-destructive characterization of material properties. Chemical Metallurgy: High temperature oxidation of metals and alloys, effect of rare earth element additions, use of oxide scale thickness in residual life assessment of materials operating at high temperatures. Hot corrosion under boiler operating conditions and erosion studies of high temperature materials. Tribology: Thermal Barrier coatings development for high temperature alloys and facilitation in commercialization of coating technologoies. Friction and wear properties of metals, alloys, ceramics and composites
