Research Interests
Deformation and annealing twinning induced grain boundary engineering in ultrafine grain and nanostructured materials including shape memory alloys and low stacking fault energy, high strength steels.
Development and characterization of magnetic shape memory alloys with high actuation force. Bridging length scales in deforming single and textured polycrystals of structural magnetic shape memory alloys.
Novel processing and thermomechanical treatment of high-temperature shape memory alloys (HTSMAs) for obtaining nanostructured HTSMA actuators with excellent cyclic stability, fatigue and creep resistances.
Development of undergraduate curriculum for “Nanoscale Issues in Manufacturing”.
Fabrication of bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) and bulk metallic glass matrix composites via powder consolidation using equal channel angular extrusion for kinetic energy penetrators.
Fabrication and deformation studies of bulk nanocrystalline materials.
Development of a MagnetoThermoMechanical (MTM) testing system for characterization of magnetic shape memory alloys.