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Prof.Avanish Kumar

Designation: Assistant Professor

Department: Fuel, Minerals and Metallurgical Engineering

Email: avanish[at]iitism[dot]ac[dot]in

Contact Number: 9853771070

Office Number: +91-326-223-0326-223-5453

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About Me: Dr. Avanish Kumar is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Fuel, Minerals and Metallurgical Engineering (FMME) at IIT(ISM) Dhanbad. His research interests include mechanical behaviour of metals, structural integrity, development of high strength and damage tolerant steels, hydrogen embrittlement etc. He earned BE in Mechanical Engineering (Manufacturing) from Annamalai University in 2013 and MTech in Materials Science and Engineering from IIT Bhubaneswar in 2015. During his MTech research at CSIR-IMMT Bhubaneswar, he successfully developed Cu-Mo alloys as anode material for high-power microwave devices and published 02 research articles and 01 conference paper. After his MTech, he worked as an Ad-hoc Faculty in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at NIT Warangal for a year. He completed his PhD degree in Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science from IIT Bombay in 2021. During his PhD, he developed remarkably strong and damage tolerant nanostructured steels in bulk with a greater process control by heat-treatment alone. At present, he has 350+ citations, 12 journal articles (Q1-10, Q2-1, Q3-1), 05 conference proceedings and 1 Patent (Granted) in his credit. The current members in his research lab include 01 Post-doc, 01 Project JRF, 04 PhD, 02 MTech and 04 BTech students.

Research Interest: Process-Structure-Property-Performance Correlation In Steels, Nanostructured Bainitic Steels, Fracture And Fatigue, Hydrogen Embrittlement

Curriculum
Vitae
Publications

Teaching

  • FMC303-Mechanical Metallurgy (Core course, 6th Semester BTech)
  • FMC352-Heat-treatment & Mechanical Metallurgy Lab (6th Semester BTech)
  • FMD403-Engineering Materials Selection & Design (Institute elective, 5th & 7th Semester BTech and PhD)
  • NFME101-Introduction to Materials Science & Engineering (Engineering Science Compulsory to 1st Semester BTech - Chemical Engineering)

Academics

PhD, Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, IIT Bombay

Position

  • Assistant Professor (December 2021 - Present)

Department of Fuel, Minerals, and Metallurgical Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, India

  • Visitng Assistant Professor (August 2021 - December 2021)

Department of Fuel, Minerals, and Metallurgical Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, India

Awards and Honors

  • Letter of Appreciation from the Director, IIT(ISM) Dhanbad for Excellent teaching feedback in "FMD552- Engineering Materials Selection and Design" 2022-23 M Semester. 
  • Research Project Award Letter from Shri G. Kishan Reddy, Hon'ble Union minister of Coal and Mines, Government of India, June 2024. 

Publications

List Of Research Publications (only in Peer-reviewed Journals)

  1. Sudharm Rathore, Avanish Kumar, Anurag Kumar, Kushal Mishra, Aparna Singh: Prediction of sub-critical fatigue crack growth rate in a high-carbon tempered martensitic steel at varying R ratio: experimental investigation and machine learning based modelling. International Journal of Fatigue 193 (2025) 108804.
  2. Avanish Kumar, B. Blessto, Aparna Singh: Development of a low-carbon carbide-free nanostructured bainitic steel with extremely high strength and toughness. Materials Science and Engineering A 877 (2023) 145186.
  3. Bhawesh Chhajed, B. Blessto, Avanish Kumar, Aparna Singh: Effect of torsional deformation on crystallographic evolution of carbide-free nano-bainitic steels prepared at two different austempering temperatures. Materialia 28 (2023) 101773
  4. Avanish Kumar, B Blessto, Aparna Singh: Effect of austempering temperature on high cycle fatigue behaviour in nanostructured bainitic steels. Materials Science and Engineering A 846 (2022) 143296.
  5. Avanish Kumar, Aparna Singh: Mechanical properties of nanostructured bainitic steels. Materialia 15 (2021) 101034.
  6. Avanish Kumar, Aparna Singh: Deformation mechanisms in nanostructured bainitic steels under torsion. Materials Science and Engineering A 770 (2020) 138528.
  7. Avanish Kumar, Aparna Singh: Microstructural effects on the sub-critical fatigue crack growth in nano-bainite. Materials Science and Engineering A 743 (2019) 464–471.
  8. Avanish Kumar, Kritika Singh, Aparna Singh: Compositional design of high strength nanostructured bainite. Materials Research Express 6(2) (2019) 026526.
  9. Avanish Kumar, Aparna Singh: Toughness dependence of nano-bainite on phase fraction and morphology. Materials Science and Engineering A 729 (2018) 439–443.
  10. Kritika Singh, Avanish Kumar, Aparna Singh: Effect of prior austenite grain size on the morphology of nano-bainitic steels. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A 49(4) (2018) 1348-1354.
  11. Avanish Kumar, S K Pradhan, K Jayasankar, M Debata, R K Sharma, A Mandal: Structural investigations of nanocrystalline Cu-Cr-Mo alloy prepared by high energy ball milling. Journal of Electronic Materials - 46(2) (2017) 1339–1347.
  12. Avanish Kumar, K. Jayasankar, M. Debata, A. Mandal: Mechanical alloying and properties of immiscible Cu-20 wt.% Mo alloy. Journal of Alloys and Compounds - 647 (2015) 1040-1047.

Papers in conference abstract volumes / presented

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  1. Bhawesh Chhajed, Sudharm Rathore, Avanish Kumar, Aparna Singh: Investigation of microstructural evolution in nano-structured bainite during Paris law regime of fatigue crack growth. European Conference on Fracture 2024.
  2. Avanish Kumar, Aparna Singh: The role of microstructure on damage tolerance in nano-bainitic steels. 1st Virtual European Conference on Fracture (VECF1), Structural Integrity Procedia, 28 (2020) 93–100.
  3. Avanish Kumar, Aparna Singh: Improvement of strength-toughness combination in nanostructured bainite. ECF22 - Loading and Environmental effects on Structural Integrity; Belgrade, Serbia, Structural Integrity Procedia, 13 (2018) 548–553.
  4. Avanish Kumar, Aparna Singh: Bainitic steels: Strength as a function of carbon concentration. Asia Steel International Conference, 02/2018, Bhubaneswar, India.
  5. Avanish Kumar, K. Jayasankar, M. Debata, A. Mandal: Development of Cu-Mo alloy for high power microwave devices, 26th AGM Materials Research Society of India (MRSI), Theme Symposium “Materials for Inclusive Development”, 02/2015, Jaipur, India.

Patents

Avanish Kumar, Aparna Singh: High strength and toughness low carbon nanostructured bainitic steel and preparation method thereof. Granted. Indian Patent Number: 540248.

Projects & Activities

Sponsored Research Projects (External Funded)

  • Ministry of Mines, Govt. of India, S&T Scheme, 2024, Amount – 26.04 Lakhs (PI)
  • DST-FIST Engineering Sciences Level B C or D – Project, 2023, Amount – 2.87 Crores (Co-PI)
  • IIT(ISM) Dhanbad-Faculty Research Scheme, 2021, Amount – 15 Lakhs (PI)

Consultancy Project (for ONGC)

  • “M/s Superon Schweisstechnik India Ltd.: CTOD testing and analysis for weld electrode, Year - 2022, Cost - INR 92,040.

Membership of Scientific Societies

  • Life Member, IIM (Indian Institute of Metals)

Other Academic and Administrative Activities

Current positions:

  • Member of DUGC (Departmental Under-Graduate Committee)
  • Department Admin for I-STEM (Indian Science Technology and Engineering Fcilities Map)
  • Research Internship Scheme (RIS) Committee member
  • Member of Faculty Team for implementing Capacity Building Program on Design and Entrepreneurship in IIT (ISM), Dhanbad as per NEP 2020

Past positions: 

  • Department Space Committee member
  • Member of DPGC (Departmental Post-Graduate Committee)
  • Course coordinator of MTech(Metallurgical Engineering)

Lab development related activities for funding and procurement of equipment: 

  1. Metallography lab: Fume hood, Polishing machines, belt grinder
  2. Microscopy lab: Bench Optical Microscopes, Stereo Microscope
  3. Mechanical metallurgy lab: Rockwell hardness tester, Vickers micro-hardness tester, Pin-on-disc wear testing machine, 25kN UTM
  4. Materials processing lab: 2 kG Vacuum Induction melting furnace, 100 T Rolling Mill, Muffle furnace, Multi-stage heat-treatment furnace

MOU singed:

  1. CSIR-NML Jamshedpur, India
  2. Bradken Resources Pty Ltd., Australia

Guidance

  • Full-time scholars:
    • Mr. Sandip K Bauri, MTech in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from NIT Warangal, Telangana
  • Part-time scholars:
    • Mr. Shibjyoti Biswas, MTech in Metallurgical Engineering from IIT BHU. Current position - Lecturer in Metallurgical Engineering at Engineering Institute for Junior Executives, Howrah.  
    • Mr. Abhisek Das, B. Tech (Hons.) in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, Sarang, Talcher, Odisha. Current position - Manager at Tata Steel Meramandali.
    • Mr. Siddheswar Biswal, B.Tech in Manufacturing Engineering and Technology from CIPET, Patia, Bhubaneswar. Current position - Executive Engineer at M/s Tata Motors Ltd, Jamshedpur.
  • MTech Students:
    • Ongoing - 1. Mr. Ajay Chakrawarti 2. Mr. Tanay Biswas
    • Completed - 1. Ms. Anushka Mishra
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