I. NAME
II. PRESENT AFFILIATION Assistant Professor
Department of Metallurgical and Materials
Engineering
IIT
Phone:
+91-44-22574776
Email: ssankaran@iitm.ac.in, sankaran16@gmail.com
III. EDUCATIONAL
QUALIFICATIONS
|
Degree |
University |
Major/
Subjects |
Year
of Award |
|
Ph. D. |
Indian Institute of Technology, |
Materials & Metallurgical Engineering |
2005 |
|
M. E. |
National |
Metallurgical Engineering (Specialization in Material Science) |
1996 |
|
M. Sc. |
Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, TN (India) |
Chemistry |
1994 |
|
Employing Organisation |
Duration |
Designation |
Nature of work |
|
Center for
structural and functional
materials and Department of Chemical
Engineering, University of Louisiana
at Lafayette, USA |
April 2004 to March 2007 |
Post-doctoral Research Associate |
Transmission electron microscopy studies on the development of microalloyed steels for structural and pipeline applications |
|
Department of |
October 1999 to July 2000 |
Project Engineer |
Fatigue testing of V-bearing medium carbon microalloyed steel |
|
|
February 1997 to March 1999 |
Assistant Manager-Metallurgy |
Materials testing, Heat treatment of steel forgings, Development of cold extrusion of steel products |
|
|
August 1996 to January 1997 |
Senior Engineer-Metallurgy |
Material Testing, Heat treatment of steel forgings |
V. AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS:
1. The best poster paper award in twenty
sixth Annual Conference on Electron Microscopy and Allied Fields,
2. The
Charles Hatchet Award 2007 for
the best paper on the science and technology of niobium and it alloys
published in any scientific journal. The award is conferred by
3. The poster paper award (third prize) in the International conference Metals and Alloys Past, Present and Future, METTALLO 2007, 7-10 December, 2007, IIT Kanpur, in the microstructures and phase evolution category.
VI.
PUBLICATIONS: Refereed International / National Journals
(a)
Published
papers
1.
S.
Shanmugam,
N.K. Ramisetti, R.D.K. Misra,
T. Mannering, D. Panda and S. Jansto: Microstructure of a new 770 MPa Nb-microalloyed pipeline
steel
Materials Science and Engineering: A, (in press)
2.
K.A. Padmanabhan and S. Sankaran: Fatigue behavior of a multiphase medium carbon v-bearing microalloyed
steel processed through two thermomechanical routes, Journal of Material Processing Technology (in press)
3.
S. Shanmugam,
N.K. Ramisetti, R.D.K. Misra,
T. Mannering, D. Panda and S. Jansto: Effect of cooling rate on
the microstructure and mechanical properties of Nb-microalloyed
steels Materials Science and Engineering: A, 460-461
(2007), 335-343.
4. S. Shanmugam, R.D.K. Misra, T. Mannering, D. Panda and S.G. Jansto:
Impact toughness and microstructure relationship in niobium- and
vanadium-microalloyed steels processed with varied cooling rates to similar
yield strength
Materials Science and Engineering: A, 437 (2006), 436-445
5.
S.
Shanmugam, R.D.K. Misra, J. Hartmann and S.G. Jansto:
Microstructure of high strength niobium-containing
pipeline steel
Materials
Science and Engineering: A, 441 (2006), 215-229
8.
C.P. Reip, S. Shanmugam and R.D.K. Misra:
High strength microalloyed CMn (V–Nb–Ti) and CMn (V–Nb) pipeline steels
processed through CSP thin-slab technology: Microstructure, precipitation and
mechanical properties, Materials Science and Engineering: A, 424 (2006), 307-317
9.
S. Sankaran, S. Sangal, K.A. Padmanabhan: Microstructural evolution and tensile behaviour
of medium carbon microalloyed steel processed through two
thermomechanical routes Materials Science and
Technology, 9 (2005)1152-1160
10. M.Tanniru, S. Shanmugam,
R.D.K. Misra, D. Panda, S. Jansto: Microalloyed
V–Nb–Ti and V steels Part 1 – Stereological study of
ferrite-pearlite microstructure and its relationship to toughness
Materials Science and Technology, 6 (2005)159-164
11. S. Shanmugam,
M.Tanniru, R.D.K. Misra, D.
Panda, S. Jansto: Microalloyed
V–Nb–Ti and V steels Part 2 – Precipitation behaviour during processing of structural
beams Materials Science and Technology, 13 (2005)165-177
12. S. Shanmugam,
M.Tanniru, R.D.K. Misra, D.
Panda, S. Jansto: Precipitation
in V bearing microalloyed steel containing low concentrations of Ti and Nb, Materials
Science and Technology, 10 (2005) 883-892
13. S. Sankaran, Gouthama, Sandeep Sangal and K.A. Padmanabhan: On the microstructural changes accompanying high strain amplitude fatigue tests on a multiphase medium carbon microalloyed steel Journal of Materials Science Letters, 40 (2005) 499-502
14. V. Subramanya Sarma, N.K. Mukhopadhyay, and S. Sankaran: An analysis of the microindentation data obtained from a thermomechanically processed multiphase microalloyed steel, Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals, 58 (2005), 809-818
15. S. Sankaran, V. Subramanya Sarma, Gouthama, S. Sangal and K.A. Padmanabhan: Low cycle fatigue behaviour of a multiphase medium carbon microalloyed steel processed through rolling Scripta Materialia, 49 (2003), 503-508
16. S. Sankaran, V. Subramanya Sarma and K.A. Padmanabhan:
Low cycle fatigue behavior of a multiphase microalloyed medium carbon
steel: comparison between ferrite-pearlite and quenched and tempered microstructures
Materials Science and Engineering A, 345 (2003), 328-335
17. S. Sankaran, V. Subramanya Sarma, K. A. Padmanabhan, G. Jaeger and A. Koethe: High cycle fatigue behaviour of a multiphase microalloyed medium carbon steel: a comparison between ferrite–pearlite and tempered martensite microstructures Materials Science and Engineering A, 362 (2003), 249-256
18. S. Sankaran,
V. Subramanya Sarma, V. Kaushik and K. A. Padmanabhan Thermomechanical processing and characterisation
of multi-phase microstructures in a V-bearing medium carbon micro-alloyed steel
Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 139 (2003), 642-647
(b) Manuscripts
communicated
1. S. Sankaran, Piyush Pathak, Sandeep Sangal and K.A. Padmanabhan: Application of the disector to determine the distribution of true interlamellar spacing in lamellar microstructures Journal of Microscopy (submitted).
(c) Proceedings
(International/national)
1. S. Shanmugam,
N.K. Ramisetti, R. D. K. Misra,
T. Mannering, D. Panda, and S. Jansto:
Effect of cooling rate on the
microstructure and mechanical properties of Nb
-microalloyed steels. Proceedings of MS&T
2006, October 15-19, TMS,
2. Devesh K. Misra, Sankaran Shanmugam, Todd Mannering, Dhiren Panda and Steven G. Jansto: Some process and physical metallurgy aspects of niobium microalloyed steels for heavy structural beams, Proceedings of AISTech 2006, The Iron & Steel Technology Conference and Exposition, AIST, May 1-4, 2006, Cleveland, OH, USA
3.
Sankaran Shanmugam, Mahesh Tanniru,
Devesh K. Misra, Jack Hartmann, and Steven G. Jansto. Development of Ultrahigh Strength
(100-120ksi) Niobium Containing HSLA Steels for Pipeline Applications.
Proceedings of HSLA
4.
Sankaran Shanmugam, R.R. Thridandapani,
R.D.K. Misra,
T. Mannering, D. Panda, and S. Jansto:
Some Physical Metallurgy Aspects of
Niobium- and Vanadium- Microalloyed Steels for Structural Beams. Proceedings
of MS&T, 2005, TMS,
5.
Sankaran Shanmugam, K.A.
Padmanabhan, R.D.K. Misra: On the Relationship Between Microstructural
Changes Induced During High Strain Amplitude Fatigue Loading and Fatigue Softening
in Multiphase Medium Carbon Microalloyed Steel. Proceedings of MS&T, 2005, TMS,
6.
R.R. Thridandapani, Sankaran Shanmugam,
R.D.K. Misra,
T. Mannering, D. Panda, and S. Jansto:
The application of Stereological Analysis in Understanding Differences
in Toughness of Nb- and V-Microalloyed Steels of
similar yield strength. Proceedings of MS&T,
2005, TMS,
7.
Sankaran Shanmugam, Devesh K. Misra, Dhiren Panda, and Fulvio Siciliano. A comparative evaluation of
precipitation behavior in equivalent strength V-Nb-Ti
and v- containing microalloyed steels during processing of structural beams.
Proceedings of TMS Conference, Sanfranscisco, April, 2005,
8.
H. Nathani, Sankaran Shanmugam,
R.D.K. Misra, J.E. Hartmann, and F. Siciliano: Some
physical metallurgy aspects of high strength hot rolled Nb-Ti
microalloyed steels with superior fracture resistance and formability.
Proceedings of MS&T, 2004,
TMS,
(d) Conferences
& Seminars (International / National)
1. S.
Sankaran, Gouthama, Sandeep Sangal and K.A. Padmanabhan
TEM evidence for microstructural modifications during
fatigue loading at high strain amplitude in a multiphase medium carbon
microalloyed steel, EMSI-2004, NPL, New Delhi, April, 2004
2. Sankaran
S, Piyush
Pathak, Sandeep Sangal and Padmanabhan K A: Application
of disector technique using electron microscopy to
determine the distribution of true interlamellar spacing in pearlite of a microalloyed steel. Abstracts of the
twenty sixth Annual Conference on Electron Microscopy and Allied Fields,
3. Sankaran
S, V. Subramanya
Sarma, V. Kaushik, K.A. Padmanabhan, Thermomechanical processing and characterisation of multiphase microstructures in a V-bearing medium carbon microalloyed steel Proceedings of the Ninth International Manufacturing Conference of
China (IMCC’ 2000), Hong Kong, China, August 16-17, 2000