Dr.Uday Chakkingal
Associate Professor

Office:  Metal Forming Laboratory
Phone: (91)-44-2257-4775
Email :    udaychak@iitm.ac.in

Education

  • Ph.D. (Materials Engineering), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA, 1994
  • B.E. (Honors) (Metallurgical Engineering), Regional Engineering College, Tiruchi, 1990.

Research Areas

  • Metal forming and materials processing
  • Severe plastic deformation processes
  • Aluminium Alloys

Projects

APPLICABILITY OF EQUAL CHANNEL ANGULAR EXTRUSION TO THE PROCESSING OF ALUMINIUM ALLOYS

Research Guidance

CATEGORY

   No.

Ph.D.

   1 + 5 (ongoing)

M.S.

   4 + 1 (ongoing)

M.Tech.

   3 + 1 (ongoing)

 

       

 

Sponsored Research

·        Principal Co-ordinator for Naval Research Board  sponsored project, “Development of a severe plastic deformation process for producing ultra fine grained high strength aluminium alloys”, Duration February 2007 – January 2009, Value: Rs. 12.24 lakhs.

 

·        Co-ordinator for RDCIS (SAIL) sponsored project , “Development of Intelligent Mill Set-p Model for Dynamic and Adaptive Control of Plate Mill, Bhilai Steel Plant”, Duration: August 2005 – August 2007, Value: Rs. 17.5 lakhs.

  • Principal Co-ordinator for Department of Science & Technology sponsored project, “Applicability of equal channel angular extrusion for the processing of aluminium alloys”, Duration December 2002 – July 2006, Value: Rs. 19.83 lakhs. (Completed)

 

List of recent publications (in the last three years)

1.      Krishnaiah, A, Uday Chakkingal and P. Venugopal (2007)  “Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Commercial Purity Copper Resulting from Repeated Groove Pressing followed by Cold Rolling”, Materials Science Forum, 539-543, 2198-2203.

2.      Nagarajan, D., Uday Chakkingal and P. Venugopal (2007)  “Influence of cold extrusion on the Microstructure and mechanical properties of an Aluminium Alloy Previously subjected to Equal Channel Angular Pressing”, J. Materials Processing Technology, 182, 363-368.

3.      Nagasekhar A.V, Uday Chakkingal and P. Venugopal (2006)  “Equal Channel Angular Extrusion of Tubular Aluminum Alloy Specimens – Analysis of Extrusion Pressures and Mechanical Properties”, J. Manufacturing Processes, 8, 2, 112-120

4.      Nagasekhar A.V, Uday Chakkingal and P. Venugopal (2006)  “Candidature of Equal Channel Angular Extrusion for Processing of Tubular Commercial Purity Titanium”, J. Materials Processing Technology, 173, 1, 53-60

5.      A. Krishnaiah, Uday Chakkingal and P. Venugopal (2006), “Microstructure and Mechanical Properties Resulting from Cold Rolling of Equal Channel Angular Extruded Commercial Purity Copper”,  Materials Science Forum, vol. 503-504, 733 – 738.

6.      D. Nagarajan, Uday Chakkingal and P. Venugopal (2006), “Microstructure and Mechanical Properties Resulting from Conventional Cold Extrusion of Equal Channel Angular Extruded Aluminium Alloy AA 6101”, Materials Science Forum, vol. 503-504, 287-292.

7.      A. Krishnaiah, Uday Chakkingal and P. Venugopal, “Applicability of the Groove Pressing Technique for Grain Refinement in Commercial Purity Copper”, Materials Science & Engineering A, vol. 410-411, 337-340 (2005).

8.       A. Krishnaiah, Uday Chakkingal and P. Venugopal, “Production of Ultrafine Grains in Al Sheets by the Technique of Groove Pressing”, Scripta Materialia, vol. 52, no. 12, 1229 – 1233 (2005).

9.      Z.A. Khan, Uday Chakkingal and P. Venugopal, “Analysis of Forming Loads, Microstructure Development and Mechanical Property Evolution During Equal Channel Angular Extrusion of a Commercial Grade Aluminium Alloy,” Journal of Materials Processing Technology, vol. 135, p. 59 (2003).

 

Conference Presentations in the last three years (National and International)

1.      A. Krishnaiah, Uday Chakkingal and P. Venugopal, “Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Commercial Purity Copper Resulting from Repeated Groove Pressing followed by Cold Rolling”,  Intl. Conference on Processing & manufacturing of Advanced Materials (THERMEC 2006), Vancouver, Canada, July 2006.

 

2.      Sivaraman A and Uday Chakkingal (2006)  Study on Flow Properties of Commercial Purity Al Processed by Equal Channel Angular Pressing, NANO 2006, IISc, Bangalore, August 2006

 

3.      D. Nagarajan, Uday Chakkingal and P. Venugopal  “Variations in Mechanical Properties and Microstructure Resulting from Conventional Cold Extrusion of Equal Channel Angular Extruded Aluminium Alloy AA 6101”,  59th Annual Technical Meeting of the Indian Institute of Metals, Chennai, November 2005.

 

4.      Uday Chakkingal, A. Nagesha, K. Kumaran, Titus Leo, M. Valsan and K. Bhanu Sankara Rao, “Low Cycle Fatigue Behaviour of SA 333 Gr.6 Steel and its Correlation to Crack Initiation from Notches”,  59th Annual Technical Meeting of the Indian Institute of Metals, Chennai, November 2005.

 

5.      Krishnaiah, Uday Chakkingal and P.Venugopal,  “Microstructure and Mechanical Properties Resulting from Cold Rolling of Equal Channel Angular Extruded Commercial Purity  Copper” The 3rd Intl. Symposium on Nanomaterials by Severe Plastic Deformation (NanoSPD3), Fukuoka, Japan, September 2005.

 

6.       D. Nagarajan, Uday Chakkingal and P.Venugopal, “Microstructure and Mechanical Properties Resulting from Conventional Cold Extrusion of Equal Channel Angular Extruded Aluminium Alloy AA 6101”, The 3rd Intl. Symposium on Nanomaterials by Severe Plastic Deformation (NanoSPD3), Fukuoka, Japan, September 2005.

 

7.      A Krishnaiah, Uday Chakkingal and P.Venugopal, “Applicability of the Groove Pressing Technique for Commercial Purity Copper”, The Langdon Symposium on Flow and Forming of Crystalline Materials, TMS, San Francisco, USA, February 2005.

 

8.      A. Krishnaiah, K. Kumaran and Uday Chakkingal, “Finite Element Analysis of the equal channel angular extrusion process”, International Symposium of Research Scholars, IIT Madras, India, December 2004.

 

9.      D. Nagarajan, Uday Chakkingal and P. Venugopal, “Aging behaviour of 6xxx series aluminium alloy after equal channel angular extrusion and conventional extrusion”, International Symposium of Research Scholars, IIT Madras, India, December 2004.

 

10. D. Nagarajan, Uday Chakkingal and P. Venugopal, “Evaluation of Equal Channel Angular Extrusion as an intermediate processing step prior to cold extrusion in a 6xxx series Aluminium alloy”, 58th Annual Technical Meeting of the Indian Institute of Metals, Trivandrum, India, November 2004.

 

11.  A. Krishnaiah, Uday Chakkingal and P. Venugopal, “Development of Microstructures and Mechanical Properties in Commercial Purity Copper after the Combination of Equal Channel Angular Extrusion and Cold Rolling”, 58th Annual Technical Meeting of the Indian Institute of Metals, Trivandrum, India, November 2004.

 

12.  A. Krishnaiah, Uday Chakkingal and P.Venugopal, “Production of ultrafine grain sizes in aluminium sheets by severe plastic deformation using the technique of groove pressing” 8th International Conference on Non-Ferrous Metals, Bangalore, India, August 2004.

 

13.  Anup Kumar Keshri, Paramanand Singh and Uday Chakkingal, “Effect of Heat Treatment on the Characteristics of Cu-Al-Ni Shape Memory Alloys”, International Heat Treat Show, Chennai, India, January 2004.

 

14.  K. Kumaran, Uday Chakkingal and Titus Leo, “Effect of notches on the low cycle fatigue behaviour of SS 316L stainless steel” 57th Annual Technical Meeting of the Indian Institute of Metals, Calcutta, Nov 2003.

 

15.  A. Krishnaiah, Uday Chakkingal and P. Venugopal, “Study of Constrained Groove Pressing Technique for Grain Refinement and Property Enhancement in Bulk Metallic Materials”, 57th Annual Technical Meeting of the Indian Institute  of Metals, Calcutta, Nov 2003.

 

16.  A. Krishnaiah, Uday Chakkingal and P. Venugopal, “Repetitive bending and straightening for grain refinement of commercially pure copper”, Conference of Research Scholars on Materials Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, August 2003.

 

 

Books:

Contributed chapter on “Aluminium and its Alloys” for the book Deformation and Processing of Structural Materials, Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge, UK, and CRC Press, NY, 2005.