• Surface engg., thermal spray coatings & weld cladding
• Reactive & spark plasma sintering of in-situ composites
• Ultra high temperature ceramic composites
• Dissimilar metal joining and adhesive bonding
• Nanomechanical and nano-tribological property evaluation
• Radiation effects on materials

Research Interests

• 1. Thermal spray synthesis of carbon nanotube reinforced metal-matrix composites as coatings and free standing structures
• 9. Object Oriented Finite Element Analysis (OOF) for multi-scale prediction of properties based on microstructure
• 2. Carbon nanotube reinforced ceramic matrix composites having improved fracture toughness
• 11. Amorphous, nanocrystalline and quasicrystalline composites and coatings by mechanical alloying followed by cold spraying/spark plasma sintering
• 3. Synthesis of Tantalum carbide-CNT composites and ultra high temperature composites by vacuum plasma spraying and spark plasma sintering
• 12. Thermo-physical property characterization of composite materials
• 4. Carbon nanotube reinforced ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene composites for bio-implant applications
• 5. Thermodynamics and kinetics of interfacial phenomena in carbon nanotube metal-matrix composites
• 6. Quantification of carbon nanotube distribution in composites and microstructure-property correlations.
• 7. Nanomechanical property

Publications

• List of Publications

Office Location: Room 205, Meterials ProcessinG Section

Personal Homepage: http://mme.iitm.ac.in/sbakshi/

Scopus ID: 24177950800

Researcher ID: F-7002-2010

Alternate email: sbakshi.iitm@gmail.com