The Department of Metallurgical and Materials was set up in 1959 as Department of Metallurgy and was renamed as Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering in 2003.

The department has 30 dynamic employees, with their educating, research and consultancy exercises in different regions extending from regular metallurgy to wildernesses of materials science. The division offers B.Tech, M.Tech, M.S and PhD degrees.

The department keeps on taking a stab at brilliance and understanding its vision of turning into a main office in the nation for educating, research and consultancy in the rising zones of material science and building while at the same time solidifying its quality in customary territories of metallurgical designing.

Facilities

Materials Processing Facilities
• Spark plasma sintering
• Gleeble 3800 thermal mechanical simulator
• Friction stir welding machine
• Friction welding machine
• Vacuum brazing furnace
• Plasma arc welding machine
• Cold metal transfer welding machine
• Resistance spot welding machine
• Precision high speed cutting machine
• Flash butt welding machine
• Automatic TIG welding machine
• Vacuum induction melting furnace
• Fritsch P5 high energy ball mills
• Zoz simoloyer
• EDM cutting machine
• High pressure (~20 bar) nitridation chamber
• Hydraulic presses & forming facilities
• Vacuum arc melting & suction casting
Materials Characterisation Facilities
• Titan 80-300 TEM with Cs Corrector
• CM12 TEM
• Tecnai T20 TEM
• Quanta 200 SEM (MK1)
• Versa 3D Focused ion beam SEM
• Quanta 400 FEG SEM
• INSPECT F SEM
• Bruker Discover D8 AXS XRD
• Rigaku miniflex-II XRD
• Proto iXRD residual stress analyser
• Panalytical XRD (up to 1600 C)
• Hysitron 9500 Nanoindentor
• Netzsch DSC (up to 1500 C)
• Perkin Elmer DSC (up to 700 C)
• Dilatometer (up to 1650 C)
• Particle size analyser
• Optical profiler
• Optical emission spectroscope
• Atomic absorption spectrophotometer
• FT-IR spectrometer
• UV – Visible spectrophotometer
• Solatron 1260 A frequency response analyzer
• Contact angle measurement system
• NDT facilities
• CEAST Instrumented drop tower impact testing machine
• ATS Creep testing frame -100 kN
• Zwick Roell 100 kN high temp testing
• Zwick Roell 10 kN UTM
• Instron 30 kN UTM
• Dartech fatigue testing machine
• MTS 810.22 Servo hydraulic dynamic testing machine
• Abrasion tester
• Erosion tester (Dry and slurry)
• High speed camera – FASTCAM SA4 – 500K C3
• Digital image correlation system
• Mercury intrusion porosimeter
Major Softwares
• Simufact software
• Thermo-Calc & Dictra
• FactSage
• MedeA & VASP
• JmatPro
• MatCalc
• Pandat
• Micress
• METSIM
• Pearson Crystal Data
• HSC Chemistry
• Wien2K
• TC-Prisma

Faculty Members

Srinivasa Rao Bakshi
Balasubramanian M
Ranjit Bauri
Bhattacharyya Somnath
Bhattacharya S.S
Chakkingal Uday
Ganesh Sundara Raman S
Haridoss Prathap
Hari Kumar K.C
Janaki Ram G.D
Sreeram K Kalpathy
Kamaraj M
Kanjarla Anand Krishna
Ravi Sankar Kottada
Lakshman Neelakantan
Manas Mukherjee
Murugaiyan Amirthalingam
Murty B.S
Gandham Phanikumar
Ravi Kumar N.V
Sampath V
Sampath Kumar T.S.
Sankaran S
Sabita Sarkar
Shukla Ajay Kumar
Subramanya Sarma Vadlamani
Sundararajan G
Swaminathan Parasuraman
Tiju Thomas
Satyesh Kumar Yadav

Research Areas

Metal Forming and Mechanical Behaviour
Materials Joining
Nano and Bulk Materials Processing
Integrated Computational Materials Engineering
Iron and Steel Technology
Ceramics, Functional & Biomedical Materials
Atom probe tomography of nanocrystalline high entropy alloy
Materials Characterisation
Surface Engineering

Address:

Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Chennai-600036
INDIA

Phone: +91 44 22574750 (direct)
Fax: +91 44 22574752 (Dept)
Fax: +91 44 22570509 (Institute)
E-mail: mmoffice@iitm.ac.in