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Specialization: Phase Equilibria, Phase Transformations, Computational
Thermodynamics
Courses Offered:
Metallurgical Thermodynamics; Structure of Materials; Phase Diagrams;
Thermodynamics of Phase Equilibria; Solid State Transformations; Industrial
Heat Treatment; Fundamentals of Metallurgical Processes; Computer
applications in Metallurgy; Modelling and Simulation; Alloy Design and
Development; Advanced Processing Technologies
Current Semester: Phase Diagrams; Advanced Processing Technologies
Research Publications:
1. Ground State Structures in Binary HCP Alloys using Multiatom Interactions
B. Nageswara Sarma, N. Ravishankar, M. Gopal, A.K. Singh, R. Prasad and
S. Lele
Philos. Mag. 70 (1994) 1117-1127.
2. On the Stability of Intermetallic Phases
S. Lele, B. Nageswara Sarma, A. Ghosal and G.V.S. Sastry
Bull. Mater. Sci. 18 (1995) 361-373.
3. Binary Isomorphous Phase Diagrams
S. Lele and B. Nageswara Sarma
The Banaras Metallurgist 14-15 (1997) 162-171.
4. Existence Domains for Invariant Reactions in Binary Regular Solution Phase
Diagrams Exhibiting Two Phases
B. Nageswara Sarma, S.S. Prasad, S. Vijayvergiya, V.B. Kumar and S. Lele
Bull. Mater. Sci. 26 (2003) 423-430.
5. Order-Disorder Transformation of O-Phase in Ti2AlNb Alloys
A.K. Singh, B. Nageswara Sarma and S. Lele
Philos. Mag. 84 (2004) 2865-2876.
6. Estimation of CE-CVM Energy Parameters from Miscibility Gap Data
G.S. Gupta, G.V. Madhav, A. Pande, B. Nageswara Sarma and S. Lele
Bull. Mater. Sci. 28 (2005) 173-177.
7. Transformations among CE-CVM Model Parameters for Multicomponent
Systems
B. Nageswara Sarma and S. Lele
Bull. Mater. Sci. 28 (2005) 293-298.
8. Amorphous Nano Powders of Oxide Mixtures by Mechanical Milling
G.V.S. Sastry, B. Nageswara Sarma, R. Aggarwal, K.C. Sabat, P.M. Ajayan
and R. Vajtai
Minerals and Metals Review 33 (2007) 97-99 (ISSN: 0378-6366)
9. Computational Thermodynamics of Sc-Zr and Sc-Ti Alloys using Cluster
Variation Method
S. Lele and B. Nageswara Sarma
J. Mater. Sci. 44 (2009) 2334-2342.
10. Thermodynamics of Dilute BCC, FCC and CPH Binary Solutions using
Cluster Variation Method
B. Nageswara Sarma, S.N. Shah, Manoj Kumar and S. Lele
Int. J. Mater. Res. 103 (2012) 1188-1200.
11. A Thermodynamic Assessment of the Cr-Mo System using CE-CVM
V. Jindal, B. Nageswara Sarma and S. Lele
Calphad 43 (2013) 80-85
12. An Improvement of CVM Entropy Functional for BCC Alloys
V. Jindal, B. Nageswara Sarma and S. Lele
Calphad 43 (2013) 48-51
13. An Improved CVM Entropy Functional for Binary FCC Alloys
V. Jindal, B. Nageswara Sarma and S. Lele
Computational Materials Science [In Press]
Membership of Societies :
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Life Member of Indian Institute of Metals, Calcutta.
Life Member, Materials Research Society of India (MRSI).
Honors/Awards :
Awarded the BHU Medal for standing first in M.Tech. (Met. Engg.)
Examinations, 1992.