IITKGP

Somjeet Biswas

Associate Professor

Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

+91-3222-283264

somjeetbiswas@metal.iitkgp.ac.in

Research Areas

  • Light metals and alloys
  • Plastic Deformation & Mechanical Working
  • Microstructure Engg. & Texture
  • Polycrystal Plasticity Modelling
  • Advanced High-strength Steels

Dr. Somjeet Biswas specializes in mechanics of plastic deformation in ultra-fine and nanocrystalline materials through polycrystalline plasticity simulations with specific application in aerospace, automobile and degradable/permanent bio-medical implant applications. He has used microstructure engineering techniques like severe plastic deformation, thermo-mechanical processing and recrystallization to modify the morphological characteristics, texture and grain boundary to obtain ultra-fine grain metals and alloys that possesses both improved strength and ductility and hold seven patents, one copyright, and 44 publications. His thrust areas of research include development of advanced lightweight and high strength Mg, Ti, Al alloys and steels for automobiles, aircraft, bio-degradable and permanent bio-implants respectively. He and his team in the ‘Light Metals and Alloys Research Lab, MME, IITKGP’ is working on deciphering the effect slip/twin induced deformation behavior, dynamic recovery and recrystallization on evolution of dislocations, microstructure, texture and misorientation boundaries in order to improve specific properties based upon application.

  • Role of slip and twinning on strain hardening, and correlation with geometric hardening, latent hardening, and grain boundary strengthening in Titanium Chouhan D.K., Mondal S., Bhattacharya B., Biswas S. By International Journal of Plasticity 161 - (2023)
  • High strength-ductility combination by quenching and partitioning of a low carbon microalloyed dual-phase steel Singh A.K., Chouhan D.K., Bhattacharya B., Biswas S. By Materials Science and Engineering A 870 - (2023)
  • Method of Manufacturing Cold Rolled Low Carbon Micro-alloyed Steel Having High Strength, Ductility, and Formability Combination Singh A. K., Biswas S. , Bhattacharya B. , Chouhan D. K. By - (2022)
  • On the possibility to reduce ECAP deformation temperature in magnesium: Deformation behaviour, dynamic recrystallization and mechanical properties Gautam P. C., Biswas S. By Materials Science and Engineering: A 812 141103- (2021)
  • Strain hardening, twinning and texture evolution in magnesium alloy using the all twin variant polycrystal modelling approach Sahoo S.K., Biswas S., Toth L.S., Gautam P.C., Beausir B. By International Journal of Plasticity 128 - (2020)
  • An analytical model to predict strain-hardening behaviour and twin volume fraction in a profoundly twinning magnesium alloy Sahoo S.K., Toth L.S., Biswas S. By International Journal of Plasticity 119 273-290 (2019)
  • High tensile strength-ductility combination in cold multiaxial plane-strain forged and rolled nanostructured Titanium Chouhan D.K., Biswas S., Singh A.K., Shukla A.J. By Materialia 11 - (2020)

Principal Investigator

  • Understanding the Evolution of Crystallographic Texture and How to Improve the Forming Property in Cold Rolled Dual Phase Steels

Ph. D. Students

Alok Kumar Singh

Area of Research: Processing, microstructure, texture , property relationship

Gaurav Pandey

Area of Research: Processing-Microstructure-Texture-Property correlation in Dual-phase steels

Prakash Chandra Gautam

Area of Research: Processing-Microstructure-Texture-Property relationship of Mg alloys

Sujit Kumar Nayak

Area of Research: Processing-Microstructure-Texture-Property correlation in Ti-alloys

Tapasendra Adhikary

Area of Research: shapa memory alloy