Dr. Nikhil Kumar

Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), India

Email: Nikhil.mst@itbhu.ac.in; nikhil.mst@iitbhu.ac.in

Qualifications

2013-2017 Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

2011-2013 M.Tech, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

Publications (Selected)

1. Singh, P., & Kumar, N. (2025). Effect on β ″Precipitates in 6061Al Alloy by the Addition of 1 wt.% Zn. Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, 1-15.
2. Pandey, M., & Kumar, N. (2025). Microstructural and mechanical properties of boron carbide (B4C) coated RDSO wear plate sample. Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines, 1-15.
3. Chaubey, N., & Kumar, N. (2024). Effect of thermomechanical processing on mechanical properties and microstructural evolution of Al-Mg-Zn alloy. Materials Today Communications, 40, 109426.
4. Gairola, S., Jayaganthan, R., Singh, R. K., Kumar, N., & Ajay, J. (2024). An investigation on damage tolerant design parameter of additively manufactured Al 2024: Fatigue crack growth rate and fracture toughness. Materials Today Communications, 38, 108480.
5. Singh, R. K., Guraja, S. S. S., Ajide, O. O., Owolabi, G. M., & Kumar, N. (2023). Investigation of initial metallurgical factors on the dynamic impact response and adiabatic shear bands formation of the 6061 Al alloy. Materials Science and Engineering: A, 865, 144636.
6. Musa, F. A., Ajide, O. O., Idusuyi, N., Adebayo, A. A., Odunaro, B. P., Obasi, O. P., ... & Adebayo, A. S. (2022). Development and Performance Evaluation of a Mini-potentiostat for Corrosion Experimentations. Journal of Engineering Research and Reports, 22(7), 39-45.
7. Guraja, S. S. S., Patra, S., Arora, K. S., & Kumar, N. (2022). Liquid metal embrittlement (LME) of high-strength steels during spot welding: a review. Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals, 75(7), 1695-1709.
8. Dash, A., Chanda, P., Tripathy, P. K., & Kumar, N. (2022). A review on stabilization of ladle furnace slag-powdering issue. Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy, 8(4), 1435-1449.
9. Hembram, M., Singh, P., & Kumar, N. (2022). High Strain Behaviour of Ultrafine‑grained Aluminium Alloys Processed Through the Severe Plastic Deformation Techniques: A Review. Metallography, Microstructure, and Analysis, 11(5), 684-703.
10. Kumar, N. (2021). An exploration of microstructural in-homogeneity in the 6082 Al alloy processed through room temperature multi-axial forging. Materials Characterization, 176, 111134.
11. Kumar, N., Owolabi, G. M., & Jayaganthan, R. (2019). Al 6082 alloy strengthening through low strain multi-axial forging. Materials Characterization, 155, 109761.
12. Owolabi, G. M., Thom, M., Ajide, O., Kumar, N., Azimi, A., Whitworth, H., & Warner, G. (2019). Fatigue responses of three AA 2000 series aluminum alloys. Journal of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, 7(3), 32-48.
13. Azimi, A., Owolabi, G. M., Fallahdoost, H., Kumar, N., & Warner, G. (2019). High strain rate behavior of ultrafine grained AA2519 processed via multi axial cryogenic forging. Metals, 9(2), 115.
14. Kumar, N., Owolabi, G. M., Jayaganthan, R., & Goel, S. (2018). Correlation of fracture toughness with microstructural features for ultrafine‐grained 6082 Al alloy. Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures, 41(9), 1884-1899.
15. Kumar, N., Owolabi, G. M., Jayaganthan, R., & Ajide, O. O. (2018). Plane stress fracture toughness of cryorolled 6082 Al alloy. Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, 95, 28-41.
16. Kumar, N., Goel, S., Jayaganthan, R., & Owolabi, G. M. (2018). The influence of metallurgical factors on low cycle fatigue behavior of ultra-fine grained 6082 Al alloy. International Journal of Fatigue, 110, 130-143.
17. Yogesha, K. K., Joshi, A., Kumar, N., & Jayaganthan, R. (2017). Effect of cryo groove rolling followed by warm rolling (CGW) on the mechanical properties of 5052 Al alloy. Materials and Manufacturing Processes, 32(12), 1336-1344.
18. Fuloria, D., Kumar, N., Jayaganthan, R., Jha, S. K., & Srivastava, D. (2017). Microstructural and textural characterization of Zircaloy-4 processed by rolling at different temperatures. Materials Characterization, 127, 296-310.
19. Kumar, N., Jayaganthan, R., & Brokmeier, H. G. (2017). Effect of deformation temperature on precipitation, microstructural evolution, mechanical and corrosion behavior of 6082 Al alloy. Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China, 27(3), 475-492.

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