Program
International Workshop on Stress Assisted
Environmental Damage in Structural
Materials (EDSA-2015)
27th Feb – 2nd Mar 2015, IIT Madras, India
Venue: IC & SR main auditorium
Conference Chairs
Dr. G. Sundararajan, ARCI & IIT Madras, India
Dr. N.V. Ravi Kumar, IIT Madras, India
Dr. R. Kolar, Office of Naval Research Global, Singapore
Dr. S. Gopalakrishnan, IISc, Bangalore, India
Dr. A. K. Vasudevan, Office of Naval Research, USA (retired)
Organizing Committee
Dr. M. Kamaraj, Dept. of Metallurgical and Materials Engg, IIT Madras, India
Dr. Ravi Sankar Kottada, Dept. of Metallurgical and Materials Engg, IIT Madras, India
Dr. Lakshman Neelakantan, Dept. of Metallurgical and Materials Engg, IIT Madras, India
Dr. Anand Krishna Kanjarla, Dept. of Metallurgical and Materials Engg, IIT Madras, India
Dr. Ganesh Sundara Raman, Dept. of Metallurgical and Materials Engg, IIT Madras, India
Dr. S. Sankaran, Dept. of Metallurgical and Materials Engg, IIT Madras, India
Dr. M. Sundararaman, Dept. of Metallurgical and Materials Engg, IIT Madras, India
Dr. S.S. Bhattacharya, Dept. of Metallurgical and Materials Engg, IIT Madras, India
Dr. R. Venkatesan, National Institute of Ocean Technology, India
Dr. Kamineni P. Rao, Dept. of Mechanical & Biomedical Engg, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Dr. N. S. Hari, Electrochemistry & Corrosion Lab, GE Global Research, Bangalore, India
Dr. Bala Srinivasan, Electrochemistry & Corrosion Lab, GE Global Research, Bangalore, India
Dr. Rajappa Tadepalli, Saint-Gobain Research India, India
Dr. Satish Gunturi, Saint-Gobain Research India, India
Dr. Bill C Nickerson, Office of Naval Research, USA
Notes
1. Technical sessions will be held at the IC & SR main auditorium, IIT Madras.
2. All oral presentations are for 40 minutes, including 30 minutes for the talk and 10 minutes for
discussions. Authors are suggested to limit the number of slides to fit within 30 minutes, so
that the following 10 minutes can be utilized for discussion.
3. Authors presenting the posters are requested to use the template provided by the organizers
to maintain uniformity.
Friday, Feb 27, 2015
08.00 – 08:30
08:30 – 09:00
09.00 – 09.30
Registration
Welcome
Dr. G. Sundararajan, ARCI & IIT Madras, India
Dr. Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Director – IIT Madras, India
Head of the Department, MME, IIT Madras, India
Dr. Ramesh Kolar, ONRG Programs
Session I: Chair - Dr. M. Sundararaman
09:30 – 10:10
10:10 – 10:50
10:50 – 11:20
11:20 – 12:00
12:00 – 12:40
Certification of Aerospace and Naval Materials for Chemically Aggressive
Environments
Dr. N. Eswara Prasad, Regional Director, Regional Centre of Military Airworthiness
(Materials), CEMILAC, India.
Electrochemical stress intensity approach to modeling galvanic coupling and
localized damage initiation
Dr. Bill C Nickerson, Program Officer ONR, Sea-based Aviation Structures and
Materials, Office of Naval Research, USA.
---COFFEE BREAK--Studies on Environmental Damage on Structural Material of Indian Nuclear
Reactors
Dr. R K Singh, Associate Director, Reactor Design and Development Group & Head
Reactor Safety Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India
Corrosion fatigue crack growth at low frequencies
Dr. Raghu Prakash, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Madras, India
12:40 – 14:00
14:00 – 14:40
14:40 – 15:20
15:20 – 15:50
15:50 – 16:30
16:30-17:10
18:00 -
---LUNCH--Session II: Chair - Dr. Ganesh Sundara Raman
Corrosion Fatigue related R&D studies carried out at CSIR-SERC
Dr. G. Raghava, Chief Scientist and Head of the Fatigue & Fracture Laboratory of
CSIR- Structural Engineering Research Centre, India.
UniGrow-UniCorr Framework Prospects for Corrosion Modeling and Sensor
Development
Dr. Nagaraja Iyyer, Director of Engineering, Technical Data Analysis, Inc., VA, USA
---COFFEE BREAK--Application of Electrochemical Noise to Detect and Assess Stress Corrosion
Cracking in Stainless Steel
Dr. U. Kamachi Mudali, Associate Director of Corrosion Science and Technology
Group, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, India
Chloride stress corrosion cracking at temperatures from ambient to boiling and
precursor events
Dr. Vivekanand Kain, Head of Corrosion Science Section at Materials Science Division,
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India
---DINNER---
Saturday, Feb 28, 2015
06: 00 – 07 :30
Nature Walk
Session III: Chair - Dr. Rajappa Tadepalli
09:00 – 09:40
Crack tip driving forces and subcritical crack growth
Dr. K. Sadananda, Consulting Engineer, Technical Data Analysis, Inc. (TDA), Falls
Church, VA, USA
09:40 – 10:20
Role of Internal Stress on Stress Corrosion Crack Growth Behavior
Dr. A.K. Vasudevan, Office of Naval Research, USA (retired)
10:20 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:40
11:40– 12:20
12.30 – 14:00
---COFFEE BREAK--Atomistically informed energy based theory of environmental damage
Dr. Veera Sundararaghavan, Aerospace Engineering Faculty, University of Michigan,
USA
Advanced Characterization of Stress Corrosion Cracking Precursors in Nickel
Base Alloys
Dr. Roger C Newman, Professor and NSERC Senior Industrial Research Chair,
Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry University of Toronto, Canada
---LUNCH--Session IV: Chair - Dr. R. Venkatesan
14:00 – 14:40
14:40 – 15:20
Mechanistic Studies of Environmentally Assisted Cracking Using a Wrought
Magnesium Alloy
Dr. V S Raja, Institute Chair Professor, Dept. of Metallurgical Engineering and
Materials Science, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Crack propagation models: numerical and experimental results on Ti-6Al-4V
notched specimens
Dr. Francesco Villa, Dept. of Management, Information and Production Engineering,
University of Bergamo, Italy
15:20 – 15:50
---COFFEE BREAK---
15:50 – 17:10
POSTER SESSION
18:00 -
---CONFERENCE DINNER---
Sunday, March 1, 2015
06: 00 – 07 :30
Nature Walk
Session V: Chair - Dr. Ramesh Kolar
09:00 – 09:40
09:40 – 10:20
10:20 – 10:50
10:50 – 11:30
Solutions for fracture mechanics and fatigue testing under various environmental
conditions
Mr. Robert Strehle, Industry Manager for Academia, Zwick GmbH & Co KG (Ulm,
Germany)
Testing in Liquid Corrosive Medium of Steel Weldment for Low-Cycle Fatigue and
Crack Growth – Procedures and Results
Dr. R. Sunder, Bangalore Integrated System Solutions (P) Ltd, India
---COFFEE BREAK---
Stress corrosion cracking of high strength aluminium alloys used in space
applications
Dr. S.V.S. Narayana Murty, Scientist, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, ISRO, India
11:30 – 12:10
The role of crack branching in stress corrosion cracking of aluminum alloys
Dr. Tim Burnett, FEI Research Fellow, University of Manchester, UK
12:10 – 12:50
Probing deformation and fracture of materials with high spatial resolution
Dr. Nagamani Jaya, Max-Planck-Institute for Iron Research, Germany
12:50 – 14:00
14:00 –
---LUNCH-----OPEN/ TOUR---
Monday: March 02, 2015
Session VI: Chair - Dr. S.S. Bhattacharya
08:30 – 09:10
09:10 – 09:50
09:50 – 10:30
10:30 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:40
11:40 – 12:30
Understanding the origins of hydrogen embrittlement: a novel method for
detecting hydrogen in metals at high local resolution and ultra-high sensitivity
Dr. Michael Rohwerder, Head of Research Group, Max-Planck-Institute for Iron
Research, Germany
Hydrogen Diffusion Enabled Crystal Plasticity Model: A Computational
Framework for Understanding Micro-structural Effects on Hydrogen
Embrittlement of Metals
Dr. Dhiraj K Mahajan, Faculty, School of Mechanical, Materials and Energy
Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India
Hydrogen assisted cracking in ferritic steels during fatigue crack growth
Dr. Sasikala, Scientist, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, India.
---HIGH TEA--Mechanical properties of monolithic nanocrystalline SiC ceramic
Dr. Branko Matovic, Head of Dept. of Materials Science, Institute of Nuclear
Sciences Vinča, Department of Materials Sciences, University of Belgrade, Serbia.
Panel Discussion:
(a) What has been understood and what is yet to be understood in SCC?
(b) In the world of nano- and bio-, does SCC attract young minds in
academic institutions?
Panel members: Dr. A.K. Vasudevan, Dr. Roger C Newman, Dr. Veera
Sundararaghavan, Dr. Vivekanand Kain
12:30 – 13:00
VALEDICTORY FUNCTION
13:00 – 14:00
---LUNCH---
* End of Workshop *