Department of Mechanical Engineering - Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology

Dr. Prabhat Chand Yadav

Assistant Professor

Specialization

Physical metallurgy, Severe plastic deformation, Microstructural evolution, Tribology, Mechanical behaviour of materials, Grain boundary engineering, High-speed imaging

Email

prabhatchand.yadav@thapar.edu

Specialization

Physical metallurgy, Severe plastic deformation, Microstructural evolution, Tribology, Mechanical behaviour of materials, Grain boundary engineering, High-speed imaging

Email

prabhatchand.yadav@thapar.edu

Biography

Dr. Prabhat Chand Yadav, PhD (IIT Kanpur, India), M.Tech. (IIT Roorkee, India), B.Tech. (GBTU Lucknow, India) is presently Assistant Professor at Department of Mechanical Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology (Deemed to be University), Patiala. Dr. Yadav is also associated with Bournemouth University UK as Visiting Fellow since March 2023. He worked as Overseas Visiting Doctoral Fellow on micro-deformation mechanism through particle image velocimetry (PIV) technique at the School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA in 2019. Dr. Yadav was also got an opportunity to work as post-doctoral fellow in University of Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2020. Later in 2021, he Joined Department of Mechanical Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology Patiala. He is also associated with Department of Physics and Material Science, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala for “Electron Microscope Facility”. He has published 21 international journal papers and presented his work in several reputed international conferences. His current research interests are severe plastic deformation of FCC alloys, followed by their physical and mechanical metallurgy. Apart from that Dr. Yadav also works on functional and tribological behaviour of FCC material. He is the recipient of prestigious Overseas visiting doctoral award, Young scientist travel award funded by SERB-DST, India and Royal society exchange award funded by Royal Society UK.

Academic Profile

PhD. thesis work in High Speed Imaging, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
Ph.D. in Physical and Mechanical Metallurgy, IIT, Kanpur, India
M.Tech. in Tribology of Advanced Cermet, IIT Roorkee
B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering, GBTU Lucknow, India

Teaching and Industrial Experience

Assistant Professor, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala, India
- July 2021-Contd
Visiting Fellow, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, UK
- March 2023-Contd
Project Associate, IIT Kanpur, India
- January 2021-March 2021
Overseas Visiting Doctoral Fellow (OVDF), Purdue University, USA
- January 2019-December 2019
Visiting Researcher, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China
- August 2016- September 2016
Assistant Engineer, Cheema Boilers Ltd. Mohali, Punjab
- June 2011-July 2011

Research Interests

nanoSPD
Structure-Process-Property correlation
Mechanical behaviour of materials
Advanced tribology
Material characterization
High speed Imaging
Particle image velocimetry (PIV)
Electron microscopy (i.e., SEM, EBSD, TKD, TEM)
Grain boundary engineering (GBE)
Advanced Manufacturing

Research Projects

Year of Funding	Sponsoring Organisation	Title of the Project	Amount (in Lakhs)	Co-Investigators (if any)
2019-2020	DST, India	Single Stage Shear-based Processing of Advanced Alloys into Sheet form	19.4	Dr. P C Yadav (PI) Prof. Shashank Shekhar (Mentor) Prof. Srinivasan Chandrasekar (Mentor)
2023-2025	Royal Society, UK	Microstructural Tuning for Mechanical and Tribological Behavior of Structural Alloy Processed by Large Strain Extrusion Machining	13.1	Dr. Yi Hunag (PI) Dr. P C Yadav (Co-PI)
2023-2025	TIET-SEED Grant	Structure-property-process correlation of difficult to deform alloy	08	Dr. P C Yadav (PI)

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Electron Microscope Society of India, Life member
International Association of Engineers, Life member
Indian Institute of Metals, Active member

Publications in Peer Reviewed International Journals

Prabhat Chand Yadav, Arush Sinhal, Sandeep Sahu, Abir Roy and Shashank Shekhar, "Microstructural Inhomogeneity in Constrained Groove Pressed Cu-Zn Alloy Sheet" Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance 25, no. 7 (2016): 2604-2614.
Prabhat Chand Yadav, Sandeep Sahu, Anandh Subramaniam and Shashank Shekhar, "Effect of heat-treatment on microstructural evolution and mechanical behavior of severely deformed Inconel 718" Materials Science and Engineering: A (2018).
Prabhat Chand Yadav, Nitin Kumar Sharma, Sandeep Sahu and Shashank Shekhar, "Influence of Short heat-treatment on Microstructural and Mechanical Inhomogeneity of Constrained Groove Pressed Cu-Zn alloy" Materials Chemistry and Physics (2019): 238 121912.
Prabhat Chand Yadav, Prince Setia, and Sandeep Sahu. "Micro-scratching behavior of heat-treated cutting chips of Inconel 718." Materials Today Communications 32 (2022): 104007.
Prabhat Chand Yadav, Gaurav Gupta, Rajat Gupta, and Ambreen Nisar. "Directional fretting wear behaviour of constrained groove pressed aluminium sheet." Materials Today Communications 35 (2023): 105669.
Prabhat Chand Yadav, R. Sarvesha, and T. S. Guruprasad. "Microstructural evolution during short heat‐treatment of constrained groove pressed Cu‐5% Zn alloy." Journal of Microscopy (2022): 1-7.
Prabhat Chand Yadav, Sandeep Sahu and Shashank Shekhar, "Modeling and Verification of Temperature Rise during Machining" Journal of the Chinese Advanced Materials Society (2018): 817-826
Prabhat Chand Yadav, Sandan Sharma and B V Manoj Kumar, “Effect of linear velocity on sliding wear behavior of TiCN based cermets” Materials Today: Proceedings (2017) PII: S2214-7853(18)30825-3
Prabhat Chand Yadav, Shashank Shekhar, Bhagyaraj Jayabalan, and Nitin Kumar Sharma. "Controlled precipitation and recrystallization to achieve superior mechanical properties of severely deformed Inconel 718 alloy." Materials Chemistry and Physics (2022): 127098.
Sandeep Sahu, Prabhat Chand Yadav, and Shashank Shekhar, "Use of Hot Rolling for Generating Low Deviation Twins and a Disconnected Random Boundary Network in Inconel 600 Alloy" Metallurgical and Materials Transactions: A (2017): 1-16.
Sandeep Sahu, Prabhat Chand Yadav and Shashank Shekhar, "Fractal Analysis as Applied to Fractography in Ferritic Stainless Steel" Metallography, Microstructure, and Analysis 6, no. 6 (2017): 598-609.
Shadab Ahmad, Swati Gangwar, Prabhat Chand Yadav and D. K. Singh, "Optimization of process parameters affecting surface roughness in magnetic abrasive finishing process" Materials and Manufacturing Processes (2017): 1-7.
Raghubeer Singh Bangari, Sandeep Sahu, and Prabhat Chand Yadav, "Comparative evaluation of hot corrosion resistance of nanostructured AlCrN and TiAlN coatings on cobalt-based superalloys" Journal of Materials Research (2018): 1023-1031
Swati Gangwar, Amar Patnaik, Prabhat Chand Yadav, Sandeep Sahu and I.K. Bhat, “Development and properties evaluation of marble dust reinforced ZA-27 alloy composites for ball bearing applications” Materials Research Express (2019):6(7) 076525.
Swati Gangwar, Ranjeet Kumar Singh, Prabhat Chand Yadav, and Sandeep Sahu, "Physical, Mechanical, and Tribological Properties of Industrial Waste Fly Ash Reinforced AA5083 Composites Fabricated by Stir Casting Process" Journal of Bio-and Tribo-Corrosion (2021): 7(3) 1-14.
Sukriti Yadav, Swati Gangwar, Prabhat Chand Yadav, Vimal Kumar Pathak, and Sandeep Sahu. "Mechanical and corrosion behavior of SiC/Graphite/ZrO2 hybrid reinforced aluminum-based composites for marine environment." Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties 9, no. 4 (2021): 045022.
Akshay D. Nakhate, Nikhil Kumar, Prince Sharma, and Prabhat Chand Yadav. "Mechanical properties of cross rolled CoCrFeMnNi high entropy alloy" Journal of Alloys and Compounds 968 (2023): 172307.
Rita Maurya, Prvan Kumar Katiyar, Prabhat Chand Yadav, and Pooja Rani. "Influence of pulse frequency on microstructure, mechanical properties, and corrosion resistance of electrodeposited Ni-SiC composite coatings" Materials Today Communications 40 (2024): 109977.
Naveen Kumar, Md Sarfaraz Alam, Vishwesh Mishra, Hitesh Vasudev, Prabhat Chand Yadav, and Vikas Kumar Choubey "A comparative investigation of the effects of temperature on the oxidation resistance of high-velocity oxy-fuel coating on AISI316L" Physica Scripta 99, no. 5 (2024): 055031.
Prince Setia, Hitesh K. Mehtani, Sudhanshu S. Singh, T. Venkateswaran, Prabhat Chand Yadav, and Shashank Shekhar "Micro-mechanical investigation of maraging steel during in-situ tensile test" Philosophical Magazine (2024): 1-11.

Conference Papers

Prabhat Chand Yadav and Shashank Shekhar, “Effect of heat-treatment on microstructural inhomogeneity of constrained groove pressed Cu-Zn alloy” Materials Science and Technology (MS&T) Conference (2015) 771-779.
Prabhat Chand Yadav and Shashank Shekhar, “Enhanced Strength of Inconel 718 by High Rate Severe Plastic Deformation” Proceedings of the 9^th International Symposium on Superalloy 718 & Derivatives: Energy, Aerospace, and Industrial Applications (2018) 541-552. (SCOPUS)

Ongoing Research Collaborations

Sl. No.	Name of Collaborative Agency	Area of research	Contact Person
1.	Purdue University, USA	High Speed Imaging	Prof. Srinivasan Chandrasekar School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, USA
2.	Bournemouth University, UK	Structure-process-property correlation	Dr. Yi Hunag Department of Design and Engineering Bournemouth University, UK
3.	IIT Kanpur	Severe plastic deformation techniques	Prof. Shashank Shekhar Material Science and Engineering Department. IIT Kanpur
4.	IIT Roorkee	Tribology of Ceramic and cermets	Prof. B.V. Manoj Kumar Department of Metallurgical and Material Engineering IIT Roorkee
5.	IIT Jodhpur	Mechanical behavior of material, Grain Boundary Engineering	Dr. Nitin Kumar Sharma Assistant Professor Department of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering IIT Jodhpur
6.	IIT BHU, India	Texture of material, Simulation of deformation of material	Dr. Nikhil Kumar Assistant Professor School of Material Science and Technology IIT BHU
7.	IIT Mandi	High pressure torsion, Additive manufacturing	Dr. Sandeep Sahu Assistant Professor School of Material Science and Technology IIT Mandi
8.	IIT Patna	Tribology of structural ceramic	Dr. Sandan Sharma Department of Metallurgical and Material Engineering IIT Roorkee

Courses of Interest

Materials Engineering and Metallurgy
Smart Material for Robotics
Material characterization
Manufacturing Processes
Metal Cutting, Metal Forming and Metal Casting
Mechanical behaviour of Materials
Dislocation and Plasticity
Refrigeration and Air conditioning

PhD Thesis Guided

Sl. No.	Title of the Thesis	Name of the Supervisor(s)	Student Name	Year	Status
1.	Investigation of microstructural evolution and mechanical behaviour of bulk nano-grained sheet metal fabricated using Large strain extrusion machining (LSEM)	Dr. P. C. Yadav & Dr. Anu Mittal	Mr. Mayank Dhiman	2023	IRB done

Sl. No.

Title of the Thesis

Name of the Supervisor(s)

Student Name

Year

Status

Investigation of microstructural evolution and mechanical behaviour of bulk nano-grained sheet metal fabricated using Large strain extrusion machining (LSEM)

Dr. P. C. Yadav &

Dr. Anu Mittal

Mr. Mayank Dhiman

2023

IRB done

Invited Talks

Invited talk on High rate severe plastic deformation at Superalloy 718 and Its Derivative, 2018, USA
Invited talk on Sliding wear of TiCN based cermets at AMPCO, 2017, IIT Roorkee, India
Invited Talk on Microstructural Engineering of Inconel 718 alloy at International Symposium on Advanced Manufacturing, 2016, Shanghai, China
Invited talk on Modulating microstructure of nano-structured Inconel 718 ICMST, 2016 Kerala, India
Invited talk on Aging behaviour of nano-structured Inconel 718 alloy at NMD ATM, 2016, IIT Kanpur, India
Invited talk on Microstructural inhomogeneity in Cu-Zn alloy at Materials Science and Technology (MS&T) Conference Proceedings, 2015, USA
Invited Talk on Advance Cermet system at WCSET, 2013, Gitam University Hyderabad, India

Reviewer

Engineering Reports
Journal of Alloys and Compounds
Material Today: Proceeding
Journal of Manufacturing Processes
Journal of Material Science
Journal of Material Engineering Performance
Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering
Material Science and Engineering A
International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing (IJIDeM)
Composites Mechanics, Computations, Applications an International Journal

Course/Short term program/Workshop conducted

Powder Technology Conclave & Exhibition: Emerging Challenges & Opportunities March 6-8, 2024, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala
NCAM, Government of India Sponsored One week FDP on Additive Manufacturing: From Principle to Practice, February 12-16, 2024.

Professional Responsibilities

S. No.	Work	Duration	Institute/Organization
1.	Industrial Visit Committee	December 2021-December 2022	TIET, Patiala, Punjab
2.	National Service Scheme (NSS)	February 2023-Contd	TIET, Patiala, Punjab
3.	Time table Committee	October 2023-Contd	TIET, Patiala, Punjab
4.	Course file & Department Library Committee	January 2022-December 2022	TIET, Patiala, Punjab

Foreign Visits

S. No.	Country	University/Organisation	Year	Purpose
1.	China	Nanjing University, Nanjing	2016	Research Visit
2.	USA	Purdue University, West Lafayette	2019	DST Project
3.	UK	Bournemouth University, Bournemouth	2024	Royal Society Project
4.	UK	University of Southampton, Southampton	2024	Research Visit

Awards and Honours

Royal Society Exchange Award, Government of UK, 2023
Post-Doctoral Fellowship, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2020
Overseas Visiting Doctoral Fellowship, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA, SERB-DST, India, 2019
Young Scientist Travel Grant Award, SERB-DST, India, 2018
Institute Travel Grant, IIT Kanpur, 2016
MHRD Fellowship for PhD. MHRD, India, 2013
MHRD Fellowship for M.Tech. MHRD, India, 2011
State government (UP) scholarship at graduation level, 2007-2011
Essay writing competition award at school level, 2023