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Prof. Marrapu Bhargava

PhD (IIT Bombay)

Assistant Professor Gr-I

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Room No: 651 A   +91-870-2462322
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Research Areas

 Advanced High Strength Steels - formability evaluation  

 Advanced High Strength Steels - formability prediction 

 Advanced material characterization at extreme conditions  

 Formability at elevated temperatures 

 Friction stir welding and forming 

 Hydroforming 

 Material model development 

 Mechanical behaviour of materials 

 Metal forming - sheet metal forming of Aluminum, Magnesium 

  • Courses Handled
  • Research IDs
  • Selected Publications
  • Project/Consultancy
  • Current PhD Students
  • Awards and Accolades
  • Additional Responsibilities
  • Advanced Manufacturing Technology Laboratory(ME26007)
  • Engineering Drawing(ME11061)
  • Advanced Manufacturing Technology(ME26001)
  • Engineering Workshop Practice(ME1165)
  • Comprehensive Viva-voce(ME6647)
  • Engineering Drawing(ME1161)
  • Dissertation Work Part - A(ME6649)
  • Mechanics of Metal Forming(ME26027)
  • Operations Research(ME366)
  • Dissertation Work Part - B(ME6699)
  • Manufacturing Science Laboratory(ME256)
  • Manufacturing Science(ME251)
  • Engineering Drawing(ME133)
  • Mechanics of Metal Forming(ME5613)
  • Advanced Materials Processing and Testing Laboratory(ME5605)
  • Workshop Practice(ME104)
  • Seminar - I(ME5648)
  • Controllers for System Design(ME5661)
  • Systems Engineering Laboratory(ME5654)
  • Systems Engineering Design(ME5652)
  • Mechatronics System Design(ME5603)
  • Engineering Graphics(ME132)
  • Seminar - II(ME5698)
  • Workshop Practice for Electrical Engineering(ME183)
  • ORC ID: (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6221-6008)
  • SCOPUS ID: 55990331600
  • Google Scholar ID: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gl4Tn-YAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao


  • Forming Limit Diagram of Advanced High Strength Steels based on Strain-Path Diagram, By Marrapu Bhargava, Asim Tewari and Sushil Mishra, Elsevier, Materials & Design, vol.85, pp.149-155, 2015
  • Effect of strain path on microstructure evolution during deformation of Transformation and Induced Plasticity (TRIP) and Quenched and Partitioned (Q&P) steel sheets, By Marrapu Bhargava, Shanta Chakrabarty, Asim Tewari and Sushil Mishra, Elsevier, Materials & Design, vol.152, pp.65-77, 2018
  • Experimental and numerical analysis on Dual Phase steel (DP780) sheet forming limit and effect of microstructure evolution on formability, By Marrapu Bhargava, Vivek K Barnwal, Shanta chakrabarty, Asim Tewari and Sushil Mishra, Springer, Journal of Materials Engineering & Performance, vol.29, pp.8247-8260, 2020
  • Prediction of strain path and forming limit curve of AHSS by incorporating microstructure evolution, By Shanta Chakrabarty, Marrapu Bhargava, Harsh K. Narula, Sushil Mishra and Prita Pant, Springer, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology , vol.106, pp.5085-5098 , 2020
  • Microstructure and texture correlation with mechanical properties and formability of friction stir welded AA 5754 sheets, By Rahul Datta, Dharavath Raja, Marrapu Bhargava, Springer, Journal of Materials Engineering & Performance, vol., pp., 2023
  • Shear texture development and microstructure analysis of friction stir welded AA5754 sheets during forming at different strain paths, By Rahul Datta, Marrapu Bhargava, Elsevier, Materials Today Communications, vol.38, pp.107850, 2024
  • Investigation of microstructure and microtexture development and its correlation with mechanical and formability behavior of dissimilar friction stir welded AA6061 and AA5754 sheets, By Rahul Datta and Marrapu Bhargava, Elsevier, Materials Today Communications, vol.41, pp.110556, 2024
  • Correlation of shear texture evolution and microstructural development with the formability of dissimilar friction stir welded AA6061 and AA5754 sheets at various strain paths, By Rahul Datta and Marrapu Bhargava, Springer, Journal of Materials Engineering & Performance, vol., pp.1-26, 2025
  • Correlation of microstructure and microtexture with the mechanical and formability behavior of friction stir welded similar AA5754 sheets using different tool pin designs, By Rahul Datta and Marrapu Bhargava, Springer, Welding in the World, vol., pp., 2025
  • Influence of different process parameters on the mechanical properties and formability behavior of TIG welded HSLA steel sheets, By Rahul Datta, Vanapalli Teja Gayathri, K V Sai Srinadh, Marrapu Bhargava, Springer, Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, vol., pp., 2025

Development of third generation Advanced High Strength Steels – Quenched & Partitioned (Q&P) steels for automotive applications

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor DST - Technology Development Programme (TDP)
  • Duration 36 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 65
  • Status Ongoing

Study on Formability Behavior and Microstructure Evolution of Al/Cu Laminated Composites During Electric Assisted Forming for Lightweight Material Applications

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor DST - SERB - Core Research Grant (CRG)
  • Duration 36 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 41.36
  • Status Ongoing

Formability and Microstructure analysis of friction stir welded Al 5xxx alloys with similar thickness sheets

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor NIT Warangal
  • Duration 24 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 5
  • Status Completed


B Sai Prasad

  • Area of Research: MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR AND MICROSTRUCTURE ANALYSIS OF RESISTANCE SPOT WELDED SIMILAR AND DISSIMILAR HIGH STRENGTH STEELS

K Srinivas

  • Area of Research: STUDY ON FORMABILITY BEHAVIOR AND MICROSTRUCTURE EVOLUTION OF Al/Cu LAMINATED COMPOSITES DURING ELCTRIC ASSISTED FORMING FOR LIGHTWEIGHT MATERIAL APPLICATIONS

Sai Babu Chanda

  • Area of Research: DEVELOPMENT of THIRD GENERATION ADVANCED HIGH STRENGTH STEELS
  • Financial support approved by DST
  • Financial support approved by IIT Bombay
  • JFE internship fellowship
  • Professor in Charge for annual reports of Mechanical Engineering Department (Continuing from July, 2025)
  • Purchase committee member for Civil Engineering Department (Continuing from July, 2025)
  • Member of preparing annual reports of Mechanical Engineering Department (July, 2024 - June, 2025)
  • Faculty Advisor (August, 2023 - June, 2025)
  • Departmental Coordinator for Design Thinking and Tinkering Lab (DTTL) (June, 2023 - June, 2025)
  • Faculty Coordinator for M. Tech: Materials and Systems Engineering Design (August, 2020 - June, 2025)
  • Member for shortlisting the Ph.D. students in Mechanical Engineering Department (July, 2020 - June, 2022)