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Prof. Nagumothu Kishore Babu

PhD (Indian Institute of Technology Madras)

Professor

Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

Room No: MM219   +91-870-2462512
kishorebabu@nitw.ac.in
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Research Areas

 Metal Joining , Additive manufacturing and Nanocomposites 

  • Courses Handled
  • Research IDs
  • Selected Publications
  • Project/Consultancy
  • Current PhD Students
  • Awards and Accolades
  • Additional Responsibilities
  • Metal Joining(MM401)
  • Summer/Research Internship/EPICS Project(MM406)
  • Metal Processing Laboratory(MM405)
  • Structure and Properties of Materials(MMM01)
  • Diffusion in Solids(MMH01)
  • Seminar(MM498)
  • Additive Manufacturing(MM16022)
  • Welding Processes(MM5301)
  • Additive Manufacturing(MM5153)
  • Advanced Casting and Welding Technology Laboratory(MM5104)
  • Advanced Casting and WeldingTechnology(MM5101)
  • Comprehensive Viva-voce(MM6147)
  • Dissertation Work Part - A(MM6149)
  • Industrial Heat Treatment(MM5112)
  • Dissertation Work Part - B(MM6199)
  • Advanced Experimental Techniques Laboratory(MM5154)
  • Materials Characterization Technique Laboratory(MM5253)
  • ORC ID: 0000-0002-0591-0738
  • SCOPUS ID: 20336511500
  • Google Scholar ID: mDqmlXcAAAAJ


  • Microstructural characterization and grain refinement of Ti-15V-3Al-3Cr-3Sn gas tungsten arc welds by Ni and Si-modified fillers, By K. Vamsi Krishna,C. Gopi Krishna, Md. Jawed Quamar, Bharat Bandi, Mahesh Kumar, N.Kishore Babu, , Springer Link, Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance , vol., pp., 2024
  • Rotary friction welding of Inconel 718 – AISI 304 stainless steel dissimilar joint, By V. Ajay, M. Naveen Kumar, N. Kishore Babu, T. Mahesh Kumar, K. Vamshi Krishna & G. Madhusudan Reddy, Sage Journals, Materials Science and Technology, vol.39, pp.1950-1960, 2023
  • Effect of welding speed on microstructural and mechanical properties of EB Ti-15V-3Al-3Cr-3Sn welds, By K. Vamsi Krishna, M. K. Talari, Bharath Bandi, Sriharitha Rowthu, M. I. Khan, P. Mastanaiah & N. Kishore Babu, Sage Journals, Materials Science and Technology, vol.39, pp.1402-1413, 2023
  • A Review on Rotary and Linear Friction Welding of Inconel Alloys, By Ajay, V., Babu, N. K., Ashfaq, M., Kumar, T. M., & Krishna, K. V., Springer, Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals, vol.74, pp.2583-2598, 2021
  • Microstructural and wear investigation of high chromium white cast iron hardfacing alloys deposited on carbon steel, By Jilleh, A., Kishore Babu, N., Thota, V., Anis, A. L., Harun, M. K., & Talari, M. K., Elsevier, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, vol.857, pp.157472, 2021
  • Solid State Processing of Aluminum Matrix Composites Reinforced with Nanoparticulate Materials, By Marc Leparoux, Lauri Kollo, Hansang Kwon, Kaspar Kallip, Nagumothu Kishore Babu, Khaled AlOgab, and Mahesh Kumar Talari, Wiley, Advanced Engineering Materials, vol.20, pp.1800401, 2018
  • Influence of microstructure and strengthening mechanism of AlMg5-Al2O3 nanocomposites prepared via spark plasma sintering, By N. Kishore Babu, Kaspar Kallip, Marc Leparoux, Khaled A. AlOgab, Xavier Maeder,Yadira Arroyo Rojas Dasilva, Elsevier, Materials and Design, vol.95, pp.534-544, 2016

Development of Ti- 6Al-4V alloy structure using wire arc additive manufacturing process for aerospace application

  • Role Co-Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor DST-TARE
  • Duration 42 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 1830000
  • Status Ongoing

Development of novel B and C modified fillers for the gas tungsten arc welding of titanium alloys

  • Role Co-Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor Aeronautical Research and Development Board (ARDB)
  • Duration 46 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 4807000
  • Status Completed

Understanding the role of hydrogen in Titanium alloy weldments

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor Aeronautical Research and Development Board (ARDB)
  • Duration 46 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 4823000
  • Status Completed

Failure analysis of evaporator coils

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Consultancy
  • Sponsor Rockwell Industries, Hyderabad
  • Duration 1 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 3.06
  • Status Completed

Industrial Additive Manufacturing Programme: work packake 3 (Electron Beam Melting)

  • Role Co-Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
  • Duration 24 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 170000000
  • Status Completed

Lightweight improved metal composites reinforced with nanoparticulate materials

  • Role Co-Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor KACST,Saudi Arabia
  • Duration 24 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 160000000
  • Status Completed

Improvements in Weldability of Ni-base alloys

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor SIMTech, Singapore
  • Duration 24 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 175000000
  • Status Completed

Friction Stir Welding for Salvaging Applications

  • Role Co-Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor Agency for Science, Technology, And Research
  • Duration 24 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 50421579
  • Status Completed

Repair of compressor airfoil with controllable grain size

  • Role Co-Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor Science & Engineering Research Council (SERC), Singapore
  • Duration 24 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 17582627
  • Status Completed

Studies on Enclosures for Hermetically Sealing Hard Disk Drives with Helium

  • Role Co-Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor Data Storage Institute (DSI), Singapore
  • Duration 24 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 73408006
  • Status Completed

Distortion Simulation of Al-alloy Arc Welding Process

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor IHPC, Singapore
  • Duration 24 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 7380362
  • Status Completed

Aluminium Weldability Improvements through Grain Refinement

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor SIMTech, Singapore
  • Duration 24 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 5860875
  • Status Completed


Bandaru Dyva Isac Premkumar

  • Area of Research: Friction welding of INCOLOY 800H to Nickel base alloys

Palani Muthu

  • Area of Research: Fabrication of Nanocomposites with epoxy resins

Pramod Kumar

  • Area of Research: Dissmilar friction welding of Ni base alloys

Veera Babu

  • Area of Research: Waste metal Recovery

Y. Gangadhar Sinha

  • Area of Research: Polymer based nanocomposites
  • Adolf Martens Research Fellowship Award
  • Head, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering (Continuing from July, 2023)
  • DAAC Member (February, 2022 - June, 2023)
  • Faculty-in-charge: XRD (January, 2022 - June, 2023)
  • M.Tech IM and MT curriculum Revision Chairman (May, 2021 - August, 2021)
  • Faculty Advisor (January, 2021 - December, 2024)
  • M.Tech Industrial Metallurgy: Faculty advisor (July, 2019 - June, 2023)
  • Prof. A.V. Ramana Rao Gold Medal In charge (July, 2019 - June, 2023)
  • Faculty-in-charge: Welding Lab (Continuing from July, 2018)