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Prof. Uma Maheswara Rao Seelam

PhD (University of Central Florida)

Assistant Professor Gr-I

Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

Room No: MM206   +91-870-2462522
uma.seelam@nitw.ac.in
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Research Areas

 Correlative Multiscale Characterization of Materials 

 Non-equilibrium Processing of Materials 

 Rare-earth Permanent Magnets 

  • Courses Handled
  • Research IDs
  • Selected Publications
  • Project/Consultancy
  • Current PhD Students
  • Awards and Accolades
  • Additional Responsibilities
  • Physical Metallurgy and Phase Transformations(MM16001)
  • Materials Engineering(MM235)
  • Physical Metallurgy and Metallography Laboratory(MM205)
  • Phase Transformations in Materials(MM5201)
  • Physical Metallurgy and Phase Transformations Laboratory(MM16007)
  • Physical Metallurgy and Phase Transformations(MM1H03)
  • Universal Human Values(IC202)
  • Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques(MM470)
  • Electronic and Magnetic Materials(MM254)
  • Phase Transformations in Materials Laboratory(MM5203)
  • Electronic and Magnetic Materials(MM5263)
  • ORC ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6783-5780
  • Google Scholar ID: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vIMDyygAAAAJ&hl=en


  • Faceted shell structure in grain boundary diffusion-processed sintered Nd–Fe–B magnets, By U. M.R. Seelam, T. Ohkubo, T. Abe, S. Hirosawa and K. Hono, ScienceDirect, J. Alloys and Compounds, vol.617, pp.884-892 , 2014
  • Coercivity of the Nd–Fe–B hot-deformed magnets diffusion-processed with low melting temperature glass forming alloys, By U.M.R. Seelam, Lihua Liu, T. Akiya, H. Sepehri-Amin, T. Ohkubo, N. Sakuma, M. Yano, A. Kato and K. Hono, ScienceDirect, J. Magn. Magn. Mater. , vol.412 , pp.234-242, 2016
  • Structural Characterization of Sputter-deposited SS304+10 wt pct Al Coatings, By Uma M.R. Seelam, Suryanarayana, H. Heinrich, T. Ohkubo, K. Hono and N.S. Cheruvu, Springer, Metall. Mat. Trans. A, vol.43, pp.2945-2954, 2012
  • Mechanically-Induced FCC Phase Formation in Nanocrystalline Hafnium, By U. M.R. Seelam and C. Suryanarayana, AIP, J. Appl. Phys, vol.105, pp.063524 (1-8), 2009
  • Metallography of SS304+Al Sputter-Deposited Coatings, By U.M.R. Seelam and C. Suryanarayana, Springer, Metallography, Microstructure and Analysis, vol.2, pp.287-298, 2013
  • Is there a hcp → fcc allotropic transformation in mechanically milled Group IV B elements?, By Uma M.R. Seelam, G. Barkhordarian and C. Suryanarayana, Springer, J. Mater. Res., vol.24, pp.3454-3461, 2009
  • On the temperature dependent magnetic properties of as-spun Mn-Bi ribbons, By S. Kavita, U.M.R. Seelam, D. Prabhu and R. Gopalan, ScienceDirect, J. Magn. Magn. Mater., vol.377, pp.485-489, 2015
  • Metal-Assisted Self-Assembled Nano-Sized Porous 2-D Structures Incorporating Malonic Acid Dihydrazide and Melamine, By Mishra, B. Pathak, G.V.S. Sastry and S. Umamaheswara Rao (U.M.R. Seelam), Springer, J. Mater. Sci., vol.41, pp.7141-7144, 2006
  • Synthesis of nanocrystalline ZnSe by mechanical alloying, By C. Suryanarayana, Ahmed A. Al‑Joubori, Furkan Türker, U.M.R. Seelam, Springer, J. Mater. Res., vol.38, pp.4261-4271, 2023
  • Mechanical and magnetic properties of phase separated Cu50Fe50 (at%) alloys synthesized by mechanical alloying and spark plasma sintering, By B.Santhi, D. ArvindhaBabu and Uma Maheswara RaoSeelam, Elsevier , J. Alloys and Compounds, vol., pp., 2024

Preparation of advanced magnets by DST-SERB-Core Research Grant

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor DST-SERB
  • Duration 42 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 2980000
  • Status Completed


Akhil PS

  • Area of Research: Grain boundary diffusion process of Nd-Fe-B magnets

Mrs. B. Santhi

  • Area of Research: Synthesis of High Strength Cu- and Fe-alloys by Non-equilibrium Processing
  • 2009-10 University Award for Excellence, UCF
  • AMPAC Fellowship, UCF, USA
  • First Prize for oral presentation in IIT-KGP
  • J.N. Tata Endowment
  • Post Doctoral Fellowship (ESICMM), Japan
  • Member, Department Research Committee (Continuing from January, 2024)
  • Faculty Advisor (Continuing from December, 2021)
  • Faculty-in-charge, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), NIT Warangal (Continuing from July, 2018)
  • Member, Department Academic Committee (DAC) - UG (Continuing from July, 2018)