Kaustav Barat Dr

Dr Kaustav Barat is presently working as a scientist in Material Science division of CSIR-NAL, Bangalore since 2016. Recently he had been awarded PhD degree in metallurgy and materials engineering from IIT, Kharagpur. Prior to this he worked for CSIR-NML Jamshedpur as Senior Research Fellow and Junior Research Fellow for 5 years. He did his M. Tech from IIT Kharagpur in 2010 and awarded the best M. Tech thesis award from the Department for the dissertation entitled ‘’Fractal based characterization of fracture surfaces.’’ During 2015 to 2016, he worked as a tenured faculty in National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur. Dr Barat has published 8 International papers and 15 National and international conference papers.

Research Interests

• Creep Fatigue and Low cycle fatigue behavior
• Cyclic plasticity and Cyclic fracture
• Ultrasonic wave propagation in solids
• Dynamic fracture and micromechanics of cleavage fracture
•  X-ray line broadening analysis
• Welding of Al and its alloys