Meenu Srivastava,Dr.

Area of Expertise

"1) Wear and Corrosion resistant alloy and composite coatings on light weight metal substrates like Al, Mg alloys and steel substrates like high strength steels, SS etc.
2) High temperature coatings by thermal spray process like HVOF and Cold Spray for TBC and power plant applications.
3) Repair and dimensional restoration of Aerospace materials."

Research Interests

"¿ Ni based electrodeposited composite coating for rotary and reciprocating engines.
¿ Eco-friendly replacement for cadmium coating for aerospace applications - An attempt to replace the toxic cadmium coating by a trichrome passivated Zn-Ni coating.
¿ Thermally sprayed coatings by HVOF technique as replacement for hard chrome coating like WC-Co-Al2O3, Ni-YSZ etc coating system for wear/erosion resistance.
¿ Novel high entropy alloy (HEA) coatings as bond coat for thermal barrier coating applications by thermal spray process.
¿ Repair and dimensional restoration of aircraft grade Al alloys by Low pressure cold spray process.
Metallization of CFRP composites."

Academic_Qualification

"PhD Metallurgical and Materials Engineering - NIT Tiruchirappalli
ME Materials Science - NIT, Tiruchirappalli"

Professional Experience

"Scientist 29 April 2004 28 April 2008
Senior Scientist 29 April 2008 28 April 2013
Principal Scientist 29 April 2013 28 April 2018
Senior Principal Scientist 29 April 2018 28 April 2023
Chief Scientist 29 April 2023 Till date"

Publication (ORCID ID/ Googal Scholar ID/ IRINS ID/ Vidwan ID

ScholarGPS® ID: 69853996578603

Awards and Honors

"1. CSIR-NAL Excellence Award 2023 for the work carried out on the “Development of Cadmium replacement coating for aircraft components”.
2. CSIR-NAL Excellence Award in the field of Technology 2018 for the work carried out on the “Development of Composite Coatings for Wankel engine of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles”.
3. Prestigious N M Sampat Award 2017 by The Electrochemical Society of India for the significant contributions in the field of Metal Finishing.
4. Best Technical Paper Award sponsored by Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. on “Wear resistant and fuel efficient Ni-Co based composite coating for engine cylinder application” in the Symposium on International Automotive Technology SIAT – 2017 at ARAI, Pune, 18-21 Jan.
5. CSIR-NAL Best Women Scientist Award in Research for the year 2012 – 2013 for the research work carried out on the “Development of Composite Coatings for Wear resistant and High Temperature Applications”."