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Biosketch
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor : Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Palakkad, India, Dec 2024 - Present
Post Doctoral Fellow : Graduate Institute of Ferrous Technology (GIFT), Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea, Nov 2023 - Dec 2024
Post Doctoral Fellow : Department of Materials Science and Engineering, IIT Delhi, India, Aug 2023 - Nov 2023
Research Associate : Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, IIT Madras, India, Apr 2023 - July 2023
Visiting Researcher : Graduate Institute of Ferrous Technology, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea, Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Research Associate : Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Madras, India, Aug 2017 - Dec 2017
Education
Ph.D : Mechanical Engineering, IIT Madras, 2023
M.S by Research : Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, IIT Madras, 2017
B.Tech : Mechanical Engineering, Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education, 2013
Awards & Recognitions
Brainpool Research Fellowship, National Research Foundation of Korea, 2023
Prof. M S Shanmugam Endowment Prize: Best PhD thesis Mechanical Engineering, IIT Madras, 2023
Institution of Engineers (India) IEI -NMLC FCRIT Research Excellence Award, PhD-National Category, 2022
International Immersion Experience (IIE) Travel grant, IIT Madras, 2022
Swarna Jayanthi Endowment Fund (SJEF), Indian Institute of Metals, 2022
Institute Research Award : Quality and quantity of research work carried out during PhD, IIT Madras, 2021
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Research
Research Interests: Sheet metal forming, Metal forming, Mechanical behavior of materials
Research Opportunities: If you are interested in exploring aforementioned areas and looking for an opportunity, please write to me at kaliprasad@iitpkd.ac.in
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Teaching
Jan - May 2025 : ME2030 : Manufacturing Processes - I (UG) : Jointly with Dr. S. Kanmani Subbu
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Additional Information
TitlePatentDescription
Chintada Umasankar, Kali Prasad, Hariharan Krishnaswamy, Uday Chakkingal, "A Miniaturized Stretch-flangeability Testing Device and Method thereof", IN Patent 551,340
TitlePublicationsDescription15. Kali Prasad, Chintada Umasankar, Eun Seong Kim, Rashi Rajanna, Hariharan Krishnaswamy, Jayant Jain, Uday Chakkingal, Hyoung Seop Kim,"Elucidating the effects of interrupted loading on the stretch-flangeability of DP980 steel", Materials Science and Engineering: A, vol. 924, p.p 147717, 2025
14. Chintada Umasankar, Kali Prasad, Yeon Taek Choi, Do Won Lee, Hyoung Seop Kim, S Sankaran, Uday Chakkingal, "Role of direct quenching and partitioning processes in improving austenite stability and stretch flangeability in a low C steel", Metals and Materials International, p.p 1-16, 2024
13. Vikram Balaji, Kali Prasad, Hariharan Krishnaswamy, "A critical relook of Haasen plots to estimate activation volume in alloys", Vacuum, vol. 222, p.p 113093, 2024
12. Kali Prasad, Nooruddin Ansari, Hariharan Krishnaswamy, Jayant Jain, "Discrepancy in ductility improvement in repeated stress relaxation of AA7075", Materials Science and Engineering: A, vol. 885, p.p 145554, 2023
11. Jai Tiwari*, Kali Prasad*, Hariharan Krishnaswamy, Murugaiyan Amirthalingam, "Energy density to explain the ductility loss during electroplastic deformation of a dual phase steel", Materials Characterization, vol. 255, p.p 113359 (* Equal contribution), 2023
10. Kali Prasad*, Aishwary Gupta*, Hariharan Krishnaswamy, Uday Chakkingal, Dilip K. Banerjee, Myoung-Gyu Lee, "Does friction contribute to formability improvement using servo press ?", Friction, vol. 11, p.p 820-835 (* Equal contribution), 2023
9. Kali Prasad, Deepak Kumar, Hariharan Krishnaswamy, Dilip K. Banerjee,"Uncertainties in the Swift hardening law parameters and their influence on the flow stress and the hole expansion behavior of dual-phase (DP600) steel specimens", Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, vol. 32, p.p 9206–9220, 2023
8. G Logesh, C Srishilan, Ummen Sabu, Kali Prasad, M Rashad, Andrews Joseph, KC James Raju, M Balasubramanian,"Carbon fiber reinforced composites from industrial waste for microwave absorption and electromagnetic interference shielding applications", Ceramics International, vol. 49, p.p 1922-1931, 2023
7. Kali Prasad, Vikram Balaji, Hariharan Krishnaswamy, P Sudharshan Phani, Pierpaolo Carlone, "Rigorous analysis and pragmatic guidelines in estimating strain rate sensitivity using stress relaxation test", Mechanics of Materials, vol. 168, p.p 104279, 2022
6. Hyongjoon Lee, Hobyung Chae, You Sub Kim, Min Ji Song, Sangyeob Lim, Kali Prasad, Hariharan Krishnaswamy, Jayant Jain, Ke An, Soo Yeol Lee, "Viscoplastic lattice strain during repeated relaxation of age-hardened Al alloy", Mechanics of Materials, vol. 158, p.p 103899, 2022
5. Kali Prasad, B Venkatesh, Hariharan Krishnaswamy, Dilip K .Banerjee, Uday Chakkingal, "On the interplay of friction and stress relaxation to improve stretch-flangeability of dual phase (DP600) steel", CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology, vol. 32, p.p 154-169, 2021
4. Kali Prasad, Hariharan Krishnaswamy, N Arunachalam, "Investigations on ductility improvement and reloading yielding during stress relaxation of dual phase Ti–6Al–4V titanium alloy", Journal of Alloys and Compounds, vol. 828, p.p 154450, 2020
3. Kali Prasad, Hariharan Krishnaswamy, Jayant Jain, "Leveraging transient mechanical effects during stress relaxation for ductility improvement in aluminium AA 8011 alloy", Journal of Materials Processing Technology, vol. 255, p.p 1-7, 2018
2. Kali Prasad, C Srishilan, Ajay Kumar Shukla, Marutiram Kaza, "Thermodynamic assessment and experimental validation of clinker formation from blast furnace slag through lime addition", Ceramics International, vol. 44, p.p 19434-19441, 2018
1. Ravindra Dhirhi, Kali Prasad, Ajay Kumar Shukla, Sabita Sarkar, T Renganathan, S Pushpavanam, Marutiram Kaza, "Experimental study of rotating dry slag granulation unit: Operating regimes, particle size analysis and scale up", Applied Thermal Engineering, vol. 107, p.p 898-906, 2016
TitleNational and International ConferenceDescription10. Kali Prasad, Eun Seong Kim, Hyoung Seop Kim, "Effect of martensite volume fraction on the time-dependent plasticity of dual-phase steels", Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity (KSTP-2024), Oct 17-18, 2024, Jeju, South Korea
9. Kali Prasad, Eun Seong Kim, Hyoung Seop Kim, "Enhanced stretch-flangeability of advanced high strength steels through non-conventional forming techniques", Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity (KSTP-2024), May 23-24, 2024, Seoul, South Korea
8. Kali Prasad, Hariharan Krishnaswamy, Hyoung Seop Kim, "Elucidating time-dependent deformation characteristics of AA7075 alloy under different temper conditions", Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity (KSTP-2022), Dec 1-2, 2022, Jeju, South Korea
7. Vikram Balaji, Kali Prasad, Hariharan Krishnaswamy, Exploring stress relaxation phenomenon through finite element analysis using conventional elasto-viscoplastic models, International conference on Advances in Materials and Processing Technologies (AMPT-2022) October 10-14, Portoroz, Slovenia (2022).
6. Kali Prasad, Abrar Salam Ebrahim, Hariharan Krishnaswamy, Uday Chakkingal, Dilip K Banerjee, "Evaluation of hole expansion formability of high strength AA7075 alloy under varying temper conditions", International Deep-Drawing Research Group Conference (IDDRG 2022) June 06-10, Lorient, France (2022). (In IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, Volume 1238, 012038)
5. Kali Prasad, Hariharan Krishnaswamy, Dilip Banerjee, Uday Chakkingal, "An investigation into the influence of interrupted loading in improving the stretch-flangeability of dual phase steel", International Conference on Tribology in manufacturing process and joining by plastic deformation (ICTMP 2021) Nov 24-26, Online conference hosted by IIT Madras, Chennai, India (2021). (In Defect and Diffusion Forum, Vol. 414, pp. 81-87, Trans Tech Publications, Ltd)
4. Kali Prasad, Krishnaswamy Hariharan, Dilip K. Banerjee, "Experimental and modeling studies on the stress relaxation behaviour of Ti-6Al-4V alloy", ASME 2021 Gas Turbine India Conference Dec 2-3, Online virtual conference (2021)
3. Kali Prasad, Krishnaswamy Hariharan, N Arunachalam, "Stress Relaxation: An innovative method for ductility improvement in dual phase titanium alloys", Advanced Materials and Process for Defense Applications (ADMAT), September 23-25, Hyderabad, India, 2019
2. Kali Prasad, Krishnaswamy Hariharan, "Study of tensile deformation behaviour of metals subjected to stress relaxation", ASIA Steel International Conference (ASIC), organized by TATA Steels and Indian Institute of Metals, February 6-9, Bhubaneswar, India, 2018
1. Kali Prasad, Ajay Kumar Shukla, "Physical modeling based analysis of dry slag granulation process", presented in National Metallurgist day, 2015, Coimbatore, organized by Indian Institute of Metals.
