DESCRIPTION :

Mr. Rajakishore Sahoo is currently working as a Senior Scientist in Advanced Materials Technology Department at CSIR-Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology, Bhubaneswar, India. Earlier, he worked as Scientist and Scientist Trainee in the same organization for more than six years. He received his B.Tech degree in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from IGIT, Sarang under BPUT, Odisha in 2008 and M.Tech degree in Materials Resource Engineering from AcSIR, New Delhi in 2011. The research work has been focused on Structure-Property correlationship of Titanium alloys, Nickel based superalloys, Steel and Magnesium alloys for aerospace, automotive and general engineering applications.

• 11th November 2015 onward: Senior Scientist, CSIR- Institute of Minerals & Materials Technology, Bhubaneswar, India.
• 11th November 2011 to 10th November 2015: Scientist, CSIR- Institute of Minerals & Materials Technology, Bhubaneswar, India.
• 07th September 2009 to 10th November 2011: Scientist Trainee, CSIR- Institute of Minerals & Materials Technology, Bhubaneswar, India.

• Microstructural characterization.
• Mechanical behaviour.
• Tribology.
• Non-destructive evaluation.
• Failure analysis.
• Structure - property correlation.

• Young scientist award in Materials engineering in 2017 by Venus International Foundation, Chennai.
• All India Rank of 27 in Metallurgy in GATE 2008.
• Honours in Diploma (Metallurgical Engineering) : SCTE&VT, Odisha, 2003.

• R. Sahoo, B.B. Jha and T.K. Sahoo, “Effect of microstructure on the creep properties of Ti-6Al-4V alloys: An analysis”, Transactions of Indian institute of metals, 2018, Volume 71, pp. 1573–1582.
• U. Das, V. Toppo, T.K. Sahoo and R. Sahoo, “Microstructural and Mechanical Properties of FSW Joints Between AA6101-T6 and AA6351-T6 Dissimilar Al Alloys”, Transactions of Indian institute of metals, 2018, Volume 71, pp. 823-830.
• B.B. Jha, R. Sahoo and T.K. Sahoo, “Microstructural characterization of Ti-6Al-4V using ultrasonic attenuation and its correlation with mechanical behavior”, The e-Journal of nondestructive testing, 2017, Volume 22, pp.1-6.
• R. Sahoo, B.B. Jha, T.K. Sahoo and S. Mantry, “Effect of volume fraction of primary alpha phase on solid particle erosion behavior of Ti-6Al-4V alloy”, Tribology transactions, 2015, Volume 58, pp.1105-1118.
• R. Sahoo, B.B. Jha, T.K. Sahoo,“ Effect of primary alpha phase variation on mechanical behavior of Ti-6Al-4V alloy”, Materials science and technology, 2015, Volume 31,pp. 1486-1494.

• Corrosion and thermal fatigue behavior of IMI 834 titanium alloy [OLP-47].
• Failure analysis of Nimonic alloy based low pressure turbine rotor blades [SSP-271].
• Failure analysis of low and high-pressure turbine rotor blades and aero engine compressor blades [SSP-264].
• Metallurgical failure analysis for assessing service suitability of in-service components [TSP-008].
• Experimental and theoretical investigations of the mechanical behavior and the evolution of structure for the alloys under non-stationary process of superplastic deformation [GAP-200].
• Novel energy effective metallic materials for automotive and general engineering applications [ESC- 101].
• Study on mechanical properties of metals, alloys, composites etc. for the assessment of their service suitability [TSP-005].
• Development of W-Cu functionally graded plasma facing material for fusion reactor [GAP-284].
• Development of diboride particulate dispersed steel for nuclear shielding application [GAP-291].