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Dr. Nilesh Kumar

Assistant Professor

Contact

  • 2008 NERC
  • phone (205) 348-1581
  • Email

Education

  • Ph.D., Missouri University of Science & Technology, 2011
  • M.E., Indian Institute of Science, 2006
  • B.E., National Institute of Technology Karnataka, 2004

Dr. Nilesh Kumar is an assistant professor in the department of metallurgical and materials engineering at The University of Alabama since August 2018. Prior to this, he was a post-doctoral research associate at North Carolina State University in Raleigh and the University of North Texas in Denton. He obtained his doctorate degree in materials science and engineering from Missouri University of Science & Technology in Rolla.

A common theme that cuts across all the research work Kumar has carried out so far is establishing correlation among processing (thermo-mechanical, friction stir processing, and laser), microstructure (grain-size, dislocations, and precipitates), and mechanical properties (strength, ductility, creep, creep-fatigue, residual stress, and stress corrosion cracking) in metallic materials (aluminum alloys, magnesium alloys, austenitic stainless steels, titanium alloys) used in transportation and power-generation industries.

At present, his group is investigating temperature-dependent plastic deformation and stress corrosion cracking behavior of high entropy alloys. His group uses advanced characterization tools such as in-situ SEM-based tensile testing frame, digital image correlation, and electron backscattered diffraction in their research to establish processing – microstructure – mechanical properties correlation.

He has published 32 papers in peer-reviewed journals, co-authored three books, and contributed one handbook chapter. Kumar is a member of several scientific organizations and has been a reviewer for more than a dozen scientific journals. The details of group members, research projects, and recent publications can be found at nkumar.people.ua.edu.

Affiliated Areas
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

Selected Publications

  • S. Alomari, N. Kumar, and K. L. Murty, Serrated yielding in an advanced stainless steel Fe-25Ni-20Cr (wt%), Materials Science and Engineering A 751 (2019) pp. 292 – 302, (2019)
  • S. Alomari, N. Kumar, and K. L. Murty, Creep behavior and microstructural evolution of a Fe-20Cr-25Ni (Mass Percent) austenitic stainless steel (Alloy 709) at elevated temperatures, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 50 (2019) pp. 641 – 654, (2019)
  • S. Alomari, N. Kumar, and K. L. Murty, Enhanced ductility in dynamic strain aging regime in a Fe-25Ni-20Cr austenitic stainless steel. Materials Science and Engineering: A, 729 (2018) pp. 157-160, (2018)
  • Kumar, A. Alomari, and K.L. Murty, Thermally activated deformation of recrystallized Zircaloy-4, Journal of Nuclear Materials, 504 (2018) pp. 41-49, (2018)
  • Martinez, N. Kumar, R.S. Mishra, and K.J. Doherty, Microstructural comparison of friction stir welded aluminum alloy 7449 starting from different tempers, Journal of Materials Science, 53 (2018) pp. 9273 – 9286

Awards and Honors

Dr. Kumar's Impact

Innovative UA Research Recognized with NSF CAREER Awards

Four professors at The University of Alabama received one of the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious honors for early-career faculty.

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