General Information

Assistant Professor: October 1987- November 1990
Associate Professor: November 1990- August 1995
Professor: August 1995- October 2013
Professor (RE-EMPLOYED) : November 2013- June 2014 & November 2014-October 2016
Emeritus Fellow: July 2014-November 2014 & October 2016-June 2017

Email:?bpk@iitb.ac.in
Tel:?+91-22-2576-7622
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Academic Background:

  • M.Tech, (Met. Engg.) I.I.T Kanpur (1975)
  • Ph.D, (Met. Engg.) I.I.T Kanpur (1980)

Awards & Recognitions

  • Distinguished Metallurgists/Material Scientists Award, by Institution of Engineers (India), Maharashtra State Centre
  • Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) Fellowship: Research in Superplasticity of Aerospace Materials in the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
  • MRSI (Materials Research Society of India) Medal Lecture, 2006
  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), 2006
  • Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India, 2007
  • Institute Chair Professor (2011-2014)

Research Interests

  • Thermo-mechanical treatment and Superplasticity
  • Grain boundary phenomena.
  • Creep and low temperature deformation
  • Microstructure – flow property correlations.
  • Light metals and alloy development

Research Projects

  • Design and Fabrication of Superplastic forming Facility and Exploring the Superplastic Formability of Zirconium Alloys (BRNS)
  • Literature Survey for Preparation of Databook on Properties of Al-Li Alloys (Purdue University)
  • Thermohydrogen Processing of Zr and Ti-alloys (BRNS)
  • Nature of extraordinary high and low superplastic elongations in severely deformed ultrafine-grained Al-Mg-Sc-Zr alloy. Joint RFBR-DST project

Patents

  • "Titanium based Biocomposite Material useful for orthopaedic and other applications and a process for its preparation" Karanjai M., Sundaesan R., Rao G.V.N., Mohan T.R.R., Kashyap B.P. Patent grant no. 228353 dated- 03 Feb 2009

Selected Publications:

  • "Plastic flow properties and microstructural evolution in an ultrafine grained Al-Mg-Si alloy at elevated temperatures" Kashyap B.P., Hodgsen P.D., Estrin Y., Timokhina I., Barnett M.R., Sabirov I., Metall. Mater. Trans. A, 40(13), 3294-3303(2009).
  • "Effect of test Temperature on Tensile Properties of a/b Brass Containing Lead"?Kashyap B. P., Verma S., Mandlik P., Kumar N., Toppo S. P., Journal of Materials Processing Technology 22(3), 363-367 (2006).
  • "Flow Behaviour of a Modified Zr-2.5 wt% Nb Pressure Tube alloy"?Sing R. N., Mukherjee S., Kishore R., Kashyap B. P., Nuclear Materials 345(2-3), 146-161 (2005).
  • "Identificiation of Flow Instabilities in the Processing Maps of AISI 304 Stainless steel"?Murthy S. V. S. N., Nageswara R. B., Kashyap B. P., Journal of Materials Processing Technology 166(2), 268-278 (2005).
  • "On the Hot working Characteristics of 2014 Al-20 vol% Al2O3 Metal Matrix Composite"?Murthy S. V. S. N., Rao B. N., Kashyap B. P., Journal of Materials Processing Technology 166, 279-285 (2005).

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