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Dr. Kavithaa S

Designation: Scientist - E
Centre: Centre for Machine Tools & Special Purpose Equipments (C-SPM)
Group: Materials And Metallurgy Group
Joining Date: 27.02.2012
Email Id: kavithaa[at]cmti[dot]res[dot]in
Office Telephone No: 080-22188201
Mobile No: 9449842697

  • Principal Investigator of Grant-in-aid R & D projects on materials processing, characterization & fabrication sponsored by GoI funding agencies
  • Team member in sponsored R & D projects
  • Augmenting materials characterization & processing facilities
  • Quality System Maintenance of Material Testing Laboratory as per ISO/ IEC 17025:2017
  • Evaluation & procurement of sub-systems concerning materials processing
  • Mentor for thesis dissertation of post graduate and graduate students
  • Faculty for scheduled training programs in the area of Materials Science & Engineering
B.Sc. (Applied Sciences) 1994-97 PSG College of Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore
M. Sc. (Applied Sciences)- Materials Science 1998-2000
Ph.D. Materials  Science 2004-09 Anna University, Chennai

 
Fellowships/ Employment Name of Institution Period  R & D activity
Junior Project Fellow &Trainee CSIR – National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science & Technology (NIIST), Trivandrum  

July, 2000 -February, 2002

 Surface treatment & surface coatings on reinforcements for use in Al metal matrix composites
Research Scholar & DST (WOS-A) Principal Investigator  

Dept. of Metallurgical Engg., PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore

  

January, 2005 -May, 2009

 

 Synthesis, Characterization and Property Evaluation of 9Cr – 1Mo ODS martensitic steel for high temperature applications
CSIR- Research

Associate &

DST (WOS-A)

Principal

Investigator

  

CSIR – Central Leather Research

Institute (CLRI), Chennai

  

April, 2010 – February, 2012

 Synthesis, Characterization of mixed metal oxides/coatings & evaluation of their catalytic properties for industrial effluent treatment
 

Scientist – C

  

 

 

Central Manufacturing Technology Institute, Bangalore

 February, 2012 -October, 2018 Fabrication, Processing & Characterization of Materials

Augmentation of materials characterization & processing facilities
Scientist – D November, 2018 – July, 2020
Scientist – D &

Group Head

 August, 2020 – March, 2024
Scientist – E

& Group Head

 April, 2024 onwards

GRANT-IN-AID PROJECTS

Role Funding Agency Reference Status
 

Principal Investigator

 AR&DB, New Delhi ARDB/01/2031901/M/I dt.15.02.2019 Completed
DST, New Delhi SR/WOS-A/ET-15/2005 dt. 25.08.2011 Completed
DST, New Delhi SR/WOS-A/ET-41/2009 dt. 25.05.2006 Completed
 

Project Lead Scientist

  

MHI, New Delhi

 Advanced Engineering Materials Testing Facility  

On-going
Compendium of Facilities for Certified Reference Materials Production

 

 

SPONSORED PROJECTS

 

Role Funding Agency Reference Status
 

Team member

 DRDO, New Delhi Development of Special Purpose Machines  

 

Completed
Project

Co-ordinator

 Fasteners & Allied Products Pvt. Ltd. Hubli Diffusion Aluminization of Fasteners
DAE, Mumbai Diffusion Aluminization of M 105 Fasteners
Team member Ministry of Commerce & Industry, New Delhi Sensor Technology Development Facility  

Completed
Nano Manufacturing Technology Centre
Team member Fasteners & Allied Products Pvt. Ltd. Hubli Diffusion Aluminization Processing, Heat Treatment, Testing & Inspection On-going

 

Internal projects

 

Role Reference Status
Project Coordinator Establishment of Heat Treatment facility for Certified Reference Materials Production On-going
Design & Development of Primary Hardness Standarization Machine

 

SCI Publications

  • Sol-gel Ceramic Coatings on SiCp for interfacial design of PM Cu composites, Materials Today: Proceedings, 2021, Vol. 46, Issue 17, pp. 8772-8777
  • Synthesis of nanocrystalline yttria for high performance applications, Materials Letters, 48(2001), pp. 342-346
  • Yttria dispersed 9Cr martensitic steel synthesized by Mechanical Alloying – Hot Isostatic Pressing, Trans. IIM, Vol. 63, Issue 3, June 2010, pp. 67-74
  • Cold compaction of ODS 9 Cr martensitic steel alloy powder synthesized by Mechanical Alloying, Vol.18, Indian J. Of Engg. and Materials Sciences, April 2011, pp. 119-124
  •  Photo catalytic degradation of Orange G dye under solar light using Nano crystalline semiconductor metal oxide, Environ. Sci. Poll. Res. 2012 19(7), pp. 2755-65
  • A monograph on “Yttria dispersed 9Cr martensitic steel by mechanical alloying”, ISBN: 978-3-659-12724-3, LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing GmbH & Co. Germany
  • Synthesis, characterization and catalytic activity of nano size semiconductor metal oxide in a visible light batch slurry photoreactor, J. Of Molecular Liquids, 179 (2013), pp. 18-26
  • Nanometric finishing on biomedical implants by Abrasive flow finishing, J. Inst. Eng. India Ser. C, Vol. 97, Issue 1, 2016, pp. 55-61
  • Preparation, Characterization & Enhanced Photocatalytic activities of Zinc oxide nano rods/Silicon carbide composite under UV and visible light irradiations, J. of Mol. Catalysis A: Chem. 411, Jan. 2016, pp. 167-178
  • Nanometric surface finishing of typical industrial components by Abrasive Flow Finishing, Intl. J. of Advanced Manuf. Tech., 2016, Vol. 85, Issue 9-12, pp. 2189-2196
  • Significance of interface tailoring in PM Cu/SiC composites for electronics packaging applications, Metallurgical & Materials Trans. A, April 2019, 50, Issue 4, pp. 1902-1913
  • Electron beam welding of oxide dispersion strengthened 9 Cr ferritic-martensitic steel – an experimental and theoretical perspective, Materials Today: Proceedings 22 (2020) 2509–2519
  • Conferred with The Institution Prize for the year 2017 of The Institution of Engineers (India) for being the corresponding author in the Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series C, Volume 97, 2016
  • Recipient of G. S. Tendolkar award of Powder Metallurgy Association of India for the best research work on sintering studies for the year 2010
  • Awarded CSIR -Research Associateship vide ref. no. CSIR EMR Division: Award letter no. 31/6(327)/2010-EMR-I dated 08.03.2010
  • Authored a monograph on “Yttria dispersed 9Cr martensitic steel by mechanical alloying”, ISBN: 978-3-659-12724-3, LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing GmbH & Co. Germany
  • Received the Certificate of outstanding contribution in Reviewing in recognition of the contributions made to the quality of the Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering (January, 2017) presented by The Editors of Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • An improved sol gel process for coating ceramic reinforcements with rare earth oxides, S. Kavithaa, B.C. Pai, R.M. Pillai, K.G. Satyanarayana (RRL-T) and S. Banerjee (BARC), (vide communication no.): 03.02.2003 NF 58/03; IPAN0370/DEL/2008; dt. 12.02.08