Micro-Mechanics of Materials Group 

Papers:
1.    S. Basu, B. Nagamani Jaya, R. K Yadav, S. Ganguly, M. Dutta, “Size and microstructural factors affecting the micro-hole expansion ratio and fracture toughness of dual phase steel sheets”, Materials Science & Engineering A, Vol 919, 2025, 147517
2.    D. Yadav and B. Nagamani Jaya, “Enhancing the Fracture Resistance of Additive Manufactured Polylactic Acid via Morse-Code-like Architecturing ”, Additive Manufacturing, 2024
3.    Suruj Neog, N. Pai, S. Joshi, B. Nagamani Jaya, D. Yadav, N. Curry, I. Samajdar, “Growth Selection Induced Residual Stresses and Fracture Behavior of as-deposited Thermal Barrier Coatings”, J. American Ceramic Society, 2024
4.    A. Prasad, D. Awale, H. Sahasrabuddhe, B. Nagamani Jaya., “On the origin of extrinsic size effects on the fracture resistance of thin ETP Copper sheets”, Advanced Engineering Materials, 2024
5.    A. K. Mishra, S. Abbas, D. Srinivasan, S. Sampath and B. Nagamani Jaya., “Novel, high throughput interface fracture testing method for thermal spray coatings: The modified cantilever bend technique”, J. European Ceramic Society, Vol 44 (12), 2024, 7285
6.    S. Mathiyalagan, M. Rossetti, S. Bjorklund, S. Basu, B. Nagamani Jaya, S. Sowers, S. Joshi, “Deposition characteristics and tribological performance of atmospheric plasma sprayed diamond metal matrix composite (DMMC) coatings”, Materials Chemistry and Physics, Vol 315, 2024, 128920
7.    N. G. Mathews, Aloshious Lambai , Gaurav Mohanty , N. Venkataramani , Gerhard Dehm , Balila Nagamani Jaya, “Effect of stiff substrates on enhancing the fracture resistance of Barium Titanate thin films”, Materials and Design, Vol 235, 2023, 112440
8.    D. Yadav and B. Nagamani Jaya, “Mechanical Properties and Damage Tolerance of 3D Printed PLA”, Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology, 2023
9.    K. Jacob, H. Khanchandani, S. Dixit, B. Nagamani Jaya, “Suppression of reverted austenite in cold rolled maraging steels and its impact on mechanical properties”, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 2024
10.    S. Sahu, S. S. Sahoo, B. Kumar, B. Nagamani Jaya, D. Srinivasan, “Microstructural Evolution and Room Temperature Mechanical Properties in Additively Manufactured Mar M 509 With Short Cycle Heat Treatment”, ASME Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology, Vol 146, 2024, 011007
11.    S. Basu, B. Nagamani Jaya, S. Ganguly, M. Dutta, I. Samajdar, "Novel miniature in-situ hole expansion test coupled with microscopic digital image correlation”, Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol 94 (1), 2023
12.    S. Basu, B. Nagamani Jaya, H. Seekala, P. S. Phani, A. Patra, S. Ganguly, M. Dutta, I. Samajdar, “Correlative Characterization and Plasticity Modeling of Microscopic Strain Localizations in a Dual Phase Steel”, Materials Characterization, Vol 197, 2023, 112704
13.    B. Kumar, S. Sahu, D. Srinivasan, B. Nagamani Jaya, “Influence of heat input on solidification cracking in additively manufactured CM247LC Ni-based superalloy”, Metallurgical & Materials Transactions A, Vol 54, 2023, 2394
14.    A. Verma, H. Sahasrabuddhe, A. K. Mishra, B. Nagamani Jaya, “Role of crack offset and loading condition on fracture behavior of wire specimen”, Materials Today Proceedings, 2023
15.    D. Yadav and B. Nagamani Jaya, “Size effects governing damage resistance of architected PMMA”, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Vol. 290, 2023, 109526
16.    S. Shukla, B. Nagamani Jaya, and V. S. Raja, “Role of GP II Zones and Metastable -ɳ′ Precipitates on the Environmentally Assisted Cracking Behavior of AA 7050 Alloy”, Metall Mater Trans A, 2023.
17.    O. Satbhai, S. P. Neog, S. Karagadde, I Samajdar, B. Nagamani Jaya, H. Kumar, R. Ravikumar, R. Mythili, C. Ghosh, A Dasgupta, “A novel computational methodology to predict the locations and orientations of solidification cracks: Applications of pulsed laser welding, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer”, Vol 204, 2023, 123835
18.    S. Shukla, B. Nagamani Jaya, and V. S. Raja, “Micro-mechanisms of deformation accommodation in AA7050 alloy in the presence of hydrogen” Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Vol 947, 2023, 169596
19.    B. Kumar, B. Nagamani Jaya, “Thermal Stability and Residual Stresses in Additively Manufactured Single and Multi-material Systems”, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 2023, 1-17
20.    K. Jacob, H. Sahasrabuddhe, A. Hohenwarter, S. Dixit, B. Nagamani Jaya, “Micro-mechanisms of failure in nano-structured maraging steels characterised through in-situ mechanical tests”, Nanotechnology, Vol 34, No 2, 2023, 025703
21.    Review: B. Nagamani Jaya, “Fracture in small-scale structured and confined volumes” MRS Bulletin, 47, 2022, 832-838
22.    A. K. Mishra, S. Shinde, S. Sampath, B. Nagamani Jaya, “A modified clamped beam bend technique for fracture energy measurement of ceramic/metal interfaces”, J. Eur. Cer. Soc., Vol 42, Issue, 15, 2022, 7166-7173
23.    Featured Article: N. G. Mathews, A. K. Saxena, N. Venkataramani, G. Dehm, B. Nagamani Jaya, “Multiscale characterization of damage tolerance in Barium Titanate thin films”, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol 132, Issue 4, 2022, 045302
24.    S. Basu, A. Patra, B. Nagamani Jaya, S. Ganguly, M. Dutta, I. Samajdar “Study of microstructure-property correlations in dual phase steels for achieving enhanced strength and reduced strain partitioning”, Materialia, Vol 25, 2022, 101522
25.    S. Basu, N. G Mathews, T. J. Chaudhuri, B. Nagamani Jaya, “Finite element modelling of indentation behavior of Dual Phase steels: Role of plastic zone size in property mapping” JOM special issue on 30 Years of Oliver-Pharr: Then, Now and the Future of Nanoindentation, Vol 74, 2022, 2245-2260
26.    S. Shukla, B. Nagamani Jaya, V. S. Raja, Understanding the role of matrix precipitates on the environmentally assisted cracking behavior of AA 7050 alloy, Corrosion Science, Vol 201, 2022, 110281
27.    A. K. Mishra, H. Gopalan, M. Hans, C. Kirchlechner, J. Schneider, G. Dehm, B. Nagamani Jaya, “Strategies for damage tolerance enhancement in metal/ceramic thin films: Lessons learned from simulations and the system Ti/TiN”, Acta Materialia, Vol 228, 2022, 117777.
28.    D. Yadav, T. More, B. Nagamani Jaya, “Morse-Code inspired architectures for tunable damage tolerance in brittle material systems”, J. Materials Research, 2022
29.    K. Jacob, A. Roy, M. P. Gururajan, B. Nagamani Jaya, “Effect of dislocation networks on precipitate morphology in maraging steels” Materialia, Vol 21, 2022, 101358.
30.    A. Sarkar, S. Basu, A. B. Pattanayak, B. Nagamani Jaya, I. Samajdar, S. Karagadde, H. Kumar, R. Ravikumar, R. Mythili, C. Ghosh, A. Dasgupta, S. K. Albert, “The Defining Role of Micro-Fissures on the Mechanical Behavior of Laser Welded Fully Austenitic Stainless Steel”, Met Trans A, 2022
31.    H. Sahasrabuddhe, A. Zubair, A. K. Mishra, B. Nagamani Jaya, “Defining role of wire aspect ratio on fracture toughness determination of brittle materials in cylindrical configuration”, J. Materials Research, Vol 37, 2022, 990–1002.
32.    Review: B. Nagamani Jaya, N. G. Mathews, A. K. Mishra, S. Basu, K. Jacob, “Non-conventional small-scale mechanical testing of materials”, Journal of IISc, 2022
33.    N. G. Mathews, A. K. Mishra, B. Nagamani Jaya, “Mode dependent evaluation of fracture behaviour using cantilever bending”, Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, Vol 115, 2021, 103069
34.    S. Basu, B. Nagamani Jaya, A. Patra, S. Ganguly, M. Dutta, A. Hohenwarter, I. Samajdar, “The Role of Phase Hardness Differential on the Non-Uniform Elongation of a Ferrite-Martensite Dual Phase steel” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, Vol 52, 2021, 4018
35.    T. Chaudhari, N. G. Mathews, A. K. Mishra, H. Sahasrabuddhe, B. Nagamani Jaya, “Energy Release Rate Formulations for Non-Conventional Fracture Test Geometries” JOM special issue on 100 Years of the Griffith Fracture Criteria, Vol 73(6), 2021, 1597-1606
36.    H. K. Mehtani, M. I. Khan, B. Nagamani Jaya, S. Parida, M. J. N. V. Prasad, I. Samajdar, “The oxidation behavior of iron-chromium alloys: The defining role of substrate chemistry on kinetics, microstructure and mechanical properties of the oxide scale” Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Vol 871, 2021, 159583 
37.    K. Jacob, D. Yadav, S. Dixit, A. Hohenwarter, B. Nagamani Jaya, “High Pressure Torsion Processing of Maraging Steel 250: Microstructure and Mechanical Behaviour Evolution” Materials Science and Engg A, Vol 802, 2021, 140665
38.    Ashwini K Mishra, Aloshious Lambai, Vikram Jayaram, B. Nagamani Jaya, “The edge-notched clamped beam bend specimen as a fracture toughness test geometry”, Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, Vol 105, 2020, 102409
39.    Nidhin G Mathews, A K Saxena, Christoph Kirchlechner, Gerhard Dehm, B. Nagamani Jaya, “Effect of size and domain orientation on strength of Barium Titanate”, Scripta Materialia, Vol 182, 2020, 68-73
40.    Review: S. Evertz, V. Schnabel, M. Köhler, I. Kirchlechner, P. Kontis, Y. Chen, R. Soler, B. Nagamani Jaya, C.Kirchlechner, D. Music, B. Gault, J. M. Schneider, D. Raabe and G. Dehm, "Review on Quantum Mechanically Guided Design of Ultra-Strong Metallic Glasses", Frontiers in Materials, Vol 7, 2020, 89
41.    S. Bhusare and B. Nagamani Jaya, “Deformation and fracture behavior of cold drawn pearlitic steel wires after heat treatment”, Structural Integrity Assessment, Lectures in Mechanical Engineering, 2020, 189-200
42.    Ashwini Kumar Mishra, Sanjay Sampath, Gregory M. Smith, B. Nagamani Jaya, “Experimental Measurements of Interface Fracture Toughness using Double Cantilever Bending”, Structural Integrity Assessment, Lectures in Mechanical Engineering, 2020, 511-522
43.    B. Nagamani Jaya, S. Goto, G. Richter, Christoph Kirchlechner and Gerhard Dehm, “Fracture behavior of nanostructured heavily cold drawn pearlite before and after annealing”, Materials Science and Engineering A, Vol 707, 2017, 164-171
44.    Review: G. Dehm, B. Nagamani Jaya, R. Raghavan and C. Kirchlechner “Overview on micro- and nanomechanical testing: New Insights in Interface Plasticity and Fracture at Small Length Scales”, Acta Materialia, Vol 142, 2017, 248-282 
45.    R. Raghavan, C. Kirchlechner, B. Nagamani Jaya, M. Feuerbacher, and G. Dehm “Mechanical size effects in a single crystalline equiatomic FeCrCoMnNi high entropy alloy”, Scripta Materialia, Vol 129, 2017, 52-55
46.    B. Nagamani Jaya, J. M. Wheeler, J. Wehrs, J. P. Best, R. Soler, J. Michler, C. Kirchlechner and G. Dehm “Micro-scale fracture behavior of single crystal silicon beams at elevated temperatures”, Nanoletters, Vol 16 (12), 2016, 7597-7603
47.    Volker Schnabel, B. Nagamani Jaya, Mathias Köhler, Denis Music, Christoph Kirchlechner, Gerhard Dehm, Dierk Raabe, Jochen M. Schneider, “Electronic hybridisation implications for the damage-tolerance of thin film metallic glasses”, Scientific Reports, Vol 6, 2016 (online)
48.    B. Nagamani Jaya, R. Hoffmann, C. Kirchlechner, G. Dehm C. Scheu and G. Langer, “Coccospheres confer mechanical protection: New evidence for an old hypothesis”, Acta Biomaterialia, Vol 42, 2016, 258-264
49.    A. Davydok, B. Nagamani Jaya, O. Robach, O. Ulrich, J.S. Micha, C. Kirchlechner, “Analysis of the full stress tensor in a micropillar: Ability of and difficulties arising during synchrotron based μLaue diffraction” Materials and Design, Vol 108, 2016, 68-75.
50.    B. Nagamani Jaya, Sanjit Bhowmick, S. A. Syed Asif and Vikram Jayaram, “In-situ study of microscale fracture of diffusion aluminide bond coats: Effect of platinum” Journal of Materials Research, Vol 30 Issue 21, 2015, 3343-3353
51.    R. Raghavan, J. M. Wheeler, T. P. Harzer, V. Chawla, S. Djaziri, K. Thomas, B. Phillipi, C. Kirchlechner, B. Nagamani Jaya, J. Wehrs, J. Michler and G. Dehm, ”Transition from shear to stress-assisted diffusion of copper-chromium multilayered thin films at elevated temperatures”, Acta Materialia, Vol 100, 2015, 73-80
52.    Review: B. Nagamani Jaya and Vikram Jayaram, “Fracture testing at small length scales: From plasticity in Si to brittleness in Pt”, Journal of Metals, Vol 68 Issue 1, 2015, 94-108
53.    B. Nagamani Jaya, Sanjit Bhowmick, S. A. Syed Asif, Oden L. Warren and Vikram Jayaram, “Optimization of clamped beam geometry for fracture toughness testing of micron-scale samples” Phil Mag Special Issue on Nanomech IV, Vol 95, 2015, 1945-1966 
54.    B. Nagamani Jaya, Christoph Kirchlechner and Gerhard Dehm, “Can micro-scale fracture tests provide reliable fracture toughness values? A case study in silicon”, Journal of Materials Research, Vol 30 Issue 5, 2015, 686-698
55.    B. Nagamani Jaya and Vikram Jayaram, “Crack stability in edge notched clamped beam specimen under bending: modeling and experiments”, International Journal of Fracture, Vol 188, Issue 2, 2014, 213-228
56.    Review: B. Nagamani Jaya and Md. Zafir Alam, “Small-scale mechanical testing of materials-A review and case studies”, Current Science Special Section-Materials, Vol 105, Issue 8, 2013, 1073-1099
57.    B. Nagamani Jaya, Vikram Jayaram and Sanjay K. Biswas, “A new method for fracture toughness determination of graded (Pt,Ni)Al bond coats by microbeam bend tests”, Philosophical Magazine Special Issue on Nanomechanical Testing in Materials Research and Development III, Vol 92, Issue 25-27, 2012, 3326-3345.


Conference proceedings:
1.    D. Awale, N. Shah, D. Srinivasan, B. Nagamani Jaya, “Small volume fatigue testing of additively manufactured Hybrid IN718/XH67 and IN939 Ni based superalloys”, ASME Proceedings, 2024
2.    R. K. Yadav, N. Shah, D. Srinivasan, B. Nagamani Jaya, “Microstructure-Mechanical Properties of Short-Cycle Heat-Treated Additively Manufactured Mar-M 509 Cobalt Superalloy”, Superalloys Proceedings, 2024
3.    S. Sahu, B. Kumar, D. Srinivasan, B. Nagamani Jaya, Thermal Stability of Additively Manufactured Mar M 509, ASME Proceedings, I-AM 2022
4.    D. Yadav, P Gupta, B. Nagamani Jaya, Impact of Build Direction, Infill Pattern and Raster Angle on Mechanical Properties and Damage Tolerance of 3D Printed PLA, ASME Proceedings, I-AM 2022
5.    A. K. Mishra, N. Kumari, B. Nagamani Jaya, “Clamped Beam Bending for Mixed Mode Fracture Toughness Measurements”, Advances in Structural Integrity, Structural Integrity at Multiple Length Scales, 2022, Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, 10.1007/978-981-16-8724-2_8
6.    K. Jacob, S. Dixit, A. Hohenwarter, B. Nagamani Jaya, “Effect of deformation and aging on hardening behaviour of Maraging Steel 250”, Advances in Structural Integrity, Structural Integrity at Multiple Length Scales, 2022, Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-8724-2_33
7.    B. Nagamani Jaya, Sanjit Bhowmick, S. A. Syed Asif and Vikram Jayaram, “Fracture properties of diffusion aluminide bond coats: An in situ SEM study of microbeam bending”, Conference proceeding, Microscopy and Microanalysis, Volume 19, Supplement S2 August 2013, 1836-18379.
6.   B. Nagamani Jaya, Vikram Jayaram and S K Biswas, “Novel microbeam bend geometry for fracture toughness determination of graded bond coats”, Conference proceeding, International Conference on the Strength of Materials-16, 2012.
7.   B. Nagamani Jaya, Sanjit Bhowmick, S. A. Syed Asif, Oden L. Warren, Vikram Jayaram and Sanjay K. Biswas, “In-situ SEM study of microbeam bending of diffusion aluminide bond coats”, Conference proceeding, Microscopy and Microanalysis, Volume 18, Supplement S2, 2012, 780-781.