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Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science
Abhijit Mishra
Amit Arora
Emila Panda
HomeFacultyMEMSShant Prakash Gupta
Shant Prakash Gupta
Visiting Professor
 

B.Tech.: Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 1965
M.Tech.: Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, New York, 1969
Ph.D.: Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, New York, 1972

Email: shantpg @ iitgn.ac.in
Phone: +91-79-23972324
Fax: +91-79-23972622
 
Research Interest
  • Joining of metals to ceramics such as alumina, zirconia, silicon carbide, etc and studying the intermetallics formed
  • Binary and ternary diffusion couples and kinetics of growth of the intermetallic layers, analysis of the ternary intermetallics and isothermal sections of the ternary phase diagram
  • Liquid film migration in binary alloys, microstructure, kinetics of growth, diffusion coefficient and the driving force
  • Diffusion induced grain boundary migration in binary systems, microstructure, growth kinetics, diffusion coefficient, driving force, fine grains and fine grain layer growth
  • Kinetics of discontinuous precipitation, discontinuous coarsening, and discontinuous dissolution of precipitate

Work Experience
  • Professor, Emeritus (Jul-2006 to Nov-2007)
  • Professor, I. I. T., Kanpur (Dec-1986 to Jun-2006)
  • Assistant Professor, I. I. T., Kanpur (Oct-1978 to Nov-1986)
  • Research Scientist, Max-Planck Institut für Metalforschung, Stuttgart, West Germany (Jan-1978 to Oct-1978)
  • Associate Professor, Universidad Simon Bolivar Caracas, Venezuela (Sept-1976 to Dec-1977)
  • Assistant Professor, Washington State University Pullman, Washington, USA (Apr-1972 to Sep-1976)
Selected Recent Publications
  • "Diffusion in Solids," The book has been reviewed by McMillan India Ltd.
  • "Phase Equilibria in Materials," Allied Publishers Pvt. Published: Limited, New Delhi, 2003
  • "Solid State Phase Transformations," Allied Publishers Pvt. Published: Limited, New Delhi, 2002
  • S.P Gupta, A.A.Johnson, K.Mukherjee and E.A.Imbewbo, "Precipitation Hardening in a cupro-nickel alloy containing 1%Si,"Materials science and Engg., 6(1970) 395
  • S.P.Gupta, A.A.Johnson and K.Mukherjee, "Comments on the phase transformations in a TiNi alloy,"Journal of Phys. Society of Japan, 31(1970) 605
 

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