Metallurgical & Materials Engineering

Faculty Details

Supriya Bera Associate Professor
Joined the Institute in 2010
sbera[dot]mme[at]nitdgp[dot]ac[dot]in
Publication

2

Publications

4

Sponsored Projects

0

Consultancy Projects
Education

1

Doctoral Students

0

Continuing Education

0

PG Dissertation
Education

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

Metallurgical and Materials Engg., IIT Kharagpur, India

2010

Master of Science (M.S.)

Metallurgical and Materials Engg., IIT Kharagpur, India

2005

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)

Metallurgy and Materials Engg., BE College, Shibpore, India (IIEST, Shibpur)

2002
Work Experiences

Dept. of Metallurgical and Materials Engg. NIT Durgapur, India

Associate Professor (AGP 8000)

October 2018 – till date

Dept. of Metallurgical and Materials Engg. NIT Durgapur, India

Assistant Professor (AGP 8000)

June 2014 – October 2018
     

Dept. of Metallurgical and Materials Engg. NIT Durgapur, India

Assistant Professor (AGP 6000)

July 2010 – June 2014

NIT Durgapur, India

Associate Dean, R & C

February 2017 – March 2018

Institut für Komplex Material, IFW Dresden, Germany

DAAD Fellow

May 2018 – July 2018

Institut für Komplex Material, IFW Dresden, Germany

Marie Curie Post-Doc Fellow

June 2015 – June 2016

Institut für Materialphysik, Münster, Germany

Visiting Researcher

June 2014 – July 2014

IIT Kanpur, India

INAE teacher fellowship

May 2013 – July 2013

National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur, India

Scientist Fellow

November 2009 – July 2010
Research Interest

Phase Transformation, Materials Characterization, Biomaterials, Metal Matrix Composite

Projects
Title Investigator Co-investigator Sponsered Agency Duration Status

Title

Cost (Rs)

Sponsorer

Role

Status

Development of ceramic particle dispersed Aluminum alloy composite

19.2 L

DST

PI

Completed

Centre of Excellence in Advanced Materials

500 L

NPIU

Executive member

Completed

Development of Al-Cu-Ni based alloys with improved mechanical properties

2.0 L

CoE

(Seed Grant)

PI

Completed

Tailoring the architecture of microstructure in Al-based Al-Cu-Ni alloys to improve the mechanical properties

48L

DST-SERB

PI

Ongoing
NA   NA NA Ongoing
Teachings

Subjects in undergraduate:

Theory:

Introduction of Metallurgy and Materials

Phase Equilibria and Phase transformation

X-Ray Diffraction and Electron Microscopy

Functional Materials

Laboratory:

Introduction of Metallurgy and Materials

Phase Equilibria and Phase transformation

X-Ray Diffraction and Electron Microscopy

Engineering Materials

 

Subjects in Postgraduate:

Theory:

Composite material and its development

Mechanical behaviour of materials

UG / PG Students

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Doctoral Students

Sudeep Paul

Sudeep Paul

PhD (Ongoing)
Year of Enrollment - 2017
Sudeep Paul

Sudeep Paul

PhD (Ongoing)
Year of Enrollment - 2017

Projects

Sl.No. Title Name of the PI Name of the CoPIs Funding Agency Amount (Rs.) Project Type Project Status Date of Initiation Date of Completion
1 Development of ceramic particle dispersed Aluminum alloy composite Supriya Bera DST 1,920,000 Sponsored Completed
2 Centre of Excellence in Advanced Materials Supriya Bera NPIU 50,000,000 Sponsored Completed
3 Development of Al-Cu-Ni based alloys with improved mechanical properties Supriya Bera CoE (Seed Grant) 200,000 Sponsored Completed
4 Tailoring the architecture of microstructure in Al-based Al-Cu-Ni alloys to improve the mechanical properties Supriya Bera DST-SERB 4,800,000 Sponsored Ongoing

Projects

Sl.No. Title Name of the PI Name of the CoPIs Funding Agency Amount (Rs.) Project Type Project Status Date of Initiation Date of Completion
1 Development of ceramic particle dispersed Aluminum alloy composite Supriya Bera DST 1,920,000 Sponsored Completed
2 Centre of Excellence in Advanced Materials Supriya Bera NPIU 50,000,000 Sponsored Completed
3 Development of Al-Cu-Ni based alloys with improved mechanical properties Supriya Bera CoE (Seed Grant) 200,000 Sponsored Completed
4 Tailoring the architecture of microstructure in Al-based Al-Cu-Ni alloys to improve the mechanical properties Supriya Bera DST-SERB 4,800,000 Sponsored Ongoing

Projects

Sl.No. Title Name of the PI Name of the CoPIs Funding Agency Amount (Rs.) Project Type Project Status Date of Initiation Date of Completion
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Journals

ID Details Year
0000 1. Last Five years: Shubhadeep Maity, Subhabrata Chakraborty, Bijay Kumar Show, Supriya Bera, “Effect of microalloying constituents–A novel approach to ordering phenomenon”, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Volume 769, pp 940-950, 2018 A Sarkar, AK Chakraborty, S Bera, S Krishnamurthy, “Novel Hydrothermal Synthesis of CoS2/MWCNT Nanohybrid Electrode for Supercapacitor: A Systematic Investigation on the Influence of MWCNT”, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 122 (32), pp 18237–18246, 2018 A. Sarkar, Amit K. Chakraborty, S. Bera, “NiS/rGO nanohybrid: An excellent counter electrode for dye sensitized solar cell”, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, Volume 182, pp 314-320, 2018 Shubhadeep Maity, Arijit Sinha, Supriya Bera, “A novel study on mechanically alloyed Al–Mg system by X-ray diffraction technique”, Nano-Structures & Nano-Objects, Volume 16, pp 63–68, 2018 Baran Sarac, Supriya Bera, Florian Spieckermann, Sascha Balakin, Mihai Stoica, Mariana Calin, Jürgen Eckert, “Micropatterning kinetics of different glass-forming systems investigated by thermoplastic net-shaping”, Scripta Materialia, Volume 137, pp. 127–131, 2017 Supriya Bera, Baran Sarac, Sascha Balakin, Parthiban Ramasamy, Mihai Stoica, Mariana Calin, Jürgen Eckert, “Micro-patterning by thermoplastic forming of Ni-free Ti-based bulk metallic glasses”, Materials & Design Vol. 120, pp. 204-211, 2017 Anindya Pal, Shubhadeep Maity, Sumit Chabri, Supriya Bera, Amit Roy Chowdhury, Mitun Das, Arijit Sinha, “Mechanochemical synthesis of nanocrystalline hydroxyapatite from <i>Mercenaria</i> clam shells and phosphoric acid”, Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express, Vol 3(1), pp 015010, 2017 R Parthiban, M Stoica, S Bera, M Calin, J Eckert, “Effect of replacing Nb with (Mo and Zr) on glass forming ability, magnetic and mechanical properties of FeCoBSiNb bulk metallic glass”, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Vol. 707, pp. 78-81, 2017 Shubhadeep Maity, Sumit Chabri, Subhranshu Chatterjee, Supriya Bera, Arijit Sinha, “Micromechanical Behavior of β-Al3Mg2 dispersed Aluminum Composite Prepared by High-Energy Ball Milling and Hot Pressing” Journal of Composite Materials, (Available online) Baran Sarac, Supriya Bera, Sascha Balakin, Mihai Stoica, Mariana Calin, Jürgen Eckert, “Hierarchical surface patterning of Ni- and Be-free Ti- and Zr-based bulk metallic glasses by thermoplastic net-shaping”, Materials Science and Engineering: C, Volume 73, Pages 398–405, 2017 Sumit Chabri, Supriya Bera, B.N. Mondal, A. Basumallick, P.P. Chattopadhyay, “Microstructure and magnetic behavior of Cu-Co-Si ternary alloy synthesized by mechanical alloying and isothermal annealing”, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Volume 426, Pages 454–458, 2017 G Mandal, SK Ghosh, S Bera, S Mukherjee, “Effect of partial and full austenitisation on microstructure and mechanical properties of quenching and partitioning steel”, Materials Science and Engineering: A Volume 676, Pages 56-64, 2016 Tuhin Das, R. Karunanithi, Arijit Sinha, K.S. Ghosh, Supriya Bera, “Deformation, decomposition and hardening behavior of nano Al7075 alloy prepared by mechanical milling and hot pressing”, Advanced Powder Technology, Volume 27, pages 1874–1877, 2016 Prosenjit Das, Sudip K Samanta, Supriya Bera, Pradip Dutta, “Microstructure Evolution and Rheological Behavior of Cooling Slope Processed Al-Si-Cu-Fe Alloy Slurry”, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, Volume 47 (5), pages 2243-2256, 2016 S Kumar, P Das, SK Tiwari, MK Mondal, S Bera, H Roy, SK Samanta, “Study of Microstructure Evolution during Semi-Solid Processing of an in-Situ Al Alloy Composite”, Materials and Manufacturing Processes, Volume 30, pages 356-366, 2015 Tuhin Das, Rajiv Saha, Supriya Bera, Kirsten Dahmen, M Ghosh, Arunanshu Halder, Wolfgang Bleck, and S. Ghosh Chowdhury, “Effect of high strain rate on the evolution of microstructure in Fe-Mn-C-Al twinning-induced plasticity (TWIP) steel”, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, Volume 46, Pages 6-11, 2014 N.K. Tewary, S.K. Ghosh, Supriya Bera, D. Chakrabarti and S. Chatterjee, “Influence of cold rolling on microstructure, texture and mechanical properties of low carbon high Mn TWIP steel”, Materials Science and Engineering: A, Volume 615, Pages 405–415, 2014 R. Karunanithi, Supriya Bera and K. S. Ghosh, “Electrochemical behaviour of TiO2 reinforced Al 7075 composite”, Materials Science and Engineering: B, Volume 90, Pages 133-143, 2014 R. Karunanithi, K. S. Ghosh and Supriya Bera, “Synthesis and characterization of TiO2 dispersed Al 7075 micro- and nanocomposite”, Applied Materials Research, Volume 984-985, Pages 313-318, 2014 R. Karunanithi, K.S. Ghosh and Supriya Bera, “Effect of dispersoid size and volume fraction on aging behavior and mechanical properties of TiO2 dispersed AA7075 alloy composites”, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, Volume 45, Pages 4062-4072, 2014 R. Karunanithi, D. Ghosh, K.S. Ghosh and Supriya Bera, “Influence of particle size of the dispersoid on compressibility and sinterability of TiO2 dispersed Al 7075 alloy composites prepared by mechanical milling”, Advanced Powder Technology, Volume 45, Pages 1500-1509, 2014 Sudipta Pramanik, Supriya Bera and Swarup Kumar Ghosh, “Influence of Cold Rolling on Microstructural Evolution in 2205 Duplex Stainless Steel”, Steel Research International, Volume 85, pages 776–783, 2014     Before 2014: Supriya Bera, Sandip Ghosh Chowdhury, Yuri Estrin and Indranil Manna, “Mechanical properties of Al7075 alloy with nano-ceramic oxide dispersion by mechanical alloying and consolidation by equal channel angular pressing”, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Volume 548,  Pages 257-265, 2013 S. Bera, S. Ghosh Chowdhury, W. Lojkowsky and I. Manna, “Synthesis of CuCr and CuCrAg alloys with extended solid solubility with nano-Al2O3 dispersion by mechanical alloying and consolidation by high pressure sintering”, Materials Science and Engineering A, Volume 558, Pages 298-308, 2012 S. Bera and I. Manna, “Synthesis of CuCr/CuCrAg alloy with nano-ceramic Al2O3/ZrO2 dispersion by mechanical alloying and consolidation by direct laser sintering”, Journal of Materials Chemistry and Physics, Volume 132, Pages 109-118, 2012 S. Bera, Z. Zúberová, R.J. Hellmig, Y. Estrin and I. Manna, “Synthesis of copper alloys with extended solid solubility and nano Al2O3 dispersion by mechanical alloying and equal channel angular pressing”, Philosophical Magazine, Volume: 90, Pages 1465-1483, 2010 S. Bera, W. Lojkowsky and I. Manna, “Development of Wear-resistant Cu-10Cr-3Ag electrical contacts with nano-Al2O3 dispersion by mechanical alloying and high pressure sintering” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, Volume 40A, Pages 3276-3283, 2009 N.K. Mukhopadhyay, D. Mukherjee, S. Bera, I. Manna and R. Manna, “Synthesis and characterization of nano γ-brass alloy” Materials Science and Engineering: A, Volume 485, Pages 673-680, 2008 S. Bera, S. Mazumdar, M. Ramgopal, S. Bhattacharyya and I. Manna “Prediction of enthalpy of formation and Gibbs energy change in pseudo binary (Ti-Zr)(Fe-Cr)2 and pseudo ternary (Ti-Zr)(Fe-Cr)2-H system using extended Miedema model” Journal of Materials Science, Volume 42, Pages 3645-3650, 2007 S. Bera and I. Manna “Hexagonal close packed to face centered cubic polymorphic transformation in nanocrystalline titanium-zirconium system by mechanical alloying” Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Volume 417, Pages 104-108, 2006 S. Bera and I. Manna “Polymorphic phase transformation in Ti50Zr50 binary alloy by mechanical alloying” Materials Science and Engineering A, Volume 417, Pages 110-113, 2006 SCI/SCOPUS 0000

Conferences

ID Details Year
1. Aatreyee Sarkar, Supriya Bera, Amit Kumar Chakraborty, “NiCo2S4 Nanorod Embedded rGO Sheets as Electrodes for Supercapacitor”, AIP Conference Proceedings 1942, 140029 (2018); doi: 10.1063/5029160 Nidhi Khobragade, Binod Kumar, Supriya Bera, Debdas Roy, “Studies on graphene reinforced Cu base composites prepared by two step thermal processing method”, Materials Today: Proceedings, Volume 4, Issue 8, Pages 8045-8051, 2017 A. Sarkar, N. Chakrabarty, S. Bera and A.K. Chakraborty, “Optical Properties of ZnS and Cu2+ Doped ZnS Nanostructures” In: Solid State Physics, AIP Conf. Proc. 1665, 050107-1–050107-3; doi: 10.1063/1.4917748 S. Bera, I. Manna, “Effect of nanocrystallization on the phase stability of Al-Cu-Ti and Al-Cu-Nb metallic systems” In: Proceedings of the International Conference on ‘Microstructure and Texture in Steel’ held in Jamshedpur during February 5-7, 2008 (Conveners: D Bhattacharjee, A Haldar) Microstructure and Texture in Steels (2009, Part V, 393-405, DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84882-454-6_23)

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Awards and Recognitions

DAAD summer Fellowship (2018)

Marie Curie Post-Doc Fellowship (2015-2016)

INAE Teacher Fellowship (2013)

First prize in poster presentation (NMD-ATM 2009)

High Value Fellowship for Doctoral students (IIT Kharagpur, 2007-2009)

Administrative Responsibilities

Warden - Hall 12 - 2016-2019

Warden - Hall 11 - 2014-2015

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