Soumyabrata Basak
Name: Soumyabrata Basak
Qualification: Ph.D (pursuing)
Designation : Research Scholar
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Institute Name : University of Ulsan
College address : 93 Daehak-ro, Mugeo-dong, Nam-gu, Ulsan
Publication Type: Journal
Paper title: Electron Beam Surface Treatment of 316L Austenitic Stainless Steel: Improvements in Hardness, Wear, and Corrosion Resistance
Journal Name : Metals and Materials International
ISSN : 2005-4149
About Soumyabrata Basak
Firstly, I would like to thank all the committee members and reviewers of INSC for selecting my research entitled with “Electron Beam Surface Treatment of 316L Austenitic Stainless Steel: Improvements in Hardness, Wear, and Corrosion Resistance”, for the title “InSc Young Achiever Award”, recently published in Metals and Materials International (Springer), 2020. Innovative ideas and thrill to search for unusual ways have always been my objective. From the very childhood days, I was attracted to science. During my schooling, Physics and Mathematics have always fascinated me but especially the Mechanics module of Physics provided the ultimate bliss. Thus I opted for Mechanical Engineering as my undergraduate study from the West Bengal University of Technology, in 2013. Amid this period I realized that whatever one wants to manufacture or built, the material is the primary requirement. Therefore, I did my major in Material Science and Engineering from IIT Bhubaneswar, in 2016. Because of the environmental degradation of metallic structures has become a real problem, leading to unpredictable corrosion failures and monetary loss, I decided to take up my master’s thesis work on corrosion entitled with "Structural Materials for Nuclear Energy Application: Corrosion Studies and Surface Enhancement by Electron Beam Melting (EBM)”. As a part of my M.Tech dissertation, I have worked on pitting corrosion, crevice corrosion, and also the corrosion rate on three austenitic structural materials (AISI Type 316 stainless steel, Type 347 stainless steel, and Inconel 617). Besides the above work, I also worked on electron beam melting (EBM) operations on three structural materials. Corrosion properties evaluation was carried out on both pre-EBM and post-EBM regions of all three materials and it showed a better result in the post-EBM zone. During my M. Tech thesis work, I realized that the fabrication techniques and processing conditions of various grades of structural materials have a strong influence on its deformation or failure of a structure while getting exposure to various corrosive environments. Welding is one of the most common fabrication processes. Most of the industry uses welding either for maintenance or manufacturing purposes. Friction Stir welding is one of the modern solid-state joining processes which has gained popularity for eliminating detrimental qualities of fusion welding. For this reason, in recent days I am enthusiastically doing my research works related to surface engineering, solid-state joining and forming of various grades of metals and alloys continuing with the microstructural, mechanical, and electrochemical properties analysis at the Advanced Engineering Materials Laboratory, under the guidance of Professor Hong, Sung-Tae, University of Ulsan, Republic of Korea. Currently, I have a total four number of international journal publications along with three conference presentations, and two numbers of patents similar to my research fields and presently working on a few of the same.