Online symposium on Fatigue, Fracture and Integrity Assessment concludes at NML

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Jamshedpur, Nov 12: A symposium on “Fatigue, Fracture and Integrity Assessment” was jointly organised by Indian Structural Integrity Society (InSIS), Indian Institute of Metals (IIM), Jamshedpur Chapter and CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory (NML), Jamshedpur between November 9 and 11.. This three-day event was the VIII th in a series of symposiums that was initiated in 2021 by CSIR-NML, Jamshedpur. The objective was to create a community of technologists, researchers and students who were continuously engaged in the research and study of fatigue and fracture of engineering materials and components. Leading specialists from across the country and abroad were invited to deliver talks on various aspects of fatigue and fracture behaviour of materials.

The eighth symposium aimed to provide a common forum for interaction and exchange of knowledge among professionals representing various industrial sectors like power, defence, aerospace, automotive, oil and natural gas and process industry. The deliberations during this three-day event provided an opportunity for academic interactions among academia, research laboratories and industries who were engaged in development of engineering materials and components.

Various aspects of failure of engineering materials that were included in the scope of the symposium were fatigue crack growth and fracture toughness, service life evaluation of materials and structures, root cause analysis of failures, creep and creep crack growth and deformation mechanisms and micro-mechanisms. The lectures were delivered through several technical sessions which were chaired by leading technologists of the country.   The sessions were attended by sixty registered delegates nominated by industries like IOCL, Tata Steel, NTPC, BiSS, Praj Industries Ltd and institutes like IIT Madras, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Roorkee, NIT Durgapur and IIEST Shibpur.

On the concluding day of the event, a panel discussion was organized on a virtual platform for exchange of viewpoints of the experts engaged in the study of failure of engineering materials. The eminent panellists of the symposium included Dr Indranil Chattoraj, Director, CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur (Chair), Dr. Vikas Kumar Saxena, Ex-Director, DMRL, Hyderabad, Dr N Eswara Prasad, DRDO-DMSRDE, Kanpur, Prof Raghu V. Prakash, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Dr. Jayanta Chattopadhyay, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, Dr. Soumitra Tarafder, CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur, Dr Subir Bhaumik, CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories, Bengaluru, Prof KK Ray, Ex-Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, Dr K Bhanu Sankara Rao, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad and Dr B K Dutta, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai.

The sessions entailed extensive discussion on structural integrity assessment and its future by the panel members. At the end of the session there was a proposal from Dr S Tarafder to create a common platform by integrating the expertise available in the country and to shift the focus from structural integrity analysis to structural health monitoring which was well appreciated by the panellists. It was also proposed to create a national level database on the subject which would benefit the students engaged in the studies of materials failure.

The virtual program was attended by 60 professionals. The vote of thanks was proposed by Chandra Veer Singh, Scientist at CSIR-NML.