Mahesh Kumar kumawat

About

Dr. Mahesh Kumar Kumawat is an experienced Materials Scientist and Engineer with expertise in high-temperature materials, surface engineering, and protective coatings for aerospace and gas turbine applications. He spent over a decade at DMRL, DRDO, where he led multidisciplinary R&D programmes on high-temperature materials and protective coatings.

He holds a PhD in Materials Science from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru and a B.Tech. in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. His expertise spans process development, product development, process parameter optimization, performance evaluation, failure analysis, and advanced materials characterization. He has led technologies from laboratory development through component-level validation and has extensive experience working with industry and academia.

Employment

• Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory Materials Scientist
  2012 - 2026

Education

• Indian Institute of Science PhD
  2016 - 2024
• Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur B. Tech.
  2008 - 2012

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (10)

• High Temperature Resistant Coatings for Strategic Aero space Applications
  Defence Science Journal 2023 DOI: 10.14429/dsj.73.18638
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• Strain hardening and stored energy in high-Mn austenitic based low-density steel
  Materials Science and Engineering: A 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.msea.2022.144331
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• Fatigue behavior of a freestanding Pt-aluminide (PtAl) bond coat at ambient temperature
  Surface and Coatings Technology 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.surfcoat.2021.127787
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• Type-I Hot Corrosion of Ni-Base Superalloy CM247LC in Presence of Molten Na2SO4 Film
  Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A 2020 DOI: 10.1007/s11661-020-06068-6
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• Microstructure, oxidation and mechanical properties of a diffusion aluminide (Al3Ti) coated lamellar γ-TiAl alloy
  Surface and Coatings Technology 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.surfcoat.2019.125071
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• Theoretical prediction and experimental evaluation of glass forming ability, density and equilibrium point of Ta based bulk metallic glass alloys
  Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2019.03.001
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• Tensile behavior of a slurry Fe-Cr-Si coated Nb-alloy evaluated by Gleeble testing
  Surface and Coatings Technology 2018 DOI: 10.1016/j.surfcoat.2018.06.046
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• Sol-infiltrated multilayer SiC/yttrium silicate coatings for imparting enhanced oxidation resistance to C-SiC composites
  Ceramics International 2018 DOI: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2018.04.123
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• Effect of cyclic oxidation on the tensile behavior of a Fe-Cr-Si coated Nb-base alloy
  Corrosion Science 2018 DOI: 10.1016/j.corsci.2017.11.023
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• Microstructure and oxidation behaviour of Fe–Cr–silicide coating on a niobium alloy
  Materials Science and Technology 2016 DOI: 10.1080/02670836.2016.1148226
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