Professor Sridhar Seetharaman POSCO Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Co-Director of Center For Iron and Steel Research NETL Resident Faculty Fellow Ph.D.; Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Materials Science and Engineering Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Wean Hall 4317 Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 Email: Phone: (412) 268-2675 FAX: (412) 268-7247 Professor Sridhar's Web Site

Biography

Sridhar Seetharaman obtained his undergraduate degree from the Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden) and his PHD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA). He spent 1 year as a research associate at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (London, UK).

Research Interests

The research activities in my group are aimed at understanding the kinetics and thermodynamics of high temperature reactions and transformations that are relevant for processing and performance of metals and for high-temperature fossil-fuel applications. This includes studies on metal extraction, refining, casting and oxidation as well as slag evolution during gasification of coal and petcoke. We also carry out investigations on thermo-physical properties of metallic and slag melts. Our primary focus is on steels and we utilize experimental methods of study.

Recent Publications

B.A. Webler and S. Sridhar, Defect and Diffusion Forum, “Evolution of the Enriched Layer at the Oxide/Metal Interface during Oxidation of Recycled Steels with Copper and Copper+Nickel Residuals”, Diffusion and Defect Forum, 2008, 273, pp. 713-724

N. Kikuchi, S. Nabeshima, Y. Kishimoto, T. Matsushita and S. Sridhar, “Effect of Ti de-oxidation on solidification and post-solidification microstructure in low carbon high manganese steel”, ISIJ International, 2007, 47, no. 9, pp. 1255-1264

E. D. Schmidt , E. B. Damm and S. Sridhar, “A Study of Diffusion- and Interface-Controlled Migration of the Austenite/Ferrite Front during Austenitization of a Case-Hardenable Alloy Steel”, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 2007, 38, no. 2, pp. 244-260

C. Thorning and S. Sridhar, “Grain boundary ridge formation during initial high temperature oxidation of Mn/Al TRIP steel”, Philosophical Magazine, 2007, 87, no. 23, pp. 3479-3499

T. Baum, R.J. Fruehan and S. Sridhar, “Kinetics of oxidation and decarburization of Al-Si TRIP steels”, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 2007, 38B, pp. 287-297