Name: Soumyabrata Basak

RSL ID: RSL068

Listing Type: Research Excellence

Year: 2021

Volume No.: 1

Issue No.: 3

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About Soumyabrata Basak:

Soumyabrata Basak
Reseacher
93 Daehak-ro, Mugeo-dong, Nam-gu, Ulsan, Mahaprabhu Para St. P.O - Ranaghat District
Nadia – 741201.

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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. Becauseof 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 myresearch works related tosurface engineering, solid-state joining and forming of various grades of metals and alloys continuing with the microstructural, mechanical, and electrochemical properties analysisat the Advanced Engineering Materials Laboratory, under the guidance of Professor Hong, Sung-Tae, University of Ulsan, Republic of Korea. Currently, I have a total 7 international journal publications along with 3 conference presentations, and 2 patents similar to my research fields and presently working on a few of the same.