Bio
Dr. Jayaraman has been an Assistant Professor at the US Air Force Academy since June 2023. Before joining USAFA, he had ~9 years of experience teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level in academic settings, coupled with research and development experiences in academia (~11 years) and metallurgical and manufacturing industries (~5 years). His expertise includes a broad area of materials engineering and manufacturing: metallurgy and advanced materials that encompass advanced alloy and microstructure design, including high-entropy alloys, magnetic alloys, specialty steels, and lightweight alloys; advanced material processing and manufacturing, including far from equilibrium processing; advanced materials characterization; processing-structure-properties relationships; and data-driven approaches.
Education
Ph.D. (Metallurgical Engineering), The University of Utah (2007)
M.E. (Metallurgy), Indian Institute of Science (2000)
B.E. (Metallurgical Engineering), Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (1998)
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, United States Air Force Academy, Colorado (2023 – Present)
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan-Dearborn, Michigan (2015 – 2022)
Principal Metallurgist, Research & Development, Carpenter Technology Corporation, Reading, Pennsylvania (2012 – 2015)
Post-doctoral Researcher/Instructor, Department of Mechanical a& Materials Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Nebraska (2009 – 2012)
Senior Materials Scientist, Sinmat Inc., Gainesville, Florida (2007 – 2009)
Honors & Awards
2020 TMS-EDP Materials Characterization Best Paper Award – Second Place for the paper 'Influence on the structure and magnetic properties of the pre-alloyed gas-atomized maraging steel powder during mechanical milling'.
Research and Scholarly Interests
Alloy/microstructure design, Advanced materials processing and manufacturing, Magnetic materials, Steel and specialty alloys, Lightweight alloys, Advanced materials characterization, Synthesis-processing-structure-property correlation, Corrosion, Nanomaterials engineering, and Decision science-driven approach in materials and manufacturing.
Publications
Canumalla, T. V. Jayaraman, Decision science-driven selection of high-temperature conventional Ti alloys for aeroengines, Aerospace, 10 (3), 211, Feb 2023
Canumalla, T. V. Jayaraman, Ti-containing high-entropy alloys for aeroengine turbine applications, Materials Research, 26, e20220213, Jan 2023
A. Paul, A. Rathi, G. V. Thotakura, T. V. Jayaraman, Influence of milling atmosphere on the structure and magnetic properties of mechanically alloyed Fe40Co30Ni30, Materials Chemistry and Physics, 258, 123897, Jan 2021
V. Reddy, T. V. Jayaraman, N. Patil, D. Das, Gaint magnetoelastic properties in Ce-substituted and magnetic-field-processed cobalt ferrite, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 837, 155501, Oct 2020
V. Jayaraman, A. Rathi, G. V. Thotakura, Evaluation of the suitability of Fe40Co30Ni30 as a precursor for Fe-rich FeCoNi-based high-entropy semi-hard magnets, Intermetallics, 119, 106715, Apr 2020
V. Thotakura, R. Goswami, T. V. Jayaraman, Structure and magnetic properties of milled maraging steel powders, Powder Technology 360, 80-95, Jan 2020
V. Thotakura, R. Goswami, T. V. Jayaraman, Evaluation of structure and magnetic properties of maraging steel powder feedstock for additive manufacturing of magnetic components, Journal of Alloys and Compounds 814, 152296, Jan 2020
V. Jayaraman, G. V. Thotakura, A. Rathi, Phase evolution, structure, and magnetic characterization of mechanosynthesized Ni40Fe30Co30 medium-entropy alloy, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 489, 165466, Nov 2019
V. Jayaraman, A. Rathi, G. V. Thotakura, Phase evolution, structure, and magnetic characterization of mechanosynthesized Co40Fe30Ni30 medium-entropy alloy, Intermetallics 113, 106583, Oct 2019
Bazzi, A. Rathi, V. M. Meka, R. Goswami, T. V. Jayaraman, Significant reduction in intrinsic coercivity of high-entropy alloy FeCoNiAl0.375Si0.375 comprised of supersaturated f.c.c. phase, Materialia 6, 100293, Jun 2019
V. Thotakura, A. Rathi, T. V. Jayaraman, Structure and magnetic properties of mechanically alloyed nanocrystalline Fe-46 at.% Co-34 at.% Ni-20 at.% alloy powder from cryogenic to elevated temperatures, Applied Physics A (Materials & Processing) 125, 235, Apr 2019
Bazzi, V. M. Meka, A. Rathi, T. V. Jayaraman, Synthesis of nanocrystalline equiatomic nickel-cobalt-iron alloy powders by mechanical alloying and their structural and magnetic characterization, Materials Chemistry and Physics 227, 36-45, Apr 2019
Rathi, V. M. Meka, T. V. Jayaraman, Synthesis of nanocrystalline equiatomic nickel-cobalt-iron alloy powders by mechanical alloying and their structural and magnetic characterization, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 469, 467-482, Jan 2019