General Information:

Assistant Professor: July 2025 – present

Email: arkamandal[at]iitb.ac.in

Tel (Office): +91-22-2576-7636

Office: 2nd floor, MEMS

Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=EJdF6-0AAAAJ&hl=en

Academic Background:

  • Ph. D. in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (2016-2023)
  • M. S. in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (2013-2016)
  • B. E. in Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, IIEST Shibpur (Erstwhile BESU Shibpur) (2006-2010)

Positions held:

  • Postdoc, Université de Lorraine – CNRS – Arts et Métiers – LEM3, Metz, France (May 2023 – May 2025)
  • Assistant Manager, ESSAR Steel Ltd., Hazira, Gujarat, India (June 2010 – September 2012)

Research Interests:

  • Deformation behaviour of metallic materials across length scales
  • Advanced electron microscopy-based characterization of crystalline defects
  • Solid state phase transformation
  • Processing–structure–texture–property correlation in steel

Selected Publications:

  • Mandal, A., Beausir, B., Guyon, J., Taupin, V., & Guitton, A. (2025). Estimation of Dislocation Densities With Nondestructive Scanning Electron Microscope Techniques: Application to Gallium Nitride. Microscopy and Microanalysis, 31(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/mam/ozae124
  • Bhandari, K. K., Mandal, A., Sk, Md. B., Karani, A., Gandhi, D., Deb, A., & Chakrabarti, D. (2025). Crack-tip gradient microstructure: Formation and influence on impact toughness behavior of low-carbon ferritic steel. Materials Science and Engineering: A, 930, 148166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2025.148166
  • Mohapatra, S., Mandal, A., Das, S., & Das, K. (2024). Study on local strain distribution and grain boundary characteristics of tensile-deformed TRIP-assisted medium manganese steel. Materials Science and Engineering: A, 894, 146225. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2024.146225
  • Mandal, A., Modak, P., Sen, M., Singh, S. B., & Chakrabarti, D. (2022). Influence of local microstructure on the dislocation transference and micro-mechanical response in metastable fcc alloy. Journal of Materials Science, 57, 1390–1402. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-021-06605-7
  • Modak, P., Mandal, A., Gupta, R., Karmakar, A., Sarkar, S. K., Ahlawat, S., Haldar, A., Mitra, R., Neogy, S., Biswas, A., & Chakrabarti, D. (2022). Phenomenal Effect of Stable (Ti, Mo)C Nano-Sized Precipitates in Retarding the Recrystallization and Grain Growth in High-Strength Ferritic Steel. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 53(2), 689–705. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-021-06550-9
  • Mandal, A., Morankar, S., Sen, M., Samanta, S., Singh, S. B., & Chakrabarti, D. (2020). A Descriptive Model on the Grain Size Dependence of Deformation and Martensitic Transformation in Austenitic Stainless Steel. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 51(8), 3886–3905. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-020-05861-7
  • Mandal, A., Syed, B., Bhandari, K. K., Bhattacharya, B., Deb, A., Singh, S. B., & Chakrabarti, D. (2020). Bending induced anisotropy in properties: A mechanistic study. Materials Science and Engineering: A, 788, 139521. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2020.139521
  • Hasan, S. M., Mandal, A., Singh, S. B., & Chakrabarti, D. (2019). Work hardening behaviour and damage mechanisms in carbide-free bainitic steel during uni-axial tensile deformation. Materials Science and Engineering: A, 751, 142–153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2019.02.062
  • Mandal, A., Syed, B., Bhandari, K. Kr., Bhattacharya, B., Deb, A., Singh, S. B., & Chakrabarti, D. (2019). Cold-bending of linepipe steel plate to pipe, detrimental or beneficial? Materials Science and Engineering: A, 746, 58–72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2019.01.005
  • Mandal, A., Patra, S., Chakrabarti, D., & Singh, S. B. (2017). Effect of Rolling and Subsequent Annealing on Microstructure, Microtexture, and Properties of an Experimental Duplex Stainless Steel. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 48(12), 5960–5977. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-017-4345-x