13th Annual Symposium on
Metallurgical and Materials Research
7-8 October 1999
Message from the Organisers
No amount of studying in isolation can substitute
for the understanding gained by discussion with learned ones, and no concept
may be deemed to be understood if it cannot be put down in proper words.
This symposium gives an opportunity to us, the students, to present our
work before the faculty and fellow students and get newer insights from
them. Also, this gives us an opportunity to define our research problem
with greater clarity to ourselves. Furthermore, the symposium is helpful
as an annual appraisal of the research being carried out in our department.
The contributions reflect the wide variety of research
activities that are carried out in our department: study of novel processing
and testing methods of metals, intermetallics, ceramics, composites and
metastable materials; and modelling of systems right from atomic to macro
level.
The Thirteenth Annual Symposium is unique because
all aspects of the symposium are being taken care of by the students. We
thank our Chairman for giving us the opportunity to learn about symposiuming
by handling all the features that go with it.
Finally we would like to thank the Chairman, Division
of Mechanical Sciences and the Chairman, Department of Metallurgy, for
their constant encouragement and guidance. We would like to thank the faculty,
staff and students of our department for their much needed assistance and
suggestions in organising this symposium.
Organising Committee
B. Sudhir (Convenor)
V. Sivakumar (Co-convenor)
B.R. Anand
M.P. Gururajan
Krishanu Biswas
Nachiketa Shulka
M. Phaniraj
N.R. Sathyaswaroop