Sudarsanam Suresh Babu

Biography

UT/ORNL Governor’s Chair on Advanced Manufacturing Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering; Department of Materials Science and Engineering Bio Dr. Suresh Babu holds a PhD in materials science and metallurgy from University of Cambridge and is currently working as UT/ORNL Chair of Advanced Manufacturing at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. In this role, he bridges ORNL expertise, including DOE’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility, to develop a collaborative research ecosystem locally and employ engineering solutions to manufacturing industries. Dr. Babu has 21 years of experience in advanced manufacturing, additive manufacturing, physical metallurgy, and computational materials modeling. Publications X. Yu, S. S. Babu, H. Terasaki, Y. Komizo, Y. Yamamoto and M. L. Santella, “Correlation of precipitate stability to increased creep resistance of Cr-Mo steel welds,” Acta Materialia, 2013, Vol. 61, 2194-2206. H. T. Fujii, M. R. Sriraman, and S. S. Babu, "Quantitative evaluation of bulk and interface microstructures in Al-3003 Alloy builds made by very high power ultrasonic additive manufacturing,” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 2011, Vol. 42, pp. 4045-4055. M. R. Sriraman, M. Gonser, D. Foster, H. Fujii, S. S. Babu and M. Bloss, “Thermal transients during processing of 3003 Al-H18 multilayer build by very high power ultrasonic additive manufacturing,” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 2012, Vol. 43, pp. 133-144. S. C. Nagpure, R. G. Downing, B. Bhushan, S. S. Babu, L. Cao, “Neutron depth profiling technique for studying aging in Li-ion batteries,” Electrochimica Acta, 2011, Vol. 56, pp. 4735-4743. S. S. Babu, “Thermodynamic and Kinetics Models for Describing Microstructure Evolution during Joining of Advanced Materials,” International Materials Reviews, 2009, Vol. 54, pp. 333-367.

Research Interest

Materials science and metallurgy,