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Lakshmi Ravi Narayan (IntlAssoc)

Research Associate

Nanomechanical Properties Group

lakshmi.ravinarayan [at] nist.gov

(301) 975-5160

Staff Employment

2022 - present: Research Associate, NIST

Staff Education

PhD – Materials Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut

MASc – Engineering Materials, University of Windsor, Canada

BEngg – Production Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology

Areas of Expertise

Mechanical properties

Thermal properties

Metals

Metrology

Nanofabrication / manufacturing

Lakshmi is a postdoctoral research associate in the Nanomechanical Properties group working on the nanocalorimetry project. With a primary interest in thermal analysis, their current work is the development of a technique to measure nano-scale sample mass for nanocalorimetry. Another ongoing work is the redesign of the chip sensor used in nanocalorimetry. Lakshmi’s PhD work was the rapid solidification studies of metal alloys, which included the use of nanocalorimetry.

Orcid: 0000-0001-7496-7319 (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7496-7319)

Selected Publications

Ravi Narayan, L., Hebert, R.J. Rapid solidification of hypoeutectic aluminum copper alloys using fast-scanning calorimetry. Journal of Alloys and Compounds 925 (2022): p166829. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2022.166829

Ravi Narayan, L., Hebert, R.J. Rheology of partially solidified hypoeutectic aluminum copper alloys. SN Appl. Sci. 4, 186 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-022-05070-4

Miller, L., Zhou, K., Tang, J., Frame, L.D., Hebert, R.J., Ravi Narayan, L., Alpay, S.P., Merkouriou, A. and Kim, J. Thermomechanical finite element simulation and correlation analysis for orthogonal cutting of normalized AISI 9310 steels. The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (2021) 114(11-12), pp.3337-3356. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-021-07130-2

Aphale, A.N., Ravi Narayan, L., Hu, B., Pandey, A. and Singh, P. Surface pretreatment of alumina forming alloy and its implication on Cr evaporation. ECS Transactions (2018) 85(2), p.57. https://doi.org/10.1149/08502.0057ecst