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The News Letter of
Tiruchirappalli Chapter
March 2017
YEAR: 36 ISSUE: 04
(For Private Circulation)
Dear Members and Readers,
Happy to see another wonderful informative issue of METALL being released by our chapter.
Nice teamwork and very nice pictures. reetings to all the cited achievers.
In recent months, we have been motivated by visits of a Vice President IIM and a former
President IIM. Let us work hard to honour the commitments made by the chapter to these
IIM dignitaries. Let us also work hard on the Prof BPMMQ 2017. We should mentor the
school students. We should organize a few technical training programmes / short term
courses during 2017 - 2018. May be, follow up the recent suggestions from members, for
conducting SOJOM, joining hands with IWS. Let us also try to enhance the financial strength
of the chapter.
Last, but not the least, we should nominate capable members of our chapter for
consideration for awards of the IIM and NMD.
Best wishes,
(Prof S Raman Sankaranarayanan)
CHAIRMAN’S DESK
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Dr. S. Muthukumaran EC Member & Faculty (NITT)
Award for Research Publications
and
Award for Research Projects
from
NIT, Tiruchy
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Mrs. A. Santhakumari Vice Chairperson, IIM Tiruchy Chapter & Sr. Dy. GM (WRI)
SCOPE Award as the Best Women Executive 2016
among all PSUs in India FOR THE SECOND TIME
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VICE PRESIDENT OF IIM VISITED THE CHAPTER OFFICE…….
On 26th January 2017, the chapter had the privilege to have Dr. U Kamachi Mudali, Vice President of IIM at the chapter office. 18 EC members participated in the interaction meeting with him. Chairman IIM, Tiruchy chapter welcomed the Vice President to the chapter and extended a warm welcome to all the committee members and invitees. Mr. R Easwaran, Imm. Past Chairman graced the occasion with his august presence.
Vice President addressed the EC and sought its support in making IIM vibrant. A brief presentation was made to VP by the chapter on its activities and VP appreciated the same. The EC unanimously recorded its appreciation to VP for
his visit and thanked him and Dr Parameswaran. The meeting concluded with vote of thanks by Mr. K Raja, Hon. Treasurer and followed by a dinner.
INTERACTVIE SESSION WITH FORMER PRESIDENT OF IIM @ NITT…….
On 15th February 2017, the chapter in association with MME Department of NITT, Dept. of MME (NITT) and IIM Student chapter @ NITT, organised an interactive session with Mr. Pugazhenthy, former president of IIM and Executive Director of ILZDA. It was an open session and Mr. Pugazhenthy many queries raised by the members.
Earlier, Dr. Raman Sankaranarayanan, Chairman welcomed the gathering. Mr. N Rajasekaran, Vice Chairman IIM offered his felicitations. Dr. S P Kumaresh Babu, Joint Secretary & Mr. N Parameswaran, Hon. Secretary honoured the past president. Mr. M Krishnamurthy, former secretary, Mr. KER Chari & Mr. P Govindaraju our EC members attended the function.
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IMME 17…….
Indian Institute of Metals, Tiruchy Chapter, the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli and Indian Welding Society have jointly organised the three day “International Conference on Emerging Trends in Materials and Manufacturing Engineering (IMME 17)” between 10 and 12 March 2017 at Tiruchirappalli. The conference aimed at bringing experts and budding researchers together on a common platform to discuss and exchange ideas on recent developments, findings and progresses on wide areas related to materials and manufacturing engineering has been successful. This has provided rare opportunities to new researchers to explore new directions in their research through interaction with the leaders in the field. It also imparted sound knowledge and expertise in selected research field through key note lectures delivered by eminent speakers from India and abroad. The conference dealt on Extractive / Process Metallurgy, Mechanical Behaviour of Materials, Phase Transformations, Fatigue & Fracture Mechanics, Severe Plastic Deformation, Nano materials, Ultra-Fine Grained Materials, Ceramics, High Entropy Alloys, Surface Engineering, Wear & Tribology, Functional Materials, Metal Joining, Metal Forming, Composite Materials, Biomaterials, Materials Characterization, Non-destructive Testing, Corrosion, Heat Treatment, Metal Casting, Powder Metallurgy, Synthesis of Materials, High Temperature Materials, Process Modeling and Simulation, Micromachining, Metal Cutting, Unconventional Manufacturing, Additive Manufacturing Functionally, Gradient Materials, etc. The list is only indicative and not exhaustive.
The eminent speakers who delivered lectures include Mr. G S Rathore (Executive Vice President (JSW)), Dr. K G Pradeep (Chair of Materials Chemistry, RWTH – Aachen University, Germany), Dr. Mustafizur Rahman (National University of Singapore), Dr. Gopalan
Srinivasan (Dept. of Physics, Oakland University, USA), Dr. T A Abhinandanan (IISc, Bengaluru), Dr. S. Bhaskar Reddy (Denmark Technical University), Dr. M. Jayaprakash (Naoaka University of Technology, Japan), Dr. Khalid Rafi (UL International – Singapore Pte, Ltd), Dr. K. Krishnan (Charles Darwin University, Australia), Dr. T. Maheshkumar (University Teknologi MARA, Malaysia), Dr. K G
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Prashanth (Erich Schmid Institute of Materials Science, Austria), Mr. Srirama Nagaraju (J Fenner India), Dr. Sathiskumar Jothi (Swansea University, UK), Dr. T Venugopalan (Chief Technology Officer, TATA Steel) and Dr. Thora Venugopal (Welding Alloys (Far East) Sdn. Bhd, Malaysia).
Awards were presented for the best technical paper and for the best oral presentation / best poster in each session. More than 200 papers were presented in the three day event.
The event was inaugurated by Dr. Gopalan Srinivasan (Dept. of Physics, Oakland University, USA) in the august presence of Director in charge (NIT, Tiruchy). Dr. S P Kumaresh Babu, EC Member and HOD (MME Dept.), briefed about the conference. During the
inauguration, Prof. V Sivan and Prof. N Dakshinamoorthy, retired professors of MME dept. were felicitated. Prof. Banu Shankar Rao addressed the delegates.
Earlier Dr. Sivaprasath, Convenor of the conference welcomed the gathering and Prof. V Muthupandi, Chairman of the organising committee proposed the vote of thanks.
Mr. R Easwaran, Fellow of the institute, former chairman of the chapter and General Manager – In – Charge of WRI, Labs and Quality of BHEL, Tiruchy was the chief guest of the valediction and he distributed the certificates and prizes. Addressing the gathering, Mr. R Easwaran outlined
the research avenues in processing of the newer generation materials. Dr. S Jerome, Co-Convenor welcomed the gathering. Dr. D Sastikumar Dean R&C of NIT presided over the function. Dr. N Ramesh Babu Co-Convener made the concluding remarks. Prof. Dr. S. Raman Sankaranarayanan, Chairman of the chapter proposed the vote of thanks.
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IIM DAY AT CHAPTER OFFICE…….
The chapter celebrated the IIM DAY 2017 at its chapter office on 23rd February 2017 on the theme towards sustaining excellence in IIM. A good number of members including past chairmen of
the chapter joined the meeting. The chapter members reiterated their commitment to the Indian Institute of Metals.
RADIANT 17 ……
The Tiruchirappalli Chapter conducted a one day workshop on “Recent Advances in Nano Technology - RADIANT 2017” on Feb. 23, 2017 at the Institutions Building, BHEL Township.
Mr. R Easwaran, Past Chairman of the chapter and General Manager – In- Charge (WRI, Labs & Quality) of BHEL inaugurated the programme. Mrs. A. Santhakumari, Vice chairperson & SDGM (WRI), BHEL presided over the function. Mr. N Parameswaran Hon Secretary welcomed the gathering. Dr. T Sriharsha convenor of the programme proposed the vote of thanks.
Prof. Somnath Roy of IIT Madras, Dr. N Ramesh Babu and Dr. T. Sivashankar of NIT and Dr AL Subramanian of TCE delivered lectures.
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Besides, there were contributory papers from the delegates. The top three best presentations were awarded during the valediction.
Dr. Raman Sankaranaryanan, Chairman delivered the valedictory address. Mr P Chellappandian and Mr. N. Rajasekaran, Vice Chairman offered their felicitations. Mr. K Raja, Hon. Treasurer proposed the vote of thanks. More than 55
delegates from various colleges across Tamil Nadu and from student chapters of the institute paticipated in the event and got benefitted.
HANDS ON TRAINING IN TRADITIONAL INVESTMENT CASTING ……
The students of CARE group student chapter has participated in “Hands on Training in Traditional Investment Casting”, which was jointly organized by IIM Student chapter of Department of
Materials Science and Engineering, CARE Group of Institutions and Senthil Sirpa Kalai Koodam from Dec 26 – 31, 2016 at Kumbakonam with the support of the chapter.
Students were made to understand the concepts of Traditional Investment Casting and gained a practical knowledge by making some idols like Peacock, Swan, Sword, Lotus, Flying Dragon, Cock, Guitar, Jar etc., It was quite different experience and environment
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for both students and Faculty. Metall congratulates Prof. Dr. K. Santhy for co-ordinating the event.
Workshop on ADVANCEMENT IN CHARACTERIZATION TECHNIQUES ……
The Indian Institute of Metals, Tiruchirappalli chapter in association with the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, CARE Group of Institutions organized a workshop on "Advancement in Characterization Techniques" on
20th and 21st February 2017. First day sessions covered about Introduction and applications of X-Ray Diffraction, Qualitative analysis of XRD and Practical demo by Dr. T. P. Pazhanivel, Periyar University and Dr. K. Santhy from CARE Group of Institutions. Second day sessions covered Introduction to Scanning Electron Microscopy, Mode of operation and influence on image contact, outline other Spectroscopy techniques and practical demo of SEM by Dr. Devarajan, KSR College of Technology, Tiruchengode, Dr. K. Santhy and Mr. M. Santhosh from CARE Group of Institutions. Totally 29 participants from 11 institutions are benefited from this programme.
METRON 2K17 ……
The chapter in association with the Materials Science Students Association (MSSA) of Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Student Chapter of Indian Institute of Metals at CARE group of institutions jointly organized METRON 2K17 a two days programme at CARE premsies. The symposium and workshop was conducted on 27th and 28th February 2017. The two day events covered the areas like recent trends in Nano & Bio materials, Hybrid Materials, Welding in Automobile and Aerospace applications, Advancement in Automobiles and Bio-Energy revolution. Dr. S. Raman Sankaranarayan, Professor, NIT Tiruchy and Chairmen of IIM-Tiruchirappalli chapter inaugurated the function. Dr. A. Raja, former AGM of WRI & former Vice Chairman of the chapter, Mr. Saravanan of Airbus and Dr. K. Santhy of CARE delivered guest lectures on the theme of the workshop. Around 20 delegates got benefited from the programme.
METTLE 17 ……
Mettle 17, The Annual National Level Technical Symposium conducted by the department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, NIT Tiruchy with the support of
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NIT Student chapter and the chapter was conducted at NIT, Tiruchy complex from 24th to 26th March 2017. Mettle served as a common platform and hosted a series of activities like guest lectures, workshops, events, demonstrations for the benefit of community and better technological cohesivity within people of various walks in materials engineering. Our vice chairpersons Mrs. A. Santhakumari and Mr. N Rajasekaran conducted the quiz programme and distributed the prizes.
FREE LECTURE PROGRAMMES ……
Mr. V R Samuel delivered a lecture on “Energy Efficiency in Welding - Equipment, Processes, Practices and Environmental Impacts” on 17th January 2017. The joint lecture programme was organised in association with IWS, IE (I), IIW & ISNT. Mr. N Parameswaran, Hon. Secretary, IIM Tiruchy chapter presented mementos to the speaker. Mr. N Rajasekaran, Vice Chairman (IIM, Tiruchy chapter) proposed the vote of thanks.
On 24th January 2017, the IIM Tiruchy chapter, IEI TLC, IIW Tiruchy branch and IIIE, Tiruchy chapter have joined hands and organised a lecture on “Synthesis of Al-MoO3 composites through Optimized powder metallurgy parameters” by Dr. M Ravichandran, professor & Director
of Centre for Research of Chenduran College of Engg. & Technology. Mr. KER Chari our EC member proposed vote of thanks.
Dr. N Ramesh Babu, Asst. professor, NIT, Tiruchy delivered the talk on “Bio Materials” in the lecture programme organised by
the Chapter in association with IEI, TLC & IIW Tiruchy branch on 7th February 2017. Mr. N Rajasekaran, Vice Chairman proposed vote of thanks.
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Asia Steel Conference at Bhubaneswar on 6-9 February 2018
For more information about themes, abstract submission dead line, venue Visit: asiasteel2018.com
From: PRITISH K SEN <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 6:46 PM
Subject: Re: METALL - Inhouse Journal of IIM Tiruchy chapter. To:
TMAQ IIMT <[email protected]>
Dear Sir,
Thank you for your mail and an excellent in house journal. How frequently you bring out such journals?
Wish you all the very best.
Best regards
Pritish K Sen, Chairman,
IIM, Kolkata Chapter
Tata Centre, 43 J L Nehru Road, Kolkata - 700 071
From: Director IIT Kanpur <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 8:16 PM
Subject: Re: METALL - Inhouse Journal of IIM Tiruchy chapter.
To: TMAQ IIMT <[email protected]>, imanna <[email protected]>, iiomcal <[email protected]>
Hi:
I congratulate the office bearers and all members of your chapter for the excellent initiative to publish the
NEWSLETTER.
IIM Trichy is one of the most active chapters worth emulating by others. Please keep the IIM Head Office
informed about all the developments in your chapter.
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I hope you have already furnished all the data needed about your chapter members and office bearers to
the Head Office for 'Connect the Membership' drive.
Best regards
I. Manna
From: RAJIV MANDAL <[email protected]> Date: Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 11:19 AM Subject: Re: METALL - Inhouse Journal of IIM Tiruchy chapter. To: TMAQ IIMT <[email protected]> good and keep it up. R K Mandal Dr. Rajiv Kumar Mandal Professor Dy. Programme Co-ordinator, DST Unit on Nanoscience and Technology at BHU Department of Metallurgical Engineering,Centre of Advanced Study,Indian Institute of Technology(Banaras Hindu University),Varanasi-221 005 (India), Email: [email protected]; [email protected] Fax: 0091-0542-2368174/2368428/2368478 Phone:0091-0542-2575085(res.), 0091-0542-2369346*239/2369478 (office) mobile: 09451277287
From: P.S.CHOWDARY <[email protected]> Date: Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 11:47 AM Subject: RE: METALL - Inhouse Journal of IIM Tiruchy chapter. To: TMAQ IIMT <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected]
Dear Sir, The news-letter Of IIM Tiruchy chapter is good looking and for distribution across the country use only computer soft copies. How the money realized for making a news-letter every other chapter should know!!! They can apply the same principle and grow all the chapters across the country. Kind regards, Sudhakar
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rabindra Nath Parbat <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 10:09 AM Subject: Re: METALL - Inhouse Journal of IIM Tiruchy chapter. To: TMAQ IIMT <[email protected]> Dear Hon. Secretary, Tiruchy Chapter of IIM, I used to be a regular recipient of your In-house Journal. We are extremely proud of your Chapter for being a highly performing Chapter of IIM. Your contribution in developing Welding Skills among Indian Technicians is exemplary. I wish your Chapter all the very best. Sincerely Yours, R N Parbat Former President of IIM
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From: ilzda <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 10:19 AM Subject: RE: METALL - Inhouse Journal of IIM Tiruchy chapter. To: TMAQ IIMT <[email protected]> Dear Prof Raman: I had a chance to have a look at the Dec 2016 issue of METALL, your chapter newsletter. My heartiest congratulations to the Editorial Team in particular and your EC members in general. It is a model newsletter for other chapters; hope you are sending your newsletter to all the chapters of IIM. Variety of activities and services to chapter members and the students community. Best Regards L.Pugazhenthy
From: Charles Sahayaraj <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 11:59 PM
Subject: RE: Metall Dec 2016
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Good Evening sir,
I am very glad to see this Dec 2016 issue of metals, thanks for the hard work of the technical team make it
so colorful with lot of information. Next issue it would be better to reserve one page to publish about metal
related article from members or in general about mechanical properties of metals, etc... like that
something related to metals would make more meaningful of this metal issue.
Thanks,
Regards,
Charles.
From: Kamachi Mudali <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 8:08 PM Subject: Re: METALL - Inhouse Journal of IIM Tiruchy chapter. To: TMAQ IIMT <[email protected]> Cc: kamachi <[email protected]>, ddesarkar8 <[email protected]>, Director IIT KANPUR <[email protected]>, Sadhan Roy <[email protected]>, ILZDA <[email protected]>, iim kolkata <[email protected]>, [email protected] Very informative and excellent quality, congrats !, Thanks, Kamachi
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TECHNICAL PAGES Excerpts from Dr GV Memorial Lecture 2016
Learnings from Fabrication ofT 23 (2.25 Cr-1.6 W-V-Nb) Steel Tubes in Power Plant Applications
R. Easwaran General Manager, Welding Research Institute & Labs, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited
Tiruchirappalli, India - 620014
1.0 INTRODUCTION
It is widely accepted that Coal will continue as the fuel contributing maximum share towards the installed capacity for at least up to 2050, as per several reports. To keep the environmental issues under control, several efforts are on towards clean coal technologies, minimising CO2 emissions and other environmental impacts. Towards improving the efficiency of newer thermal power plants in India, the sub-critical thermal power plants are being phased out by super critical power plants exceeding 225 kg/cm2 pressure and ultra-super critical power plants with main steam temperatures over 600 °C. Many countries are carrying out research on Advanced Ultra Super Critical (AUSC) power plants with main steam temperatures of over 700 °C and pressures of over 300 kg/cm2. With these innovations, the efficiency of thermal power plants is expected to be in the range of 46-50 %.
The typical thermal power station has a boiler island which converts water to steam, superheaters that superheats the steam, steam and power piping which carries steam to the steam turbines and the steam turbine island that generates power. When we talk about moving to higher efficiency power plants, the crux of the development is in the materials (and their fabrication processes) to be used in all these islands, to withstand higher temperatures, higher pressures, oxidation, exfoliation, creep fatigue, thermal fatigue, corrosion in fuel water environments and so on. Ultimately, the candidate materials have to be made available at reasonable costs in all product forms with ease for welded manufacturing at shops and also for fielding fabrication.
In the last two to three decades, there have been significant advancements in the ferritic steels used for boiler applications, so much so that a new breed of Creep Strength Enhanced Ferritic (CSEF) steels have emerged and these have been extensively used in thermal power plants.
The major advancements have been in the 2.25 Cr-1 Mo, 9 Cr-1 Mo and 12 Cr segments of materials. One such advancement in the 2.25 Cr-1 Mo segment has been T 23 tubes, which find applications in the evaporator panels and superheater / reheater coils.
In our own experience, T 23 material in super critical power plants are used in roof panels, corner panels, burner panels and ash hopper regions. Butt welding of these tubes in panel form under site conditions as indeed challenging, considering the high restraints involved in
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the field assembly. In the event of a leakage, significant difficulty is there in the repair at such panels. The fins on either side of the joint have to be cut, the leaking weld joint has to be replaced with a tube spool inserted, which makes it two butt joints, the joints have to be heat
treated, fins have to be re-welded with PWHT. Thus this takes enormous time.
The material T 23 is essentially 2.25 Cr-1.6 W-V-Nb material and is incorporated in ASME as Code Case 2199-6. Essentially T 23 is a low alloy steel derived from SA 213 T 22 (2.25 Cr-1 Mo) by substituting Mo content with W and adding Nb, V and B. Mo and W act to strengthen the material matrix. V, Nb and Ti form fine precipitates (carbides and nitrides), which provide the obstacles for dislocation movement, thus increasing mechanical and creep resistance of the material. B stabilises M23C carbides, by retarding their coarsening. Typical CCT Diagram, chemical composition, mechanical properties are given in Figure 01.
Figure 01
Table 1
C Mn P S Cr Mo W V Nb B
0.04-0.10 0.10-0.60 0.030 max 0.010 max 1.90-2.60 0.05-0.30 1.45-1.75 0.20- 0.30 0.020.08 0.001-0.006
Yield Strength (MPa) Tensile Strength (MPa) % Elongation Hardness HV
Min 400 Min 510 20 220 max
1.1 ASSUMPTIONS DURING INTRODUCTION OF T 23
When T 23 was introduced, there were quite a few assumptions, which made the material truly
attractive. The nine major assumptions are listed below:
1. Material will be low carbon bainitic 2. Steel may not require normalising in the shop floors 3. Normalising T 23 steel is a simple process 4. Steel is not prone for brittle failures 5. The steel does not require preheat and post weld heat treatment
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6. Steel is not prone for cold cracks, as hardness will never reach 350 HV in as-welded condition
7. Steel is not prone for Stress Relief Cracks
8. Steel is not prone for Restraint Cracks 9. Steel is not prone for Corrosion Assisted Cracks
The material has been used across the world and the actual experiences have shown that these are not necessarily true. This is not to undermine the fantastic efforts taken in developing, testing and launching these materials, but to bring forth the fact that field fabrication conditions of these power plant materials are indeed rigorous. In fact, in simple butt welds between tubes, the welds do behave just as predicted. But, say for example in fabrication of these tubes in panel form involving field erection, the assumptions turn out to be myths. A strong effort was taken to understand through experimentations at WRI and practical experience in shop floors / field fabrication, how the material behaves differently from the assumptions
1.2 Myth # 1: Material is Bainitic
One of the expectations was that T 23 material will always end up with a bainitic microstructure in weld and HAZ under the typical welding conditions. Gleeble studies at WRI clearly indicate that bainitic structure is observed only in the broad range of cooling rates from austenitising temperatures of 20 °C / sec to 0.5 °C / sec. When the cooling rates is 1 °C / sec or less, ferrite starts appearing in the HAZ of the material. Similarly when the cooling rates are 50 – 100 °C / sec, there is clear evidence of martensitic structures. CCT diagram for HAZ generated in Gleeble is shown in Figure 02 below. Dilatograms and microstructures also validated this.
Gleeble simulated specimens were also impact tested after subjecting to different cooling rates and the fracture appearance is seen to be varying from cleavage to ductile dimple type. The typical hardness values obtained after different cooling rates are also different. It can be
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clearly seen that T 23 material is likely to produce different microstructures, quite different from bainitic, depending on the actual cooling rates and this can produce martensitic structure
Figure 02 …. To be continued
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