Nayaka Narasaiah

Prof. N. Narasaiah obtained a Ph.D. (2004) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, in the area of Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics. After obtaining Ph.D, he joined as Scientist in the CSIR – National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur.  After serving the CSIR-NML up until 2012, Dr. Narasaiah joined as a faculty member in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, National Institute of Technology (NIT) – Warangal. He works in the area of Fatigue, Fracture mechanics, Deformation behaviour of materials. His other interests include failure analysis, creep-fatigue crack growth behaviour, remaining life assessment and component integrity evaluation. He is the recipient of the BOYSCAST fellowship for the year 2007-2008 from the Ministry of Science and Technology, India. He has published around 80 publications in reputed journals. He has guided 8 Ph.Ds and 5 are going on. He has carried out more than 30 research projects worth of Rs. 30.0 Crore. He served as Head of Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Professor In-charge of Center for Advanced Materials, Associate Dean (Planning & Development) at NIT Warangal.