Dr. Manjusha M. Thawre
Associate Professor
Brief Bio
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| Dr. Manjusha M. Thawre is currently an Associate Professor at Department of Metallurgial and Materials Engineering, VNIT Nagpur. Her areas of interest are Fatigue behaviour of Metals & Composites (High Cycle Fatigue ), High Temperature Materials Joining of Metals, Testing of Metals, Mechanical Metallurgy, NDT, Deformation Behaviour of Materials |
Research Interest
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| Fatigue (High Cycle Fatigue) |
| Joining of Materials |
| Mechanical Metallurgy |
| Composites |
| High Temperature Materials |
| NDT |
Education
| Degree | Year | Specialization | University |
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| B.E. | 2000 | Metallurgy Engineering | COEP , Pune |
| M.Tech | 2007 | Metallurgical &Materials Engineering | VNIT Nagpur |
| Ph.D | 2014 | Metallurgical &Materials Engineering | VNIT Nagpur |
Contact Details
| Phone: | Email: | Address: |
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| 0712-2801514 | mduragkar[at]mme[dot]vnit[dot]ac[dot]in | VNIT, Nagpur. |
| Title | Funding Agency | Role | Year | Amount (in Lakhs INR) |
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| Effect of Stress ratio on high cycle properties of Ti64 | GTRE | PI | December 2022 – March 2027 | |
| Evaluation of low Cycle Fatigue & Creep Fatigue Interaction Properties of Indegenous Alloy 617M | BRNS | Co-PI | June2024-June 2026 | |
| To Develop Novel Low Cost Betta – Titanium Alloy for Bio-Medical Apliocations | VNIT | Co-PI | May 2024 – May 226 | |
| Augmentation of conventional Agro Tools & Innovation of Need Driven Tools imparting better ergonomics | KVIC | PI | March 2022- March 2024 | |
| Design & Development of Carpentry/ Pottery Tools& Tools for wood craft / Toy Making | KVIC | PI | March 2022- March 2024 | |
| To conduct multi-location field trial by establishing pedal operated machines Agarbatti cluster. | KVIC | PI | March2021 – March2023 | |
| Generation of Haigh Diagram for alloy 617M for the Indian Advanced Ultra Supercritical Power Plant | AUSC-Mission Directorate | PI | December 2017 – December 2019 | |
| Round Robin Testing for Generation of Low Cycle Fatigue Data of the India Advanced Ultra Supercritical Power Plant Materials | AUSC-Mission Directorate | Co-PI | January 2018 – January 2020 | |
| Round Robin testing for generation of Creep Data of the Indian Advanced Ultra Supercritical Power Plant | AUSC-Mission Directorate | Co-PI | January 2018 – January 2020 | |
| FIST Proposal | DST-FIST | Co-PI | January2018 – January 2023 | |
| Testing for Damage Evaluation of New composites Material & Components (at features level) | AR&DB-ACECOST | Co-PI | February 2012 – December 2017 | |
| Assessment of Weld Interface Creep Cavitation of Ferritic/ austenitic Dissimilar Weld Joint of Ferritic modified 9Cr-1Mo and Austenitic 316LN Steels | UGC-DAE | Co-PI | February 2017 – February 2020 | |
| Endurance Studies of Hip Prosthesis | R&DE Pune | Co-PI | August 2014 – August 2015 |
| Title | Funding Agency | Role | Year | Amount (in Lakhs INR) |
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| Description | Author(s) | Publisher | ISBN | Year |
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| Effect of Moisture Content and Fiber Orientation on the Mechanical Behavior of GFRP Composites In book: Advances in Mechanical Engineering (pp.433-439) | Alok Behera, Manjusha M. Thawre, Atul Ballal, Prathamesh Babrekar, Pratik Vaidya, Satya Vijetha, Tushar Sawant | Springer, Singapore | 978-981-15-3639-7 | 2020 |
| Patent Title | Application No. | Date | Present Staus |
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| Carbon Fiber Composite T – Joint Component forAircraft | 372137 | 2021-07-17 | Granted |
| A Method or Developing Multilayered BimodalRefined Grain Structured Metals for MedicalImplant Applications | 202321038251A | 2025-09-30 | Granted |
| Title | Funding Agency | Host Institute | Dates | No. of Participants |
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| Certificate course & workshop on Mechanical Testing of Materials | IIM Nagpur Chapter | Dept of Metallurgy, VNIT Nagpur | 25 February 2023 to 01 March 2023 | 20 |
| Bridging Engineering Techniques and IoTApplications | IIM Nagpur Chapter | Dept of Metallurgy, VNIT Nagpur | 09 JUly 2024 to 13 july 2024 | 10 |
| Bridging Engineering Techniques and IoTApplications | IIM Nagpur Chapter | Dept of Metallurgy, VNIT Nagpur | 04 August 2025 to 08 August 2025 | 10 |
| Sr. No. | Responsibility | Institute | Role | Year |
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| 1 | Testing Incharge | VNIT | ||
| 2 | Metallurgical & Materials Engineering Society Incharge | VNIT | ||
| 3 | Faculty Advisor | VNIT | ||
| 4 | Department Faculty Co-ordinator for student mentor program | VNIT |
| Year | Award Description |
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| Indian Institute of Metals- Life Member | |
| Indian Structural Integrity Society – Life Member |
| S.No. | Paper Citation |
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| 1 | Sandeep Kale , M.M.Thawre , D.R.Peshwe, A. Nagesha “Microstructural damage assessment in alloy 617M near high cycle fatigue threshold at elevated temperature .” Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures (FFEMS), (January 2024) ) https://doi.org/10.1111/ffe.14253 |
| 2 | Behera, Alok, Neeraj kumar Bhoi, Manjusha M. Thawre, Atul Ballal, Debashish Das . “Quantification of hygrothermal aging – induced interfacial debonding of carbon fiber/epoxy composites at nano-to micrometer length scales .” Journal of Composites Materials (Nov 2023), Vol 57(30) . https://doi.org/10.1177/00219983231213912 |
| 3 | Subrat Kumar Baral, Manjusha M. Thawre, B. Ratna Sunil, Ravikumar Dumpala. “A review on developing high – performance ZE41 magnesium alloy by using bulk deformation and surface modification methods .” Journal of Magnesium and Alloys . (2023) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jma.2023.03.001 |
| 4 | Diwakar Makireddi, V.D.Gughe, Alok Behera, Y.M.Puri, Gajanan Thakare and M.M.Thawre ,”Enhancing the Hardness of Alumina -Zirconia-CNT Composites using alumina-graphite powder bath to provide homogeneous sintering. ”Advances in Applied Ceramics (2023). https://doi.org/10.1080/17436753.2023.2199554 |
| 5 | Sandeep Kale ,M.M. Thawre ,Atul Ballal and et. al “High Temperature Behaviour of 617M”, Transactions of the Indian National Academy of Engineers , Jan2022, http://doi.org/10.1007/s41403-022-00321-7 |
| 6 | Prassanna C. Dupare , Akshay Mhaiske,Atul R. Ballal, Manjusha M. Thawre , A. Nageshsa“CyclicBehaviour of Nickel -Based Superalloy 617M at Elevated Temperature ” Transactions of the Indian National Academy of Engineers ,Jan 2022, http://doi.org/10.1007/s41403-021-00317-9 |
| 7 | Behera Alok, Manjusha M. Thawre, Atul Ballal, C. M. Manjunatha, Dinesh Krishnakumar, and Shardul Chandankhede. “A modified piecewise linear constant life diagram for fatigue life prediction of carbon fiber/polymer multidirectional laminates.” Polymer Composites (2022). https://doi.org/10.1002/pc.27176 |
| 8 | Deepshree D. Awale, V. D. Vijayanad, Atul R. Ballal, Manjusha M. Thawre, G. V. Prasad Reddy; Study of microstructural transition in dissimilar weld joint from as- welded to PWHT condition using electron backscattered imaging; 285 (2021) 129080;Materials Letter; IF: 3.2(Elsevier) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2020.129080 |
| 9 | Deepshree D. Awale,V. D. Vijayanad, Atul R. Ballal, Manjusha M. Thawre, J. Ganesh Kumar, G. V. Prasad Reddy;Evaluation of tensile properties of various regions of creep exposed dissimilar weld joint using miniature specimen testing; (2020) 105079; EngineeringFailureAnalysis;IF:2.98(Elsevier) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engfailanal.2020.105079; |
| 10 | Hari Krishan Yadav, A R Ballal, M M Thawre, and V.D. Vijayanand, Recovery and recrystallization during creep exposure of cold worked Ti-modified 14Cr-15Ni austenitic stainless steel, Materials At High Temperature, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020. (SCI) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09603409.2020.1754040 |
| 11 | Alok Behera, Prasanna Dupare, M.M. Thawre. A.R. Ballal, Effects of hygrothermal aging and fiber orientations on constant amplitude fatigue properties of CFRP Multidirectional composite laminates, International Journal of Fatigue, 136: 105590, 2020 (SCI) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2020.105590 |
| 12 | Deepshree D. Awale,Atul R. Ballal, Manjusha M. Thawre, V. D. Vijayanad, J.Ganesh Kumar, G. V. Prasad Reddy; Microstructural investigation and mechanical properties evaluation using miniature specimen testing of various constituents of dissimilar weld joint;532 (2020) 152048; Journal of Nuclear Materials: IF:2.45(Elsevier) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2020.152048 |
| 13 | Alok Behera, Ashok Vishwakarma, MM Thawre, Atul Ballal. Effect of hygrothermal aging on static behavior of Quasi-isotropic CFRP composite laminate, Composites Communications, 17, 51-5, 2020. (Elsevier, ESCI, IF-4.92) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coco.2019.11.009 |
| 14 | Hari Krishan Yadav, A R Ballal, M M Thawre, and V.D. Vijayanand, Analysis of transient and tertiary creep behavior of Titanium modified 14Cr-15Ni stainless steel, Materials Research Express, IOP Publishing, 2020, Vol. 7, page 016580. (SCI) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1591/ab6ad9 |
| 15 | Alok Behera, Manjusha M. Thawre, Atul Ballal. Failure analysis of CFRP Multidirectional laminates using the probabilistic Weibull distribution model under static loading, Fibers and Polymers, 20: 11, 2390-99,2019. (Springer, SCI, IF-1.79) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12221-019-1194-9 |
| 16 | Alok Behera, Prasanna Dupare, M.M. Thawre. A.R. Ballal, Effect of fatigue loading on Stiffness degradation, Energy dissipation and Matrix cracking damage of CFRP [±45]3S composite laminate, Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures, 40: 2302-14, 2019. (Wiley, SCI, IF-3.03) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ffe.13065 |
| 17 | Ashok Vishwakarma, Alok Behera, Manjusha M. Thawre, Atul Ballal. Effect of thickness variation on static behaviour of carbon fiber reinforced polymer multidirectional laminated composite, Material Research Express, 6(11), 115312, 2019. (IOP, SCI, IF-1.93) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1591/ab44fa |
| 18 | Hari Krishan Yadav, A R Ballal, M M Thawre, and V.D. Vijayanand, Assessment of microstructural evolution in cold-worked Ti-modified 14Cr–15Ni austenitic stainless steel on creep exposure, “Materials Research Express”, IOP Publishing, 2019. Vol. 6, page 096591 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1591/ab31fe |
| 19 | Diwakar Makireddi, V D Ghuge, Gajanan Thakare and M M Thawre, Application of two-step sintering cycle to 20–30 nm α-Al2O3 compacts to investigate icrostructure, hardness, strength, density and corundum formation, Materials Research Express , Vol.6,No.12 January 2020 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-591/ab653b |
| 20 | M. M. Thawre ,A. Dubey, K. K. Verma, D. R. Peshwe, N. Jagannathan & C. M. Manjunatha: A Study on the Fatigue Life of a Composite T-Joint Subjected to Transport Aircraft Spectrum Loads: Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals volume 69, pages409–413 (2016)( ESCI) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2015.03.026 |
| 21 | MM Thawre, KK Verma, N Jagannathan, DR Peshwe, RK Paretkar, : Effect of ply-drop on fatigue life of a carbon fiber composite under a fighter aircraft spectrum load sequence:Composites Part B: Engineering 86, 120- 125 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesb.2015.10.002 |
| 22 | MM Thawre, KN Pandey, A Dubey, KK Verma, DR Peshwe, RK Paretkar :Fatigue life of a carbon fiber composite T-joint under a standard fighter aircraft spectrum load sequence: Composite Structures 127, 260-266 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2015.03.026 |
| 23 | MM Thawre, RK Paretkar, DR Peshwe, R Sundaram, CM Manjunatha :Construction of constant fatigue life diagram for a carbon fiber composite :Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals 64 (3), 301-303 http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-80052607158&partnerID=MN8TOARS |
| 24 | M.S. Duragkar, R.K. Paretkar, D.R. Peshwe and S.A. Paranjpe: Investigation of the load sequence effects in fatigue of damaged composite laminate & characterization of fatigue damage: Transactions of The Indian Institute of Metals(ESCI): http://link.springer.com/journal/12666/63/2/page/4 |
| 25 | Alok Behera, Janaki Dehurb, and M.M. Thaware A comparative study on laminated and randomly oriented Luffa-Kevlar Reinforced hybrid composites : Journal Of Natural Fibers https://doi.org/10.1080/15440478.2017.1414653 |
| 26 | Alok Behera, M. M. Thawre, A. Ballal et. al., Effect of Moisture Content and Fiber Orientation on the Mechanical Behavior of GFRP Composites. In: Kalamkar V., Monkova K. (eds) Advances in Mechanical Engineering. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, 433-439, 2020. (Springer, Scopus) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3639-7_51 |
| 27 | Deepshree D. Awale,Manjusha M. Thawre; Effect of induced external damage on carbon fiber reinforced (CFC) composite; Materials Toady: Proceedings: Vol. 27, Part 3,(2020)2127- 2131; (Scopus) (Elsevier) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2019.09.080 |
| 28 | J. Raju1, Manjusha S. Duragkar, N. Jagannathan1 & C. M. Manjunatha: Prediction of Onset of Mode I Delamination Growth Under a Tensile Spectrum Load 2014 : Journal of Materials Science Research; Vol. 3, No. 2; 2014 ISSN 1927-0585 E-ISSN 1927-0593 http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/jmsr.v3n2p44 |
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