Engineering Engineer

GAURAV ARGADE

**** ***** ****** ****, 573-***-****

League City, TX, USA 77573 ************@*****.***

SKILLS

Hands on experience with various kinds of mechanical and electrochemical testing of steel and light metal alloys.

Proficient in materials characterization techniques such as, EBSD, SEM, EDS, Optical Microscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD), and Computational Thermodynamic Modeling Software.

Specialization in physical metallurgy, mechanical metallurgy and corrosion behavior of ferrous and non-ferrous alloys.

EXPERIENCE

Materials Advisor July 2012-Present

KnightHawk Engineering Inc.

Perform material testing and conduct high-end material characterization, Metallurgical failure analysis of static and rotating engineering components.

Analyzing material failures under overload, fatigue, torsional, corrosion/stress corrosion cracking, creep etc. conditions.

Conduct positive material identification, Material selection and recommendation to engineering problems.

Prepare and review failure analysis reports, Prepare proposals for potential projects.

Customer interaction to develop and expand business capabilities.

Worked on to acquire and maintain ISO/IEC 17025:2005 Accreditation for the Materials Lab. Graduate Research Assistant Aug 2008 – June 2012

Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Studied the effect of friction stir processing and microstructural modification on stress corrosion cracking susceptibility of light metal alloys. Impact of friction stir processing on physical metallurgy and mechanical behavior of aluminum and magnesium alloys.

Analyzed the processed region using electrochemical techniques such as Linear Polarization Resistance, Potentiodynamic Polarization, Galvanostatic Polarization, and Slow strain rate testing to study corrosion and stress corrosion properties.

Processed surface composites using friction stir processing technique and studied fatigue life.

Alloy design of corrosion resistant magnesium alloy. Teaching Assistant Aug 2009 - Dec 2009

Materials and Testing Lab, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Taught mechanical testing such as tensile, lap shear, fatigue, and impact toughness of materials.

Critically graded technical reports.

Senior Engineer, Research & Development July 2007 - July 2008 Essar Steel Ltd, Surat, India

Contributed to the development of API specified Line Pipe Grade micro-alloyed HSLA steels.

Developed low Cr-Mo high Nb grade for cost effectiveness of line pipe steel X70 and X80 produced at Essar steel.

Investigated the directionality of properties in line pipe grade steels. GAURAV ARGADE

2107 Shaly Breeze Lane, 573-***-****

League City, TX, USA 77573 ************@*****.***

Graduate Engineer Trainee June 2004 - Oct 2004

SWIL Copper Ltd., Bharuch, India

Worked as shift engineer in the area of smelting and fire refining of LME A grade copper electrodes. EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering June 2012 Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, Missouri GPA 4.0/ 4.0 Dissertation: Stress corrosion cracking behavior of friction stir processed ultrafine grained light metal alloys.

The aim of the thesis was to study and correlate the effect of microstructural modification via friction stir processing on the stress corrosion behavior of Al-Mg and high strength wrought magnesium alloy.

Quantification of relationship between microstructural features and corrosion resistance of materials. M. Tech. in Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science June 2007 Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India GPA: 8.78/10 Thesis: Stress corrosion cracking studies of austenitic and duplex stainless steels welds.

The objective of the thesis was to study stress corrosion cracking susceptibility of AISI 304 austenitic stainless steels and 2205 duplex stainless steels welds using a novel technique of micro-cell capillary.

The technique showed promising results and distinguished the higher stress corrosion susceptibility of austenitic stainless steels as compared to duplex stainless steels in chloride environment. B.S. in Metallurgical Engineering June 2004

Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, India GPA: 3.62/4.0 PUBLICATIONS

G.R. Argade, R.S. Mishra, C.B. Smith and M.W. Mahoney, "Effect of friction stir processing on the corrosion behavior of AA5083”,Proceedings of Symposia Friction Stir Welding and Processing VI, The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society, San Diego February 2011.

G.R. Argade, K. Kandasamy, S.K. Panigrahi, R.S. Mishra, "Corrosion behavior of a friction stir processed M-Y-RE alloy", Corrosion Science 58 (2012) 321-326.

G.R. Argade, S.K. Panigrahi, R.S. Mishra, “Effects of grain size on the corrosion resistance of wrought magnesium alloys containing neodymium”, Corrosion Science 58 (2012) 145-151.

G.R. Argade, W. Yuan, K. Kandasamy, R.S. Mishra, “Stress corrosion cracking susceptibility of ultrafine grained AZ31”, Journal of Materials Science 47-201*-****-****.

G.R. Argade, N. Kumar, R.S. Mishra, “Stress corrosion cracking susceptibility of ultrafine grained Al-Mg-Sc alloy”, Materials Science and Engineering A 565 (2013) 80-89. Professional Activities

Reviewer of Corrosion Science (Impact Factor of 4.422) journal since 2012. I have reviewed 6 technical papers for the journal till now.

Professional Membership of NACE, ASM, and AWS Houston Chapters. Have been attending monthly meets of Houston Chapter.

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