Dr. Khushboo Rakha

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Room: 
Room No. 313, Satish Dhawan Block
Phone: +91-1881-230208

Designation: 

Assistant Professor

Department: 

Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

Areas of Research: 

Advanced High Strength Steels (Nano-structured Bainitic Steels, Ultra Low Alloyed Steels, TWIP Steels and Dual Phase Steels)

Advanced Characterisation Techniques (Transmission Electron Microscopy, Electron Back Scattered Diffraction, Neutron Diffraction and 3D Atom Probe Tomography)

Education: 

PhD, Deakin University, Australia, 2016

B.Tech (Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, IIT Roorkee, 2010

Selected Publications/Patents: 

Khushboo Rakha, Hossein Beladi, Saurabh Kabra, Stewart Pullen, Ilana Timokhina, Peter Hodgson, Klaus Dieter Liss; In-situ Neutron Diffraction Study of Nanobainitic steels in Conjunction with Transmission Electron Microscopy; Journal of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (JOM), 42-46, 2012

Khushboo Rakha, Hossein Beladi, Ilana Timokhina, Xiangyuan Xiong, Saurabh Kabra, Klaus Dieter Liss, Peter Hodgson; On low temperature bainite transformation characteristics using in-situ neutron diffraction and atom probe tomography; MSEA (589), 2014

Khushboo Rakha, Hossein Beladi, Ilana Timokhina, Peter Hodgson; Study of phase transformations in low temperature, high strength nanostructured bainitic steels; CAMS, 2014

Ilana Timokhina, Klaus Dieter Liss, Dierk Raabe, Khushboo Rakha, Hossein Beladi, Xiangyuan Xiong, Peter Hodgson; Growth of bainitic ferrite and carbon partitioning during the early stages of bainite transformation in a 2 mass% silicon steel studied by in situ neutron diffraction, TEM and APT; Journal of Applied Crystallography 49(2), 2016