ABOUT
    Naresh
    Thadhani
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    Naresh Thadhani is Professor and past Chair of the School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at Georgia Tech (GT). Following his service as School Chair over two five-year terms from 2012-2022, he pursued a 12-month assignment as Jefferson Science Fellow working with the Bureau of Overseas Building Operations at the U.S. State Department, providing materials subject matter expertise for the design, construction and maintenance of embassies and consulates addressing the challenges of extreme and often competing environmental, security, geopolitical, and diplomatic considerations. Professor Thadhani is globally recognized for his research in high-pressure shock-compression and high-strain-rate deformation of materials. His research focuses on fundamental mechanisms of shock-induced physical, chemical, and mechanical changes in materials, including their deformation and fracture behaviors under extreme conditions of high-velocity and high strain rate impact loading. He has led the understanding of shock-induced phase transformations and mechanical properties in advanced steels, bulk metallic glasses and additively manufactured materials; design, development, and characterization of structural energetic materials; and interactions of shock waves with heterogeneities in composite (solid) and granular (powder) materials. He has built a one-of-a-kind state-of-the-art high strain rate gas-gun and laser-driven impact experiments laboratory combining mesoscale spatial and nanosecond resolution temporal diagnostics and mesoscale computational simulation capabilities. He is currently building a program in H2-based direct reduction for net-shaped fabrication of Advanced Steels, with net-zero CO2 emissions, and using conventional and lower-quality ores and tailings.

    Professor Thadhani has advised 15 visiting scientists/post-docs; 29 Ph.D and 18 M.S degree students; and mentored 60+ undergraduate student researchers. He has attracted research funding of ~$18M (~$15M as PI and ~$3M as co-PI) from federal agencies including the AFOSR, ARO, DARPA, DTRA, ONR, NSF, as well as DoE and DoD national laboratories and industries. He has co-edited 12 books/proceedings, published more than 275 refereed papers (including several invited review articles) and 173 publications in conference proceedings, and presented more than 170 invited talks and seminars. He has served or is serving on review boards including the National Academy of Science panel for review of the Army Research Laboratory (2015, 2016, and 2018), academic program reviews of materials science and engineering programs at several universities, as well as on external advisory boards of Materials Science and Engineering programs. He has organized numerous conferences and provided high levels of service to professional societies, industries, and the government.

    Professor Thadhani is recipient of the National Academies’ Jefferson Science Fellowship and the TMS Leadership award. He is an elected Fellow of ASM International and the American Physical Society, and Academician of the EuroMediterranean Academy of Arts and Sciences.

    Students:
    Selected publications
    1. N.N. Thadhani and M.A.Meyers,"Kinetics of martensitic transfor­mations induced by a tensile stress pulse," Acta Metallur­gica, Vol. 34, No. 8, pp. 1625-1636, 1986.
    2. N.N. Thadhani and M.A.Meyers, "Kinetics of isothermal martensite transfor­mation," Progress in Materials Science, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 1-38, 1986.
    3. N.N. Thadhani, T. Vreeland, Jr., and T.J. Ahrens, "Adiabatic micro‑shear bands in shock‑consolidated microcrystalline powders," Acta Metallurgica, Vol. 34, No. 12, pp. 2323-2334, 1986.
    4. N.N. Thadhani, A.H. Mutz, and T. Vreeland, Jr., "Structure‑property evaluation and comparison between shock wave consoli­dated and hot isostatical­ly pressed compacts of RSP Pyromet 718 powders," Acta Metallurgica, Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 897-908, 1989.
    5. N.N. Thadhani, S. Work, R.A. Graham, and W.D. Hammetter, "Shock Induced Reaction Synthesis of Nickel Aluminides", Journal of Materials Research, Vol. 7(5), pp. 1063-1075, 1992.
    6. I. Song and N.N. Thadhani, "Shock-induced Chemical Reactions and Synthesis of Nickel Aluminides," Metallurgical Transactions, 23A, pp. 41-48, 1992.
    7. H.A. Grebe, A. Advani, and N. Thadhani, "Combustion Synthesis and Subsequent Explosive Consolidation of TiC, Metall. Trans., Vol. 23A, pp. 2365-2372, 1992. 
    8. N.N. Thadhani, "Shock-induced Chemical Reactions and Synthesis of Materials," Progress in Materials Science, Vol. 27 (2), pp. 117-226, 1993.
    9. N.N. Thadhani, "Mechanisms of Shock-Assisted and Shock-Induced Chemical Reactions in Elemental Powder Mixtures," J. of Applied Physics, Vol. 76 (4), pp. 2129-2138, 1994.
    10. S.C. Glade and N.N. Thadhani, "Shock Consolidation of Mechanically Alloyed Nanocrystalline Ti-Si Powders," Metallurgical Materials Transactions, 26A, 1995, P.2565.
    11. T. Royal, S. Namjoshi, and N.N. Thadhani, "Mechanistic Processes Influencing Shock Chemistry in Ti-Al/Si/B System," Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, Vol. 27A, pp. 1761-1771, 1996.
    12. N.N. Thadhani, R.A. Graham, T. Royal, E. Dunbar, M.U. Anderson, and G.T. Holman, Shock-induced Chemical Reactions in Ti-Si Powder Mixtures of Different Morphologies: Time-Resolved Pressure Measurements and Materials Analysis, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 82 (3), (1997) pp. 1113-1128.
    13. A.M. Thakur, N.N. Thadhani, and R.B. Schwartz, "Shock-Induced Martensitic Transformations in Near-Equiatomic NiTi Alloys," Metall. and Matls Trans, Vol. 28A, (1997) pp. 1445-1455.
    14. T. Chen, J. Hampikian, and N.N. Thadhani, Synthesis, Microstructure, and Properties of Shock Compacted Ball-milled Nanocrystalline NiAl alloy,Acta Materilia,Vol. 47, No. 8, pp. 2567-2579, 1999.
    15. A.H. Advani and N. N. Thadhani, Shock-induced Reaction Synthesis of Isomorphous (Cu-Ni) And Immiscible (Cu-Nb) Compounds, Metall & Matls Trans,Vol. 30A, 1999, pp. 1367-1379.
    16. C. Collins, N. Thadhani and Z. Iqbal, "Possible synthesis of beta-C3N4 by shock-compression of C-N precursors," CARBON, Vol. 39, (2001) 1175-1181.
    17. T. Chen, P.M. Green, J.L. Jordan, J. Hampikian, and N.N. Thadhani, Oxidation of Ti3SiC2 Composites in Air, Metallurgical & Materials Transactions, Vol. 33A, No. 6, pp. 1737-42, 2002.
    18. G. Kennedy, L. Ferranti, R. Russell, M. Zhou, and N.N. Thadhani, Dynamic High-Strain-Rate Behavior of Microstructurally-biased two-phase TiB2+Al2O3 Ceramics, Journal of Applied Physics vol.91, no.4 p.1921-7, 2002.
    19. S, Bhattacharya, TM, Tritt, Y. Xia Y, J. Poon, and N.N. Thadhani, Grain structure effects on lattice thermal conductivity of Ti-based half-Heusler alloys, Appl Phys Letts, V.81 (1), pp. 43-45, Jul 1, 2002.
    20. K.V. Vandersall and N.N. Thadhani, “Time-Resolved Measurements of the shock-compression response of Mo+2Si Elemental Powder Mixtures,” J. Appl. Phys., V. 94(3) (2003) pp. 1575-1583.
    21. Xiao Xu and Naresh N. Thadhani, “Investigation of shock-induced reaction behavior of as-blended and ball-milled Ni+Ti powder mixtures using time-resolved stress measurements,” Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 96(4), August 2004, pp. 2000-2009.
    22. Z.Q. Jin, J. Li, H. Zeng, S-F. Cheng, J.P. Liu, Z.L. Wang, N.N. Thadhani, “Shock compression response of magnetic nanocomposite powders,” ACTA MATER. 52: (8) 2147-2154 2004
    23. K.H. Chen, Z.Q. Jin, G. Kennedy, Z.L. Wang, N.N. Thadhani, H. Zeng, S.F. Cheng, J.P. Liu, Bulk Nanocomposite Magnets Produced by Dynamic Shock Compaction,J APPL PHYS v. 96, No. 2, July 15, 2004, pp. 1276-8.
    24. Z. Q. Jin, N. N. Thadhani, M. McGill, Y. Ding, and Z. L. Wang, M. Chen and H. Zeng, V. M. Chakka and J. P. Liu, Explosive shock processing of Pr2Fe14B/α-Fe exchange-coupled nanocomposite bulk magnets, Journal of Materials Research, v 20, n 3, March 2005, p 599-609.
    25. J.L. Jordan, J.A.. Pelesko, and N.N. Thadhani, “A Predictive Kinetics Based Model for Reaction Synthesis of Ti3SiC2,” JOURNAL OF MATERIALS RESEARCH 20 (6): 1476-1484 JUN 2005.
    26. Thadhani, N.N.; Jin, Z.Q. Shock-Induced Synthesis of Nanocomposite Magnetic Materials. In Dekker Encyclopedia of Nanoscience & Nanotechnology.; Contescu, C., Putyera, K., Eds.; Taylor Francis Group: NY 2006. http://www.dekker.com/sdek/abstract~db=enc~content=a713626862
    27. D. Eakins, N.N. Thadhani, Instrumented Anvil-On-Rod Impact Tests for Validating Applicability of Standard Strength Models to Transient Deformation States, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 100, No. 7, 2006, pp. 073503-1-8.
    28. D. Eakins and N.N. Thadhani, “Shock-Induced Reaction In A Flake Nickel + Spherical Aluminum Powder Mixture”, Journal of Applied Physics, V. 100, No. 11, 2006, pp. 113521-25.
    29. D. Eakins and N.N. Thadhani, “Discrete Particle Simulation of Shock Wave Propagation in a Binary Ni+Al Powder Mixture”, Journal of Applied Physics, 2007, Vol. 101 (200) 043508-18.
    30. C. Dai, D. Eakins, and N.N. Thadhani, “Shock compression Hugoniot of nano-particles of iron,” Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 90, No. 7, 2007, pp. 71911-1-3.
    31. D. Eakins and N.N. Thadhani, Analysis of Dynamic Mechanical Behavior in Reverse Taylor Anvil-On-Rod Impact Tests, Journal of Impact Engineering, 34(11), 2007, pp. 1821-1834.
    32. M. Martin, T. Sekine, T. Kobayashi, L. Kecskes, and N.N. Thadhani, High Pressure Equation of State of a Zirconium-Based Bulk Metallic Glass, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, Vol. 38A(11), (2007), pp. 2689-2696.
    33. L. Ferranti and N.N. Thadhani, “Dynamic Mechanical Behavior Characterization of Epoxy-Cast Al+Fe2O3 Thermite Mixtures,” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, Vol. 38A(11), (2007), pp. 2697-2715.
    34. D.E. Eakins and N.N.Thadhani, “Mesoscale simulation of the configuration-dependent shock-compression response of Ni+Al powder mixtures,” Acta Materialia, 56 (2008) pp. 1496-1510.
    35. D.E. Eakins and N.N. Thadhani, “The consolidation Behavior of three distinct Ni+Al Powder Mixtures,” Applied Physics Letts, 92 (11): Art. No. 111903, March 17, 2008.
    36. M. Martin, L. Kecskes, and N.N. Thadhani, “High-Strain-Rate Dynamic Mechanical Behavior of a Bulk Metallic Glass Composite,” Journal of Materials Research, Vol. 23, No. 4, April, 2008, pp. 998-1008.
    37. S. Bhattacharya, M.J. Skove, M. Russell. T.M. Tritt, Y. Xia, V. Ponnambalam, S.J. Poon, and N.N. Thadhani, “Effect of Boundary Scatterring on Thermal Conductivity of TiNiSn-based half Heusler Alloys,” Phys. Rev B, 77 (18), 2008, Article No. 184203.
    38. C. Dai, D.Eakins, and N.N. Thadhani, “Dynamic Densification Behavior of nano-iron powders under shock compression,” Journal of Applied Physics, 103 (9), 2008, Article No. 093503.
    39. D.M. Dattelbaum, S.A. Sheffield, D. Stahl, and Michael Weinberg, Kit Neel, and Naresh Thadhani, “Equation of State and High Pressure Properties of a Fluorinated Terpolymer:THV 500,”Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 104 (11) 2008, p. 11325.
    40. M. Martin, L. Meyer, L. Kecskes, N.N. Thadhani, “Uniaxial and biaxial compressive response of a bulk metallic glass composite over a range of strain rates and temperatures,” Journal of Materials Research,Vol. 24 (1), 2009, pp. 66-78.
    41. D.E. Eakins and N.N. Thadhani, “The Shock Compression of Reactive Powder Mixtures,” Invited Review Article, International Materials ReviewsVol. 54(4), (2009), pp. 181-213.
    42. C. Neel and N.N. Thadhani, “Shock and Release Wave Speed of an Alumina Epoxy Composite,” Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 106(4), 2009, pp. 0461051-3.
    43. Louis Ferranti, Jr., Ken Gall, and Naresh N. Thadhani, “Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Particle-Filled Aluminum-Hematite Epoxy Composites,” Journal of Materials Research, 2009.
    44. M.Martin and N.N. Thadhani, “Mechanical Properties of Bulk Metallic Glasses,” Invited Review Article, Progress in Materials Science, Vol. 55; (2010) 759–839.
    45. C. Dai and N.N. Thadhani, “Shock compression response of magnetic Fe3O4 nanoparticles,” Acta Materialia, Vol. 59, No. 2, 2011, pp. 785-796.
    46. K. Neel and N.N. Thadhani, “Shock compression response of alumina-THV composites,” Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 109 (1), 2011
    47. E. Herbold, J.L. Jordan, N.N. Thadhani, “Observation of a Minimum Reaction Initiation Threshold in Ball-Milled Ni plus Al under high-rate Mechanical Loading,” Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 109 (6), 2011
    48. D.A. Fredenburg and N.N. Thadhani, “High-pressure equation of State of Properties of Bismuth Oxide,” Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 110 (2011) 0635101-5
    49. E. Herbold, N.N. Thadhani, J.L. Jordan, “Effects of processing and powder size on microstructure and reactivity in arrested reactive milled Al+Ni,” Acta Materialia, Vol. 59 (17), October 2011 pp.6717-6728.
    50. P. Specht, N.N. Thadhani, and T. Weihs, “Configurational Effects on Shock Wave Propagation in Ni-Al Multilayer Composites,” Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 111 (7), April 1, 2012.
    51. C. Wehrenber, B. Zande, S.G. Sankar, and N.N. Thadhani, “Shock Compression Response of α''-Fe16N2 nanoparticles,” Journal of Applied Physics, Vol, 111 (8), April 15, 2012.
    52. D. A. Fredenburg and N.N. Thadhani, “On the applicability of the P-alpha and P-lambda models to describe the dynamic compaction response of highly heterogeneous powder mixtures,” Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 113 (4), Jan 2013.
    53. R.Whelchel, G. Kennedy, S. Dwivedi, T. Sanders, and N.N. Thadhani, “Spall Behavior of Rolled Aluminum 5083-H116 Plate,” Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 113 (23) 2013.
    54. D. A. Fredenburg and N.N. Thadhani, “Predicting the shock response of heterogeneous powder mixtures,” Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 113 (22), 2013.
    55. A. Sengupta, N. Dwivedi, L. Tucci L, M.R. Prausnitz, S.C. Kelly, and N.N. Thadhani, “Poloxamer surfactant preserves cell viability during photoacoustic delivery of molecules into cells,” Biotechnology and Bioengineering 112(2):405-415 01 Feb 2015.
    56. Merit G Schumaker, John P Borg, Gregory Kennedy, Naresh N Thadhani, “Mesoscale Simulations of Dry Sand,” Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Volume 1, Pages 379-388, 2015.
    57. M.G. Schumaker, J.P. Borg, G. Kennedy, N.N. Thadhani, “Mesosclae Simulations of Dry Sand,” Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Vol. 1, 2015, pp. 379-388
    58. S.C. Kelly and N.N. Thadhani, Shock Compression Response of Highly Reactive Ni+Al Multilayered Thin Foils, Journal of Applied Physics, 119 (9), January 2016,
    59. R. L. Whelchel, T. H. Sanders Jr., N. N. Thadhani, D. S. Mehoke and K. A. Iyer, “Dynamic Yielding and Fracture of Grade 4 Titanium,” Journal of Applied Physics, 119(11), 115901, 2016.
    60. BW White, CA Crouse, JE Spowart, B Aydelotte, NN Thadhani, Impact Initiation of Reactive Aluminized Fluorinated Acrylic Nanocomposites, Journal of Dynamic Behavior of Materials 2 (2), 259-271, 2016
    61. Z Kang, AA Banishev, G Lee, DA Scripka, J Breidenich, P Xiao, Dana Dlott, Chris Summers, M. Zhou, N.N. Thadhani, Exploration of CdTe quantum dots as mesoscale pressure sensors via time-resolved shock-compression photoluminescent emission spectroscopy, J., of Applied Physics, 120 (4) 043107, 2016.
    62. PE Specht, TP Weihs, NN Thadhani, Interfacial Effects on the Dispersion and Dissipation of Shock Waves in Ni/Al Multilayer Composites, “Journal of Dynamic Behavior of Materials, 2(4) 500-510, 2016.
    63. PE Specht, TP Weihs, NN Thadhani, “Shock compression response of cold-rolled Ni/Al multilayer composites,” Journal of Applied Physics, 121 (1), 015110 2017.
    64. JW LaJeunesse, M Hankin, GB Kennedy, DK Spaulding, MG Schumaker, J. Borg, S. Stewart-Mukhopadhyay, and N.N. Thadhani, “Dynamic response of dry and water-saturated sand systems,” Journal of Applied Physics 122 (1), 015901, 2017
    65. SY Holguin, CF Anderson, NN Thadhani, MR Prausnitz, “Role of cytoskeletal mechanics and cell membrane fluidity in the intracellular delivery of molecules mediated by laser‐activated carbon nanoparticles,” Biotechnology and bioengineering, 2017
    66. SM Sharma, K Mishra, O Rodriguez, WR Whittington, P Allison, SP Bhat, A.M. Gokhale, and N.N. Thadhani, “Effects of Strain Rate on Mechanical Properties and Fracture Mechanisms in a Dual Phase Steel,” in Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Volume 1, 209-216, 2018.
    67. A. Bryant, D. Scripka, F. Alamgir, N.N. Thadhani, “Laser shock compression induced crystallization of Ce3Al metallic glass,” Journal of Applied Physics,” 124 (3), 035904, 2018.
    68. W Zhang, GB Kennedy, K Muly, P Li, NN Thadhani, “Effect of aging state on shock induced spall behavior of ultrahigh strength Al-Zn-Mg-Cu alloy” International Journal of Impact Engineering, 103725, 2020.
    69. Karla B Wagner, Amirreza Keyhani, Andrew K Boddorff, Gregory Kennedy, Didier Montaigne, Brian J Jensen, Matthew Beason, Min Zhou, Naresh N Thadhani, “High-speed x-ray phase contrast imaging and digital image correlation analysis of microscale shock response of an additively manufactured energetic material simulant,” 2020/6/21, Journal of Applied Physics, Volume 127, 23, 2020.
    70. M Gonzales, NN Thadhani, “Challenges in Understanding the Dynamic Behavior of Heterogeneous Materials,” Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME), 367-397, 2020.
    71. A.K. BoddorffS.W. JangG. KennedyK. TamingerandNaresh N. Thadhani, “Spall failure of additively manufactured two-layered Cu–Ni bimetallic alloys,” Journal of Applied Physics, 131, 175901 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0086445
    72. K.D. Koube, G. Kennedy, K. Bertsch, J. Kacher, D.J. Thoma, N.N. Thadhani, Spall Damage Mechanisms in Laser Powder Bed Fabricated Stainless Steel 316LMaterials Science and Engineering A, 0921-5093, 2022.
    73. K. Lamb, K. Koube, J. Kacher, T. Sloop, N.N. Thadhani, S.S. Babu, “Anisotropic spall failure of additively manufactured 316L stainless steel, Additive Manufacturing 66, 103464, 2023.
    74. K.D. Koube, T. Sloop, K. Lamb, J. Kacher, S.S. Babu, and N.N. Thadhani, “An assessment of spall failure modes in laser powder bed fusion fabricated stainless steel 316L with low-volume intentional porosity, “Journal of Applied Physics 133 (18), 2023.
    75. A.Marnot, K. Koube, S. Jang, N. Thadhani, J. Kacher & B. Brettmann, “Material extrusion additive manufacturing of high particle loaded suspensions: a review of materials, processes and challenges,” Virtual and Physical Prototyping, 18:1, (2023) e2279149, DOI: 10.1080/17452759.2023.2279149
    Education
    • 1984 - Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering (Physical Metallurgy), New Mexico Tech.
    • 1981 - M.S. in Metallurgical Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.
    • 1979 - B.E. in Metallurgical Engineering, Malaviya Regional Engineering College, Jaipur, India.
    Awards
    • Jefferson Science Fellowship, U.S. Department of State (2022-23)
    • TMS Leadership Award (2018)
    • Elected Academician of the EuroMediterranean Academy of Arts and Sciences (2017)
    • Fellow of American Physical Society (2007)
    • Fellow of ASM International (2001)
    Research Interests
    • Fundamental mechanisms of shock-induced physical, chemical, and mechanical changes in materials
    • Shock-induced phase transformations and mechanical properties in advanced steels, bulk metallic glasses and additively manufactured materials
    • Design, development, and characterization of structural energetic materials; and interactions of shock waves with heterogeneities in composite (solid) and granular (powder) materials.
    • H2-based direct reduction for net-shaped fabrication of Advanced Steels, with net-zero CO2 emissions, and using conventional and lower-quality ores and tailings.