Education

• Ph.D. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, India, Department of Mechanical Engineering
  Thesis Title: Oxidation and Microstructural Engineering of Niobium (C-103) Alloy
  Thesis Supervisors: Prof. Amol Gokhale (ME), IIT Bombay, Prof. Indradev Samajdar (MEMS), IIT Bombay
  2016 - Present
• M.Tech. University of Hyderabad (HCU), Hyderabad, india, School of Engineering Science and Technology, Department of Nano Science and Technology
  Thesis Title: Carbon Nanofillers/PVA Composite Synthesis, Characterization and Mechanical Behavior
  2014 - 2016
• B.E. R.T.M. Nagpur University, Department of Mechanical Engineering
  2009 - 2013

Technical Skills

• Experimental: Electron Backscattered Diffraction (EBSD), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) including EDX and WDX, XRD (Peak profiling, Texture analysis, Residual stress measurements), Digital Image Correlation (DIC), Focused ion-beam (FIB) milling, Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), SEM Transmission Kikuchi Diffraction (TKD) method, Universal Testing Machine (UTM) and Laser Raman Spectroscopy (LRS), UTM
• Packages: Quantum Espresso (Density Functional Theory – DFT simulations), Vienna Ab initio Simulation Package – VASP (learning), Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator – LAMMPS (Molecular Dynamics – MD simulation) and Multiphysics Object-Oriented Simulation – MOOSE Package (Learning).

Projects

• Space Technology Cells (STC) Project: , Funded by Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Managed by Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC)

Experience

• Technical Assistant, Electron Backscattered Diffraction (EBSD), OIM, IIT Bombay, January 2017 - Present
• Technical Assistant, Laser Raman Spectroscopy, Sofisticated Analytical Instrument Facility (SAIF), IIT Bombay, January 2017 - July 2019
• Project Assistant, UPE-II sponsored project titled, "Development of Nanostructured Composites as Exchange Spring-Magnets with High Coercivity and High Energy Product" University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad. November 2015 - July 2016
• Internship at lloyds Steel Industries limited, Wardha, Maharashtra, May - June 2011

Membership

• Associate Member: , Indian Institute of Metals (IIM)
• Member: ASM International

Responsibilities

• Print Media Co-ordinator: NMD ATM - 2020, IIT Bombay
• Co-ordinator: Critical Non-Ferrous Metals: Establishing the value chain (CNMF), 2019 organised by IIM Mumbai Chapter

Research Articles

• Orientation Dependent Interface Morphology and Oxide Stability in a Commercial Niobium Alloy: Explaining Experimental Results with Density Functional Theory
  Ashish Dhole Amrita Bhattacharya, René de Kloe, Rohit Kumar Gupta, Amol A. Gokhale, and I. Samajdar. Acta Materialia Accepted (2022)

• The role of the metal-oxide Interface’s terminating layer on the selective cold cracking of a commercial Niobium–Hafnium–Titanium (C-103) alloy
  Ashish Dhole Amrita Bhattacharya, Rohit Kumar Gupta, Amol A. Gokhale, and I. Samajdar. Journal of Alloys and Compounds 856 (2021): 157427.

• Effect of boron addition on microstructure, hardness and wear performance of Ti-6Al-4 V alloy manufactured by laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing
  Pankaj Kumar Verma, Sameer Warghane, Unissa Nichul, Pawan Kumar, Ashish Dhole, and Vijay Hiwarkar. Materials Characterization 172 (2021): 110848.

• Cold compression behavior on the evolution of microstructure and texture in Beta C titanium alloy
  Unissa Nichul, Rajesh Khatirkar, Ashish Dhole, and Vijay Hiwarkar. Journal of Alloys and Compounds 887 (2021): 161400.

• Synthesis of a novel rare earth free Co₃C-Co_0.35Fe_0.65 exchange spring magnet
  Sravani Jangiti, Sreenivasulu V. Kummari, Ashish Dhole, Vadali VSS Srikanth, Chandrahas Bansal, and Ammanabrolu Rajanikanth. Materials Letters 255 (2019): 126576.

• Carbon nanofillers/PVA composite synthesis, characterization and mechanical behavior
  Ashish Dhole, Vadali VSS Srikanth University of Hyderabad (2016)

Conferences

• Poster: Crystallographic aspects of cracking at metal- oxide interface in a cold rolled Nb based alloy
  NMD ATM - 2020 , Organised by IIM at IIT Bombay

Courses

• Certificate Courses
  - Lightweight Materials for Transportation (IIM-21-102), Professional Educational Course offered by the Indian Institute of Metals (26-27 July 2021),
  - Basics of Data Science for Metallurgy and Manufacturing(IIM-21-101) Professional Educational Course offered by the Indian Institute of Metals (19-21 July 2021).
• Key Courses: Thermodynamics and Phase Equillibria, Characterization of Materials-Microscopy, Concepts of Nano science and technology, Synthesis and Application of Nanomaterials, Plymer Science and Tehnology, Nano Bio Technology, Mechanical Behaviour of Materials, Surface Engineering, Modelling and Simulations, Processing of Aerospace Materials.

Teaching Assistantship

• Teaching Assistant: Processing of Aerospace Materials-I (ME-772) at IIT Bombay
• Teaching Assistant: Processing of Aerospace Materials-II (ME-774) at IIT Bombay

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