This research focuses on engineering high-performance thermal barrier and protective coating systems through modelling its deposition processes, study its manufacturing, characterize its microstructure, to feed information into multi-scale constitutive models, multi-scale modelling of its microstructure evolution and Fracture (in service) as well as experimental aspects (including In-situ SEM testing at temperature) of thin and thick film coatings to predict the system-level performance of such coating systems.
Please contact Dr. Kumar Shanmugam at kshanmugam [at] masdar.ac.ae (kshanmugam[at]masdar[dot]ac[dot]ae) for further enquiries.
You can also send an email to amms.masdar [at] gmail.com (amms[dot]masdar[at]gmail[dot]com).