Dr. T. R. Tamilarasan

Teaching

Educational Background

Work Experience

Lecture courses

• Applied material Engineering
• Corrosion and Surface Engineering
• Material Science
• Modern Manufacturing Systems

Research

Areas Of Research Interest

• Surface Coatings
• Wear, Adhesion and Corrosion Studies
• Material Characterization
• Composite Material

Research Publications

International & National Journal

• Muraliraja, R., R. Anthoni Sagaya Selvan, A. Selvakumar, M. Franco, T. R. Tamilarasan, U. Sanjith, W. Sha, and J. Sudagar. “A Review of Electroless Coatings on Non-Metals: Bath Conditions, Properties and Applications.” Journal of Alloys and Compounds (2023): 170723. (Elsevier, Impact factor: 6.37)
• Umar, M. D., R. Muraliraja, P. Rathnakumar, and T. R. Tamilarasan. “Mechanical and Wear Behaviour Analysis of Graphene Reinforced Aluminum Alloy 7010 Metal Matrix Composite.” Journal of Mines, Metals & Fuels, 71, no. 1 (2023).
• Umar, M. D., R. Muraliraja, P. Rathnakumar, and T. R. Tamilarasan. “The influence of ZrO2 on tribological and mechanical characteristics of Al composite.” Materials Today: Proceedings (2023). (Elsevier)
• N. Ravikumar, T.R. Tamilarasan, R. Rajendran, R. Pragatheeswaran, “Tribological behavior of graphene-based friction composite tested on cryogenically treated cast iron”, Journal of Materials: Design and Applications, Vol 326(9), 2022 (SAGE, Impact factor: 2.5)
• Zeenath Fathima Syed, T R Tamilarasan, S Rasool Mohideen, S M Sanjana, “Optimization of Wear Parameters of Cryogenic and Heat-treated Al 6101 Closed-cell Foam using Taguchi Technique’’, Indian Journal of Science and Technology, Vol. 15(48), pp. 2765-2776, 2022.
• Syed, Zeenath Fathima, Tamilarasan T R, and Milon Selvam Dennison, “Effect of novel cryogenic treatment in the corrosion behaviour, microstructure analysis and electrochemical properties of Al 6101 closed-cell foam”, Australian Journal of Mechanical Engineering, pp.1-16, 2021.
• Syed, Zeenath Fathima, T. R. Tamilarasan, S. Rasool Mohideen, and Milon Selvam Dennison, “Impact Strength Characterization of Closed-cell Aluminium foam (AL003860) subjected to Cryogenic treatments”, Design Engineering, pp. 15949-15954, 2021.
• Ravikumar, N., T. R. Tamilarasan, and R. Rajendran. “Effect of graphene on friction and wear behavior of friction composite tested against grey cast iron disc alloyed with copper.” Carbon Trends, 3, pp. 100031, 2021. (Elsevier)
• Zeenath Fathima S., Tamilarasan T.R., Rasool Mohideen S., Dennison M.S., Venkatesan J. The Effect of Novel Cryogenic Treatment in the Microstructure Analysis of Al 6101 Closed-Cell Foam. Advances in Design and Thermal Systems, Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, 2021.
• Dhanalakshmi, S., K. ShanmugaSundaram, T. R. Tamilarasan, and R. Rajendran. “The role of ceramic particle loading and the influence of hot extrusion on the tribological behaviour of aluminium alloy-SiCp composites.” Journal of Composite Materials, 55(5), pp. 687-701, 2021. (SAGE Impact Factor : 1.98)
• Natarajan, Ravikumar, R. Rajendran, T. R. Tamilarasan and R Pandurangan. Tribological Properties Evaluation of Newly Developed Friction Material for Automotive Disc Brake Pad. No. 2020-28-0511. SAE Technical Paper, 2020.
• Syed, Zeenath Fathima, T. R. Tamilarasan, S. Rasool Mohideen, and Milon Selvam Dennison. “Mechanical properties and surface characterisation of aluminium foam made of Al 6101 subjected to cryogenic treatment-a comparative study.” International Journal of Materials Engineering Innovation 11(3), pp. 244-263, 2020. Inderscience)
• Loganathan S, Rajendran R, and Tamilarasan TR. Tensile and Fatigue Behavior of Shallow Cryogenically Treated EN19 Alloy Steel. No. 2019-28-0100. SAE Technical Paper, 2019.
• Dineshkumar C, Roshan D, Jeyakumar P.D, Tamilarasan T.R, Generation of Electrical Energy for Charging of a Battery by using Exhaust Gas Energy, International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering, 8(10), pp. 2159-63, 2019.
• Rajendran R, Tamilarasan T.R, Balaji V.P, and Azhagarsamy V. Corrosion and Corrosive Wear of Steel for Automotive Exhaust Application. No. 2019-28-0178. SAE Technical Paper, 2019.
• T.R.Tamilarasan, U. Sanjith, R. Rajendran, G. Rajagopal, J. Sudagar “Effect of Reduced Graphene Oxide reinforcement on the Wear Characteristics of Electroless Ni-P Coatings” Journal of Material Engineering & Performance, pp. 1-10, 2018. (Springer, Impact factor: 1.40)
• Rajendran, R., N. Ravikumar, and T. R. Tamilarasan. Sliding Wear and Friction Studies of Disc/Pad Materials. No. 2018-01-0840. SAE Technical Paper, 2018.
• T.R.Tamilarasan, U. Sanjith, M. Siva Shankar, G. Rajagopal, “Effect of reduced graphene oxide (rGO) on corrosion and erosion-corrosion behaviour of electroless Ni-P coatings,” Wear, Vol. 390, pp. 385-391, 2017. (Elsevier, Impact factor: 4.13)
• D.Satish Kumar, M. Rajmohan, T.R. Tamilarasan. “Tribology on Epoxy/Glass Fiber/Carbon Composites-Taguchi Approach,” Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, Vol.14.12, pp. 5922-5926, 2017. (Impact factor: 0.9)
• T. R. Tamilarasan, R. Rajendran, M. Siva shankar, U. Sanjith, G. Rajagopal, J. Sudagar, “Wear and scratch behaviour of electroless Ni-P-nano-TiO2: Effect of surfactants,” Wear, Vol. 346-347, pp. 148-157, 2016.
• T. R. Tamilarasan, R. Rajendran, G. Rajagopal, J. Sudagar, “Effect of surfactants on the coating properties and corrosion behaviour of Ni-P-nano-TiO2 coatings,” Surface & Coatings Technology, Vol. 276, pp. 320-326, 2015.
• T. R. Tamilarasan, R. Sathish Kumar, R. Rajendran, G. Rajagopal, “Optimization of electroless Ni-P-nano-TiO2 coating parameters using Taguchi method for corrosion performance,” Applied Mechanics and Materials, Vol. 813-814, pp. 95-100, 2015.
• T. R. Tamilarasan, U. Sanjith, R. Satish, R. Rajendran, G. Rajagopal, “Tribological performance optimization of electroless Ni-P-nano-TiO2 coating using Taguchi method,” International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Vol. 10 (57), pp. 296-300, 2015.
• M. Siva shankar, T. R. Tamilarasan, R. Rajendran, “Effect of bath loading on electroless Ni-P-nano-TiO2,” International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Vol. 10 (57), pp. 317-322, 2015.

International Conference

• Syed, Zeenath Fathima, T. R. Tamilarasan, S. Rasool Mohideen, Milon Selvam Dennison, J. Venkatesan, and Sarvanan Natarajan, “Investigation of Compression Test Parameters of Cryogenic and Heat Treated Al6101 Closed Cell Foam by ANSYS Workbench”, In 2022 ASU International Conference in Emerging Technologies for Sustainability and Intelligent Systems (ICETSIS), IEEE, pp. 79-85, 2022.
• Dineshkumar, C., A. Sonya, CK Arvinda Pandian, T. R. Tamilarasan, S. Dhanush, and K. Abdur Rahman. “Active safety enhanced braking system with driver condition monitoring for passenger vehicles.” In AIP Conference Proceedings, vol. 2283, no. 1, p. 020030. AIP Publishing LLC, 2020.
• M.Vignesh, R.Rajendran, T.R.Tamilarasan, Sliding wear of nitride cast iron against steel presented at 2nd International Conference & Exhibition on Heat Treatment and Surface Engineering, May 12-15, 2016.
• T.R.Tamilarasan, Optimization of tribological parameters of Electroless composite Coatings using Taguchi method presented at International Conference on innovative trends in mechanical and civil engineering, PET – Aprill 10, 2015.
• M.Siva Shankar, T.R. Tamilarasan, Effect of bath loading on electroless coatings presented at International Conference on innovative trends in mechanical and civil engineering, PET – April 10, 2015.
• T.R.Tamilarasan, Optimization of Electroless Coating Parameters Using Taguchi Method for Corrosion Performance presented at International Conference & Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Kanchipuram – Aprill 2-3, 2015.
• R.Rajendran, G.Ramanjaneyulu, T.R.Tamilarasan, V.I.Semenov, Cryogenic treatment of S.G Iron SAE Paper no: 2015-01-0689, SAE World Congress, Detroit, U.S., April 2015.

National Conference

• Participated in 18th National Congress on Corrosion Control, Chennai during February 24-26, 2016.
• R.Rajesh, T.R.Tamilarasan, “Wear behavior of Ni-P-TiO2 coatings”, presented at 22nd National Conference on Recent Trends in Mechanical Engineering, 10th April, 2013.
• T.R. Tamilarasan, R. Rajendran, “Electroless Ni-P-TiO2 coatings – A Review,” presented at Seventeenth National Convention of Electrochemists (NCE 17), September 14-15, 2012.
• T.R.Tamilarasan, S. Pugazhendhi, “Manpower rationalization in a manufacturing industry – A case study” presented at Recent Trends in Manufacturing Management, February 8-9, 2008.
• T.R.Tamilarasan, S. Pugazhendhi, “Work study in a manufacturing industry” presented at Productions and Operations Management, March 23-24, 2007.

Book Chapter

• R.Muraliraja, T.R. Tamilarasan, U. Sanjith, C. K. Arvindapandian “The Effect of Fillers on the Tribological Properties of Composites,” in Tribological Applications of Composite Materials, (Springer),  2021. (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9635-3)
• J.Sudagar, R. Muraliraja, T.R. Tamilarasan, U. Sanjith, “Electroless Composite Coatings,” in Electroless Nickel Plating: Fundamentals to Applications, CRC Press (Taylor & Francis),  2019.
• Sudagar, J., Tamilarasan, T.R., Sanjith, U., Rajendran, R., & Kumar, R., “Electroless deposition of nanolayered metallic coatings” in Nanoscaled Films and Layers, 27. InTech, 2017 (DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.68220) (Downloads – 2729)

Patents

• Field of the Invention – The present subject matter relates to the field of temperature measurement systems. In particular, the present subject matter relates to monitoring the temperature of the disc in a tribometer. (Application Number – 202341046574, June 2023; Status – Published)

Reviewer for International Journals

• Surface & Coatings Technology – Elsevier Publication
• Ceramics International – Elsevier Publication
• Materials Science & Engineering A – Elsevier Publication
• Metallography, Microstructure, and Analysis – Springer
• Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
• Indian Journal of Engineering & Materials Sciences
• Journal of Engineering and Technology Research

Guest Lectures / Resource Person

• Resource person for the 5 days online FDP on “Automotive Materials & Metallurgy” organized by SAEIndia southern section during 5th to 9th March 2021.
• Session Chairperson for International Conference on Emerging trends in design, manufacturing, materials and thermal sciences, subjected to Materials domain papers organized by B.S.A Crescent Institute of Science and technology during September 24-25 2020.
• Delivered a seminar on the topic “Attainment of Course outcomes & Program outcomes” at School of Life Sciences, S.A Crescent Institute of Science & Technology on 28th February 2020.
• Resource person for the national level workshop on “Advanced Composite Materials – A Research Perspective” on 2nd and 3rd February 2018 at B. S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science & Technology, Chennai.
• Delivered a seminar on the topic “Effect of Additives on the Characteristics of Electroless nano Composite Coatings” for the research scholars at Central Electrochemical Research Institute, Karaikudi, Tamilnadu, India on 2nd May 2017.
• Delivered guest lecture on the topic “Composite Materials” at VelTech Multitech Dr. R.R & Dr. S.R Engineering College, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India on 20th September 2017.

Recognition / Award

Extension

• Submitted a proposal for funding DST-SERB (Extra Mural Research) on the title of “Effect of surface modification of X70 steel pipe by aluminizing on corrosion and wear behavior”- Co-Investigator.( project’s file no: EMR/2016/003123)
• Submitted a proposal for funding DST (BRICS multilateral projects) on the title of “Study of the regularities of structure formation in austenitic steels during cross and reverse rolling in a wide temperature range for the enhancement of strength and performance properties” – Co-Investigator.
• Submitted project proposal titled “Study of wear pattern and mechanism in Gear” applied to TAFE for funding – Co-Investigator.
• Preparing one more project proposal for DST-SERB (Early Career Advancement Scheme) funding in the title of “Development of Electroless Ni-P composite coatings on magnesium based alloys for enhanced corrosion and tribological behaviour”.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Material Testing & Surface Engineering Lab – In-charge
• Admission Coordinator
• NBA & NAAC Coordinator
• DAAC Coordinator
• Faculty Advisor for the Third Year Automobile Engg. Students