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All that glitters is steel…

STEELY RESOLVE: Director of AIEMS, Bangalore, Vishnukanth S. Chatapalli delivering the keynote address on ‘Advanced materials’, in Chitradurga on Friday.

Chitradurga: “The future is steel.” This was the crux of the one-day national seminar organised on “advanced materials” by SJM Institute of Technology here on Friday.

Delivering the keynote address, director Amrutha Institute of Engineering and Management Sciences (AIEMS), Bangalore, Vishnukanth S. Chatapalli said because of steel’s ability to customise its properties to become an alloy with the addition of other metals, the metal could be largely used in manufacturing ultra light and heat resistant components.

Dr. Chatapalli said that in the days of advancing technology in various sectors such as surgical, mechanical, automobile, aeronautical and electronics, the need of having alloy metals that could help in manufacturing lightweight components was in great demand.

“Steel, as a metal, has the highest degree of natural properties to meet this growing demand. The low cost of production is an added advantage with this metal,” he said.

Illustrating the history of metals, he said that usage of metals began in 2000 BC while the usage of steel as commercial product started only after 1750 AD. Till date, 86 metals had been discovered in the world, among them, the oldest one was mercury, which was discovered in 750 BC.

The production of super alloy started in 1970s, which was used in industries like aviation and electronics.

The alloy metals could include smart materials, lightweight materials and intelligent materials. These were used in manufacturing objects such as micro-chips and semiconductors.

He said that India was in the forefront of iron production, and facing stiff competition from China, which was one of the largest producers of iron. Though China was ahead in the field of producing advanced materials, India was making rapid progress in the sector.

Dr. Chatapalli said that still considerable research was needed in the sector. He called upon the students of mechanical engineering to involve themselves in research and development of advanced materials.

Earlier, enumerating the objective of the workshop,

JMIT principal P. Mahabaleswarappa said that the aim of the workshop was to impart major aspects of nano and polymer composite materials.

He said that composite materials had a significant role in industries, automobile and aeronautical applications. Through the workshop, the students could make use of the opportunity to meet the experts and to interact with them to gain more knowledge.

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