Sudarsanam Babu
UT/ORNL Governor’s Chair of Advanced Manufacturing; Director of the Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education; Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering; Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Bio
Dr. Suresh Babu holds a PhD in materials science and metallurgy from University of Cambridge and is currently director of the Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education, as well as UT/ORNL Governor's Chair of Advanced Manufacturing. In this role, he bridges ORNL expertise, including DOE’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility, to develop a collaborative research ecosystem locally and employ engineering solutions to manufacturing industries. Dr. Babu has 21 years of experience in advanced manufacturing, additive manufacturing, physical metallurgy, and computational materials modeling.
Publications
July 2024
Journal: Experimental Mechanics
March 2024
Journal: Sustainable Materials and Technologies
February 2024
Journal: Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A
January 2024
Prediction of residual strain/stress validated with neutron diffraction method for wire-feed hybrid…
Journal: Additive Manufacturing
December 2023
Prediction and understanding of non-linear distortion on large curved wall manufactured by wire-arc…
Journal: Additive Manufacturing Letters