S. S. Babu

20.4k citations

344 papers · 16.1k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 66

Impact in

Automotive Engineering top 0.05%
- Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies
Metals and Alloys top 0.2%

Papers in

Metals and Alloys 37
Mechanical Engineering 297
- Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes 130
- Welding Techniques and Residual Stresses 102
- Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels 82
- Advanced Welding Techniques Analysis 59
- High Temperature Alloys and Creep 53
- High Entropy Alloys Studies 46

Co-authors: Ryan Dehoff William J. Sames Sreekanth Pannala F.A. List S. A. David J.M. Vitek Michael Kirka H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia
Journals: Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A (45 papers)Science and Technology of Welding & Joining (32 papers)Additive manufacturing (18 papers)Scripta Materialia (17 papers)Acta Materialia (16 papers)
Partner nations: United States Japan United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

S. S. Babu

333 papers receiving 15.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Towards high-temperature applications of aluminium alloys enabled by additive manufacturing 2021 · 202 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2021 International Materials Reviews
2016 Acta Materialia
2016 International Materials Reviews
2014 Materials Science and Technology

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1	Oil-Pressure Based Apparatus for In-Situ High-Energy Synchrotron X-Ray Diffraction Studies During Biaxial Deformation Experimental Mechanics ·Rakesh R. Kamath, J. Kerry Thomas, Andrew Chihpin Chuang, Bipul Barua, Jun‐Sang Park, Lianghua Xiong, Thomas R. Watkins, S. S. Babu, Gary Cola, Dileep Singh	2024	0
2	Improvements in bonding through ultrasonic additive manufacturing of titanium by stabilizing displacive phase transformations Materialia ·Michael Pagan, Ningxiner Zhao, Leon M. Headings, Marcelo J. Dapino, Andrés Márquez Rossy, Reece Emery, Philip D. Rack, Caleb Massey, S.J. Zinkle, S. S. Babu	2023	4
3	An assessment of spall failure modes in laser powder bed fusion fabricated stainless steel 316L with low-volume intentional porosity Journal of Applied Physics ·Katie Koube, T. Sloop, K. Lamb, Josh Kacher, S. S. Babu, Naresh Thadhani	2023	8
4	Operando neutron diffraction reveals mechanisms for controlled strain evolution in 3D printing Nature Communications ·Alex Plotkowski, Kyle Saleeby, Chris M. Fancher, James Haley, G. Madireddy, Ke An, Rangasayee Kannan, Thomas Feldhausen, Yousub Lee, Dunji Yu, C. Leach, Joshua Vaughan, S. S. Babu	2023	22
5	Intergranular precipitation and chemical fluctuations in an additively manufactured 2205 duplex stainless steel Scripta Materialia ·N. Haghdadi, Hansheng Chen, Zibin Chen, S. S. Babu, Xiaozhou Liao, Simon P. Ringer, Sophie Primig	2022	28
6	Toward online layer-wise surface morphology measurement in additive manufacturing using a deep learning-based approach Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing ·Chenang Liu, Rongxuan Raphael Wang, Ian Ho, Zhenyu Kong, Christopher B. Williams, S. S. Babu, Chase Joslin	2022	38
7	Role of scan strategies and heat treatment on grain structure evolution in Fe-Si soft magnetic alloys made by laser-powder bed fusion Additive manufacturing ·M. Haines, F.A. List, K. Carver, DN Leonard, Alex Plotkowski, Chris M. Fancher, RR Dehoff, S. S. Babu	2021	19
8	Role of thermo-mechanical gyrations on the α/β interface stability in a Ti6Al4V AM alloy Scripta Materialia ·Sabina Kumar, Sriram Vijayan, Peeyush Nandwana, Jonathan D. Poplawsky, Yan Chen, S. S. Babu	2021	14
9	Investigating the Linear Thermal Expansion of Additively Manufactured Multi-Material Joining between Invar and Steel Materials ·Alex Arbogast, Sougata Roy, Andrzej Nycz, Mark Noakes, Christopher Masuo, S. S. Babu	2020	16
10	Effect of cyclic rapid thermal loadings on the microstructural evolution of a CrMnFeCoNi high-entropy alloy manufactured by selective laser melting Acta Materialia ·Hao Wang, Zhiguang Zhu, Hansheng Chen, Anguo Wang, Jinqiao Liu, H.W. Liu, Rongkun Zheng, Mui Ling Sharon Nai, Sophie Primig, S. S. Babu, Simon P. Ringer, Xiaozhou Liao	2020	140
11	Graded Microstructure of Additive Manufactured Ti-6Al-4V via Electron Beam Melting Microscopy and Microanalysis ·Hansheng Chen, C. B. Cooper, Cameron Durrant, Yingluo Li, Sophie Primig, Xiaozhou Liao, S. S. Babu, Simon P. Ringer	2019	1
12	Post-processing to Modify the α Phase Micro-Texture and β Phase Grain Morphology in Ti-6Al-4V Fabricated by Powder Bed Electron Beam Melting Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A ·Peeyush Nandwana, Yousub Lee, Chasen Ranger, Anthony D. Rollett, Ryan Dehoff, S. S. Babu	2019	31
13	Powder bed binder jet 3D printing of Inconel 718: Densification, microstructural evolution and challenges☆ Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science ·Peeyush Nandwana, Amy Elliott, Derek Siddel, Abbey Merriman, William H. Peter, S. S. Babu	2017	186
14	Thermal effects on microstructural heterogeneity of Inconel 718 materials fabricated by electron beam melting Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources ·William J. Sames, Kinga A. Unocic, Ryan Dehoff, Tapasvi Lolla, S. S. Babu	2014	167
15	Application of Diffusion Models to Predict FSW Tool Wear The Twenty-first International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference ·Brian Thompson, S. S. Babu, Tapasvi Lolla	2011	7
16	Microstructural Characterization of Bonding Interfaces in Aluminum 3003 Blocks Fabricated by Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing Welding Journal ·David Schick, S. S. Babu, John C. Lippold, Ryan Hahnlen, Marcelo J. Dapino, Ryan Dehoff, Peter C. Collins	2010	30
17	Effect of Pulsed Current TIG Welding Parameters on Pitting Corrosion Behaviour of AA6061 Aluminium Alloy Journal of Material Science and Technology ·T.Senthil Kuma, V. Balasubramanian, M. Y. Sanavullah, S. S. Babu	2009	6
18	Effect of Thermal Cycling on Friction Stir Welds of 2195 Aluminum Alloy Welding Journal ·G. Oertelt, S. S. Babu, S. A. David, E. A. Kenik	2001	32
19	Solidification and Microstructure Modeling of Welds in Aluminum Alloys 5754 and 6111 Science and Technology of Welding & Joining ·S. S. Babu	2000	3
20	Towards predicting weld metal microstructure from fundamentals of transport phenomena Optics Express ·K. Mundra, T. DebRoy, S. S. Babu, S. A. David, Anand J. Paul	1995	3

About S. S. Babu

S. S. Babu is a scholar working on Metals and Alloys, Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Aerospace Engineering, having authored 344 papers that have together received 16.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes (130 papers), Welding Techniques and Residual Stresses (102 papers), Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels (82 papers), Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies (61 papers), Advanced Welding Techniques Analysis (59 papers), High Temperature Alloys and Creep (53 papers), Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques (49 papers) and High Entropy Alloys Studies (46 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Automotive Engineering (5.4k citations), Metals and Alloys (1.1k citations), Mechanical Engineering (14.1k citations), Materials Chemistry (4.7k citations) and Aerospace Engineering (2.0k citations). S. S. Babu has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Japan and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Ryan Dehoff, William J. Sames, Sreekanth Pannala, F.A. List, S. A. David, J.M. Vitek, Michael Kirka, H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia, Alex Plotkowski and Niyanth Sridharan. Their work appears in journals such as Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, Science and Technology of Welding & Joining, Additive manufacturing, Scripta Materialia and Acta Materialia.

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