Dr. Tushar Murlidhar Borkar
•Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, University of North Texas, 2014
•M.S., Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Oklahoma State University, 2010
•B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Mumbai University, 2007
Recent Grants
•Evaluation of Oxidation-Resistant Coatings on Forging Billets. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), Role: PI; 10/2020 – 10/2024; $699,397.
•Pilot the Industrialization of AM Preforms to Expedite the Forging Process of Low Volume Forged Components. National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining -Air Force Research Lab (NCDMM-AFRL), Role: PI; 10/2023-10/2025; $1,835,751.
•DED Additive Manufacturing for Forging Die Repair. National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining -Air Force Research Lab (NCDMM-AFRL). Role: PI; 10/2023-10/2025; $750,000.
Graduate Students
Manoj Mugale, PhD student, Mechanical Engineering
Amit Choudhari, PhD student, Mechanical Engineering
Sanoj Karki, PhD student, Mechanical Engineering
Satyavan Digole, PhD student, Mechanical Engineering
Sambhaji Kusekar, PhD student, Mechanical Engineering
Akash Belure,PhD student, Mechanical Engineering
Selected Recent Publications
•A. Choudhari, J. Elder, M. Mugale, S. karki, S. Digole, S. Omeike, and T. Borkar, Enhancing Quality Control: Image-Based Quantification of Carbides and Defect Remediation in Binder Jetting Additive Manufacturing, Materials- Manufacturing Processes and Systems and Advances in Additive Manufacturing (2024)
•Witharamage, C. S., Christudasjustus, J., Walunj, G., Borkar, T., & Gupta, R. K. Effect of V Content on Corrosion Behavior of Al-V Alloys Produced by Mechanical Alloying and Subsequent Spark Plasma Sintering. Journal of The Electrochemical Society,2024, 171:031501.
•Digole, S., Desai, J., Christopher, C., Bohara, S., Witharamage, S., Kothapalli, CR., Gupta, R.K., Borkar, T. Improved tribological performance of nitride reinforced bio-compatible Titanium-Niobium-Zirconium-Tantalum (TNZT) alloys for advanced orthopedic applications. Metals, 2024, 14(1): 122-138.
•Walunj, G., Mugale, M., Patil, A., & Borkar, T. Spark Plasma Sintering of Mechanically Alloyed High Entropy Nitrides to Investigate the Mechanical, Tribological, and Oxidation Properties. JOM, 2024, 76(1): 171-185.
•Walunj, G., Desai, J., Bohara, S., Contieri, R., Kothapalli, C.R., Eugene, I., Borkar, T. Light weight- low modulus biocompatible titanium alloys processed via spark plasma sintering. Journal of Alloys and Metallurgical Systems, 2023, 3, 100018.
•Patil, A., Nartu, M. S. K. K. Y., Ozdemir, F., Banerjee, R., Gupta, R. K., & Borkar, T. Effect of graphene morphology on the microstructure, mechanical and tribological behavior of nickel matrix composites. JOM, 2022, 74(12), 4583-4596.
•Christudasjustus, J., Witharamage, C. S., Walunj, G., Borkar, T., & Gupta, R. K. The influence of spark plasma sintering temperatures on the microstructure, hardness, and elastic modulus of the nanocrystalline Al-xV alloys produced by high-energy ball milling. Journal of Materials Science & Technology, 2022,122, 68-76.
•Christudasjustus, J., Larimian, T., Esquivel, J., Gupta, S., Darwish, A. A., Borkar, T., & Gupta, R. K. Aluminum alloys with high elastic modulus. Materials Letters, 2022, 320, 132292.