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I. Total Work Experiences: 4.2 years (i.e. 50 Months)
I. Work Experience:
1.Working as Engineer (Corrosion Control) in Specialist Materials and Maintenance Department of Engineer India Limited (EIL), New Delhi, India from 28th June 2006 to date
Job Description i.Design, Engineering and Execution Assistance of online computerized corrosion monitoring system, both for old and new installation.
ii.Design, Engineering and Implementation of Corrosion Inhibition and Fouling Control Technology, both for offshore and onshore installations.
iii.Development of Specifications and Implementation of Industrial Chemical Cleaning Technology for both offshore and onshore installations.
2.Jindal Stainless Limited, Hissar, from 18th July 2005 to 26 June 2006.
Post: Asst. Manager (Research and Development)
Achievement i.Welding and corrosion study on different grades of stainless steels by weight loss method and by electrochemical methods.
ii.Identified the root cause of ridging and roping in ferritic stainless steels (e.g. type 430 stainless steels).
iii.Textural studies of different grades of stainless steels and co-relating it with mechanical as well as corrosion properties.
iv.Identified the root cause of white patches on products during continuous annealing.
v.Failure analysis of stainless steel containing low nickel exported to china and identified the root cause.
vi.Corrosion studies by electrochemical method as well as weight loss method of different grades of stainless steel at room temperatures.
vii.Co-ordinated with production department and quality department for enhancing of quality of products to meet in international market.
viii.Supervised technologies, technician, and other engineers and scientist to enhance quality of products.
ix.Consult with client to use low nickel containing stainless steel for sugar industry.
3.CST Limited, Hyderabad, from 26th April 2004 to 15 July 2005
Post: DGM (Quality Assurance and Control)
Achievement i.Set-up a laboratory and conduct corrosion and mechanical studies on products according to ASTM.
ii.Attended customer complaints at customer site such as BHEL-Hyderabad, etc and solved it scientifically with balancing relation between customer and organization.
iii.Conduct failure analysis of products and recommended materials selection for various atmospheres to the organization and customers.
iv.Conduct welding studies of Duplex Stainless Steels and Ti for the production of tubes.
v.Conduct raw materials inspection at supplier site such as SALEM Steels, Jindal Stainless Ltd. and recommended for any change where it required necessary.
vi.Updated the employee's knowledge by conducting classes on quality and also on process.
vii.Maintained balance relation between workers and management.
viii.Co-coordinated with third party inspection agencies and towards ISO-9000: 2001 and ISO- 14001:1994.
An exemplary project, which I handled independently:
4.Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, from June 15 1998 to June 30, 1999.
Post: Project Assistant
Project Title: Electrolytic descaling of mild steel in neutral solution
II. Educational Qualification:
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.):
Grain Boundary Nature and Localized Corrosion in Austenitic Stainless Steels, from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India. Defended on 19th March 2004.
Master of Technology (M. Tech.) in Corrosion and Science of Surface Coatings, Course CPI 8.89/10.00, from Regional Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur, June 1998.
M. Tech Final Project: Surface coating of titanium nitride by reactive magnetron sputtering on nickel, chromium and electroless nickel over mild steel substrates and their electrochemical study.
Bachelor of Education (B. Ed), Maths and Chemistry, from Nagpur University, Nagpur, October 1996
Master of Science (M. Sc.) in Analytical Chemistry, from Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, Marathwada University, Aurangabad, June 1995.
Bachelor of Science (B. Sc.) in Chemistry, Physics and Maths from Nagpur University, Nagpur, June 1993.
III. Gained patent by award of Ph.D.:
(1090/MUM/2002, dated December 6, 2002)
Randomized grain boundary austenitic stainless steel and a processes thereof.
Inventor: V. Kain, D. N. Wasnik, I. Samajdar and P. K. De.
IV. Research work during Ph.D.
i.Grain boundary nature and intergranular corrosion and intergranular stress corrosion cracking of type 304 and type 316L stainless steels.
ii.Precipitation studies of austenitic stainless steels iii.Texture and Microstructural studies on cold work austenitic stainless steels
V. Following expertise gained during above studies:
i.Corrision: Measuring intergranular corrosion and intergranular stress corrosion cracking by standard tests and various electrochemical tests.
ii.Microscopy: Optical, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM).
iii.Texture: Bulk texture measurement and analysis in X-Ray Diffraction (XRD), Microtexture measurement and analysis in SEM and TEM, Texture simulations.
iv.Others: Differential Scanning Calorimetery (DSC), Electrical Resistivity, Vibrating Sample Magnetometer (VSM), Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy, etc.
VI. Publications:
i.D. N. Wasnik, V. Kain, I. Samajdar, B. Verlinden and P.K.De, "Resistance to sensitization and intergranular corrosion through extreme randomization of grain boundaries", Acta Materialia, 50 (18), (2002) 4587-4601.
ii.D. N. Wasnik, G. K. Dey, V. Kain and I. Samajdar, "Precipitation stages in a 316L austenitic stainless steels", Scripta Materialia, 49 (2), (2003) 135-141.
iii.D. N. Wasnik, V. Kain, I. Samajdar, B. Verlinden and P. K. De, "Controlling grain boundary energy to make austenitic stainless steel resistant to intergranular stress corrosion cracking", Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, 12 (4), (2003) 402-407.
iv.D. N. Wasnik, I. K. Gopalkrishnan, J.V. Yakhami, V. Kain and I. Samajdar "Cold rolled texture and microstructure in types 304 and 316l austenitic stainless steels", Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute of Japan, ISIJ International, 43 (10), (2003) 1581-1589.
v.D.N. Wasnik, V. Kain, I. Samajdar, B. Verlinden, P.K. De, Effects of overall grain boundary nature on localized corrosion in austenitic stainless steels, Materials Science Forum, 467-470, (2004) 813 –818.
vi.I. Samajdar, P. Ahmedavadi, D. N. Wasnik, V. Kain, B. Verlinden and P. K. De, Grain boundary nature and localized corrosion in 304 austenitic stainless steel, Materials Science Forum, 495-497, (2005) 453-458.
vii.K. Singh, D.N. Wasnik, A. K. Grover, A. K. Suri and M. K. Totlani. "TiN Coating modified by an interlayer of electroplated Cr. on mild steel", Transaction of the Institute of Metal Finishing, 77 (5), (1999) 196 - 199.
Conference attended & presented paper (including Canada).
i.D. N. Wasnik, V. Kain and I. Samajdar, "Role of grain boundaries in intergranular corrosion of austenitic stainless steels" presented in International Pipeline Conference 2002, held from Sept 29th-Oct 3rd 2002, at Hyatt Regency, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Organized by American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
ii.D. N. Wasnik and I. Samajdar, "Texture evolution after cold work and annealing in austenitic stainless steel" presented in 7th Heat treat show 2002 and conference on Heat treatment with International symposium on thermal Spray, held from May 2-4 2002, at The Leela, Mumbai, India, organized by ASM International India Chapter and ARC International, Hyderabad.
iii.D.N. Wasnik, I. Samajdar, V. Kain and B. Verlinden, " Role of grain boundary in connection with inter-granular corrosion" presented in "GLOCORR-2002- International congress on emerging corrosion control strategies for the new millennium", held from February, 20-22, 2002, at Indian Habitat Center, New Delhi, India, organized by National Corrosion Council of India, Karaikudi in collaboration with Central electrochemical research institute, Karaikudi.
iv.D.N. Wasnik, V. Kain, I. Samajdar, P.K.De, and B. Verlinden, "Corrosion and grain boundary character distribution (GBCD) in type 316L austenitic stainless steel" presented in National seminar on corrosion and its prevention (NSCP-2001), National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur, India, held from December 11-12 2001, organized by National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur.
v.D. N. Wasnik and I. Samajdar, "Deformation texture and microtexture in austenitic stainless steels" presented in 39th National Metallurgy Day (NMD) and 55th Annual Technical Meeting" held from November 18th –21st 2001, Bhubaneshwar, India, organized by The Indian Institute of Metals, Bhubaneshwar chapter, Regional Research Laboratory (CSIR), Bhubaneshwar, and National Aluminum Company Limited, Bhubaneshwar.
vi.D. N. Wasnik, Tarun Singh and L. K. Singhal, "A compartive study of corrosion behavior of J204 and AISI 304 austenitic stainless steels" presented in 5th National Conference on "Maintenance, Inspection, Corrosion, Materials Engineering and Plant Reliability" organized by Indian Institute of Metals-Baroda and Mumbai and ASM International-India held from February 10-12, 2006 at Hotel Surya Palace, Vadodara, India
VII. Received Training On i.Risk Management as ERM Executives and Risk Co-coordinator from 29-11-2006 to 1-12-2006 at EIL-Delhi. The training was conducted by M/s. KPMG, India.
ii.Risk Based Inspection (RBI) from 28-06-2007 to 30-06-2007 at Engineers India Limited, New Delhi.
iii.Paint and Coating Inspection 14-09-2006 to 16-09-2006 at Mumbai. The training was organized by NACE India International Section.
iv.Entrepreneurship Awareness Camp (EAC) from 20-03-1997 to 22-03-1997 sponsored by Department of Science and Technology (DST), Gov. of India, organized by ED Cell at Regional Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur.
v.Workshop on Science, Development and Values held on 13-11-2002. The workshop was organized as part of the lecturer series on "Science, Technology and Ethic" under the auspices of the cell for Human Values at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
vi.Skill Cum Technology upgradation programme on Heat Treatment and Metallography sponsored by Small Industry Development Bank of India, organized by ED cell at Regional Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur from 20-12-1996 to 24-12-1996
vii.Vocation Training from 20-05-1997 to 18-06-1997 at Maharshtra Elektrosmelt Limited, Chandrapur
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