Srinivas Nunna

Dr. Srinivas Nunna is working as a Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering. He has over 11 years of experience on various processing aspects of polyacrylonitrile (PAN) precursor, carbon fibre and their composites. As a co-investigator and researcher, he has extensive experience in delivering industry projects to international clients such as Ford, Vestas, Petronas, Sabic, and 2DM. He has also effectively provided theory and practical training sessions on precursor wet spinning to industry customers like SABIC and universities like TU Chemnitz.

 During his tenure, he has prolifically worked on:

•      Designing polyacrylonitrile polymer compositions for efficient thermal stabilization of fibres.

•      Establishing wet spinning process conditions to produce precursor fibres with conventional and unconventional cross-sectional morphologies.

•      Determining thermal treatment parameters to achieve high compressive strength and intermediate modulus carbon fibres and composites.

•      Addressing fibre-matrix interfacial aspects for successful translation of carbon fibre properties to composite properties.

•      Producing nanomaterial (eg: Graphene, Metal oxides etc) reinforced carbon fibres for multifunctional composite applications.

•      Manufacturing precursor fibres from waste acrylic textiles to showcase recyclability.

Dr. Nunna is highly proficient in a variety of advanced characterization techniques required to assess structural and morphological aspects of fibre and composites, conducting parametric studies to establish structure-property relationships of carbon fibres.  Moreover, he has 1.5 years of experience in automobile modelling and CAE-crash simulation at Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd., more than 2 years of software development and testing experience at Tata Consultancy Services.