Mr. Ibrahim Ondicho

Designation: Tutorial Fellow
Email: ibrahim.ondicho@dkut.ac.ke

Academic Background

Qualification Institution Year
 PhD Mechanical Engineering  DTU  Ongoing
 MSc. Materials Engineering  Yeungnam University  2019
 BSc. Mechanical Engineering  DeKUT  2016

Professional Qualifications

Qualification Institution Year
Graduate Engineer EBK  2018

Areas of Expertise

  • Materials Engineering – Physical Metallurgy

Work Experience

  • September, 2019 – to date: Tutorial Fellow – DeKUT

Publications

Journal Publications

  1. Ibrahim Ondicho, Bernard Alunda, Nokeun Park, Effect of Fe on the Hall-Petch relationship of (CoCrMnNi)100-x Fex medium-and high-entropy alloys, Intermetallics, Volume 136, 2021,107239.
  2. Ondicho, I., Alunda, B., Owino, D. et al. Revealing a Transformation-Induced Plasticity (TRIP) Phenomenon in a Medium-Entropy Alloy. Acta Metall. Sin. (Engl. Lett.) 33, 1159–1165 (2020).
  3. Ondicho, I., Alunda, B., Madaraka, F. et al. Effect of Bimodal Grain Size Distribution on the Strain Hardening Behavior of a Medium-Entropy Alloy . Acta Metall. Sin. (Engl. Lett.) 34, 465– 475 (2021).
  4. B.O. Alunda,D.O. Agumba,I.O. Ondicho,L.O. Otieno,M. Chepkoech,N.A. Mutua,J.S. Hawong, Investigating the performance of square ring under uniform squeeze rate and internal pressure Material Science and Engineering Technology (2020).
  5. Ibrahim Ondicho, Minku Choi, Won-Mi Choi, Jong Bae Jeon, Hamid Reza Jafarian, ByeongJoo Lee, Sun Ig Hong, Nokeun Park, Experimental investigation and phase diagram of CoCrMnNi–Fe system bridging high-entropy alloys and high-alloyed steels, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Volume 785, 2019, Pages 320-327.
  6. Minku Choi, Ibrahim Ondicho, Nokeun Park, Nobuhiro Tsuji, Strength–ductility balance in an ultrafine-grained non-equiatomic Fe50(CoCrMnNi)50 medium-entropy alloy with a fully recrystallized microstructure, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Volume 780, 2019, Pages 959966.
  7. Maya Putri, Ibrahim Ondicho, Dennis Edgard Jodi, Nokeun Park, Unhae Lee Theoretical Evaluation of Solid Solution Interaction in Fex(CoCrMnNi)100-x Medium- and High-Entropy Alloys, Materials Science & Engineering A, Volume 759, 2019, Pages 633-639.

Conferences Proceedings

  1. 7th International Conference on Recrystallization and Grain Growth 2019, Ghent, Belgium August 2019 Ibrahim Ondicho, Yoshida Shuhei, Nokeun Park, Recrystallization Behavior of (CoCrMnNi)50Fe50 Medium-entropy Alloy Annealed at 600°C, (REX2019) 
  2. 26th International Symposium on Metastable, Amorphous and Nanostructured Materials (ISMANAM 2019, Chennai, India July 2019 Ibrahim Ondicho, Maya Putri, Nokeun Park, The effect of Fe on the Mechanical Properties of Fex(CoCrMnNi)100-x High- and Medium-Entropy Alloys, 
  3. The 2nd International Conference on High-Entropy Materials, Jeju, South Korea December 2018  Ibrahim Ondicho, Yanzhong Tian, Nokeun Park Strength-ductility Balance in Ultrafinegrained  (CoCrMnNi)50Fe50 Medium Entropy Alloy having Fully Recrystallized Microstructure

Awards, Scholarships and Recognitions

  1. PhD Scholarship at Technical University of Denmark (2020)
  2. Best Poster Award, 7th International Conference on Recrystallization and Grain Growth 2019, Ghent, Belgium August 2019
  3. Yeungnam University Scholarship for International students (2017) – Master’s degree
  4. President Award Kenya – Gold (2014)

Research

a)Ongoing/Completed Researches

  1. Microstructure evolution and Mechanical Properties of High-entropy Alloys.
  2. Phase transformation and Twinning in High-entropy Alloys.
  3. Crystal Plasticity Modelling.

Research Interests

  • Combustion and emission characteristics of biofuel.
  • Computational of solid, liquid and gas fuel flames.

Affiliation/Membership to Professional Bodies

  • Graduate engineer – EBK