Anil K. Sachdev

Anil Sachdev joined General Motors Global Research and Development in 1977 after obtaining his BSc in Metallurgical Engineering from Department of Mining and Metallurgy in Banaras Hindu University, MSc in Metallurgical Engineering from Purdue University and ScD in Materials Science and Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  He retired in 2023 from GM as Principal Technical Fellow and Lab Group Manager. His research interests include microstructure design, metal-matrix composites, and high strength steels for structural applications. His recent efforts include alloys tailored for additive manufacturing and processing lithium metal for high energy batteries.  His contributions are specifically related to implementing lightweight products by coupling multi-scale in-situ experiments with computational methods to understand physical phenomena across length scales to develop materials and processes that lead to enhanced properties tailored for specific component designs.  Some key contributions include the role of the stability of a small amount of retained austenite on the formability of dual-phase steels, which led to subsequent interest in the industry to develop low-cost transformation-induced plasticity (TRIP) steels for automotive applications; nanoscale copper precipitation in ultrahard carburized steels; improving formability of aluminum alloys at low cost by manipulating the accumulated dislocation substructure; novel product designs with magnesium castings, and novel alloys tailored for additive manufacturing (subject of a chapter in the ASM handbook). As a research manager he also led projects that explored heat treatment of microalloyed steels, the use of low-cost fibers in metal-matrix composites and high-temperature magnesium alloys for powertrain applications.  Sachdev has also established Global research centers including the China Science Lab in Shanghai and the GM India Science Lab as part of the GM Technical Center in Bangalore and continues to sustain long-term collaborations with universities and research institutions worldwide. He has been a Key Reader for Metallurgical and Materials Transactions for the past 40 years and has 125 patents and 100+ external publications related to light metal developments. He has also presented several lectures in international conferences, most recently the Adolf Martens lecture at AIST and a keynote lecture at the ASTM conference on Additive Manufacturing and has also received best paper awards and product recognition awards from AFS, TMS, NADCA, and IMA for his work. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of The Metallurgical Society.