About Research Center

The Research Centre under the Department of Mechanical Engineering was recognized by the Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi in the year 2013. It offers doctoral Ph.D.degree program and M.Sc.(Engg) programme. The research center is equipped with various research lab facilities related to Thermal engineering, Manufacturing Science & Engineering, Materials engineering and Machine design with modern IT tools for modeling and analysis. The research center has VTU approved research supervisors in various research domains of Mechanical Engineering.

The department of Mechanical Engineering has received a grant of 13.57 lakhs from AICTE to set up “Advanced laboratory in Material Testing”. Students and faculties are encouraged to publish research papers at National and International Journals and Conferences. Few patents have been filed with Indian patent office. The Research facilities are also extended to researchers from other Institutions.

Research Areas

1. Thermal Engineering: CI engine using Bio Diesel, Influence of nanoadditives on the combustion engine performance, Combustion, Emission, Duel fuels for engines, Refrigeration

& Air-conditioning, Alternate fuels, Renewable energy, Computational Fluid dynamics and Heat Transfer.

2. Materials Engineering: Characterization and processing of Composite Materials, Carbon- Carbon Composite materials and Delamination analysis.

3. Machine Design: Friction & wear, Tribology, Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics.

4. Maintenance Engineering: Vibration, Condition Monitoring, Automatic fault diagnosis.

5. Manufacturing Engineering: Metal Cutting, Machining Process, Machine Tool Dynamics, Metal Forming & Joining Processes.

List of Research Supervisors

1 Dr.C R Rajashekhar - Thermal Engineering

2 Dr.Neelakantha V L - Manufacturing Engineering

3 Dr. Vignesh Nayak Ullal - Materials Engineering

4 Dr.Mohan Kumar  - Machine Design

Research Publications during last Five years:

S.No.       Year          No. of Publications

1           2022-23                    06

2           2021-22                    09

3          2020-21                    19

4          2019-20                    19

5         2018-19                     08

List of research scholars Registered

Sl. No                   USN                       Name of Research Scholar              Research Supervisor

1                    4MT15PMJ01               Veeresh M Kodekal                         Dr.C R Rajashekar

2                    4MT15PMJ02                Sudeep Kumar KS                           Dr.C R Rajashekar

3                     4MT15PMJ04               Sandeep K                                            Dr.C R Rajashekar

4                     4MT16PMJ01               Somashekhar TM                            Dr.C R Rajashekar

5                    4MT19PME04               Aveen KP                                              Dr. Neelakantha V L

6                   4MT16PMJ02               Srinivas KR                                            Dr.Lokesh M

7                   4MT19PME02             Rahul S                                                       Dr.Lokesh M

PATENT DETAILS

Sl.No.                                                      TITLE                                                                                                                                    Date of Filing/Patent No.                                     Status

1                     Design and fabrication of cashew nut and fruit Separating machine                                                     01/02/2023                                                       Filed

2                     Ration wending machine for APL/BPL cardholders                                                                                         17/03/2022                                          Filed /Published

3                     Detachable electric wheelchair bike for physically  disabled person                                                    17/03/2022                                          Filed /Published

4                   Black pepper plucking and separation machine                                                                                                   17/03/2022                                          Filed /Published

5                   Automated tapping machine for the extraction of Neera from coconut trees                                  20/04/2018                                          Filed /Published

6                 Ceiling fan mechanically extending connecting tubes                      01/04/2022                                           Filed /Published

7.                A piston for creating turbulence in the combustion chamber        319188                                                          Granted

Research Grants

S.no.                        Title of Project                                                                              Investigator/s                         FundingAgency                      GrantAmount(Rs)                       CurrentStatus

1                     Grant-in- Aid: Modernization and Removal of                Dr.Rajashekhar.C.R                 AICTE- Delhi                                   13.57 Lakh                       Procured and Installed

                    Obsolescence AICTE (MODROBS) Year 2018-19                (Coordinator)                          

                                                                                                                                             Mr. Mohan Kumar

                                                                                                                                              (Co-coordinator)

List of Research Scholars awarded with PhD 

Sl no.        USN              Name                        Year  of award                                                          Title of thesis                                                          Supervisor

1        4MT17PMA02       Sushma S                               2023                     Studies on Optimization of air cooled heat sink for different geometries              Dr.T K Chandrashekar

                                                                                                                and thermal Nano coatings to enhance the heat transfer in electronic devices.

2        4MT15PMJ08        Lawrence J Fernandes           2023                  Experimental studies on Effect of Double pulse Injection on Combustion and            Dr.C R Rajashekar

                                                                                                                           Emission Characteristics of CI Engine running on Bio-Diesel         

3        4MT17PMJ03        Sujeshkumar                          2023            Automatic Fault Diagnosis in Belts using Wavelet Analysis and Neural Network                 Dr.Lokesh M

4        4MT17PMA01       Kirankumar MV                    2023           Condition monitoring of bearings using wavelet analysis and artificial intelligence              Dr.Lokesh M

5        4MT15PMJ07       Jatadhara G S                          2023         Studies on Combustion and Emission of Waste Plastic Oil As Bio Fuel In I.C Engines    Dr.T K Chandrashekar

6        4MT16PMJ05       Mohankumar                           2022      Characterization of Fatigue and Fracture Behavior of Rod inserted concentric composite       Dr. Neelakantha V L

                                                                                                                                              tubes of high strength metallic materials

7       4MT16PMJ04        Sunil Kumar B V                    2022                           Fracture Characterization of Carbon-Carbon Composites                                     Dr. Neelakantha V L

8       4MT15PMJ03        Sunil Kumar S                         2022         A study on influence of corrosive environment on Fracture properties of high strength       Dr. Neelakantha V L

                                                                                                                                                          metallic materials.

9      4MT15PMJ06        Prem Kumar Naik                    2021            Experimental study and Characterization of Fracture toughness of natural fibre               Dr. Neelakantha V L

reinforced hybrid composites.

10    4MT13PMN01      Keerthikumar N                        2021          Studies on combustion performance and emission characteristics of four stroke DI         Dr.T K Chandrashekar

Compression Ignition engine using Simarouba oil as Bio fuel 

11    4MT15PMJ05       Nagesh SB                                 2021             Studies on combustion and performance characterstics of HCCI engine fuelled           Dr.T K Chandrashekar

with Diesel Bio diesel blends

Research Facilities 

MATERIAL TESTING LAB

Sl.No.                                          Description

    1                                  PC Operated Micro Processor Based Electronic  Universal Testing Machine-400KN

    2                                  Brinnel Hardness Tester

    3                                  Rockwell Hardness Tester

    4                                  Vickers Hardness Tester

    5                                  Impact Testing Machine

   6                                  Electronic Extensometer

    7                                Torsion Testing Machine

   8                                 Shear Testing Attachment

   9                                 Polishing Machine

  10                              Ultrasonic Flow Detector

  11                              Magnetic Crack Detector

  12                              Dye Penetrant Test

  13                             Wear And Friction Monitor

  14                             Muffle  Furnace

  15                            Trinocular Diverted Microscope

FOUNDRY AND FORGING LAB

Sl.No.                                      Description

    1                             Universal Strength Machine

    2                             Shear Strength Attachment

    3                             Transverse Strength Attachment

    4                             Tensile Strength Attachment

    5                             Sieve Shaker With Sieve Set

    6                             Rapid Moisture Tester

    7                             Sand Rammer

    8                             Transverse Core Box

    9                             Tensile Core Box

  10                            Permeability Meter

  11                            Mould Hardness Tester “B” Scale

  12                            Core Hardness Tester

  13                            Electronic Balance CAP   0.1gm

MACHINE SHOP LAB

Sl.No.                                                                                Description

   1                              Enterprise-1330 –all geared head LATHE-18 No.

   2                             JEET All geared shaping Machine

   3                             Lathe Machine with Norton Gearbox (Belt Drive)

   4                             Lathe Grinder

   5                             Heavy duty Radial Drilling Machine

   6                            Milling Machine

   7                           Surface Grinder

   8                           Shaper Machine

MECHANICAL MEASUREMENT AND METROLOGY LAB

Sl.No.                                                                         Description

  1                             Drill tool dynamometer

  2                            Profile projector

  3                            Tool makers microscope

  4                            L.V.D.T. set up

  5                            Load cell set up

  6                            Strain gauge set up

  7                           Surface roughness tester

DESIGN LABORATORY

Sl.No.                                                                    Description

1                           Journal bearing apparatus

2                          Whirling of Shaft Apparatus

3                          Diffused Light Polari scope

4                         Motorized Gyroscope

5                         Dynamic Balancing Apparatus

6                        Curved Beams Apparatus

7                        Universal Governor Apparatus

8                        Universal Vibration Apparatus.

FLUID MECHANICS & MACHINERY LABORATORY

Sl.No.                                                              Description

1                       Friction in Pipe Apparatus

2                       Impact of jet on vanes apparatus

3                      Pelton Wheel  Turbine Test Rig

4                      Francis Turbine

5                      Kaplan Turbine

6                      Reciprocating Air Compressor Test Rig

7 Performance testing of Pump Single stage Centrifugal Pump

8 Reciprocating Pump Test Rig

9 Centrifugal Blower Test Rig

HEAT & MASS TRANSFER LABORATORY

Sl.No. Description

1 Thermal Conductivity of Metal rod Apparatus

2 Composite Wall Apparatus

3 Parallel Flow & Counter Flow

4 Heat Transfer Through Pin – Fin

5 Heat Transfer Through Forced Convection

6 Filmwiseand Dropwise Condensation

7 Performance Test On Vapor Compression Refrigeration Test Rig

8 Air Conditioning Test Rig

ENERGY COVERSION ENGINEERING LABORATORY

Sl.No.                                                          Description

1 4 Stroke 4 Cylinder Petrol Engine

2 4 Stroke Single Cylinder Petrol Engine

3 4 Stroke Single Cylinder VCR Petrol Engine

4 2 Stroke Single Cylinder Petrol Engine

5 4 Stroke Single Cylinder Diesel Engine

6 Pensky Marten Apparatus

7 Redwood Viscometer

8 Saybolt  Viscometer

CAMA/CIM LABORATORY

Sl.No.                                DESCRIPTION                                       SPECIFICATIONS

1 Software – 25 no. UGS FEMAP NASTARN(E080) Software perpectul license

2 Software – 25 no. ME&S For FEMAP Nastran

3 Desk Top Systems – 27no. Acer desktop system, Intel core 2 duo, 2 GB DDR2 RAM,  G31 Mother board, keyboard ,  Optical mouse

4 Graphics Card – 25 no. 512 MB DDR NVIDIA G FORCE

5 Software Licenses– 10 No’s CAPS TURN/CAPS MILL