International

13.  May-July 2023, School of Engineering and Architecture Fribourg, Switzerland, Measurement of residual stress in plasma sprayed ceramic coatings using FTIR and Raman microscopy. Swiss National Sc. Foundation Grant.

12. May-July, 2018, School of Engineering and Architecture Fribourg, Switzerland, Measurement of residual stress in splats

using Raman Spectroscopy. Swiss National Sc. Foundation Grant.

11.May-July, 2015, Helmut Schmidt Univ, Humburg, Germany, Adhesion in Cold Spraying, INSA-DFG Research grant.

10.December, 2014, Univ of Sc. and Tech. Lille, 1, France, Nanoindentation on thermally sprayed coatings.

9.May – July, 2012, Swiss Nat. Sc. Foundation Visiting Fellow, BFH Biel, Switzerland. Research topic: GDOES depth profiling of thermally sprayed coatings.

8.May – June, 2011, Visiting professor, Univ of Lille 1, France. Research topic: instrumented indentation based property measurement of thermally sprayed coatings.

7.Nov- Dec, 2010, Visiting Scientist, EMPA Thun, Switzerland. Research topic: Residual stress measurement in isolated thermally sprayed splats using micro Raman and FTIR microscopy.

6.May – June, 2010, Visiting professor, Univ of Lille 1, France. Research topic: estimation of coating adhesion by measuring    interfacial fracture toughness.

5.August – Dec, 2009, Visiting Scientist, EMPA Thun, Switzerland. Topic: Splat substrate interaction

4.May – July, 2008: Visiting Scientist, EMPA Thun, Switzerland. Topic: Tribo-characterisation of Ti-Cr-Si-O coatings.

3.May – July, 2007: Visiting Scientist, EMPA Thun, Switzerland. Topic: Processing of Ti-Cr-Si- O quasicrystal coatings.

2.May – July, 2006: Visiting Scientist, Washington State Univ, Pullman, USA. Topic: laser clad alumina and zirconia on steel.

1.Sep 2002 – Jan 2004: Research Assoc. EMPA Thun, Switzerland. Topic: Vacuum Plasma

  Sprayed Ni-Ti-Zr quasicrystal coatings.