Date of Joining MEC: 30 September 2024

Professional Experience: Total 28 Years (1.5 Years Industrial and 27 Years Teaching)

Educational Profile

• Ph.D  (2015)

  • Mechanical Engineering

  • National Institute of Technology,  Tiruchirappalli

  • M.Tech (2009)

  • Mechanical Engineering - Manufacturing Technology

  • National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapalli, 

  • First Class

  • MBA (2012)

  • General

  • Annamalai University

  • First Class

• B.Tech (1994)

  • Mechanical Engineering

  • Mar Aathanasius College of Engineering, Kothamangalam

Courses handled

Professional Bodies

• Life Member, Indian Welding Society.

Research Interest

• Arc based Additive manufacturing processes, Welding Technology, Solid state Joining.

•  Materials Behaviour Subjected to Welding, Similar and Dissimilar Materials Welding .

• Failure Analysis of Weldments, Modelling, Simulation of Welding processes, Welding parameter optimization 

FDPs / STTPs / Workshops (Attended)

Details of Presentation / Publication of Research Papers 

International Conferences

• 1. P.Sathiya, S. Aravindan, P.M.Ajith and A. Noorul Haq, Optimization of bead geometry in gas metal arc welding of AISI 904 L super austenitic stainless steel using Taguchi techniques. I st  International conference on welding  Technologies, 09, Organized by Welding Technology Society, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey, 11-13, June 2009, pp. 331-341.

• 2.P. M. Ajith, P. Sathiya, Kondaiah Gudimetla and B. Ravishankar, Mechanical, Metallurgical Characteristics and Corrosion Properties of Equal Channel Angular Pressing of Duplex Stainless Steel, Advanced Materials Research, Vol. 717 (2013) pp 9-14.

• 3. P. M .Ajith, P. Sathiya, S. Aravindan and S. Arunkumar, NSGA-II based multi objective optimization of friction welding parameters of UNS S 32205 duplex stainless steel, 2nd  International conference on Advances in cutting, welding & surfacing, held at CIT, Coimbatore, August 5-7, 2015, pp 279-290.

• 4. Joby Joseph, Ajith P M, Shunmugesh K. and S. Muthukumaran, Studies on the Compaction Kinetic Effects of Pure Iron and Aisi Alloy Steel Powder,  Conference: Proceedings of the Advances in Technology, Engineering and Computing A Multinational Colloquium - Jan 2017.

• 5.      Anchana, P., and Ajith, P. M., “Optimization of process parameters of friction welding on 15CDV6 aerospace steel rod s using PSO”, IJCACI (6th International joint conference on advances in computational intelligence), 2022.

• 6.      Anchana, P., and Ajith, P. M., “Multiobjective optimization of friction welding of 15CDV6 alloy steel rods using grey relational analysis in the Taguchi method”, ICIVC (2nd International conference on Intelligent vision and computing), 2022.

International Journals

• 1. P.Sathiya, S.Aravindan, P.M. Ajith, B.Arivazhagan and A. Noorul Haq   , “Microstructural characteristics on bead on plate welding of AISI 904 L super austenitic stainless steel using Gas metal arc welding process”, International Journal of Engineering Science, and Technology, Vol. 2, No. 6, 2010, pp. 189-199.

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• 2.P.Sathiya, S. Aravindan, R. Jeyapaul, P.M. Ajith, A. Noorul Haq, (2010) "Optimizing the weld bead characteristics of super austenitic stainless steel (904L) through grey‐based Taguchi method;, Multidiscipline Modeling in Materials and Structures, Vol. 6 Issue: 2, pp.206-213, doi: 10.1108/15736101011067993.

• 3. P. Sathiya, P. M. Ajith, R. Soundararajan. Genetic algorithm based optimization of the process parameters for gas metal arc welding of AISI 904 L stainless steel Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology  27(8):2457- 465 · August 2013 

• 4. P. M. Ajith, P.Sathiya, Kondaiah Gudimetla and B.Ravishankar, Mechanical, Metallurgical Characteristics and Corrosion Properties of Equal Channel Angular Pressing of Duplex Stainless Steel, Advanced Materials Research, Vol. 717 (2013) pp 9-14.

• 5. Puthuparambil Madhavan AJITH, Paulraj SATHIYA, Sivanandam ARAVINDAN, Characterization of microstructure, toughness, and chemical composition of friction-welded  joints of UNS S32205 duplex stainless steel, Friction 2 (1): 82–91 (2014).

• 6. P. M. Ajith, P. Sathiya, S. Aravindan, Experimental Investigation on Friction Welding of UNS S32205 Duplex Stainless Steel, Acta Metallurgica Sinica (English Letters), Volume 27, Issue 6 (2014), Page 995-1007.-SCI Journal.

• 7. P.M.Ajith, Afsal Husain T.M, P. Sathiya and S.Aravindan, Multi objective optimization of continuous drive friction welding process parameters using response surface methodology with intelligent optimization algorithm, Journal Of Iron And Steel Research, International,2015, 22(10): 954-960.-SCI Journal.

• 8. P.M.Ajith, Birendra Kumar Barik, P. Sathiya and S.Aravindan, Multiobjective optimization of friction welding of UNS S32205 duplex stainless steel - Journal of Defence Technology (Elsevier),  Volume 11, Issue 2 , June 2015, Pages 157–165.

• 9.   Anchana, P., Ajith, P. M., Joseph, J., and Kailasamani, S., 2022, “Transient Thermal Analysis on Rotary Friction Welding of 15CDV6 Aerospace Steel”, Trans. Indian Inst. Met. http://doi.org/10.1007/s12666-022-02759-3

• 10. Anchana, P., Ajith, P. M., and Joy Varghese, V. M., 2026, “Thermal modeling and flash morphology analysis on rotary friction welding of 15CDV6 aerospace steel”, Welding International. (under review)