Dr Bhishm Dewangan

About Me

Academic Work Experience

Research Fellow (Feb 2025 - Present)
School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Project Title: Structural Health Monitoring of Composites using Optical Fibre (EPSRC Project)
Line Manager: Dr Yiding Liu

Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (IPDF)(Sep 2024 - Dec 2024)
Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Maharashtra, India
Project Title: Simulation of the fibre reinforced polymer composites
PI: Prof Aparna Singh

Postdoctoral Staff (July 2024 - Aug 2024)
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
Project Title: Development of biocompatible glass fibre composite for Healthcare applications
PI: Prof Nilanjan Das Chakladar

Educational Background

PhD in Mechanical Engineering (Manufacturing) (July 2019 – July 2024)
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
CGPA: 8.52/10 (First class honors)
Thesis Title: Modelling of curing of fibre-reinforced composite with porosity defects and experimental validation
Thesis Supervisor: Prof Nilanajn Das Chakladar

MTech in Mechanical Engineering (Manufacturing) (Aug 2017 - July 2019)
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing (IIITDM), Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India
CGPA: 8.40/10 (First class honors)
Thesis Title: Study on processing and characterization of the sisal fibre composites
Thesis Supervisor: Dr Harpreet Singh

Skill Set

Modelling and simulation: Multiscale simulation of composite, Periodic Boundary Conditions and FE Homogenization method, Cure simulation of fibre-reinforced polymer composites, Abaqus-Python Scripting, User Subroutine (UMAT, HETVAL, UMATHT, UEXPAN, USDFLD) coded in Fortran.
Experiment: Composite manufacturing by vacuum bagging, double vacuum bagging, autoclave, oven curing, and compression moulding process, 3D Printing of polymer and short-fibre polymer composites, Monitoring of cure and cavity flow during composite resin infusion, Process and structural health monitoring of the composite manufacturing using optical fibres, Thermal (DSC, TGA, DMA) and mechanical characterization (tensile, flexural, ILSS) of composites, SEM imaging, Phase and residual stress measurement by X-ray diffraction.

Reviewer in Journals and Books

Scientific Reports (Springer Nature)
Journal of Composite Materials (SAGE)
Journal of Micromanufacturing (SAGE)
A chapter from the book "Advanced Functional and Composite Materials: Properties, Characterization, and Applications” (CRC Press).

Achievements, Awards and Scholarships

My article "Influence of out‐of‐autoclave and autoclave manufacturing processes on mechanical properties of glass fiber‐reinforced epoxy composite" (Article DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/pc.28885) has been chosen as the Editor's Choice article of the December 2024 issue (45:17).

Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship (Sep 2024 – Dec 2024) - Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), India.
International travel grant support (ITS), awarded by the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, to attend the "23rd International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM 23)" held on July 30 to August 4, 2023, at Belfast, Northern Ireland. (File Number: ITS/2023/002648 and SERB Qualified Unique Identification Document: SQUID-1994-BD-7823).
IIT Kharagpur Financial Grant for attending the "23rd International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM 23)".
PhD Fellowship (July 2019 to July 2024), awarded by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (Ministry of Education), Government of India.
MTech Fellowship (August 2017 to July 2019), awarded by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (Ministry of Education), Government of India.
Secured 1st Prize in the JUNKYARD competition on Tech-Fest TECHNOROLLIX-2015 organized by OP Jindal Institute of Technology, Raigarh.

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