Funded Projects

1. Title: Solid state welding Ti alloy and Ni alloy metal prints for aerospace, energy and health sectors, Funding: Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), start-up research grant (SRG), File no: SRG/2021/002183, Sanctioned amount: INR 3248750/- on 30th Dec. 2021 for two years

Academic Projects

2. Ph.D: Numerical Modeling and Experimental investigation of friction based joining processes. Supervisor: Prof. Amitava De, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IITB, India. Some part of the project is collaborated with Brasil laboratory, LAMEF, Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brasil with the financial assistance from DST, India. Supervisor at LAMEF, UFRGS: Prof. Thomas Clarke.

1. M.Tech: Experimental and Numerical analysis of friction stir spot welding, 2012. A collaborative project between University of Hyderabad and Defencce Metallurgical Research Laboratory(DMRL), Hyderabad. Supervisors: Prof. K. V. Rajulapati and Prof. K. Bhanu Sankara Rao from University of Hyderabad, and Dr. G. Madhusudhan Reddy, Scientist-H and Dr. A. Venugopal Rao, Scientist-G, from DMRL, DRDO, Hyderabad.

Research collaborations

[1]. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), India

[2]. Physcial Metallurgy Laboratory (LAMEF), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil

[3]. Joining and Welding Research Institute, Osaka University, Japan

[4]. Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht (HZG), Institute of Materials Research, Materials Mechanics, Solid state Joining Processes (WWP), Geesthacht, Germany