Dr. B. V. Manoj. Kumar

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Tribology of advanced materials, Processing of Ceramics and Composites, Structure-Property Correlations in Advanced Materials

BIOSKETCH:

1. Educational Details:

• Ph.D. Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur.                                                    2007

• M.Tech. Industrial Metallurgy, Regional Engineering College Warangal (presently, National Institute of Technology (NIT) Warangal).                                                                                                                                                                                    2001

• B. Tech. Metallurgical Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU), Hyderabad.                                           1998

2. Professional Background:

• Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee,                                                                                                        March 2021 to date

•  Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee,                                                                                         April 2016 to March 2021 

• Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee,                                                                                        March 2011 to April 2016

• Research Assistant Professor, The University of Seoul, Seoul, South Korea,                                                                     January 2009 to February 2011

• Post-doctoral researcher, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea,                                                                                    January 2008 to January 2009.

• Project Associate, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India,                                                                                          August 2007 to December 2007

3. Visiting Appointments:

• Guest Researcher at Centre for Tribology and Technical Diagnostics, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia,          October 2005 to February 2006.

• Guest Researcher, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Seoul, Seoul in                            December 2011.

RESEARCH:

• Development of Mn-Cr-Cu based White Cast Iron-A Substitute of Ni Based Wear Resistant Alloy Cast Iron

   Vedanta Limited, Goa                                                                                                                                                                                   July 2020

• Strong and Wear Resistant SiC Nano Composites for Efficient

   DST, New Delhi under Indo-Korea collaborative project                                                                                                                            July 2017

• Erosion behaviour of ZrB2-SiC composites

   ISRO, Bangalore                                                                                                                                                                                           July 2015

• Nano structured Novel TiCN Cermets for Cutting Tool Applications

DST, New Delhi under Indo-Slovenia collaborative project

July,  2015

• Enhancement of Wear Resistance of SiC-WC Composites for Tribological Applications

CSIR, New Delhi

October, 2014

• Development of Advanced Structural Ceramics for Applications in Complex Tribological Environment

IIT Roorkee (under FIG-A scheme)

November 2011

Consultancy Projects as Principal Investigator:

•   Investigation of Martensite Phase Transformation in Cold Rolled Austenite Stainless Steel Sheets

     Rimjhim Stainless Ltd., Kanpur

• Bronze Coating on Steel using Activated Diffusion for Hydraulic Pump Shoes

   Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd., (Hal), Accessories Division, Lucknow

• Analysis of Micro-Structural Defects in Austenitic Stainless Steel Wire Rods

   Rimjhim Stainless Ltd., Kanpur

• Optimization of composition of two-wheeler brake pads

   TVS Motor Company Ltd. Chennai

Publications:

Review Articles:

1.  Sandan Kumar Sharma, B. V. Manoj Kumar*, Young-Wook Kim, Tribological Behavior of Silicon Carbide Ceramics - A Review, Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society 2016; 53:581-596

2.  Vipin Sharma, Ujjwal Prakash, B.V. Manoj Kumar*, Surface Composites by Friction Stir Processing: A Review, Journal of Materials Processing and Technology 2015;224:117-134

3.  B. V. Manoj Kumar, Young-Wook Kim*. Processing of Polysiloxane-Derived Porous Ceramics- A Review, Science and Technology of Advanced Materials, STAM  2010: 11:044303 [Among TOP 3 % of all IOP journal publications; listed as one of the most popular articles from STAM in 2010]

Research Articles:

4.  Nilesh V.Dorkar, Young-Wook Kim, B. Venkata Manoj Kumar*, Influence of temperature, impact angle and h-BN content on the erosive wear behavior of hot-pressed SiC-BN composites. Wear 2020;458-459;203447

5.  Vipin Sharma, Ujjwal Prakash, B. V. Manoj Kumar*, Tribological characteristics of friction stir processed graphite-tin/LM24 surface composites. Friction (accepted, in Press 2020).

6.  Rohit Malik , Young-Wook Kim*, Kwang Joo Kim, B. V. Manoj Kumar, Tuning the electrical, thermal, and mechanical properties of SiC-BN composites using sintering additives. Journal of Asian Ceramic Societies 2020; 8[2]: 353–364  

7.  Rajavel Muthaiah, S.R. Meka, B. Venkata Manoj Kumar*, Development of Dual Phase SiC/Si3N4 Nanostructures on Nanosized SiC particles Philosophical Magazine Letters 2020;100[2], 74-85,

8.  Sonali Jamale, B.V. Manoj Kumar*, Sintering and sliding wear studies of B4C-SiC composites International Journal of Refractory Metals & Hard Materials 87 (2020) 105124  

9.  Yashpal Gupta, T. Venkateswaran, B. Venkata Manoj Kumar*, Influence of angle of incidence, temperature, and SiC content on erosive wear behavior of ZrB2‐SiC composites.  International  Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology 2020;17:459–467.      

10. Anupam Purwar, Ariharan S, Bikramjit Basu*, B. Venkata Manoj Kumar*, Experimental and computational analysis for thermo-erosive stability assessment of ZrB2-SiC based multiphase composites. International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials 2019;84: 104972 

11. R. K Singh Yadav, V. Sharma. B. Venkata Manoj Kumar*, On the role of sliding load and heat input conditions in friction stir processing on tribology of aluminium alloy–alumina surface composites. Tribology- Materials, Surfaces & Interfaces. 2019;13(2):88-101.

12. Rajavel Muthaiah, S.R. Mek, B. Venkata Manoj Kumar*, Processing of heat-treated silicon carbide-reinforced aluminum alloy composites. Materials and Manufacturing Processes  2019;34(3):312-320

13. S. S. Rathore*, V. Verma, B.V. Manoj Kumar, Vikram V. Dabhade, Tribological behaviour of sinter-forged Fe-2Cu-0.7C-xMo alloys. Wear 2018:410–411: 222-231

14. Sandan Kumar Sharma, B. Venkata Manoj Kumar*, Young-Wook Kim Tribology of WC reinforced SiC ceramics: Influence of counterbody. Friction 2019; 7(2): 129–142 

15. Prabhat Chand Yadav, Sandan Kumar Sharma*, B. Venkata Manoj Kumar, Sinhoo Kang, Effect of linear velocity on sliding wear behavior of TiCN based cermets, Materials Today: Proceedings 2018;5: 17342–17349 

16. Sandan Kumar Sharmaa , B. Venkata Manoj Kumar*, Blaz Brodnik Zugelj, Mitjan Kalin, Young-Wook Kim. Room and high temperature reciprocated sliding wear behavior of SiC-WC composites. Ceramics International 2017;43;16827-16834

17. Sandan Kumar Sharma, B. Venkata Manoj Kumar*, Young-Wook Kim. Effect of impingement angle and WC content on high temperature erosion behavior of SiC-WC composites- International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials 2017;68:166-171  

18. Sandan Kumar Sharma, Yashpal, Ashish W. Selokar, B. Venkata Manoj Kumar*, T. Venkateswaran. High Temperature Erosion Behavior of Spark Plasma Sintered ZrB2-SiC Composites,  Ceramics International 2017;43;8982-8988  

19. Vikas Verma*, B. V. Manoj Kumar, Sliding wear behavior of SPS processed TaC-containing Ti(CN)-WC-NiCo cermets against Silicon Carbide. Wear 2017; 376-377; 1570-1579 

20. R Manoj Kumar, Pallavi Gupta, Sandan Kumar Sharma, Akshat Mittal, Manish Shekhar, Vijayesh Kumar, BV Manoj Kumar, Partha Roy, Debrupa Lahiri*, Sustained drug release from surface modified UHMWPE for acetabular cup lining in total hip implant, Materials Science and Engineering C 2017;77:649–661  

21. Vikas Verma*, B. V. Manoj Kumar, Processing of alumina-based composites via conventional sintering and their characterization, Materials and Manufacturing Processes 2017;32:21–26 

22. Vikas Verma, B. V. Manoj Kumar*, Tribological characteristics of conventionally sintered TiCN-WC-Ni/Co cermets against cemented carbide, Ceramics International 2017; 43:368-375 

23. Vikas Verma*, B. V. Manoj Kumar, Processing of TiCN-WC-Ni/Co cermets via Conventional and Spark Plasma Sintering Technique, Transactions of Indian Institute of Metals 2017;70: 843-853  

24. Vikas Verma, B. V. Manoj Kumar*, Sinhoo Kang, Sliding wear behaviour of TaC-containing Ti(CN)-WC-Ni/Co cermets, International  Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology 2016; 13:1033-1042  

25. Supriya Gupta, Sandan Kumar Sharma, B. Venkata Manoj Kumar*, Young-Wook Kim, Tribological characteristics of SiC ceramics sintered with a small amount of yttria, Ceramics International 2015;41:14780-14789  

26. Sandan Kumar Sharma, B. Venkata Manoj Kumar*, Young-Wook Kim, Effect of WC addition on sliding wear behavior of SiC ceramics, Ceramics International 2015;41:3427-3437. 

27. Manoj Kumar R, Sandan Kumar Sharma, B. V. Manoj Kumar, Debrupa Lahiri*, Effects of Carbon Nanotube Aspect ratio on strengthening and tribological behaviour of ultra high molecular weight polyethylene composite, Composites: Part A 2015;76 62-72 

28. Yashpal, Vipin Sharma, B.V. Manoj Kumar*, Issues in determining size of nano-crystalline ceramic particles by X-ray diffraction, Materials Today: Proceedings 2015;2: 3534 – 3538  

29. Vipin Sharma, Yahshpal, B. V. Manoj Kumar*, Ujjwal Prakash, Friction stir processing strategies of uniform distribution of reinforcement in a surface composite, Materials and Manufacturing Processes 2016;31: 1384–1392.  

30. A. Selokar , U. Prakash*, D. B. Goel, B. V. Manoj Kumar, Cavitation erosion and solid particle erosion behaviour of a nitrogen alloyed austenitic stainless steel, ISIJ International 2015;55[5]:1123-1130.  

31. Vipin Goyal, Sandan Kumar Sharma, B. Venkata Manoj Kumar*, Effect of lubrication on tribological behaviour of martensitic stainless steel Materials Today: Proceedings 2015;2: 1082 – 1091  

32. D. C. Joshi, S. Nayak, P. Suresh , K. S. Suresh, B. V. Manoj Kumar, S. Thota*, The X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and high-temperature structural studies of Zn1−xNixO/NiO two-phase composites Physica Status Solidi B 2015;252[10]: 2323-2329 

33. Vipin Sharma, U. Prakash, B.V. Manoj Kumar*, Microstructural and mechanical characteristics of AA2014/SiC surface composite fabricated by friction stir processing  Materials Today: Proceedings 2015;2: 2666 – 2670 

34. Sandan Kumar Sharma, B. Venkata Manoj Kumar*, Kwang-Young Lim, Young-Wook Kim, S.K. Nath. Erosion behaviour of SiC-WC composites, Ceramics International 2014;40[5]:6829-6839.                                                     

35. B. V. Manoj Kumar, Wentao Zhai, Jung-Hye Eom, Young-Wook Kim* and Chul B. Park Processing Highly Porous SiC Ceramics Using Poly (Ether-co-Octene) and Hollow Microsphere Templates Journal of Materials Science  2011;46:3664-3667.

36. B. V. Manoj Kumar, Jung-Hye Eom, Young-Wook Kim*, In-Hyuck Song, Hai-Doo Kim. Effect of Aluminum Hydroxide Content on Porosity and Strength of Porous Mullite-Bonded Silicon Carbide Ceramics Journal of the Ceramic Society of Japan 2011;119[5]:367-370.

37. B. V. Manoj Kumar, Kwang-Young Lim, Young-Wook Kim*, Influence of Submicron SiC Particle Addition on Porosity and Flexural Strength of Porous Self-Bonded Silicon Carbide Metals and Materials International 2011;17[3]:435-440.

38. B. V. Manoj Kumar, Jung-Hye Eom, Young-Wook Kim*, Effect of filler addition on porosity and strength of polysiloxane-derived porous silicon carbide ceramics, Journal of the Ceramic Society of Japan 2011; 119 [1]: 48-54.

39. B. V. Manoj Kumar, Young-Wook Kim*, Dae-Soon Lim, Won-Seon Seo. Influence of Small Amount of Sintering Additives on Unlubricated Sliding Wear Properties of SiC Ceramics, Ceramics International 2011;37:3599-3608

40. Jung-Hoo Shin, B. Venkata Manoj Kumar, Jae-Hee Kim and Seong-Hyeon Hong*. “Tribological Properties of Si3N4/SiC Nano-Nano Composite Ceramics, Journal of the American Ceramic Society 2011;94[11]:3683-3685

41. B. V. Manoj Kumar, Jung-Hye Eom, Young-Wook Kim*, In-Sub Han, Sang-Kuk Woo. Effect of Aluminum Source on Flexural Strength of Mullite-Bonded Porous Silicon Carbide Ceramics, Journal of the Ceramic Society of Japan 2010; 118[1]:13-18.

42. B V Manoj Kumar, Myong-Hoon Roh, Young-Wook Kim*, Wonjoong Kim, Sang Whan Park. Mechanical properties of SiC Ceramics sintered with RE2O3 (RE: Sc, Lu, Y) and AlN Additives, Metals and Materials International 2010;16[2]:229-233.

43. Aditya Jain, B. Basu*, B. V. Manoj Kumar, Harshavardhan and J. Sarkar. Grain Size -Wear Rate Relationship for Titanium in Liquid Nitrogen Environment, Acta Materialia 2010;58:2313-2323.

44. B. Venkata Manoj Kumar, Won-Sik Kim, Seong-Hyeon Hong*, Hung-Tak Bae, Dae-Soon Lim. Effect of grain size on wear behavior in Y-TZP ceramics, Materials Science and Engineering A 2010; 527:474–479.

45. Jae-Hee Kim, B. Venkata Manoj Kumar, Seong-Hyeon Hong*, Hai-Doo Kim. Fabrication of Silicon Nitride Nano-Ceramics and Their Tribological Properties. Journal of the American Ceramic Society 2010;93[5]:1461-1466.

46. B V Manoj Kumar, Myong-Hoon Roh, Young-Wook Kim*, Wonjoong Kim, Sang Whan Park. Effect of additive composition on microstructure and mechanical properties of SiC ceramics sintered with small amount of RE2O3 (RE: Sc, Lu, Y) and AlN, Journal of Materials Science 2009; 44:5939–5943

47. Bikramjit Basu*, B. V. Manoj Kumar, Paul S. Gilman. Deformation of High Purity Cold Worked Copper during Sliding Against Bearing Steel in Cryogenic Environment. Journal of Materials Science 2009; 44:2300-2309.

48. Atiar R. Molla, B. V. Manoj Kumar, Bikramjit Basu*. Friction and Wear Mechanisms of K2O–MgO–Al2O3–B2O3–SiO2–F Glass Ceramics. Journal of the European Ceramic Society 2009;29: 2481–2489

49. Jae-Hee Kim, Venkata Manoj Kumar B, Won-Sik Kim, Seong-Heyon Hong*. Wear properties of silicon nitride-nano ceramics, Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society 2009; 46[5];505-509. (in Korean)

50. B. V. Manoj Kumar, Bikramjit Basu*, Mechanisms of material removal during high temperature fretting of TiCN–Ni based cermets. International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials  2008; 26: 504–513.

51. B. V. Manoj Kumar, Bikramjit Basu, Joze Vizintin, Mitjan Kalin*,  Tribochemistry in sliding wear of TiCN-Ni based cermets. Journal of Materials Research 2008; 23[5]: 1214-1227.

52. B. V. Manoj Kumar, Bikramjit Basu*, Fretting wear properties of TiCN-Ni cermets: Influence of load and secondary carbide addition. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A 2008; 39A [3]:539-550.

53. M. Karanjai*, B.V. Manoj Kumar, R. Sundaresan, B. Basu, T.R. Ramamohan, B.P.Kashyap; Fretting wear study on Ti-Ca-P biocomposites in dry and simulated body fluids; Materials Science Engineering A 2008;475:299–307.

54. B. V. Manoj Kumar, Bikramjit Basu, Mitjan Kalin*, Joze Vizintin. Load dependent transition in sliding wear properties of TiCN-WC-Ni cermets. Journal of the American Ceramic Society 2007; 90[5]:1534-1540.

55. B. V. Manoj Kumar, R. Balasubramiam, Bikramjit Basu*, Electrochemical behavior of TiCN-Ni based cermets. Journal of the American Ceramic Society    2007;90[1]:205–210.

56. B. V. Manoj Kumar, J Ram Kumar, Bikramjit Basu*, Crater wear mechanisms of TiCN-Ni-WC cermets during dry machining. International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials  2007; 25[5-6]:392-399.

57. B. V. Manoj Kumar, J. Ramkumar, Bikramjit Basu*, S. Kang. Electro-discharge machining performance of TiCN-based cermets; International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials 2007; 25[4]:293-299.

58. Manas Ranjan Tripathy, B. V. Manoj Kumar, Bikramjit Basu*, R. K. Dube, S. C. Koria. Tribological behavior of steel backed Al-Sn Strips prepared via spray atomization-deposition-rolling Route; Materials Science and Technology 2006; 22 [12]:1-8.

59. Debdas Roy, Bikramjit Basu*, Amitava Basu Mallick, B. V. Manoj Kumar, Sumit Ghosh; Understanding the unlubricated friction and wear behavior of Fe-aluminide reinforced Al-based in-situ metal matrix composite; Composites: Part A 2006; 37:1464-1472

60. B. V. Manoj Kumar, Bikramjit Basu*, S. Kang, J. Ramkumar, Erosion wear behavior of TiCN-Ni cermets containing secondary carbides (WC/NbC/TaC). Journal of the American Ceramic Society 2006; 89 [12]: 3827-3831.

61. B. V. Manoj Kumar, B. Basu*, Evolution in friction and wear of fretting wear of Mg-SiCp composites: Influence of fretting duration; Journal of Materials Research 2005; 20:801-812.

62. B. V. Manoj Kumar, B. Basu*, V S R Murthy, Manoj Gupta, The role of tribochemistry on fretting wear of Mg-SiC particulate composites Composites: Part A 2005;36;13-23.

Book Chapters:

1.Sonali Jamale, B. Venkata Manoj Kumar*, (2020) Sliding Wear Properties of Boron Carbide Ceramics. In: K. M. Reddy (ed.) Boron Carbide: Structure, Processing, Properties and Applications, Nova Science Publishers, NY, USA. (ISBN: 978-1-53617-121-1).

2.Rajavel Muthaiah V.M., Venkata Manoj Kumar B.*, Meka S.R. (2019) Influence of Milling and Heat Treatment on Phase Evolution and Microstructural Characteristics of Silicon Carbide Powders. In: Pujari S., Srikiran S., Subramonian S. (eds) Recent Advances in Material Sciences. Lecture Notes on Multidisciplinary Industrial Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7643-6_52 (Online ISBN: 978-981-13-7643-6).

3.Vikas Verma*, B. V. Manoj Kumar (2017). TaC-Containing Ti(CN)-WC-Ni/Co Cermets for the Improved Machining Performance. In Kongoli F, Braems I, Demange V, Dubois JM, Pech-Canul M, Patino CL, Fumio O (Eds.), Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit SIPS 2017 Volume 8: Surfaces and Interfaces(SISAM), Composite, Ceramic and Nanomaterials (pp. 210-222). Montreal, Canada: FLOGEN Star Outreach (ISBN: 978-1-987820-75-1).

4.Vipin Sharma*, Ujjwal Prakash and B. V. Manoj Kumar, Challenges in fabrication of surface composites by friction stir processing route, Advanced Composites for Aerospace, Marine and Land Applications II (Ed. T. Sano and T.S. Srivatsan), TMS (The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society), John Wiley & Sons 2015 pp 93-100 (ISBN 978-1-119-08226-2).

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