Advanced Composites Engineering (ACE) Laboratory

All About Technical Textiles in a shell!

Location: Mechanical Training Workshop (Old Building, First Floor)

Prof-In-Charge: Dr Nilanjan Das Chakladar, Mechanical Engineering Department

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India 721302

Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur has three sections - Manufacturing Science and Engineering (ME1), Thermal and Fluids Engineering (ME2) and Mechanical Systems Design (ME3)

ACE Lab belongs to ME1 section of the department. PhD and Postdoc applicants willing to work in ACE Lab shall apply through the ME1 section of the department.

For details of Training Workshop and associated Labs, please visit
https://sites.google.com/view/training-workshop-me-iitkgp

Facilities we have at ACE Lab:

Vacuum infusion set up
Vacuum oven
Vacuum autoclave
FDM (3D) printer
Compression moulding machine
Fibre drawing tower
Digital microscope
Benchtop electropolisher
i9 workstations
Filament maker
pH meter

Prototypes built or on-going:

Composite hat (ISIRD, IIT Kharagpur)
ASTM D series coupons (ISIRD, IIT Kharagpur)
Design of composite pipe (NMRL, DRDO)
Abrasive peening set up (CRG, SERB)
Phosphate Glass fibre, bone plate (Ministry of Textiles) + Industry partner: Tata Medical Devices
Composite impeller blade (NRB, DRDO)
Composite antenna reflector (SAC, ISRO)

PhD topics:

Development of porosity-free vaccum fabrication technique (completed)
Tailoring of residual stress during micro-end milling - experiments and modelling (completed)
Fabrication and characterisation of intra-ply hybrid composites (on-going)
Fabrication of biocompatible phosphate glass fibre composites for implants (on-going)
Development of metal matrix composite joint with the help of friction stir processing (on-going)
Multi-scale modelling of full scale grinding process (on-going)
Developement of ultrasonic cavitation peening setup (on-going)
Fabrication and modelling of composite pressure vessel (on-going)