Research Focus

• Advanced Manufacturing Processes for Polymer Composites

• Sustainable Biocomposites

• Recycling of Polymer Composites

• Surface Engineering and Experimental Tribology

• Advanced Computational Design Analysis of Composite Structures  (Led by Dr. Himanshu Pathak)

Facilities and Equipment in Laboratory/Department

• Microwave assisted compression moulding (MACM)

• Vacuum assisted resin infusion microwave curing (VARIMC)

• Microwave assisted chemical recycling (MACR)

• 3 axis CNC controlled microwave drilling set up (MwD)

• Vacuum Assisted Compression Molding (up to 400 °C)

• Ultrasonic Plastic Joining Machine 

• 3 axis CNC micro milling machine

• High temperature microwave furnace

• Domestic microwave applicator

• Slurry jet erosion test rig

• Liquid droplet erosion test rig

• High precision weighing balance

• Low speed diamond saw

• Hot air oven (up to 250 °C)

• Workstation (320 GB RAM)

• Infrared pyrometer

• Izod/Charpy impact tester for polymer composites

• Shore D hardness tester

• Optical Microscope

• Stir Casting Setup

• Thermal Imaging Camera

• Plastic Extruding Machine with Pelletiser

• Compression Moulding Machine (up to 200 °C)

• Universal Testing Machine (UTM) 

• Dynamic UTM with temperature variation 

• Pin on disc tribometer

• Digimat Software

• COMSOL Software

• Python

• MATLAB

PS: Beyond these equipment, one can also access state-of-the-art facilities at Advanced Materials Research Centre (AMRC) at IIT Mandi