Welding & Joining Research Group

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering (Welding), Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, 2008

• M.Tech. Industrial Metallurgy, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, 2003

• B. Tech. Punjab Technical University Jalandhar, 2001

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• June 2023- Present, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India.

• June 2019- June 2023, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India.

• January 2012- June 2019, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India.

• June 2007- December 2011, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Thapar University Patiala, India. 

HONORS AND AWARDS

[i] C.V. Raman Gold medal, Best thesis award, Dr Anup Kumar Maurya, 2024

[ii] W. H. Hobart Memorial Award from American Welding Society, Prof. Rahul Chhibber, 2024

[iii] Alok Gupta won best oral presentation at International Conference on Advances in Materials & Processing  Technologies 13th-16th Sep, 2023, Malaysia.

[iv] Waris Nawaz Khan joins University of Alberta as Post Doctoral Fellow.

[v] SERB-Overseas Visiting Doctoral Fellowship 2020 to Ph.D. scholar from the research group.

[vi] Best Poster Award in Industry Day-2020, IIT Jodhpur.

[vii] Excellent Oral Presentation certificate at 4th Asia Conference on Mechanical and Materials Engineering (ACMME 2016) held at Kuala Lumpur during 14-18 July, 2016.

[viii] Performance Incentive award at Thapar University Patiala for the years 2009, 2010 and 2011.

[iix] SLS User award for research experimentation in PSI, Villigen, Switzerland.

Recent:

[1] Alok Gupta, Jaiveer Singh, Rahul Chhibber. Dissimilar welding of austenitic and ferritic steels using nickel and stainless-steel filler: Associated issues, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E: Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering [February, 2023]. https://doi.org/10.1177/09544089231159776

[2] Waris Nawaz Khan, Rahul Chhibber, Leijun Li et. al., Development and Performance of Ochre (anhyd. Fe2O3) added CaO-CaF2-TiO2-SiO2 Fluxes for Welding Electrode, accepted for publication in J. Sustainable Metallurgy [January, 2023]

[3] Sudish Mishra, Lochan Sharma, Rahul Chhibber. Experimental Investigation on Thermo-Physical Behavior of Basic Electrode Coatings for Offshore Applications. Silicon [2023]. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12633-023-02291-z

[4] Alok Gupta, Jaiveer Singh, Rahul Chhibber. Investigation of Thermophysical and Physicochemical Characteristics of Al2O3-SiO2- CaO - Na3AlF6 Flux for SMAW Electrode Coating.  Silicon [2022]. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12633-022-02258-6

[5] Aditya Kumar, Rahul Chhibber. Investigation of the Wetting Behavior of Formulated SMAW Electrode Coating Fluxes With Regression and ANN Model. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B [2022]. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11663-022-02689-x

 [6]Anup Kumar Maurya, Rahul Chhibber, Chandan Pandey,  Heat Input Effect on Dissimilar Super Duplex Stainless Steel (UNS S32750) and Nitronic Steel (N 50) Gas Tungsten Arc Weld: Mechanism, Microstructure, and Mechanical Properties, Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, [2022], https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-022-07471-3

[7] Vijay Kumar, Rahul Chhibber, Experimental investigation on SMAW electrode coatings developed using CaO–SiO2–CaF2–SrO based coating system, Ceramics International [2022], https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceramint.2022.06.187