Welding & Joining Research Group
I am currently working as Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur.
My research interest include fabrication and structural integrity assessment of dissimilar material joints, developing welding consumables for shielded metal arc and submerged arc welding processes. I have been involved with fabrication and hygrothermal investigations on fiber reinforced polymer nano-composites.
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 2019- Present, 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