About Me

Dr. Ved Prakash Sharma

Assistant Professor,

Mechanical Engineering Department,

NIT Srinagar

I am Dr. Ved Prakash Sharma, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the National Institute of Technology Srinagar. I completed my Ph.D. at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. I am also a Member of The Institution of Engineers (India). My research is in the area of mechanical design specifically in failure analysis, crack propagation, and fracture. My approach to failure analysis involves systematic experimental studies, fractography studies, and numerical modeling techniques.

My Ph.D. research was related to microelectronics package reliability. In electronic devices, electronic circuits are the most important components which consist of mainly two parts namely integrated circuits (ICs) and printed circuit boards (PCBs). The ICs are mounted onto the PCBs using solder joints. The failure of even a single solder joint in the circuit will cause the device to not function properly. Therefore, it is very important to characterize the failure of these solder joints to improve the overall reliability of the device.

The solder joint geometry, IMC layer thickness, and composition of solder alloy are the important factors affecting joint quality. Along with this, it is also important to understand the effect of the speed of loading on the failure behavior of the joint to have better strength under impact loading. So, my focus was to understand the effect of these factors on joint quality in terms of fracture toughness.

I have published numerous research papers in highly reputed journals and have attended several conferences.

Journal Papers:

Fracture Behavior and Reliability of Low-Silver Lead-Free Solder Joints, Journal of Electronic Packaging, ASME, https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4054096, MAR, 2022
Effect of bond-line thickness and mode-mixity on the fracture behavior and traction separation law of Sn-0.7Cu solder joints, Engineering Failure Analysis, Elsevier, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engfailanal.2021.105855, JAN, 2022
Effect of aging time and loading rate on fracture behavior of Cu/Sn-0.7Cu solder joints, Microelectronics Reliability, Elsevier, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.microrel.2021.114381, SEP, 2021
Purihella, S., Pali, H., Kumar, P., and Sharma, V., "Thermal Insulation Tiles and Sheets Based on Integration of Recycled Plastic Waste Fibres and Epoxy Resin," SAE Technical Paper 2025-01-8325, 2025, https://doi.org/10.4271/2025-01-8325.

Patents:

Design Patent: Adjustable Drill Bit
Safety Control System for Two Wheeler Vehicles
Eco Smart Water Heater

Papers Presented in Conferences:

Ved Prakash Sharma, Naresh Varma Datla, “Extraction of cohesive law for modeling the fracture of solder joint”, NMD ATM Conference 2019.
Ved Prakash Sharma, Naresh Varma Datla, “Effect of aging and loading rate on the fracture toughness of Sn-0.7Cu/Cu solder joint”, NMD ATM Conference 2020.
Ved Prakash Sharma, "A Comprehensive Review of Solder Joint in Electronic Packages", 2nd International Conference on Aspects of Materials and Mechanical Engineering, GLA Mathura, Nov 2023.
Suneel Chaudhary, Ved Prakash, G A Harmain, "Fatigue Life Behavior of Al 7075-T651 Alloy: A Comprehensive Review", International Conference on Future and Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering Frame 2024, NIT Kurukshetra.

Book Chapters:

"Atmospheric Water Generation with Different Grades of Molecular Sieve" for the book titled "Highly Efficient Thermal Renewable Energy Systems: Design, Optimization, and Applications" published by Routledge (Taylor and Francis Group).
"Automation in Welding Industries" for the book titled "Automation in Welding Industry: Incorporating Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Other Technologies" published by Scrivener Publishing LLC (Wiley).

Projects:

Eco Smart Water Heater project funded by MSME Innovative Scheme

Workshops Organized:

Short-term Training Program on “Discretization Techniques (FEM, FDM & FVM)” from 5th -9th June 2023 at NIT Srinagar.
One Week Faculty Development Program (FDP) on "Current Trends in Additive Manufacturing Technology" from 26 February to 01 March 2024
SERB Sponsored a High-End Workshop on "Fracture and Fatigue Study Using Experimental and Numerical Modelling Techniques" from 16-22 March 2024 at NIT Srinagar.
Awareness Program (05) under MSME Design Expertise Scheme Funded by Ministry of MSME

Expert Lecture Delivered

Delivered an Expert Lecture at IIT Delhi in a SERB-sponsored High-End Workshop titled ’Joining of Advanced Materials’ in January 2023.

B.Tech Projects Supervised:

Design and Fabrication of Stairlift Machine
Design and Fabrication of Tilling Machine
Design and Fabrication of Ornithopter

Ph.D. Students Supervised:

Mr. Suneel Chaudhary, Ongoing, Research in the area of Fatigue analysis of Al-Alloys
Mr. Vikrant Jain, Ongoing, Research in the area of Failure Analysis of Advanced Materials

Administrative Responsibilities:

Currently, I have the following administrative responsibilities-

Served as Coordinator for M.Tech Programs (PG) namely Mechanical System Design (MSD), Industrial Tribology and Maintenance Management (ITMM): 2022-2024
Coordinator for B.Tech Programs 2nd-year course.
Served as Departmental ERP Coordinator: 2022- 2024 (July)
Departmental coordinator for the Rajbhasha Hindi Cell.
Departmental Newsletter Co-editor
Content Design and Publicity Committee Coordinator, Socio-Cultural Committee NIT Srinagar
Coordinator for RCON-Chinar, a national colloquium of Ph.D. scholars

Courses Taught:

I have taught the following courses:

Mechanics of Materials-I
Mechanics of Materials-II
Machine Design-II,
Basic Fracture Mechanics,
Elements of Mechanical Engineering,
Fluid Mechanics-II (Turbo Machinery),
Power Plant Engineering,
Theory of Machines,
Machine Drawing
Mechatronics

Lab Incharge:

Officer-in-Charge of the Advanced Strength of Mechanics Lab (along with Prof. G A Harmain, Dr. M Mursaleen, and Dr. Azhar Zameel).
Officer-in-Charge of the Dynamics Lab (along with Prof. Babar Ahmad)

Besides research and academics, I like cricket and football (in sports), trekking, photography, sketching, and guitar. I have represented the NIT Srinagar in the All India Inter NIT Cricket Tournament (Staff) held in Dec 2023. We secured third position in the tournament. I play as a Defender in the NIT Srinagar football team (Faculty) and designed the FFC (Faculty Football Club) logo. I have gone on the trek to The Great Himalayan Alpine Lake trek (J&K), the Zabarwan Mountain Range trek (J&K), a trekking expedition with Jammu and Kashmir Mountaineering and Hiking Club (J&K), and the Prashar Lake trek (Himachal Pradesh).

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