[Indian Institute of Technology Bombay] Thesis In-Process / Guided
Deptartment of Mechanical Engineering


Faculty Member

Prof. Amitava De
amit@iitb.ac.in

Ph.D. Research Students

Makwana P
134106002@iitb.ac.in

Shotri R V
164100005@iitb.ac.in

M Tech Student

RA (M Tech) Students


  • PhD

    1. A theoretical and experimental study on magnetic pulse welding - R Sotri (proposed).

    2. Gas metal arc brazing of galvanized steels - P Makwana (proposed).

    3. An experimental and numerical investigation on friction stir welding and friction hydro-pillar processing - V Buchibabu (2017).

    4. An investigation on pulsed current gas metal arc welding of P91 steel - S Krishnan (2016).

    5. Gas metal arc based joining of automotive aluminium alloys and zinc-coated steel sheets - A Das (2016), (Recepient of the Indian Institute of Welding "Weldwell Speciality Award" for the best thesis submitted in the field of welding in 2016).

    6. An experimental and numerical investigation on friction stir welding process - M Mehta (2014), (Recepient of the Indian Institute of Welding "Royal Arc Award" for the best thesis submitted in the field of welding in 2014).

    7. An experimental and numerical investigation on laser engineered net shaping (LENS) process - V Manvatkar (Mrs) (2013).

    8. Numerical modeling and experimental studies in gas metal arc welding process - S A Alam (2013).

    9. An experimental and numerical investigation on two wire tandem submerged arc welding process - D V Kiran (2012), (Recepient of the Indian Institute of Welding "Royal Arc Award" for the best thesis submitted in the field of welding in 2012).

    10. Development of Bi-directional Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Model for reliable design of GTA and laser welding processes. - S Bag (2009), (Recepient of the Indian Institute of Welding "Royal Arc Award" for the best thesis submitted in the field of welding in 2009).

    11. Numerical modeling of resistance spot welding process and its experimental validation - M P Thaddeus (2008).

    12. Numerical Modeling of Two dimensional axisymmetric and three dimensional heat transfer of conduction mode laser spot welding process - A Trivedi (2007).


  • Postgraduate

    1. Numerical modeling and experimental study of resistance spot welding of multi-sheet mixed-metal assembly - P Bhojwane (2017).

    2. Thermal distortion and residual stress in laser assisted additive manufacturing of IN 718 and Ti-6Al-4V - A Bhalkar (2017).

    3. Evaluation of thermal distortion in gas metal arc brazing of thin sheets - Krishnakant S (2017).

    4. Numerical simulation of selective laser melting process - T N V Sai Kiran (2017).

    5. Residual stress and distortion analysis of laser assisted additive manufacturing for Inconel 625 alloy - S Penshanwar (2016).

    6. Numerical modeling and experimental investigation on laser engineering net shaping process for functionally gradient depsotion - A Dey (2013).

    7. Friction stir welding of aluminum to steel in lap joint configuration - S S Jana (2013).

    8. An experimental invetigation on hot wire gas tungsten arc welding process for Cr-Mo steel for pressure vessel - Ajay Kumar R Dubey (2013).

    9. GPU-based parallel mesh generation and simulation of deformable objects - Sushrut Pande (as co-guide) (2013).

    10. Modeling chip formation in machining using finite element method - Jha R (2012).

    11. Elasto-plastic behavior of metallic materials under cylic loading - a two-dimensional analysis - Sagar M (2011).

    12. Towards minimizing electrode wear in resistance spot welding of aluminum alloys - R R Patil (2011).

    13. Coupled temperature-displacement simulation of chip formation in machining of titanium alloys - V Patel (2011).

    14. Heat transfer analysis of friction welding of similar and dissimilar materials with cylindrical cross-sections - P N Raikar (2011).

    15. Thremal and thermal-mechanical analysis of LENS process for free form fabrication - Y Sovani (2010).

    16. Finite element based efficient modeling of submerged arc welding process - A Bhattacharya (2009).

    17. Numerical analysis of FSW process using FEM - S J Gaikwad (2009).

    18. Thermomechanical modeling of LENS process - J P Chaudhari (2009).

    19. Numerical modeling of LENS process using finite element method - (Ms) N Venkatesh (2008).

    20. Coupled thermal and thermal-mechanical analysis of FSW process using finite element method - Yuvraj P (2008).

    21. Modeling electrode wear during resistance spot welding of aluminium alloys - Upadhyay A (2008).

    22. Development of an Indigenous Software for thermal-elasitc-plastic stress analysis in welding - S Kulkarni (2007).

    23. Modeling of Mechanical Behavior in Shape Memory Alloys - A Jariwala (2007).

    24. Residual Stress and Distortion Analysis in Fusion Welding Processes - S Mishra (2007).

    25. An Investigation on Behavior of Metallic Materials Under Cyclic Loading - A Modi (2006).

    26. Friction Stir Welding Process of Aluminium alloys to low carbon steel - B Sawant (2006).

    27. FE modeling of Weld-induced distortion in opto-electronic packaging - R Shingala (2006).

    28. FE Modeling of Laser Assisted microbending - S Kadam (2006).

    29. Analysis and Modeling of Hybrid Composites using FEM - S S Zende (Co-Guide, 2005).

    30. Investigation on Friction Stir Welding of thick Al-alloys - A Chavan (Co-Guide, 2005).

    31. Modeling of Distortion in GTAW process using FEM - A S Inamdar (2005).

    32. Prediction of weld quality in RSW process using neural network - S A Alam (2004).

    33. Prediction of weld quality in pulsed GMAW process using neural network - J Jantre (2002).

    34. Numerical modeling of heat transfer in laser beam welding process - S D Holkar (2002).

    35. Finite element modeling of heat transfer in GMAW process - (Ms) S S Shanazir (2002).

    36. Developing IR-CCD sensor based on-line seam tracker for arc welding - D Parle (2002).

    37. Analysis of heat transfer during short circuit GMAW process using FEM - N Singh (2001).

    38. Numerical simulation of laser beam welding using finite element method - T Vibhute (2001).

    39. Finite element modeling of heat transfer during arc welding process - N R V Prasad (2000).

    40. Optimization of process parameters in SCAW process of thin sheets - S L Chavan (1999).

    41. Numerical modeling of resistance spot welding of aluminium alloys - A V Gohil (1999).

    42. Influence of active gas in shielding gas mixtures on weld quality - P S Yelpale (1999).


  • Undergraduate

    1. Investigation on weldability lobes for RSW in low-carbon steel - M Garg (2007).

    2. Application of inverse modeling in welding process simulation - A Suman (2005).

    3. Finite element based heat transfer analysis of laser spot welding - R Balaji (2002).

    4. CAD/CAM of extrusion dies - A Srivastava (1999).

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