[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

Alam S A
arshad@iitb.ac.in

Mehta M
mmehta1973@gmail.com

Manvatkar V (Mrs)
vinayamanvatkar@gmail.com

Das Atanu
114100015@iitb.ac.in

Krishnan S
114107008@iitb.ac.in

M Tech Student

Raushan Jha
10310025@iitb.ac.in

RA (M Tech) Students

Ronadmath G S U
113109003@iitb.ac.in

Paul D SA
113109006@iitb.ac.in

  • PhD

    • An investigation on submerged arc welding of thick plates - Krishnan S (proposed).
    • An experimental and numerical investigation on gas metal arc welding process of dissimilar materials - A Das (proposed).
    • Fundamental analysis of heat transfer, material flow and tool traverse force in friction stir welding - M Mehta (proposed).
    • Probing Laser engineered net shaping process through process modeling and experimental investigations - V Manvatkar (Mrs) (proposed).
    • Investigation on distortion and residual stress during pulsed GMA welding - S A Alam (proposed).
    • An experimental and numerical investigation on two wire tandem submerged arc welding process - D V Kiran (2012).
    • 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-2009" for the best thesis submitted in the field of welding in 2009).
    • Numerical modeling of resistance spot welding process and its experimental validation - M P Thaddeus (2008).
    • Numerical Modeling of Two dimensional axisymmetric and three dimensional heat transfer of conduction mode laser spot welding process - A Trivedi (2007).


  • Postgraduate

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


  • Undergraduate

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

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

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

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

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