Associate Professor (01June 2019 to Present)
Presently working as Associate Professor at G.L.A. University (NAAC accredited with A grade), Mathura, U.P. India, in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Assistant Professor (09 July 2010 to 31 May 2019)
Served as Assistant Professor since 09 July 2010 to 31 May 2019at G.L.A. University (NAAC accredited with A grade), Mathura, U.P. India, in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. On study leave for Ph.D. at IIT Roorkee from Jan. 2013 to Dec. 2016.
Qualification Details
Ph.D.
Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering of Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India.
Thesis Title: Hot deformation behavior of Zr-Nb alloy.
Supervisor: Dr. Vivek Pancholi and Dr. G. P. Chaudhari
Status: Awarded
Salient Features: Different Zr-Nb alloys are used to manufacture the pressure tubes for nuclear water reactors. To enhance mechanical properties of these material, microstructure has an important role. The variation in microstructure can be controlled by hot deformation. Therefore, the understanding of hot deformation behavior and dominant mechanism during hot deformation is highly required.
The work is based on hot deformation of different Zr-Nb alloys (i.e. Zr-1Nb, Zr-2.5Nb and Zr-2.5Nb-0.5Cu). The study of hot deformation is done using physical simulation of hot compression test at laboratory using Thermo-mechanical simulator-GLEEBLE 3800®. After hot compression test, flow stress data is used to identify the safe processing conditions and dominant deformation mechanism during hot deformation using different processing map approaches. The data related to identify safe processing conditions is transferred to Nuclear Fule Complex (NFC), Hyderabad to process the material at large scale at shop floor, and found appropriate during processing. The validation of dominant hot deformation mechanism, microstructural analysis is done. Moreover, among all approaches, an approach is identified, which has a much accurate prediction of safe processing conditions for Zr-Nb alloys.
As Zr-Nb alloys are two phase materials. To understand the role of individual phase in two phase region, rigorous microstructural analysis is done on samples, compressed at different deformation conditions. Moreover, dominating phase in two phase range is identified using different micro-structural characterization techniques such optical, SEM, EBSD, texture.
To understand the effect of constituent phases of two phase region on mechanical properties, small punch tests (SPT) were conducted on the samples deformed at various deformation conditions in two phase region, to obtain the mechanical property, i.e. yield load and maximum load. The obtained mechanical properties after SPT were discussed using micro-structural analysis such as shape and size of constituent phase, volume fraction, re-crystallization fraction and fiber direction.
Other Academic Qualifications
M. Tech. in Material Science & Engineering
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT, Allahabad), 2008-2010 Allahabad, India
Thesis: Modeling and simulation of carbon nanotube (CNT) reinforced composites using molecular dynamics simulations.
Supervisor: Dr. Mukul Shukla and Mr. Ashutosh Upadhyay
Salient features: The objective of this work was to model & simulate the mechanical behavior of CNT reinforced polymer composites using molecular dynamics and to validate the results using rule of mixture.
B. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering
M.P.E.C. Kanpur, India 2005-2008
Affiliated to Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow, India)
Diploma in Instrumentation and Controls
Govt. Polytechnic, Kanpur, India, 1999-2002
(Affiliated to Board of Technical Education, Lucknow, India)
Research Interest
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Hot deformation of materials
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FSP and FSW
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Microstructural characterization of materials
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Mechanical properties evaluation and correlation with microstructure
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Simulation and Modeling
Administrative responsibilty at Departmental level
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Year coordinator of IInd Mechanical B. Tech. students from July 2017 to June 2019. Taking care of smooth conduction of academics in IInd year.
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Member of Research Promotion Cell of GLA University Mathura since July, 2018.
Teaching Interest
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Materials Science and Manufacturing Science
Awards/Honors/ Recognitions
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International Travel Support, DST-SERB, Govt. of India, to attend an International conference held at University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan in 2016.
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Senior Research Fellow (SRF) on a project sponsored from Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC), Trombay, Mumbai.
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Research Fellowship, MHDR, Govt. of India, India
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Session Chair in TEQIP-III Sponsored International Conference on “Recent Trends in Engineering & Technology” March 12-13, 2021 Organized by Rajasthan Technical University, Kota & Arya College of Engineering and Research Centre, Jaipur.
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Session Chair in 2nd International Conference on Aspects of Materials Science and Engineering (ICAMSE2020), 05-06 March, 2021 organized by University Institute of Engineering and Technology (UIET), Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.
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Session Chair in 11th International Conference on Materials Processing and Characterization (9th ICMPC), 15-17 Dec., 2020 organized by IIT Indore.
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Session Chair in 11th ISAJ Annual Symposium-2020 at Japan on 4th Dec. 2020 with the Topic “Innovations in Science and Technology for New Issues and Challenges” organized by Indian Scientific Association in Japan.
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Session Chair in International Conference on Aspects of Materials Science and Engineering (ICAMSE2020), 29-30 May, 2020 organized by University Institute of Engineering and Technology (UIET), Panjab University, Chandigarh, India in collaboration with Government College of Engineering and Technology (GCET), Jammu, India
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Session Chair in 10th International Conference on Materials Processing and Characterization (10th ICMPC), 21-23 Feb, 2020 at GLA University, Mathura in association with The Indian Institute of Metals (IIM) Mathura Chapter.
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Session Chair in 9th International Conference on Materials Processing and Characterization (9th ICMPC), 8-10 March, 2019 organised GRIET Hyderabad.
Computer Skills
Working knowledge of windows environment with different simulation and modeling software as:
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HyperXtrude software (dedicated to extrusion process based on Finite Element Analysis)
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TSL-OIMTM EBSD software(An analysis software to get different microstructural feature obtained through Electron Backscattered Diffraction, EBSD measurement.
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Material Studio 6.0 (Accelrys Inc.)
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Preliminary knowledge to work with LAMMPS (MD Simulator Open ware)
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Foundation course in computer aided design.
Instrumental Skill
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Operation and troubleshooting (selected) of Thermo-mechanical simulator(Gleeble-3800®) – a dedicated machine for different hot working process, such as compression, tensile test, Heat affected zone test, torsion test etc. manufactured by Dynamic Systems Inc., USA.
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Operation of Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FE-SEM) model FE-SEM Quanta 200® FEG for SEM and EBSD images.
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Operation of Leica Microscope-Familiar with Leica® 5000m, used to capture the optical images of microstructure with the magnification of 50x to 1000x.
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Operation of Instron tensile testing machine (INSTRON TEST 28250®)made in German.
References
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Dr. VivekPancholi, Associate Professor, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, IIT Roorkee, Roorkee. vivekfmt[at]iitr.ac.in. 01332-285426 (O).
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Dr. G. P. Chaudhari, Associate Professor, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, IIT Roorkee, Roorkee. chaudfmt[at]iitr.ac.in, +91-1332-285524.
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Dr. Mukul Shukla, Professor, Mechanical Engg. Department MNNIT, Allahabad, UP, India, 211 004. mukulshukla@mnnit.ac.in, +91-532–2271529(O), +91-532–2271907(R).