School of Mechanical Science -
Mechanical Engineering

List of Doctorates

Sl.No	Name of Faculty	Designation	Areas of Interest	Years of Experience
1	Dr. P MAHABALESWARAPPA	Professor and Principal	Manufacturing Engineering	38
2	Dr. SUNIL SHANKAR WADDAR	Associate Professor	Composites	6
3	Dr. SANTHOSH N	Associate Professor	Composites	10
4	Dr. RAJESH KUMAR P	Associate Professor	Contact Mechanics	15

List of Fundings Received in AY 2017-18

Sl.No	Name of Faculty	Title of the Project	Funding Agency	Amount Received
1	Dr.K V Muralidharan	Design of Centrifugal Compressor to a given Specification	GTRE, DRDO	Rs. 9,55,950/-

List of Fundings Received in AY 2019-20

Sl.No	Name of Faculty	Title of the Project	Funding Agency	Amount Received
1	Dr. Prabhu R	Setting up of Centre of Excellence in Energy Conversion Lab	AICTE – MODROBS	Rs. 11,00,000/-

List of Fundings Received in AY 2020-21

Sl.No	Name of Faculty	Title of the Project	Funding Agency	Amount Received
1	Dr. Vivekanand B Huddar	Semi Automatic Pesticide Sprayer	NIAS – NIF, Grassroot Project	Rs. 86,500/-
2	Prof. Suhas B	Laddu Making Machine	NIAS – NIF, Grassroot Project	Rs. 66,500/-
3	Dr. Anand G and Dr. Sunil Shankar Waddar	AICTE Sponsored Short term training program on		Rs. 3,03,000/-

List of Fundings Received in AY 2021-22

Sl.No	Name of Faculty	Title of the Project	Funding Agency	Amount Received
1	Dr. Vivekanand B Huddar	Maize Grinding Machine	NIAS-NIF, Grassroot Projects	Rs. 2,31,000/-
2	Dr. Santhosh N	Rapid Compost Making Machine	NIAS-NIF, Grassroot Projects	Rs. 1,42,500/-
3	Dr. Sunil Shankar Waddar	Foldable Trolley	NIAS-NIF, Grassroot Projects	Rs. 57,000/-

List of Paper Publications in AY 2017-18

Sl.No	Name of Faculty	Title of the Project	Journal Name	Volume, Issue, Year	Indexing
1	Prof. Yogendra Mahajan	“Process Parameter Optimization of Mechanical Properties for Components Fabricated by Fused Deposition Modelling Process Using Orthogonal Arrays”	International Journal for Research & Development in Technology	8-1-2017
2	Prof. Yogendra Mahajan	A Review of Elastomers in Polyjet Additive Manufacturing of Electromechanical Devices	Conference Proceedings, National Conference on Current Developments and its Applications in Mechanical Engineering	10-12 May 2017

List of Paper Publications in AY 2018-19

Sl.No	Name of Faculty	Title of the Project	Journal Name	Volume, Issue, Year	Indexing
1	Dr. Shankar. G	A refined slip model for predicting the variable bending stiffness in a single layered cable	International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Technology	Rs. 9,13,2018	SCOPUS
2	Dr. Shankar. G	Numerical simulation and experimental evaluation of bending deflection of transmission line conductor	International Journal of Advanced Research in Engineering and Technology	Rs. 9,6,2018
3	Dr. Prabhu R	Bioethanol from moringa olefira and pithecellobium dulce leafs: Production and characterization	Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects	Rs. 42,1,2019	SCOPUS
4	Dr. S Marimuthu	Friction stir welding of hybrid AA 6061-ZrO2-C composites FSW process optimization using desirability approach	Materials Research Express	Rs. 6,6,2019	SCOPUS
5	Prof. G L Chandrasekhar	Synthesis and mechanical characterization of nano B4C particulates reinforced Al7475 alloy composites	AIP Conference Proceedings	2039, 020017, (2018)	SCOPUS
6	Dr. Rajesh Kumar P	Stiffness of a Single layered Cable Assembly over a sheave with Internal Friction	International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Technology (IJMET)	Rs. 9,4,2018	SCOPUS
7	Dr. Rajesh Kumar P	Constrained Bending Phenomenon of a Single Layered Cable Assembly	International Journal of Advanced Research in Engineering and Technology	Rs. 9,2,2018	SCOPUS
8	Prof. Yogendra Mahajan	A Review of Taguchi Optimization Techniques in Additive Manufacturing Techniques	International Journal for Research in Applied Science & Engineering Technology (IJRASET)	Rs. 6,3,2018
9	Prof. Rachappa	A Wear Study on Bio-Active Coating of Al2O3, Egg and Sea Shell Powder on Teflon and Nylon	IAETSD Journal for Advanced Research in Applied Sciences	Rs. 5,4,2018

List of Paper Publications in AY 2019-20

Sl.No	Name of Faculty	Title of the Project	Journal Name	Volume, Issue, Year	Indexing
1	Dr. G Anand	Effect of Plural Spray Coating Process Parameters on Bonding Strength of Polyurea with Steel and Aluminum for Liquid Storage Applications	Journal of Testing and Evaluation, ASTM	49,5,2020	SCOPUS
2	Dr. Sunil Shankar Waddar	Mechanical behavior of 3D printed syntactic foam composites	Composite Structures	254,2020	SCOPUS and SCI
3	Prof. Niranjan Hugar	Aluminium Metal Matrix Composites and Various Combination of Reinforcing Materials	TEST Engineering and Management Journal	88,2020	SCOPUS
4	Dr. Sunil Shankar Waddar	Wear response review of natural and environment pollutant filled polymer composites	AIP Conference Proceedings	2247, 040020 (2020)	SCOPUS
5	Dr. G Anand	Effect of Nanosilica and Crosslinking System on the Mechanical Properties and Swelling Resistance of EPDM/SBR Nanocomposites with and without TESPT	Silicon	13,2020	SCOPUS
6	Dr. Sunil Shankar Waddar	Effect of thermal loading on syntactic foam sandwich composite	Polymer Composites	Rs. 41,5,2020	SCOPUS

List of Paper Publications in AY 2020-21

Sl.No	Name of Faculty	Title of the Project	Journal Name	Volume, Issue, Year	Indexing
1	Dr. G Anand	Evaluation of Crosslink Density Using Material Constants of Ethylene-Propylene-Diene Rubber/Styrene-Butadiene Rubber with Different Nanoclay Loading: FE-Simulation and Experimental	Advanced Science, Engineering and Medicine	11,1-12,2020	SCOPUS
2	Dr. Sunil Shankar Waddar	Characterization of Roselle fiber composites for low load bearing structures	Polymer Composites	42,5,2021	SCOPUS
3	Dr. Santhosh N	A Comparative Study on the Effect of HNT and Nano-Alumina Particles on the Mechanical Properties of Vacuum Bag Moulded Glass-Epoxy Nanocomposites	Mechanics of Advanced Composite Structures	8,1,2021	SCOPUS
4	Dr. Sunil Shankar Waddar	Effect of axial compression on dynamic response of concurrently printed sandwich	Composite Structures	259, 113223, 2021	SCOPUS
5	Dr. Sunil Shankar Waddar	Characterization of Roselle fiber composites for low load bearing structures	Polymer Composites	42,5,2021	SCOPUS and SCI
6	Dr. Santhosh N	Effect of heat treatment on fatigue characteristics of EN8 steel	IOP Conf. Series: Materials Science and Engineering	1013, (2021)	SCOPUS
7	Dr. Santhosh N	A Comparative Study on the effect of HNT and Nano-Alumina particles on the Mechanical properties of vacuum bag moulded Glass-Epoxy Nanocomposites	Mechanics of Advanced Composite Structures	8,1,2021	SCOPUS
8	Dr. Santhosh N	Wear Characterization of HNT Filled Glass-Epoxy Composites Using Taguchi’s Design of Experiments and Study of Wear Morphology	Composites Theory and Practice	20:2, (2020)	SCOPUS
9	Dr. Santhosh N	Corrosion Characterization of Friction Stir Weld Joints of Dissimilar Aluminum Alloys	EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing	2304097 (2021)
10	Dr. Santhosh N	Sustainable Processing of Dissimilar Aluminium Alloy Joints by Friction Stir Welding	IOP Conf. Series: Materials Science and Engineering	1132 (2021) 012029
11	Dr. Santhosh N	Design and optimization of the process parameters for friction stir welding of dissimilar aluminium alloys	Engineering and Applied Science Research	48, 3, 2021	SCOPUS
12	Dr. Sangamesh Gondegaon	Sensitivity Analysis of Quality of B-spline Parameterization on Isogeometric Analysis	European Journal of Computational Mechanics	29,4-6,2021	SCOPUS
13	Dr. Santhosh N	Influence of the Fly Ash Material Inoculants on the Tensile and Impact Characteristics of the Aluminum AA 5083/7.5SiC Composites	Materials, MDPI	14,9, 2452, 2021	SCOPUS, SCI
14	Prof. G.L Chandrasekhar	Determination of Damage Tolerance of Composite Laminate Subjected to Stress-Corrosive Environment	Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (JETIR)	8,1,2021
15	Dr. Santhosh N	Influence of Heat Treatment and Reinforcements on Tensile Characteristics of Aluminium AA 5083/Silicon Carbide/Fly Ash Composites	Materials, MDPI	14,18,2021	SCOPUS

List of Paper Publications in AY 2021-22

Sl.No	Name of Faculty	Title of the Project	Journal Name	Volume, Issue, Year	Indexing
1	Dr. Sunil Shankar Waddar	Water absorption and thickness swelling behaviour of woven roselle fibre epoxy composites	International Journal of Vehicle Structures & Systems	14,1,2022	SCOPUS
2	Dr. Santhosh N	Modelling and CFD simulation of vortex bladeless wind turbine	AIP Conference Proceedings	2421, 1, 2022	SCOPUS
3	Dr. Santhosh N	Stalling angle predictions of symmetric aero foil by flow analysis	AIP Conference Proceedings	2421, 1, 2022	SCOPUS
4	Dr. Sunil Shankar Waddar	The design and analysis of helical cross–Axis wind turbine	AIP Conference Proceedings	2421, 1, 2022	SCOPUS
5	Dr. Santhosh N	Influence of heat treatment on the tensile and hardness characteristics of friction stir weld joints of dissimilar aluminium alloys	AIP Conference Proceedings	2421, 1, 2022	SCOPUS
6	Dr. Santhosh N	Design and optimization of the process parameters for fusion deposition modelling by experimental and finite element approach	AIP Conference Proceedings	2421, 1, 2022	SCOPUS
7	Dr. Santhosh N	Turbulent Flow in Forced Convection Heat Transfer – Numerical Validation	International Journal of Vehicle Structures & Systems	14,1,2022	SCOPUS
8	Dr. Santhosh N	Effect of aging on the biopolymer composites: Mechanisms, modes and characterization	Polymer Composites	43,7,2022	SCOPUS, SCI
9	Dr. Rajesh Kumar P	Computational Analysis of Thermal Performance of Inline Pin Fins Over the Wedge Duct and Combustion Chamber Wal	International Journal of Vehicle Structures & Systems	14,1,2022	SCOPUS
10	Dr. Sunil Shankar Waddar	Characterization of interwoven roselle/sisal fiber reinforced epoxy composites	Polymer Composites	43,3,2022	SCOPUS, SCI
11	Prof. Niranjan Hugar	Fabrication and Characterization of High-Performance Aluminium Composites for Automotive Components	AIP Conference Proceedings	2421, 1, 2022	SCOPUS
12	Dr. Sunil Shankar Waddar	Experimental and Simulation of Temperature Distribution in Absorber Tube Used for Parabolic Trough Solar Collector	AIP Conference Proceedings	24,21, 1, 2022	SCOPUS
13	Dr. Sunil Shankar Waddar	Influence of the Fly Ash Material Inoculants on the Tensile and Impact Characteristics of the Aluminum AA 5083/7.5SiC Composites	International Journal of Vehicle Structures & Systems	13,5,2021	SCOPUS
14	Dr. Santhosh N	A review of buoyancy driven underwater gliders	AIP Conference Proceedings	2421, 1, 2022	SCOPUS
15	Prof. Mohan Kumar	A review on Natural Fiber Composite Materials in Automotive Applications	Engineered Science	18,1-10,2022	SCOPUS
16	S. Sandeep	Conceptual Design and Calculations for Indi-wheel of E-mobility Vehicle	International Journal of Vehicle Structures & Systems	13,5,2021	SCOPUS
17	Dr. Santhosh N	Experimental Investigations on Static, Dynamic, and Morphological Characteristics of Bamboo Fiber-Reinforced Polyester Composites	International Journal of Polymer Science	2022, 1916877, 1-11	SCOPUS

List of Paper Publications in AY 2022-23

Sl.No	Name of Faculty	Title of the Project	Journal Name	Volume, Issue, Year	Indexing
1	Dr. Santhosh N	Wear behaviour of aluminium alloy 5083/SiC/fly ash inoculants based functional composites– optimization studies	Material Research Express	Volume 9, 076513, 2022	SCOPUS
2	Dr. Santhosh N	Experimental Investigation on Density and Volume Fraction of Void, and Mechanical Characteristics of Areca Nut Leaf Sheath Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites	International Journal of Polymer Science	Volume 2022, Article ID 6445022	SCOPUS
3	Dr. Santhosh N	Analysis of friction and wear of aluminium AA 5083/ WC composites for building applications using advanced machine learning models	Ain Shams Engineering Journal	Volume 2022, 102090, 2022	SCOPUS
4	Dr. Santhosh N	Corrosion Characterization of Friction Stir Weld Dissimilar Aluminium Alloy Joints	Journal of Mines, Metals and Fuels	Volume-70, Issue 8A, 2022	SCOPUS
5	Dr. Santhosh N	Response Surface Methodology Based Optimization of Test Parameter in Glass Fiber Reinforced Polyamide 66 for Dry Sliding, Tribological Performance	MDPI Materials	Volume 15, Issue 19, 2022	SCOPUS
6	Dr. Santhosh N	Structural Morphology and Optical Properties of Strontium-Doped Cobalt Aluminate Nanoparticles Synthesized by the Combustion Method	MDPI Materials	Volume 15, Issue 22, 2022	SCOPUS
7	Dr. Sunil S W	Buckling and free vibrations behaviour through differential quadrature method for foamed composites	Results in Engineering	Volume 17,100894, 2023	SCOPUS
8	Dr. Niranjan Hugar	Mechanical behaviour of stir cast TiO2/Redmud/Al6061 metal matrix composites	Materials Research Express,	Volume 9, Issue 11, 116509, 2022	SCOPUS

List of Conferences Organized

Sl.No	Academic Year	Name of the Conference	Organized Date
1	2017-18
2	2018-19	1st International Conference on Advanced Research in Mechanical Engineering	29th and 30th April 2019
3	2019-20
4	2020-21	2nd International Conference on Advanced Research in Mechanical Engineering	29th and 30th April 2019
5	2021-22

List of Research Scholars Pursuing Ph.D. in Departments Research Center

Sl.No	Name of Research Scholar	Name of Supervisor	Year of Registration
1	Sanjibani Pani	Dr. K V Muralidharan	2017
2	Swetha Agarwal	Dr. K V Muralidharan	2017
3	Harshla Warudkar	Dr. K V Muralidharan	2017
4	Sanjeev G Palekar	Dr. S K Maharan	2011

List of Research Scholars Pursued Ph.D. in Departments Research Center

Sl.No	Name of Research Scholar	Name of Supervisor	Year of Registration
1	R Shiva Subramaniam	Dr. Maniyasundaram	2015
2	R Selvan	Dr. Maniyasundaram	2016
3	Rajesh Kumar P	Dr. Parthasarathy N S	2019
4	Shankar G	Dr. Parthasarathy N S	2019
5	Venugopal M M	Dr. S K Maharana	2020
6	Sajna Panigrahi	Dr. S K Maharana	2021