Application of Lasers in Manufacturing

Straightening of Bent Metal Sheets Using Laser Line Heating.- Laser Forming of Closed Cell Steel Foam.- Laser Dressing of Grinding Wheels.- Laser Texturing of Surfaces.- Laser Micro-Scribing on Thin Films.- CO2 Laser Micro-Channeling of PMMA.- Laser Ablation of Silicon.- Laser Processing of Titanium Aluminide Alloys.- Laser Surface Cladding of Bio Coatings on Titanium Alloy.- 3 D Printing and Post Processing Using Lasers.- Laser Beam Welding of Titanium Alloy.- Issues In Numerical Simulation of Laser Bending Process.- Numerical Simulation of Laser Melting.- Modeling of Laser Ablation Based Scribing of Polyamide Thin Films.



 

Dr. Uday Shanker Dixit received his B.E. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the erstwhile University of Roorkee (now the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee) in 1987, his M.Tech. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1993, and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the IIT Kanpur in 1998. He has worked in two industries-HMT, Pinjore and INDOMAG Steel Technology, New Delhi, where his main responsibility was designing various machines. Dr. Dixit joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, in 1998, where he is currently a professor. He was also Officiating Director of the Central Institute of Technology, Kokrajhar from February 2014 to May 2015. Dr. Dixit has been actively engaged in research in various areas of design and manufacturing for the past 25 years. He has authored/co-authored 75 journal papers, 91 conference papers, 20 book chapters and 6 books on mechanical engineering.He has also co-edited 3 books related to manufacturing. Out of these 9 books, 6 have been published by Springer. He has guest-edited 10 special issues for journals and is currently an associated editor of the Journal of Institution of Engineers (India), Series C.

Dr. Joshi received his Ph.D. in "Intelligent process modeling and optimization of electric discharge machining" from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, India in 2010. Currently, he is working as an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, India. His research interests include laser-based manufacturing, ultra-precision machining, computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM), and manufacturing process modeling & optimization. Dr. Joshi has published about 45 papers in journals and conferences of national/international repute, and has edited a book on "Laser-based manufacturing" (Springer) along with Prof. U. S. Dixit, IIT