Dr. Pankaj Biswas
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Education: Ph. D. (2008) Indian Institute of
Technology Kharagpur |
Research Interests |
Experience |
(1) Professor, (September 2019 - continuing), Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India.
(2) Associate Professor, (February 2015 - September 2019), Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India.
(3) Assistant Professor, (March 2011 - February 2015), Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India.
(4) Scientific Officer (analyst), (July 2008 - Nov. 2008), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India.
(5) Research Associate, (Nov. 2008 - March 2011), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India.
Patents |
(1) “Design and Fabrication of FRP Road Side Crash Barrier” by Mandal N. R. and Biswas Pankaj (Patent Ref. No. 517/KOL/2010)
(2) “Design and Fabrication of Stiffened Plate Panel of AA5083 by Friction Stir Welding” by Mandal N. R. and Biswas Pankaj (Patent Ref. No. 1199/KOL/2010)
(3) “Development of Novel Process for Fabrication of Cylindrical Profile on High Strength Material using Wire EDM” by Nandan Kanan Das, Arun K Kadian and Biswas Pankaj(Ref. No. 240P1901, Status: In Queue for Support,, Patent Information Centre, ASTEC)
(1) Biswas Pankaj and Mandal N. R., “A Study on Laser Assisted Friction Stir Welding of C-Mn Steel Plates”, Chapter 58. Advances in Marine Structures, Edited by W. Fricke, CRC Press 2011, Pages 539–548, Print ISBN: 978-0-415-67771-4, DOI: 10.1201/b10771-66. (2) Kumar Chandan, Das Manas and Biswas Pankaj, “A 3-D finite element analysis of transient temperature profile of laser welded Ti-6AL-4V alloy” Laser Based Manufacturing, Publisher: Springer Expected Publication date: 31/03/2015. (3) Kumar Mondal Arpan, Biswas Pankaj, Bag Swarup and Mahapatra M. M. “Prediction of Weld Induced Angular Distortion of Single Sided and Double Sided Fillet Joint by SAW Process”, Advances in Material Forming and Joining, Publisher: Springer. Advances in Material Forming and Joining 25/04/ 2015, pp 203-220. DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-2355-9_10. (4) Rakesh Bhadra, Biswas Pankaj and M. Ravi Sankar, “A literature review on CO2 laser welding” Laser Based Manufacturing, Publisher: Springer, Expected Publication date: 31/03/2015. (5) Biswas Pankaj, Mandal N. R.,Sha O.P. and Mahapatra M. M. (2011), "Thermo-mechanical and Experimental Analysis of Double Pass Line Heating,Journal of Marine Science and Application Vol. 10, pp.190-198. (6) Piyush Singh, Biswas Pankaj, Sachin D. Kore, Finite Element Method and Experimental Study of Self-Reacting Friction Stir Welding of Aluminium Alloy AA6061-T6, Simulations for Design and Manufacturing, DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-8518-5_3, 2018. (7) Avinish Tiwari, Piyush Singh, Biswas Pankaj, and Sachin D. Kore, Friction stir welding of low carbon steel, Lecture notes on Multidisciplinary Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Springer, DOI: 978-3-319-96967-1, 453805_1_En, (10), 2018. (8) Avinish Tiwari, Piyush Singh, Biswas Pankaj, and Sachin D. Kore, Friction stir welding of shipbuilding grade DH36 steel, Lecture notes on Multidisciplinary Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Springer, DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-6287-3_2, 2018. (9) Nandan Kanan Das, Arun Kadian, Avinish Tiwari, Pardeep Pankaj and Biswas Pankaj, Transient Thermal Analysis of Friction stir welding of AA6061, Manufacturing Engineering, Springer, DOI: 978-3-319-96967-1, 453805_1_En, (10), 2018. (10) Saurav Suman and Biswas Pankaj, Numerical study of welding distortion in SAW welded creep strength enhanced ferrite steel joint, ICRIDME-2018, Springer book series. [Accepted]. (11) Saurav Suman, Avinish Tiwari, Pardeep Pankaj, Biswas Pankaj, Modelling of welding sequences for minimization of weld induced distortions and residual stresses, Advances in Additive Manufacturing and Joining, Springer, 978-981-32-9432-5, 486060_1_En, (53), 2019. (12) Saurav Suman, Avinish Tiwari, Pardeep Pankaj, Biswas Pankaj, Modelling of welding sequences for minimization of weld induced distortions and residual stresses, Advances in Additive Manufacturing and Joining, Springer, 978-981-32-9432-5, 486060_1_En, (53), 2019. (13) Sridhar P.V.S.S., Pal K., Chakraborthy K. B., Bhattacharjee R., Majumder S., Biswas Pankaj, Mahanta P., Experimental Investigation and Mechanical Characterization of Double Sided Submerged Arc Welding of AISI 304 Austenitic Stainless Steel, Advances in Additive Manufacturing and Joining, Springer, 978-981-32-9432-5, 486060_1_En, (60), 2019. (14) Sridhar P. V. S. S., Vishnu Nair, Biswas Pankaj, and Mahanta Pinakeswar, Thermomechanical analyses of Single Sided Single pass Submerged arc welding of AISI 304 Austenitic Stainless Steel, Advances in Computational Methods in Manufacturing, Springer book series, 978-981-32-9071-6, 470361_1_En, (87), 2019. (15) Pardeep Pankaj, Avinish Tiwari and Biswas Pankaj, Dissimilar Friction stir welding of DH36 shipbuilding steel and mild steel butt joints, Advances in Additive Manufacturing and Joining, Springer, DOI: 978-981-32-9432-5, 486060_1_En, (35), 2019. (16) Pardeep Pankaj, Avinish Tiwari and Biswas Pankaj, Transient Thermal Analysis of CO2 Laser Welding of AISI 304 Stainless Steel Thin Plates, Manufacturing Engineering, Springer, DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6287-3_4, pp-49-65, 2019. (1) Tiwari Avinish, Pardeep Pankaj, Biswas Pankaj, Kore S. D. & Gourav Rao A. (2019), Tool performance evaluation of friction stir welded shipbuilding grade DH36 steel butt joints, The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, August 2019, Vol. 103(5-8), pp. 1989-2005. (2) Pardeep Pankaj, Tiwari Avinish, Bhadra Rakesh and Biswas Pankaj (2019), Experimental Investigation on CO2 Laser Butt Welding of AISI 304 Stainless Steel and Mild Steel Thin Sheets, Optics & Laser Technology, Vol. 119 (105633), pp. 1-14. (3) Pardeep Pankaj, Tiwari Avinish and Biswas Pankaj (2019), Influence of operating parameters on CO2 laser welded butt joints of AISI 304 stainless steel thin sheets, Lasers in Manufacturing and Materials Processing, DOI:10.1007/s40516-019-00091-1, pp.1-23. (4) Tiwari Avinish, Singh Piyush, Pardeep Pankaj, Biswas Pankaj, Kore S. D.& Gourav Rao A. (2019), FSW of low carbon steel using Tungsten Carbide (WC-10wt.%Co) based tool material, Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology. (Accepted). (5) PVSS Sridhar, P. Mahanta and Biswas Pankaj (2019), Influence of Welding Current on Bead profile and Mechanical properties of Double sided submerged arc welding of AISI 304 Austenitic stainless steel, Materials Today: Proceedings (Elsevier). (Accepted). (6) Singh Piyush, Biswas Pankaj and Kore Sachin D. (2018), Influence of Welding Traverse Speed in Self-Reacting Friction Stir Welding of Aluminium alloy AA6061-T6, Journal of Ship Production and Design, Vol. 35(1), pp. 69-79(11). (7) H. K. Narang, M. M. Mahapatra, P. K. Jha, PVSS Sridhar and Biswas Pankaj (2018), Experimental and Numerical Study on Effect of Weld Reinforcement on Angular Distortion of SAW Square butt Welded Plates, Journal of Welding and Joining, Vol. 36(2), pp. 48-59. (8) Chakrabarti R., Biswas Pankaj and Saha S. C. (2018), A Review on Welding Residual Stress Measurement by Hole Drilling Technique and its Importance, Journal of Welding and Joining, Vol. 36(4), pp. 75-82. (9) Bhadra Rakesh, Pankaj Pardeep, Biswas Pankaj and Dixit U. S. (2018), Thermo-mechanical analysis of CO2 Laser butt welding on AISI 304 steel thin plates, International Journal of Steel Structures, Vol. 19(1), pp. 14-27. (10) Kadian Arun & Pankaj Biswas (2018), The study of material flow behaviour in dissimilar material FSW of AA6061 and Cu-B370 alloys plates, Journal of Manufacturing Processes, Vol.34, Part A, pp. 96-105. (11) Das Biplab and Biswas Pankaj (2018), A Review of Plate Forming by Line Heating, Journal of Ship Production and Design, Vol. 34(2), pp. 155-167(13). (12) Mondal Arpan Kumar, Lohit Anche, Biswas Pankaj and Das Manas (2018), Prediction of weld induced distortion of large structure using equivalent load technique, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture, Vol 232(3), pp. 499-512. (13) Mondal Arpan Kumar, Biswas Pankaj and Bag Swarup (2017), Experimental and FE analysis of submerged arc weld induced residual stress and angular deformation of single and double sided fillet welded joint, International Journal of Steel Structures, Vol. 17(1), pp. 9–18. (14) Kadian Arun &Biswas Pankaj (2017), Effect of tool pin profile on the material flow characteristics of AA6061, Journal of Manufacturing Processes, Vol. 26, pp. 382-392. (15) Deepati Anil Kumar, Kadian Arun K., Mondal Arpan K., Biswas Pankaj (2017), Effect of Process Parameter and Optimization of Friction Stir Welded Dissimilar Aluminium Alloy, International Journal of Mechatronics and Manufacturing Technology, Vol. 2(1), pp. 27-45. (16) Mondal Arpan Kumar, Biswas Pankaj and Bag Swarup (2017), Prediction of welding sequence induced thermal history & residual stresses and their effect on welding distortion, Welding in the World, Vol. 61(4), pp. 711-721. (17) Das Biplab andBiswas Pankaj (2017), Effect of operating parameters on plate bending by laser line heating, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture, Vol. 231(10), pp. 1803-1811. (18) Tikader Sujoy, Biswas Pankaj & Asit Puri (2016), A Study on Tooling and Its Effect on Heat Generation and Mechanical Properties of Welded Joints in Friction Stir Welding”, Special Issue titled, Modelling of Manufacturing Processes in Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series C, co-published by Springer. (19) Singh Piyush, Biswas Pankaj and Kore Sachin D. (2016), A three-dimensional fully coupled thermo-mechanical model for Self-reacting Friction Stir Welding in Aluminium alloy AA6061, Journal of Physics, Vol.759(012047), pp.1-6. (20) Kumar D. A., Kadian Arun Kumar and Biswas Pankaj (2015), Numerical and experimental study on influence of tool plunging force and shoulder size on thermal history of Friction Stir Welding, International Journal of Manufacturing Research (IJMR- Inderscience), Vol. 10 (1), pp. 64-86. (21) Arun Kadian & Biswas Pankaj (2015), A Comparative Study of Material Flow Behavior in Friction Stir Welding using Laminar and Turbulent Models, Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, Vol. 24(10), pp. 4119-4127. (22) Mondal Arpan Kumar, Biswas Pankaj and Bag Swarup (2015), Influence of tacking sequence on residual stress and distortion of single sided fillet submerged arc welded joint, J. Marine Sci. Appl., Vol.14, pp.1-11: (23) Mandal N. R, Sharat Kumar and Biswas Pankaj (2014), Distortion Measurement of Ship Blocks using Photogrammetry, Journal of Ship Production and Design, Vol.29, pp. 1-8. (24) Deepati Anil Kumar, Tikader Sujoy and Biswas Pankaj (2014), Experimental Investigation of Mechanical Properties on Friction Stir Welding of Dissimilar Aluminum Alloys, International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Special Issue-2, pp. 242-246. (25) Narang H. K., Mahapatra M. M., P. K. Jha and Biswas Pankaj (2014), Optimization and prediction of angular distortion and weldment characteristics of TIG square butt joints, Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, Vol. 23(5), pp. 1750-1758. (26) Deepati Anil Kumar, Biswas Pankaj, M. M. Mahapatra & Mandal N. R. (2013), A Study on Friction Stir Welding of 12mm Thick Aluminum Alloy Plates, Journal of Marine Science and Applications, J. Marine Sci. Appl. Vol. 12, pp. 493-499. (27) Mohanty H. K., Mahapatra M. M., P. Kumar, Biswas Pankaj and Mandal N. R. (2013), Predicting the effects of tool geometries on friction stirred aluminum welds using artificial neural networks and fuzzy logic techniques, International Journal of Manufacturing Research (IJMR), Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 296-312. (28) Biswas Pankaj, Kumar D. A. and Mandal N. R. (2012), Friction stir welding of aluminum alloy with varying tool geometry and process parameters, Proc. IMechE Part-B, J. Engineering Manufacture, Vol. 226(4), pp. 641-648. (29) Mohanty H. K., Mahapatra M. M., P. Kumar, Biswas Pankaj and Mandal N. R. (2012), Study on the effect of tool profiles on temperature distribution and material flow characteristics in friction stir welding, Proc. IMechE Part B: J. Engineering Manufacture, Vol. 226 (9), pp. 1527-1535. (30) Boriwal L, Mahapatra M M., and Biswas Pankaj (2012), Modelling and optimizing the effects of process parameters on galvanized steel sheet resistance spot welds, Proc. IMechE Part B: J. Engineering Manufacture, Vol. 226(4), pp.664-674. (31) Narang H. K., Mahapatra M. M., P. K. Jha and Biswas Pankaj (2012), Development of Fuzzy Logic System to Predict the SAW Weldment Shape Profiles, J. Marine Sci. Appl., Vol. 11, 387-391. (32) Mohanty H. K., Mahapatra M. M., Biswas Pankaj and Mandal N. R. (2012), Effect of tool shoulder and pin probe profiles on friction stirred aluminum welds–A comparative study, J. Marine Sci. Appl., Vol. 11, pp.200-207. (33) Mohanty H. K., Mahapatra M. M., Biswas Pankaj and Mandal N. R. (2012), Modeling the Effects of Tool Shoulder and Probe Profile Geometries on Friction Stirred Aluminum Welds Using Response Surface Methodology, J. Marine Sci. Appl., Vol. 11(4), pp.493-503. (34) Parida Biswajit , Pal Sukhomay, Biswas Pankaj and Sujoy Tikader (2011), Mechanical and Micro-structural Study of Friction Stir Welding of Al-alloy, International Journal of Applied Research In Mechanical Engineering (IJARME), Vol.1 (2), ISSN: 2231 -5950. (35) Biswas Pankaj and Mandal N. R. (2011), Effect of Tool Geometries on Thermal History of FSW of AA1100, Welding Journal (AWS), Vol. 90, pp. 129S-135S. (36) Biswas Pankaj, Mandal N. R., Sha O. P. and Mahapatra M. M. (2011), Thermo-mechanical and Experimental Analysis of Double Pass Line Heating, J. Marine Sci. & Appl., Vol.10, pp.190-198. (37) Biswas Pankaj and Mandal N. R. (2011), A Study on Port Plug Distortion caused by Narrow Gap Combined GTAW & SMAW and Electron Beam Welding, Journal of Fusion Engineering and Design, Vol. 86, pp. 99-105. (38) Biswas Pankaj, Ranjan Rajesh and Mandal N. R. (2011), Effect of welding tacks and sequences on residual stress in stiffened panel fabrication, Journal of Ocean and Ship Technology, Vol.2, No.2, 99-113. (39) Biswas Pankaj, Kumar D. A. Mandal N. R. and Mahapatra M. M. (2011), A Study on the Effect of Welding Sequence in Fabrication of Large Stiffened Plate Panels, J. Marine. Sci.& Appl., Vol. 10, pp. 429-436. (40) Biswas Pankaj, D. A. Kumar and Mandal N. R. (2011), Friction stir welding of aluminum alloy with varying tool geometry and process parameters, Proc. IMechE, J. Engineering Manufacture: Part B, Vol. 225, pp.1-8. (41) Biswas Pankaj, Mandal N. R. and Das S. (2011), Prediction of Welding Residual Stresses and Deformations of Large Stiffened Panels using Average Plastic Strain Method, Journal of Science and Technology of Welding and Joining, Vol. 16(3), pp.227-231. (42) Biswas Pankaj and Mandal N. R. (2010), Analysis of Welding Distortion due to Narrow Gap welding of Upper Port Plug , Fusion Engineering and Design, Vol. 85, pp. 780-788. (43) Biswas Pankaj, Mandal N. R. and Sha O.P. (2010), Numerical and dimensional analysis for prediction of line heating residual deformations, Journal of Marine Science and Application, Vol. 9, pp. 14-21. (44) Biswas Pankaj and Mandal N. R. (2009), A comparative study of three different approaches of FE analysis for prediction of welding distortion of orthogonally stiffened plate panels, Journal of Ship Production, Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 1-7. (45) Biswas Pankaj and Mandal N. R. (2009), Experimental Study on Friction Stir Welding of Marine grade Aluminum Alloy, Journal of Ship Production, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 1-6. (46) Biswas Pankaj, Mandal N. R. and Sha O. P. (2009), 3-D FEM and ANN prediction of thermal history and residual deformation of line heating by oxy acetylene gas flame, Journal of Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 83-104. (47) Biswas Pankaj and Mandal N. R. (2009), Thermomechanical finite element analysis and experimental investigation of single-pass single-sided submerged arc welding of C–Mn steel plates, Proc. IMechE, Part-B, Vol. 224, pp. 627-639. (48) Biswas Pankaj, Mandal N. R. and Sha, O. P. (2009), Optimization of strain field distribution for generation of compound curve surfaces using line heating technique, Computational Materials Science, Vol. 45, pp. 167-175. (49) Biswas Pankaj, Mahapatra M. M. and Mandal N. R. (2009), Numerical and experimental study on prediction of thermal history and residual deformation of double sided fillet welding, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B, Journal of Engineering Manufacture, Vol. 223, pp. 1-10. (50) Biswas Pankaj, Mandal N. R., Saravanan M. and Velmurugan S. (2009), Experimental Study on Square-Butt Single-Pass Single-Side Submerged Arc Welding of Low-Carbon Microalloyed Steel, Journal of Ship Production, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp.1–7. (51) Biswas Pankaj, Mandal N. R. and Sha O. P. (2008), A study on generation of compound curved surfaces by line heating using oxy-acetylene gas flame, Journal of Ship Production, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 180-189 (10). (52) Biswas Pankaj and Mandal N. R. (2008), Welding Distortion Simulation of Large Stiffened Plate Panels, Journal of Ship Production, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 50-56. (53) Biswas Pankaj, Mandal N. R. and Sha O. P. (2007), Three Dimensional Finite Element Prediction of Transient Thermal History and Residual Deformation due to Line Heating, Journal of Engineering for the Maritime Environment, Part M, Vol. 221, pp. 17-30. (54) Biswas Pankaj, Mandal N. R. and Sha O. P. (2006), Numerical and ANN prediction of thermal history of Submerged Arc Welding, Journal of Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 269-286.
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