MECHANICAL & INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING: Recent submissions

  • NUMERICAL UNDERSTANDING OF μ TAS 
    Pal, Subhamoy (I I T ROORKEE, 2018-05)
    Common feature of μTAS is impact on a droplet on a microfluidic channel for functional analysis. It has been observed that both hydrophilic and hydrophobic nature has their usual applications but shifting of wetting mode ...
  • AUGMENTATION OF HEAT TRANSFER DURING POOL BOILING OF REFRIGERANT 
    Verma, Sudhir Kumar (I I T ROORKEE, 2018-05)
    One of the necessary features for the successful operation of a refrigeration unit is that the heat transfer performance of the refrigerant within the evaporator. The optimum design of the evaporator depends on the right ...
  • INDUCTION HEATING ASSISTED FRICTION STIR WELDING OF LOW CARBON STEEL 
    Jena, Arun Kumar (I I T ROORKEE, 2018-05)
    In this study Friction stir welding of low carbon steel is done with and without using induction preheating. It was revealed that due to localised heating the soundness of the weld joint is improved. Microstructural ...
  • STUDIES ON STRENGTH ENHANCEMENT AND POROSITY REDUCTION IN MMCs BY FRICTION STIR WELDING PROCESS 
    Gangwar, Vikas (I I T ROORKEE, 2018-05)
    Metal matrix composites are suitable materials for engineering applications encountering surface interactions. Friction stir processing (FSP) is emerging as a promising technique for making surface composites. In this ...
  • VALUE STREAMS AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT 
    Gopal, Joshi Girish (IIT ROORKEE, 2019-06)
    This dissertation aims to apply value stream mapping for analyzing the effective way of executing projects that are utilizing the erstwhile project management methodologies. The stream analysis approach was used to analyze, ...
  • DEVELOPMENT AND INVESTIGATION OF SHAPED TUBE ELECTROLYTIC MACHINING 
    Vidyarthi, Avinay Kumar (IIT ROORKEE, 2019-06)
    Micro iholes iwith internal features are widely used as spray iholes, icooling iholes, iheat ishields, ifuel iinjection inozzles, iweapons, iaerospace, iscrew idrill istator iof ioil iand igas idrilling icomponents inowadays, ...
  • THERMOMECHANICALANALYSIS IN SECONDARY COOLING ZONE OF CONTINUOUS CASTING 
    Singh, Kamlesh (IIT ROORKEE, 2015-05)
    Continuous casting is the process in which molten metal is solidified into a semi-finished billet, bloom, and slab. Continuous casting process is widely used all over the world in steelmaking industry. Continuous casting ...
  • THERMAL COMFORT USING RANQUE-HILSCH VORTEX TUBE 
    Vivekanand (IIT ROORKEE, 2016-05)
    Thermal comfort is a situation of mind that express satisfaction with ambient condition. It mainly includes following processes: heating. ventilation and cooling. Different parameters that affect the condition of thermal ...
  • STUDIES ON ELECTRIC DISCHARGE MACHINING OF METAL MATRIX COMPOSITES 
    Singh, Kamaljit (IIT ROORKEE, 2015-05)
    Metal Matrix Composites (MMC's) are playing a very important role in the industrial growth because of their superior properties such as high toughness, high specific strength, high temperature resistance, high stiffness ...
  • MODELING OF VARIABLE COMPLIANT FOUR LEGGED ROBOT 
    Chauhan, Rishit Rajesh (I I T ROORKEE, 2013-06)
    In the era of automation, the interaction of the humans with the robots is unavoidable. Hence, there is a need to improve the safety of humans that interact with the robots for the industrial as well as domestic purposes. ...
  • LEAN MANUFACTURING THROUGH VSM FOR ETHIOPIAN LEATHER INDUSTRY 
    Reda, Hiluf (IIT Roorkee, 2022-08)
    Globalization has created numerous problems for industries worldwide. Its influence has grown over the last few decades, affecting manufacturing industries' competitiveness and rendering them highly vulnerable. In such ...
  • THERMAL COMFORT USING RANQUE-HILSCH VORTEX TUBE 
    Vivekanand (IIT ROORKEE, 2016-05)
    Thermal comfort is a situation of mind that express satisfaction with ambient condition. It mainly includes following processes: heating. ventilation and cooling. Different parameters that affect the condition of thermal ...
  • NATURAL CONVECTION IN MAGNETIC NANOFLUIDS 
    Kumar, Aditya (IIT Roorkee, 2020-12)
    In the forced convection heat transfer, the magnetic nanofluids have been proved efficient, theoretically and experimentally. But, a conflict exists between the theoretical and experimental studies on the natural convection ...
  • PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF ROTARY TOOL MICRO-USM PROCESS 
    Kumar, Sandeep (IIT ROORKEE, 2019-09)
    Miniaturization of components is the need of hour because it saves raw material, processing time and energy. Therefore, micro components in the form of microfluidic devices are gaining huge importance in the field of ...
  • PERFORMANCE AND WEAR CHARACTERISTICS OF A CENTRIFUGAL SLURRY PUMP HANDLING SOLID-LIQUID MIXTURES 
    Tarodiya, Rahul (IIT ROORKEE, 2019-09)
    Centrifugal pumps are being extensively used for hydraulic transportation of solids over short and medium distances through pipelines where the requirements of head and discharge are moderate. The performance and erosive ...
  • AN ASSESSMENT OF CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION STRATEGIES OF THE INDIAN CEMENT INDUSTRY 
    Balsara, Sachin (IIT ROORKEE, 2019-06)
    Cement is a fundamental requirement of modern society and the concrete, a cement-based product is the highest manufactured and second highest consumed product after water on earth, but across the world, the production ...
  • EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON LOCA SCENARIO IN INDIAN HEAVY WATER NUCLEAR REACTORS 
    Yadav, Subhodh Kumar (IIT ROORKEE, 2019-07)
    The understanding of operating and emergency thermal hydraulic conditions of the Indian nuclear power plant play significant role for safety of power plant. The fleet of nuclear plant consists of 22 commercial operating ...
  • SINGLE AND MULTIPLE CHANNEL SAGGING STUDY UNDER SEVERE HEAT-UP CONDITIONS 
    Singh Ankit, Rajkumar (IIT ROORKEE, 2019-11)
    The Loss of Coolant Accident (LOCA) is a critical initiating event that leads to early degradation of fuel cooling and hence challenges the integrity of a channel. The presence of moderator around the affected channel ...
  • MOLECULAR DYNAMICS BASED SIMULATIONS TO INVESTIGATE THE EFFECT OF RADIATION DAMAGE ON ZR AND ZR-NB ALLOYS 
    Singh, Divya (IIT ROORKEE, 2019-10)
    Due to lower neutron absorption cross section, favourable thermo-mechanical and creep properties, Zr- Nb alloys are commonly used to manufacture pressure tubes and fuel claddings in nuclear reactors. Alloying with Nb helps ...
  • FABRICATION AND ANALYSIS OF AN ARTICIAL HUMAN HIP JOINT FOR SQUAT POSTURE 
    Saxena, Ankit (IIT ROORKEE, 2019-07)
    The bone is highly adaptive to habitual loading, regulating its structure according to components of its loading regime and mechanical environment, inclusive of strain magnitude - strain rate - strain frequency - strain ...