3Rd International Conference on Materials Processing and Characterisation

3rd International Conference on Materials Processing and Characterisation

(ICMPC 2014)

Procedia Materials Science Volume 6

Hyderabad, India

8 – 9 March 2014

Part 1 of 3

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S. K. Singh

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PART 1

PREFACE ...... 1

COMPARATIVE STUDY OF BOND STRENGTH OF FORMALDEHYDE AND SOYA BASED ADHESIVE IN WOOD FIBRE PLYWOOD...... 2 Nitin Muttil, Ghanta Ravichandra, Stephen W. Bigger, Graham R. Thorpe, Dorbha Shailaja, Swadesh Kumar Singh

CFBP NETWORK–A TECHNIQUE FOR CRACK DETECTION ...... 10 D. N. Thatoi, Sasanka Choudhury, H. C. Das, P. K. Jena, Giridharilal Agrawal

ANALYSIS OF MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF CARBON NANOTUBE REINFORCED POLYMER COMPOSITES USING CONTINUUM MECHANICS APPROACH...... 18 A. K. Gupta, S. P. Harsha

EFFECT OF TWO DIFFERENT ENERGY INPUTS FOR LASER CLADDING OF STELLITE 6 ON P91 AND P22 STEEL SUBSTRATES ...... 26 Alain Kusmoko, Druce Dunne, Huijun Li, David Nolan

EFFECT OF SEVERE PLASTIC DEFORMATION AND HEAT TREATMENT ON TOUGHNESS OF MAGNESIUM ALLOYS...... 37 M. Govindaraju, K. Balasubramanian, Uday Chackingal, K. Prasad Rao

EPFM ANALYSIS OF SUBSURFACE CRACK BENEATH A WHEEL FLAT USING DYNAMIC CONDITION...... 43 Nagvendra Kumar Kanoje, Satish C. Sharma, S. P. Harsha

FABRICATION AND ANALYSIS OF MICRO-PILLARS BY ABRASIVE WATER JET MACHINING ...... 61 Vijay Kumar Pal, S. K. Choudhury

NUMERICAL MODELING OF PART-THROUGH CRACKS IN PIPE AND PIPE BEND USING XFEM ...... 72 Kamal Sharma, I. V. Singh, B. K. Mishra, V. Bhasin

MACHINABILITY ASSESSMENT THROUGH EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION DURING HARD AND SOFT TURNING OF HARDENED STEEL...... 80 Awadhesh Pal, S. K. Choudhury, Satish Chinchanikar

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECT OF ELECTRODE BOTTOM PROFILES WHILE MACHINING INCONEL 718 THROUGH EDM PROCESS ...... 92 M. Manohar, T. Selvaraj, D. Sivakumar, Shibu Gopinath, Koshy M. George

FINITE ELEMENT MODELLING OF ELECTRO-HYDRAULIC FORMING OF SHEETS...... 105 Tushar Mane, Vasu Goel, Sachin D. Kore

EFFECT OF PROCESS PARAMETERS AND METALLOGRAPHIC STUDIES OF ASS-304 STAINLESS STEEL AT VARIOUS TEMPERATURES UNDER WARM DEEP DRAWING...... 115 Lade Jayahari, B. Balu Naik, Swadesh Kumar Singh

FORMABILITY LIMIT DIAGRAMS OF EXTRA-DEEP-DRAWING STEEL AT ELEVATED TEMPERATURES...... 123 R. Raman Goud, K. Eswar Prasad, Swades Kumar Singh

DEVELOPMENT OF THIN SHEETS FROM FE-P ALLOYS THROUGH P/M TECHNIQUE...... 129 Shefali Trivedi, D. Ravi Kumar, S. Aravindan

FRICTION STIR WELDING OF AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEEL BY PCBN TOOL AND ITS JOINT ANALYSES...... 135 Manish P. Meshram, Basanth Kumar Kodli, Suhash R. Dey

MINIMIZATION OF KERF TAPER ANGLE AND KERF WIDTH USING TAGUCHI'S METHOD IN ABRASIVE WATER JET MACHINING OF MARBLE...... 140 Vishal Gupta, P. M. Pandey, Mohinder Pal Garg, Rajesh Khanna, N. K. Batra

EFFECT OF MINIMUM QUANTITY LUBRICATION (MQL) ON SURFACE ROUGHNESS OF MILD STEEL OF 15HRC ON UNIVERSAL MILLING MACHINE...... 150 S. B. Kedare, D. R. Borse, P. T. Shahane

EFFECT OF THICKNESS AND GRAIN SIZE ON FLOW STRESS OF VERY THIN BRASS SHEETS ...... 154 Dhruv Anand, D. Ravi Kumar

EFFECT OF SURFACE CRACK AND ITS SIZE ON MECHANICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF GOLD NANO-WIRES ...... 161 Karanvir Saini, Navin Kumar

MOTOR CURRENT SIGNATURE ANALYSIS FOR BEARING FAULT DETECTION IN MECHANICAL SYSTEMS...... 171 Sukhjeet Singh, Amit Kumar, Navin Kumar

MULTI OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION OF FRICTION STIR WELDING PARAMETERS FOR JOINING OF TWO DISSIMILAR THIN ALUMINUM SHEETS...... 178 R. K. Kesharwani, S. K. Panda, S. K. Pal

EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE AND STRAIN RATE ON DEFORMATION BEHAVIOR OF ZIRCONIUM ALLOY: ZR-2.5NB-0.5CU ...... 188 K. K. Saxena, S. Sonkar, R. Kumar, V. Pancholi, G. P. Chaudhari, D. Srivastava, G. K. Dey, S. K. Jha, N. Saibaba

TRIBO-ELECTRIC CHARGING IN THE ULTRA-HIGH PRECISION MACHINING OF CONTACT LENS POLYMERS ...... 194 O. A. Olufayo, K. Abou-El-Hossein, M. M. Kadernani

MICROSTRUCTURE AND TENSILE TOUGHNESS CORRELATION OF 1.2542 TOOL STEEL AFTER DEEP CRYOGENIC TREATMENT...... 202 Seyed Ebrahim Vahdat, Said Nategh, Shamsoddin Mirdamadi

EFFECT OF INTERFACE STRENGTH OF M23C6 IN STEEL MATRIX ON TENSILE TOUGHNESS AND STRENGTH...... 208 Seyed Ebrahim Vahdat, Alireza Pournaghi, Ali Mohamadinia, Mahdi Hajili

THERMAL BEHAVIOR OF SST-1 VACUUM VESSEL AND PLASMA FACING COMPONENTS DURING BAKING...... 216 Ziauddin Khan, Yuvakiran Paravastu, Subrata Pradhan

OPTIMIZATION OF DRILLING PARAMETERS OF HYBRID METAL MATRIX COMPOSITES USING RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY ...... 229 Gaurav Chaudhary, Manoj Kumar, Santosh Verma, Anupam Srivastav

EFFECT OF FABRICATION TECHNIQUE ON MICROSTRUCTURE AND ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY OF POLYANILINE-TIO2-PVA COMPOSITE MATERIAL ...... 238 Rajeev Arora, Utam Kumar Mandal, Pankaj Sharma, Anupam Srivastav

MODIFIED SILANE FILMS FOR CORROSION PROTECTION OF MILD STEEL...... 244 Poovarasi Balan, Mark Jude Shelton, Debbie Ong Li Ching, Gwee Chu Han, Lithnes K. Palniandy

TEMPERATURE INSTABILITY IN HIGH-TC SUPERCONDUCTING WIRE EXPOSED TO THERMAL DISTURBANCE...... 249 Ziauddin Khan, Subrata Pradhan, Irfan Ahmed

A NEW APPROACH TO DYNAMICAL DETERMINATION OF THE ACTIVE ZONE IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE HYBRID MODEL (QUANTUM MECHANICS/ MOLECULAR MECHANICS)...... 256 O. E. Glukhova, G. V. Savostyanov, M. M. Slepchenkov

DEGASSING MEASUREMENT STUDIES CARRIED OUT FOR VARIOUS FORMS OF ACTIVATED CARBON ...... 265 Samiran Mukherjee, Ranjana Gangradey, Sapana Guru, Pratik Nayak, Jyoti Agrawal, V. S. Tripathi

OGMS: A FACILITY TO MEASURE OUT-GASSING RATE OF MATERIALS ...... 272 Ranjana Gangradey, Samiran Mukherjee, Paresh Panchal, N. Ravi Prakash

EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE AND STRAIN RATE ON DEFORMATION BEHAVIOR OF ZIRCONIUM ALLOY: ZR-2.5NB ...... 278 K. K. Saxena, S. D. Yadav, S. Sonkar, V. Pancholi, G. P. Chaudhari, D. Srivastava, G. K. Dey, S. K. Jha, N. Saibaba

DESIGN VERIFICATION THROUGH TOLERANCE STACK UP ANALYSIS OF MECHANICAL ASSEMBLY AND LEAST COST TOLERANCE ALLOCATION...... 284 A. K. Sahani, P. K. Jain, Satish C. Sharma, J. K. Bajpai

MACHINING OF TUNGSTEN HEAVY ALLOY UNDER CRYOGENIC ENVIRONMENT ...... 296 Srinivasa Rao Nandam, U. Ravikiran, A. Anand Rao

SURFACE TEXTURE AND ELEMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION OF HIGH ASPECT RATIO BLIND MICRO HOLES ON DIFFERENT MATERIALS IN MICRO EDM...... 304 Swapan Barman, Vijay, Nagahanumaiah, Asit Baran Puri

BEHAVIOR OF AO MODE TRANSDUCED USING SYNCHRONISED ROTATIONALLY (SAME DIRECTION) MISALIGNED AIR-COUPLED TRANSDUCERS ...... 310 C. Ramadas, Irfan Khan, Avinash Hood, Makarand Joshi

IMPROVISATION OF INTERFACIAL BOND STRENGTH IN SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY HYBRID POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES ...... 316 Vinod Murkute, Amit Gupta, D. G. Thakur, Rahul Harshe, Makarand Joshi

TENSILE DEFORMATION AND FRACTURE BEHAVIOUR OF AN AEROSPACE ALUMINIUM ALLOY AA2219 IN DIFFERENT AGEING CONDITIONS...... 322 Ch. V. A. Narasayya, P. Rambabu, M. K. Mohan, Rahul Mitra, N. Eswara Prasad

CHALLENGES IN PROCESSING OF A COCURED WING TEST BOX USING VACUUM ENHANCED RESIN INFUSION TECHNOLOGY (VERITY) ...... 331 Kundan Kumar Verma, B. L. Dinesh, Kailash Singh, Kotresh M. Gaddikeri, Ramesh Sundaram

PREDICTION OF FORMING LIMIT DIAGRAM FOR TI-6AL-4V ALLOY USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK ...... 341 Nitin Kotkunde, Aditya D. Deole, Amit Kumar Gupta

A CONSTITUTIVE DESCRIPTION TO PREDICT HIGH-TEMPERATURE FLOW STRESS IN AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEEL 316...... 347 K. Sajun Prasad, A. K. Gupta

DOE BASED PARAMETRIC STUDY OF VOLUMETRIC CHANGE OF FDM PARTS...... 354 Pavan Kumar Gurrala, Srinivasa Prakash Regalla

INVESTIGATION OF MELT FLOW INDEX AND IMPACT STRENGTH OF FOAMED LLDPE FOR ROTATIONAL MOULDING PROCESS...... 361 P. L. Ramkumar, D. M. Kulkarni, V. V. R. Abhijit, Aditya Cherukumudi

SUPPORT VECTOR REGRESSION BASED FLOW STRESS PREDICTION IN AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEEL 304 ...... 368 Raghuram Karthik Desu, Sharath Chandra Guntuku, Aditya B, Amit Kumar Gupta

EFFECT OF MESH PARAMETERS IN FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATION OF SINGLE POINT INCREMENTAL SHEET FORMING PROCESS...... 376 Kurra Suresh, Srinivasa Prakash Regalla

EFFECT AND OPTIMIZATION OF VARIOUS MACHINE PROCESS PARAMETERS ON THE SURFACE ROUGHNESS IN EDM FOR AN EN41 MATERIAL USING GREY-TAGUCHI...... 383 Vikas, Apurba Kumar Roy, Kaushik Kumar

STUDY OF FRICTION AND WEAR OF ABS/ZNO POLYMER COMPOSITE USING TAGUCHI TECHNIQUE...... 391 J. Sudeepan, K. Kumar, T. K. Barman, P. Sahoo

EFFECT OF THICKNESS RATIO ON WELD LINE DISPLACEMENT IN DEEP DRAWING OF ALUMINIUM STEEL TAILOR WELDED BLANKS ...... 401 Arman Khan, V. V. N. Satya Suresh, Srinivasa Prakash Regalla

ON THE USE OF GREATEST INTEGER FUNCTION TO EXPRESS MATERIAL PROPERTY VARIATION IN FREE VIBRATION PROBLEM OF SIMPLY SUPPORTED SQUARE PLATES WITH SQUARE ARRAY OF CIRCULAR PERFORATIONS...... 409 Kiran D. Mali, Pravin M. Singru

DESIGN OF A MIXED FLOW PUMP IMPELLER BLADE AND ITS VALIDATION USING STRESS ANALYSIS ...... 417 Sambhrant Srivastava, Apurba Kumar Roy, Kaushik Kumar

MICROSTRUCTURE AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF A GLASS-CERAMIC BOND COATED TBC SYSTEM...... 425 Sumana Ghosh

ANALYSIS OF FORMABILITY IN SINGLE POINT INCREMENTAL FORMING USING FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS ...... 430 Kurra Suresh, Srinivasa Prakash Regalla

EFFECT OF THERMAL TREATMENT OF A FERRO MAGNETIC CORE ON INDUCED EMF ...... 436 Sridhar Mandava, Subrahmanyam Ramachandrula, Aparna Yarramareddy

EFFECT OF ALUMINIUM ENCLOSURES ON INDUCED EMF ...... 444 Subrahmanyam Ramachandrula

CUTTING FLUID SELECTION FOR SUSTAINABLE DESIGN FOR MANUFACTURING: AN INTEGRATED THEORY ...... 450 Jagadish, Amitava Ray

MODAL ANALYSIS OF FUNCTIONALLY GRADED MATERIAL PLATES USING FINITE ELEMENT METHOD ...... 460 I. Ramu, S. C. Mohanty

CHARACTERIZATION AND WEAR BEHAVIOR OF CARBON BLACK FILLED POLYMER COMPOSITES...... 468 Shakuntala Ojha, Samir Kumar Acharya, Raghavendra Gujjala

RELATING PRODUCT MANUFACTURING DECISIONS TO ENVIRONMENTAL AND COST PERFORMANCE USING CAPP...... 476 P. D. Chougule, S. Kumar, H. K. Raval

EXTRACTION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF CHITIN AND CHITOSAN FROM (LABEO ROHIT) FISH SCALES...... 482 Suneeta Kumari, Pradip Kumar Rath

DESIGN AND FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF AN AUTOMOTIVE CLUTCH ASSEMBLY ...... 490 Rajesh Purohit, Pooja Khitoliya, Dinesh Kumar Koli

OPTIMIZATION OF WEAR PERFORMANCE OF AA 5083/10 WT. % SICP COMPOSITES USING TAGUCHI METHOD...... 503 Ravindra Singh Rana, Rajesh Purohit, Anil Kumar Sharma, Saraswati Rana

ANALYSIS OF HOUNSFIELD UNIT OF HUMAN BONES FOR STRENGTH EVALUATION ...... 512 S. N. Khan, R. M. Warkhedkar, A. K. Shyam

A REVIEW ON ELECTROMAGNETIC FORMING PROCESS ...... 520 Dhiraj Gayakwad, Mahesh Kumar Dargar, Pramod Kumar Sharma, Rajesh Purohit, R. S. Rana

EFFECT OF 3-MERCAPTOPROPYLTRIMETHOXYSILANE ON SURFACE FINISH AND MATERIAL REMOVAL RATE IN CHEMICAL MECHANICAL POLISHING...... 528 M. Sivanandini, Sukhdeep S. Dhami, B. S. Pabla, M. K. Gupta

MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION IN DRILLING OF GFRP COMPOSITES: A DEGREE OF SIMILARITY APPROACH ...... 538 Vikas Sonkar, Kumar Abhishek, Saurav Datta, Siba Sankar Mahapatra

COMPARING PREDICTABILITY OF GENETIC PROGRAMMING AND ANFIS ON DRILLING PERFORMANCE MODELING FOR GFRP COMPOSITES...... 544 Kumar Abhishek, Biranchi Narayan Panda, Saurav Datta, Siba Sankar Mahapatra

STUDY OF MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF WOOD DUST REINFORCED EPOXY COMPOSITE...... 551 Rahul Kumar, Kausik Kumar, Prasanta Sahoo, Sumit Bhowmik

EFFECT OF AG DOPING ON ANTIBACTERIAL AND PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY OF NANOCRYSTALLINE TIO2 ...... 557 M. Harikishore, M. Sandhyarani, K. Venkateswarlu, T. A. Nellaippan, N. Rameshbabu

A REVIEW ON PROPERTIES, BEHAVIOUR AND PROCESSING METHODS FOR AL- NANO AL2O3 COMPOSITES ...... 567 Dinesh Kumar Koli, Geeta Agnihotri, Rajesh Purohit

SELECTION OF MATERIAL FOR OPTIMAL DESIGN USING MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING...... 590 Rajnish Kumar, Jagadish, Amitava Ray

DETECTION OF APPOSITE PSO PARAMETERS USING TAGUCHI BASED GREY RELATIONAL ANALYSIS: OPTIMIZATION AND IMPLEMENTATION ASPECTS ON MANUFACTURING RELATED PROBLEM...... 597 Argha Das, Arindam Majumder, Pankaj Kr. Das

AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF MACHINABILITY OF INCONEL 718 IN ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE MACHINING...... 605 Chinmaya P. Mohanty, Siba Shankar Mahapatra, Manas Ranjan Singh

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF CUTTING FORCES IN BALL END MILLING OF AL2014-T6 USING RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY ...... 612 Mithilesh Kumar Dikshit, Asit Baran Puri, Atanu Maity

EFFECT OF PROCESS PARAMETERS ON MICROHARDNESS OF NI-P-AL2O3 COMPOSITE COATINGS...... 623 Prasanna Gadhari, Prasanta Sahoo

A COMPROMISE SOLUTION BY VIKOR METHOD FOR ERGONOMICALLY DESIGNED PRODUCT WITH OPTIMAL SET OF DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS...... 633 Pragyan Paramita Mohanty, S. S Mahapatra

THERMAL ANALYSIS AND NANOINDENTAION STUDIES ON NANOCRYSTALLINE ALCRNIFEZN HIGH ENTROPY ALLOY...... 641 C. Sajith Babu, N. T. B. N. Koundinya, K. Sivaprasad, Jerzy A. Szpunar

MECHANICAL, METALLURGICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND CORROSION PROPERTIES OF FRICTION STIR WELDED AA6061-T6 USING COMMERCIAL PURE ALUMINIUM AS A FILLER PLATE...... 648 K. Tejonadha Babu, P. Kranthi Kumar, S. Muthukumaran

MICROSTRUCTURAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF WALKING FRICTION STIR SPOT WELDED AA 6061-T6 SHEETS ...... 656 S. Venukumar, Bibin Baby, S. Muthukumaran, Satish V. Kailas

DIE-LESS RAPID PROTOTYPING PROCESS: PARAMETRIC INVESTIGATIONS...... 666 Bhavin V. Desai, Keyur P. Desai, Harit K. Raval

DEFORMATION BEHAVIOR OF MICRO-ALLOYED STEEL BY USING THERMO MECHANICAL SIMULATOR AND FINITE ELEMENT METHOD...... 674 Md. Israr Equbal, P. Talukdar, Vinod Kumar, R. K. Ohdar

STUDY OF TRIBOLOGICAL BEHAVIOR OF ABS/ CACO3 COMPOSITE USING GREY RELATIONAL ANALYSIS ...... 682 J. Sudeepan, K. Kumar, T. K. Barman, P. Sahoo

DESIGN OF NOVEL CAPACITIVE RF MEMS SHUNT SWITCH WITH ALUMINUM NITRIDE (ALN) DIELECTRIC...... 692 B. Laxma Reddy, T. Shanmuganantham

PART 2

MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION OF MACHINING PARAMETERS DURING DRY TURNING OF AISI 304 AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEEL USING GREY RELATIONAL ANALYSIS...... 701 Shreemoy Kumar Nayak, Jatin Kumar Patro, Shailesh Dewangan, Soumya Gangopadhyay

MICROSTRUCTURAL AND NANOINDENTATION STUDIES ACROSS DIFFUSION-BONDED INTERFACES IN AL/CU METAL INTERMETALLIC LAMINATES ...... 709 S. S. M. Kartheek, K. V. Vamsi, B. Ravisankar, K. Sivaprasad, S. Karthikeyan

CARBON NANOTUBES AND THEIR GROWTH METHODS ...... 716 Rajesh Purohit, Kuldeep Purohit, Saraswati Rana, R. S. Rana, Vivek Patel

OPTIMIZATION OF SURFACE ROUGHNESS AND MRR IN ELECTROCHEMICAL MACHINING OF EN31 TOOL STEEL USING GREY-TAGUCHI APPROACH ...... 729 Milan Kumar Das, Kaushik Kumar, Tapan Kr. Barman, Prasanta Sahoo

APPLICATION OF ARTIFICIAL BEE COLONY ALGORITHM FOR OPTIMIZATION OF MRR AND SURFACE ROUGHNESS IN EDM OF EN31 TOOL STEEL ...... 741 Milan Kumar Das, Kaushik Kumar, Tapan Kr. Barman, Prasanta Sahoo

FUZZY RULE-BASED DECISION MAKING TO MINIMIZE WEAR RATE OF DUMPER TIRES...... 752 Bishan Das, Subhash Ch. Panja, R. P Chakrabarty

ELECTRONIC INTERACTION BETWEEN MG PORPHYRIN AND TIO2 WITHIN A CONDUCTING BRAIN LIKE POLYPYRROLE NANOMATRIX...... 762 R. Singh, A. Karmakar, J. S. Manna, D. Das, M. K. Mitra

SYNTHESIS OF CHLOROPHYLL ENTRAPPED RED LUMINESCENT SILICA NANOPARTICLES FOR BIOIMAGING APPLICATION...... 770 I. Mitra, N. Manna, J. S. Manna, M. K. Mitra

ABRASIVE WATER JET CUTTING OF BOROSILICATE GLASS...... 775 Ushasta Aich, Simul Banerjee, Asish Bandyopadhyay, Probal Kumar Das

CASTING DESIGN AND SIMULATION OF COVER PLATE USING AUTOCAST-X SOFTWARE FOR DEFECT MINIMIZATION WITH EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION...... 786 C. M. Choudhari, B. E. Narkhede, S. K. Mahajan

FLOW BEHAVIOUR OF BIDISPERSE MR POLISHING FLUID AND BALL END MR FINISHING...... 798 Mahendra Singh Niranjan, Sunil Jha

STUDY OF MECHANICAL AND CRYSTALLINE BEHAVIOR OF POLYAMIDE 6/HYTREL/CARBON NANOTUBES (CNT) BASED POLYMER COMPOSITES...... 805 Bhagwan F. Jogi, Mayur Sawant, P. K. Brahmankar, D. Ratna, M. C. Tarhekar

OPTIMIZATION OF PROCESS PARAMETERS OF AL-SI ALLOY BY CENTRIFUGAL CASTING TECHNIQUE USING TAGUCHI DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS...... 812 P. Shailesh, S. Sundarrajan, M. Komaraiah

ANALYTICAL MODELING OF TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION, PEAK TEMPERATURE, COOLING RATE AND THERMAL CYCLES IN A SOLID WORK PIECE WELDED BY LASER WELDING PROCESS ...... 821 K. Suresh Kumar

SPRINGBACK IN SHEET METAL U BENDING-FEA AND NEURAL NETWORK APPROACH ...... 835 Gawade Sharad, V. M. Nandedkar

EFFECT OF CARBURIZING FLAME AND OXIDIZING FLAME ON SURFACE ROUGHNESS IN TURNING OF ALUMINIUM METAL MATRIX COMPOSITE AND DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION OPTIMIZATION OF PROCESS PARAMETERS...... 840 N. V. V. S. Sudheer, K. Kateeka Pavan

DIMENSIONAL ACCURACY COMPARISON OF INVESTMENT CASTINGS PREPARED WITH WAX AND ABS PATTERNS FOR BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATION ...... 851 Rupinder Singh, Sunpreet Singh, Gurpartap Singh

INVESTIGATIONS FOR DIMENSIONAL ACCURACY OF INVESTMENT CASTING PROCESS AFTER CYCLE TIME REDUCTION BY ADVANCEMENTS IN SHELL MOULDING...... 859 Rupinder Singh, Sunpreet Singh, Vishal Mahajan

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS TO DETERMINE THE PARAMETERS OF GENETIC ALGORITHM FOR MACHINE LAYOUT ...... 866 C. Srinivas, B. Ramgopal Reddy, K. Ramji, R. Naveen

FORMULATION AND COMPARISON OF EXPERIMENTAL BASED MATHEMATICAL MODEL WITH ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK SIMULATION AND RSM (RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY) MODEL FOR OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE OF SLIVER CUTTING OPERATION OF BAMBOO ...... 877 C. N. Sakhale, S. N. Waghmare, S. K. Undirwade, V. M. Sonde, M. P. Singh

EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF A RECTANGULAR CUP FORMATION OF AL 7075 ALLOY IN SUPERPLASTIC FORMING PROCESS ...... 892 G. Kumaresan, K. Kalaichelvan

MICROWAVE TRIMMING METHOD (MTM) OF POLYMER THICK FILM RESISTORS...... 897 K. V. Subramanium, Rambabu. Busi, B. Poornaiahand, Y. Srinivasa Rao

A FINITE ELEMENT APPROACH TO BENDING, CONTACT AND FATIGUE STRESS DISTRIBUTION IN HELICAL GEAR SYSTEMS ...... 907 S. Jyothirmai, R. Ramesh, T. Swarnalatha, D. Renuka

DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF KNOWLEDGE BASE SCHEME FOR CHROMITE-BASED RESIN BONDED SAND CORE SYSTEM...... 919 B. Surekha, D. Hanumantha Rao, G. Krishna Mohana Rao, Pandu R. Vundavilli

APPLICATION OF ANN IN IDENTIFYING DEFECTS IN IMPACTED COMPOSITE...... 926 S. Samanta, A. Mandal, Thingujam Jackson Singh

ANALYSIS OF SURFACE TOPOLOGY IN DRY MACHINING OF EN-8 STEEL...... 931 Sunil J. Raykar, D. M. D’Addona, Davorin Kramar

EFFECT OF CEO2 IN CR3C2-NICR COATING ON SUPERNI 600 AT HIGH TEMPERATURE ...... 939 Sanjeet Kumar, Deepa Mudgal, Surendra Singh, Satya Prakash

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON DRILLING OF AA2219-TIB2/ZRB2 IN-SITU METAL MATRIX COMPOSITES ...... 950 A. Mahamani

MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION OF TURNING PROCESS DURING MACHINING OF ALMG1SICU USING NON-DOMINATED SORTED GENETIC ALGORITHM...... 961 Rahul Dhabale, Vijaykumar S. Jatti, T. P. Singh

THRUST, TORQUE ANALYSES AND OPTIMIZATION IN MICRODRILLING OF GFRP USING FULL FACTORIAL DESIGN INTEGRATED CNSGA-II ALGORITHM ...... 967 Shiba Narayan Sahu, Debasis Nayak, Hemanta Kumar Rana

ENHANCED MECHANICAL AND WEAR PERFORMANCE OF EPOXY/GLASS COMPOSITES WITH PTW/GRAPHITE HYBRID FILLERS...... 975 M. Sudheer, K. Hemanth, K. Raju, Thirumaleshwara Bhat

DESIGN, MODELING AND STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF WAVE SPRINGS...... 988 P. N. L. Pavani, B. K. Prafulla, R. Pola Rao, S. Srikiran

EVALUATION OF CHIP-TOOL INTERFACE TEMPERATURE: EFFECT OF TOOL COATING AND CUTTING PARAMETERS DURING TURNING HARDENED AISI 4340 STEEL ...... 996 Satish Chinchanikar, S. K. Choudhury

MECHANICAL AND DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF THYSANOLAENA MAXIMA (BROOM GRASS) LONG FIBRE REINFORCED POLYESTER COMPOSITES...... 1006 Nadendla Srinivasababu, J. Suresh Kumar, K. Vijaya Kumar Reddy

TAGUCHI APPROACH FOR DIAMOND-LIKE CARBON FILM PROCESSING ...... 1017 Vijaykumar S. Jatti, Meena Laad, T. P. Singh

PREDICTION OF OPTIMAL CONDITIONS FOR WEDM OF AL 6063/ ZRSIO4(P) MMC ...... 1024 Anand Sharma, Mohinder Pal Garg, Kapil Kumar Goyal

DEVELOPMENT OF A FOUR BAR COMPLIANT MECHANISM USING PSEUDO RIGID BODY MODEL (PRBM)...... 1034 Bhagyesh Deshmukh, Sujit Pardeshi, Roohshad Mistry, Sachin Kandharkar, Santosh Wagh

INVESTIGATION OF CUTTING FORCE, SURFACE ROUGHNESS AND FLANK WEAR IN TURNING OF IN-SITU AL6061-TIC METAL MATRIX COMPOSITE ...... 1040 D. Sai Chaitanya Kishore, K. Prahlada Rao, A. Mahamani

A VARIABLE VISCOSITY APPROACH FOR THE EVALUATION OF LOAD CARRYING CAPACITY OF OIL LUBRICATED JOURNAL BEARING WITH TIO2 NANOPARTICLES AS LUBRICANT ADDITIVES ...... 1051 K. G. Binu, B. S. Shenoy, D. S. Rao, R. Pai

PROCESSING OF B4C PARTICULATE REINFORCED 6061ALUMINUM MATRIX COMPOSITES BY MELT STIRRING INVOLVING TWO-STEP ADDITION...... 1068 V. Auradi, G. L. Rajesh, S. A. Kori

DIAMOND MACHINING OF RAPIDLY SOLIDIFIED ALUMINIUM FOR OPTICAL MOULD INSERTS...... 1077 K. Abou-El-Hossein, O. A. Olufayo

EFFECT OF PULSE VOLTAGE TRIMMING ON DIFFERENT CHARACTERISTICS OF POLYMER THICK FILM RESISTORS ...... 1083 Rambabu. Busi, K. V. Subramanium, B. Poornaiah, Y. Srinivasa Rao

OPTIMIZATION OF THE SURFACE INTEGRITY CHARACTERISTICS OF EDM PROCESS USING PCA BASED GREY RELATION INVESTIGATION ...... 1091 Shailesh Dewangan, Chandan Kumar Biswas, Soumya Gangopadhyay

MODELING INFLUENCE OF TUBE MATERIAL ON VIBRATION BASED EMMFS USING ANFIS...... 1097 Pravin Patil, Satish C. Sharma, Himanshu Jaiswal, Ashwani Kumar

MOLYBDENUM HETEROPOLYOXOMETALATE THIN FILMS FOR SOLAR CELL APPLICATIONS...... 1104 S. R. Mane, B. J. Walekar, R. M. Mane, V. V. Kondalkar, V. B. Ghanwat, P. N. Bhosale

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF DRY SLIDING WEAR BEHAVIOR OF GRAPHITE REINFORCED ALUMINUM MMCS...... 1110 S. Rajesh, A. Gopala Krishna, P. Rama Murty Raju, M. Duraiselvam

EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES ON EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE AND STRAIN RATE ON DEFORMATION BEHAVIOUR OF TI-6AL-4V USING TAGUCHI METHOD ...... 1121 J. Babu, Abhijit Dutta, A. Kumaraswamy

EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES ON EFFECT OF PROCESS PARAMETERS ON DELAMINATION IN DRILLING GFRP COMPOSITES USING TAGUCHI METHOD ...... 1131 Tom Sunny, J. Babu, Jose Philip

FINITE ELEMENT COMPRESSION MODELLING OF 2X2 TWILL WOVEN FABRIC TEXTILE COMPOSITE...... 1143 Anurag Dixit, R. K. Misra, Harlal Singh Mali

DEVELOPMENT OF ALUMINIUM BASED SILICON CARBIDE PARTICULATE METAL MATRIX COMPOSITE FOR SPUR GEAR ...... 1150 P. B. Pawar, Abhay A. Utpat

INVESTIGATION OF MATERIAL MODEL FOR SIMULATIONS OF DEEP DRAWING IN DYNAMIC STRAIN AGING REGION ...... 1157 S. M. Hussaini, A. K. Gupta, S. K. Singh

EVALUATION OF MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF ALUMINIUM ALLOY (AL-2024) REINFORCED WITH MOLYBDENUM DISULPHIDE (MOS2) METAL MATRIX COMPOSITES...... 1161 Bhargavi Rebba, N. Ramanaiah

MICRO MACHINING FOR MICRO ELECTRO MECHANICAL SYSTEMS (MEMS)...... 1170 Venkata Ramesh Mamilla, Kommuri. Sai Chakradhar

INFLUENCE OF PROCESS PARAMETERS ON CUTTING FORCE AND SURFACE ROUGHNESS DURING TURNING OF AA2219-TIB2/ZRB2 IN-SITU METAL MATRIX COMPOSITES...... 1178 A. Mahamani

APPLICATION OF VALUE STREAM MAPPING FOR REDUCTION OF CYCLE TIME IN A MACHINING PROCESS ...... 1187 K. Venkataraman, B. Vijaya Ramnath, V. Muthu Kumar, C. Elanchezhian

METALLIZATION ON FDM PROCESSED PARTS USING ELECTROLESS PROCEDURE...... 1197 Azhar Equbal, Asif Equbal, A. K. Sood

OPTIMIZATION OF PIEZO-FIBRE COMPOSITE WITH IDE EMBEDDED IN A MULTILAYER GLASS FIBRE COMPOSITE...... 1207 B. Vinod Kumar, Anoop Raveendran, Victor Davis

OPTIMIZATION OF DEEP DRILLING PROCESS PARAMETERS OF AISI 321 STEEL USING TAGUCHI METHOD...... 1217 Arshad Noor Siddiquee, Zahid A. Khan, Pankul Goel, Mukesh Kumar, Gaurav Agarwal, Noor Zaman Khan

DEVELOPMENT AND CHARACTERIZATION OF HARD AND WEAR RESISTANT MMC COATING ON TI-6AL-4V SUBSTRATE BY LASER CLADDING ...... 1226 Mandeep Dhanda, Barun Haldar, P. Saha

RSM BASED STUDY OF CUTTING TEMPERATURE DURING HARD TURNING WITH MULTILAYER COATED CARBIDE INSERT...... 1233 Suha K. Shihab, Zahid A. Khan, Aas Mohammad, Arshad Noor Siddiqueed

EFFECTIVENESS OF BUCKMINSTER FULLERENE REINFORCEMENT ON MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF FRP COMPOSITES ...... 1243 P. Prasanthi, G. Sambasiva Rao, B. Umamaheswar Gowd

MACHINING CHARACTERISTICS OF H.S.S. & TITANIUM USING ELECTRO DISCHARGE SAWING AND WIRE – ELECTRODISCHARGE MACHINING ...... 1253 N. Nagabhushana Ramesh, Kalley Harinarayana, B. Balu Naik

THE SIGNIFICANT APPLICATION OF FEM TO EVALUATE THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF THIN FILMS...... 1260 R. Venkateswara Rao

PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF BIODEGRADABLE PLA/PCL POLYMERIC BLENDS ...... 1266 A. K. Matta, R. Umamaheswara Rao, K. N. S. Suman, V. Rambabu

FEA BASED MODELING OF MAGNETO RHEOLOGICAL DAMPER TO CONTROL VIBRATIONS DURING MACHINING ...... 1271 G. M. Sayeed Ahmed, P. Ravinder Reddy, N. Seetharamaiah

NANOCRYSTALLINE MOBI2SE5 TERNARY MIXED METAL CHALCOGENIDE THIN-FILMS FOR SOLAR CELL APPLICATIONS ...... 1285 R. M. Mane, V. B. Ghanwat, V. V. Kondalkar, K. V. Khot, S. R. Mane, P. S. Patil, P. N. Bhosale

OPTIMIZATION OF MACHINING PARAMETERS IN EDM PROCESS USING CAST AND SINTERED COPPER ELECTRODES ...... 1292 P. Balasubramanian, T. Senthilvelan

METAL REMOVAL AND KERF ANALYSIS IN ABRASIVE JET DRILLING OF GLASS SHEETS...... 1303 D. V. Srikanth, M. Sreenivasarao

ANALYSIS AND OPTIMIZATION OF GATING SYSTEM FOR COMMUTATOR END BRACKET ...... 1312 B. Vijaya Ramnath, C. Elanchezhian, Vishal Chandrasekhar, A. Arun Kumar, S. Mohamed Asif, G. Riyaz Mohamed, D. Vinodh Raj, C. Suresh Kumar

EFFECT OF BORON CARBIDE PARTICLE SIZE AND VOLUME FRACTION OF TIB-TIC REINFORCEMENT ON FRACTOGRAPHY OF PM PROCESSED TITANIUM MATRIX COMPOSITES...... 1329 K. Srinivasa Vadayar, S. Devaki Rani, V. V. Bhanu Prasad

INTERLAMINAR SHEAR STRENGTH OF MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE AND CARBON FIBER REINFORCED, EPOXY – MATRIX HYBRID COMPOSITE ...... 1336 K. Chandra Shekar, B. Anjaneya Prasad, N. Eswara Prasad

FINITE ELEMENT (FE) SHEAR MODELING OF WOVEN FABRIC TEXTILE COMPOSITE ...... 1344 R. K. Misra, Anurag Dixit, Harlal Singh Mali

PART 3

INVESTIGATIONS ON HARD TURNING USING COATED CARBIDE INSERT: GREY BASED TAGUCHI AND REGRESSION METHODOLOGY...... 1351 Dipti Kanta Das, Ashok Kumar Sahoo, Ratnakar Das, B. C. Routara

EFFECT OF EPOXY MODIFIERS (AL2O3/SIO2/TIO2) ON MECHANICAL PERFORMANCE OF EPOXY/GLASS FIBER HYBRID COMPOSITES...... 1359 Ramesh K. Nayak, Alina Dash, B. C. Ray

COMPARISON OF MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND EFFECT OF SLIDING VELOCITY ON WEAR PROPERTIES OF AL 6061, MG 4%, FLY ASH AND AL 6061, MG 4%, GRAPHITE 4%, FLY ASH HYBRID METAL MATRIX COMPOSITE...... 1365 Viney Kumar, Rahul Dev Gupta, N. K. Batra

EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF SPRINGBACK IN MILD STEEL AND ITS VALIDATION USING LS-DYNA...... 1376 G. M. Sayeed Ahmed, Hakeemuddin Ahmed, Mohd Viquar Mohiuddin, S. Md Safi Sajid

AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON MACHINABILITY STUDIES OF STEELS BY FACE TURNING ...... 1386 Rajshekhar Lalbondre, Prasad Krishna, G. C. Mohankumar

MECHANICAL CHARACTERISATION OF RATTAN FIBRE POLYESTER COMPOSITE...... 1396 N. V. Rachchh, P. S. Ujeniya, R. K. Misra

MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR OF GLASS AND CARBON FIBRE REINFORCED COMPOSITES AT VARYING STRAIN RATES AND TEMPERATURES ...... 1405 C. Elanchezhian, B. Vijaya Ramnath, J. Hemalatha

DEVELOPMENT OF A REVERSE LOGISTICS PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM FOR A BATTERY MANUFACTURER ...... 1419 Milind Bansia, Jayson K. Varkey, Saurabh Agrawal

EFFECT OF SLENDERNESS RATIO ON CRACK PARAMETERS OF SIMPLY SUPPORTED SHAFT...... 1428 Jajneswar Nanda, Sandeep Das, Dayal R. Parhi

CO-PRECIPITATION SYNTHESIS, STRUCTURAL AND LUMINESCENT BEHAVIOR OF 3+ ERBIUM DOPED GADOLINIUM OXIDE (ER :GD2O3) NANORODS ...... 1436 G. Boopathi, S. Gokul Raj, G. Ramesh Kumar, R. Mohan

FATIGUE BEHAVIOR OF NI-P COATED SI3N4 REINFORCED AL6061 COMPOSITES...... 1444 C. S. Ramesh, R. Keshavamurthy, J. Madhusudhan

HIGH CYCLE FATIGUE LIFE PREDICTION OF AL6061-TIB2 IN-SITU COMPOSITES ...... 1455 C. S. Ramesh, R. Keshavamurthy, G. Subramanian, K. R. Bharath

FRICTION STIR WELDING OF METAL MATRIX COMPOSITE USING COATED TOOL ...... 1470 C. Devanathan, A. Suresh Babu

OPTIMIZING MULTI CHARACTERISTICS IN DRILLING OF GFRP COMPOSITE USING UTILITY CONCEPT WITH TAGUCHI'S APPROACH ...... 1476 Sunil Hansda, Simul Banerjee

COMPARATIVE STUDIES ON THE CORROSION AND SCRATCHBEHAVIORS OF PLASMA SPRAYED ZRO2 AND WC-CO COATINGS...... 1489 S. Sathish, M. Geetha, R. Asokamani

A GREY-BASED TAGUCHI METHOD TO OPTIMIZE HOT FORGING PROCESS...... 1495 Md. Israr Equbal, Randhir Kumar, Mohammad Shamim, R. K. Ohdar

DEFORMATION MECHANISM ANALYSIS OF SINGLE POINT INCREMENTAL SHEET METAL FORMING...... 1505 D. S. Malwad, V. M. Nandedkar

MOSSBAUER SPECTROSCOPIC STUDY OF HIGH MAGNETOSTRICTIVE COBALT CHROMIUM FERRITES FOR AUTOMOBILE TORQUE SENSORS ...... 1511 G. S. N. Rao, B. Parvatheeswara Rao, H. H. Hamdeh

PARAMETRIC INVESTIGATION OF TURNING PROCESS ON EN-31 STEEL...... 1516 L. B. Abhang, M. Hameedullah

MICROSTRUCTURE AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF A356/SIC COMPOSITES FABRICATED BY ELECTROMAGNETIC STIR CASTING...... 1524 Shashi Prakash Dwivedi, Satpal Sharma, Raghvendra Kumar Mishra

OPTIMIZATION OF CUTTING PARAMETERS FOR SURFACE ROUGHNESS IN MACHINING OF GFRP COMPOSITES WITH GRAPHITE/FLY ASH FILLER ...... 1533 Arun Kumar Parida, Ratnakar Das, A. K. Sahoo, B. C. Routara

WELDING PROCESS SIMULATION MODEL FOR TEMPERATURE AND RESIDUAL STRESS ANALYSIS...... 1539 Harinadh Vemanaboina, Suresh Akella, Ramesh Kumar Buddu

PRINCIPLES, CHARACTERISTICS AND APPLICATIONS OF MAGNETO RHEOLOGICAL FLUID DAMPER IN FLOW AND SHEAR MODE ...... 1547 Sadak Ali Khan, A. Suresh, N. Seetharamaiah

SPRAY PYROLYZED ZNSNO3 NANOSTRUCTURED THIN FILMS FOR HYDROGEN SENSING...... 1557 L. A. Patil, I. G. Pathan, D. N. Suryawanshi, A. R. Bari, D. S. Rane

STRUCTURAL AND THIRD-ORDER NONLINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF LITHIUM HYDROGEN PHTHALATE DIHYDRATE SINGLE CRYSTALS...... 1566 D. Saravanan, B. Sivakumar, S. Gokul Raj, G. Ramesh Kumar, K. Thangaraj

PREDICTION OF OPTIMAL PROCESS PARAMETERS FOR ABRASIVE ASSISTED DRILLING OF SS304 ...... 1572 Kapil Kumar Goyal, Vivek Jain, Sudha Kumari

DYNAMIC RESPONSE OF LAMINATED FRP COMPOSITE MADE CRACKED SPHERICAL SHELLS SUBJECTED TO FREE VIBRATION ...... 1580 R. R. Das, A. Chakraborty, A. Guchhait, A. Singla

FREE VIBRATION ANALYSIS OF TRUCK TRANSMISSION HOUSING BASED ON FEA...... 1588 Ashwani Kumar, Himanshu Jaiswal, Avichal Pandey, Pravin P. Patil

FREE VIBRATION MODES ANALYSIS OF FEMUR BONE FRACTURE USING VARYING BOUNDARY CONDITIONS BASED ON FEA...... 1593 Ashwani Kumar, Himanshu Jaiswal, Tarun Garg, Pravin P. Patil

MICROSTRUCTURE AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF AZ31B MAGNESIUM ALLOY BY FRICTION STIR WELDING ...... 1600 S. Ugender, A. Kumar, A. Somi Reddy

SURFACE MODIFICATIONS OF TITANIUM MATERIALS FOR DEVELOPING CORROSION BEHAVIOR IN HUMAN BODY ENVIRONMENT: A REVIEW ...... 1610 Mohsin Talib Mohammed, Zahid A. Khan, Arshad Noor Siddiquee

FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATION OF NANO-INDENTATION OF DLC COATED HSS SUBSTRATE ...... 1619 Pravin S. Pandure, Vijaykumar S. Jatti, T. P. Singh

INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECT OF BUILT ORIENTATION ON MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND TOTAL COST OF FDM PARTS ...... 1625 Sandeep Raut, Vijaykumar S. Jatti, Nitin K. Khedkar, T. P. Singh

EFFECT OF ANNEALING ATMOSPHERE ON STRUCTURAL AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF ND:ZNO THIN FILMS ...... 1631 T. Prasada Rao, S. Gokul Raj, M. C. Santhosh Kumar

ENHANCEMENT OF DRY SLIDING WEAR CHARACTERISTICS OF CK45 STEEL ALLOY BY LASER SURFACE HARDENING PROCESSING...... 1639 K. M. Adel

A REVIEW ON GREEN MANUFACTURING: IT'S IMPORTANT, METHODOLOGY AND ITS APPLICATION ...... 1644 I. D. Paul, G. P. Bhole, J. R. Chaudhari

REVIEW ON SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF GALLIUM PHOSPHIDE ...... 1650 A. R. Aparna, V. Brahmajirao, T. V. Karthikeyan

PREPARATION OF 6061AL-AL2O3 MMC'S BY STIR CASTING AND EVALUATION OF MECHANICAL AND WEAR PROPERTIES...... 1658 V. Bharath, Madev Nagaral, V. Auradi, S. A. Kori

TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT STRUCTURAL AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF NANOSTRUCTURED CR DOPED CDO THIN FILMS PREPARED BY DC REACTIVE MAGNETRON SPUTTERING...... 1668 B. Hymavathi, B. Rajesh Kumar, T. Subba Rao

MATHEMATICAL MODELING FOR RADIAL OVERCUT ON ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE MACHINING OF INCOLOY 800 BY RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY...... 1674 V. Muthukumar, N. Rajesh, R. Venkatasamy, A. Sureshbabu, N. Senthilkumar

MULTI RESPONSE OPTIMIZATION OF WIRE ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE MACHINING PROCESS PARAMETERS USING TAGUCHI BASED GREY RELATIONAL ANALYSIS...... 1683 Zahid A. Khan, Arshad N. Siddiquee, Noor Zaman Khan, Urfi Khan, G. A. Quadir

TENSILE AND FLEXURAL BEHAVIOR OF HEMP FIBER REINFORCED VIRGIN-RECYCLED HDPE MATRIX COMPOSITES ...... 1696 Sukhdeep Singh, Dharmpal Deepak, Lakshya Aggarwal, V. K. Gupta

ON THE USE OF ACTIVE FIBER COMPOSITES FOR SMART CONTROL OF NONLINEAR VIBRATIONSOF SANDWICH SHELLS...... 1703 Saroj Kumar Sarangi, B. Basa

FORMULATION OF MATHEMATICAL MODEL FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF TOOL WEARS IN BORING MACHINING OPERATION ON CAST IRON USING CARBIDE AND CBN TOOLS ...... 1710 R. S. Kadu, G. K. Awari, C. N. Sakhale, J. P. Modak

TAILORING THE STRUCTURAL AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIES AND OF NICKEL FERRITE BY AUTO COMBUSTION METHOD...... 1725 T. Shanmugavel, S. Gokul Raj, G. Rajarajan, G. Ramesh Kumar

EVALUATION OF ND: YAG LASER WELDING EFFICIENCIES FOR 304L STAINLESS STEEL...... 1731 A. P. Tadamalle, Y. P. Reddy, E. Ramjee, Vijayakumar Reddy

INFLUENCE OF TITANIUM ADDITION ON MECHANICAL PROPERTIES, RESIDUAL STRESSES AND CORROSION BEHAVIOUR OF AISI 430 GRADE FERRITIC STAINLESS STEEL GTA WELDS ...... 1740 G. Mallaiah, P. Ravinder Reddy, A. Kumar

PROCESS OPTIMIZATION AND ESTIMATION OF MACHINING PERFORMANCES USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK IN WIRE EDM...... 1752 G. Ugrasen, H. V. Ravindra, G. V. Naveen Prakash, R. Keshavamurthy

LOW COST FRICTION STIR WELDING OF ALUMINIUM NANOCOMPOSITE – A REVIEW ...... 1761 Lingaraju Dumpala, D. Lokanadham

COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SURFACE ROUGHNESS AND CYLINDRICITY OF ALUMINIUM SILICON NITRIDE MATERIAL USING MRA GMDH & PATTERN RECOGNITION TECHNIQUE IN DRILLING ...... 1770 B. M. Umesh Gowda, H. V. Ravindra, S. Prathik Jain, Mohinder N. Raj, G. V. Naveen Prakesh, G. Ugrasen

ESTIMATION OF CIRCULARITY, CYLINDRICITY AND SURFACE ROUGHNESS IN DRILLING AL-SI3N4 METAL MATRIX COMPOSITES USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK...... 1780 B. M. Umesh Gowda, H. V. Ravindra, M. Ullas, G. V. Naveen Prakash, G. Ugrasen

ESTIMATION OF MACHINING PERFORMANCES USING MRA, GMDH AND ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK IN WIRE EDM OF EN-31 ...... 1788 G. Ugrasen, H. V. Ravindra, G. V. Naveen Prakash, R. Keshavamurthy

CHARACTERIZATIONS OF ULTRASONICALLY PREPARED NANOSTRUCTURED ZNO POWDER AND NH3 SENSING PERFORMANCE OF ITS THICK FILM SENSOR...... 1798 Anil R. Bari, Lalchand A. Patil, Idris G. Pathan, Dinesh N. Surawanshi, Dhayaghan S. Rane

FUZZY LOGIC MODELING AND MULTIPLE PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION IN TURNING GFRP COMPOSITES USING DESIRABILITY FUNCTION ANALYSIS...... 1805 Shiv Sharma, Santosh Tamang, D. Devarasiddappa, M. Chandrasekran

MULTI OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION METHOD BY PSO...... 1815 D. K. Biswas, S. C. Panja, S. Guha

DESIGN & FABRICATION OF A SPECIAL TOOL TO PRODUCE SQUARE HOLE...... 1823 Shailesh S. Sengar, Vaibhav Raghav, Chadaram Srinivasu

WETTABILITY OF MOLTEN GLASS ON WATER BASED SOL-GEL COATINGS...... 1837 S. V. Prabhakar Vattikuti, B. Venkatesh

MICROWAVE ASSISTED ATTRACTIVE AND RAPID PROCESS FOR SYNTHESIS OF OCTAHYDROQUINAZOLINONE IN AQUEOUS HYDROTROPIC SOLUTIONS ...... 1850 S. B. Kamble, A. S. Kumbhar, S. N. Jadhav, R. S. Salunkhe

AN IMPROVED FSW TOOL FOR JOINING COMMERCIAL ALUMINUM PLATES...... 1857 Atul Suri

INVESTIGATE THE COMBINED EFFECT OF GEAR RATIO, HELIX ANGLE, FACEWIDTH AND MODULE ON BENDING AND COMPRESSIVE STRESS OF STEEL ALLOY HELICAL GEAR ...... 1865 B. Venkatesh, S. V. Prabhakar Vattikuti, S. Deva Prasad

NOVEL ANALYSIS ON THE INFLUENCE OF TIP RADIUS AND SHAPE OF THE NANOINDENTER ON THE HARDNESS OF MATERIALS ...... 1871 Suresh Sagadevan, Priya Murugasen

COMPARATIVE STUDY OF DIFFERENT APPROACHES IN THE PREDICTION OF TRANSVERSE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY...... 1879 T. Srinivasa Rao, G. Sambasiva Rao, B. Uma Maheswar Gowd

THREE START HELICAL ABRASIVE FLOW MACHINING FOR DUCTILE MATERIALS...... 1884 Rahul Kumar, Qasim Murtaza, R. S. Walia

STRUCTURAL DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF FREIGHT RAILWAY WAGON USING FINITE ELEMENT METHOD ...... 1891 S. S. Harak, S. C. Sharma, S. P. Harsha

EVALUATIONS OF YOUNG'S MODULUS OF BORON NITRIDE NANOTUBE REINFORCED NANO-COMPOSITES...... 1899 Sandesh Trivedi, Satish C. Sharma, S. P. Harsha

FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS AND PROCESS PARAMETERS OPTIMIZATION OF ULTRASONIC VIBRATION ASSISTED TURNING (UVT) ...... 1906 K. Vivekananda, G. N. Arka, S. K. Sahoo

THE STUDY OF FERROELECTRIC, MAGNETIC AND MAGNETOELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF MULTIFERROIC PB(FE0.5TI0.5)O3 NANOPARTICLES...... 1915 Snehlata Gupta, S. Chakrabarti, V. R. Palkar

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF FATIGUE BEHAVIOR OF CR AND RTR 6082 AL- ALLOY...... 1919 Vineet Kumar, I. V. Singh, B. K. Mishra, R. Jayaganthan

SIMULATION OF 3-D THERMO-ELASTIC FRACTURE PROBLEMS USING COUPLED FE- EFG APPROACH ...... 1927 Himanshu Pathak, Akhilendra Singh, Indra Vir Singh

EFFECT OF SPLITS IN RESONANCE PERMEABILITY OF ESRR METAMATERIAL AT THZ...... 1936 Parul Dawar, Asok De

SOME ANALYTICAL STUDIES ON THE PERFORMANCE OF GRID CONNECTED SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM WITH DIFFERENT PARAMETERS ...... 1942 Paritosh Bhattacharya, Suman Dey, Bagmi Mustaphi

A REVIEW ON MECHANICAL AND TRIBOLOGICAL BEHAVIORS OF STIR CAST ALUMINUM MATRIX COMPOSITES...... 1951 Himanshu Kala, K. K. S. Mer, Sandeep Kumar

ABRASION RESISTANCE OF GEOPOLYMER COMPOSITES ...... 1961 Kolli Ramujee, M. Potharaju

STUDIES ON STRUCTURAL DEFECTS ON 60CO IRRADIATED MULTI WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES...... 1967 P. S. Rama Sreekanth, K. Acharyya, I. Talukdar, S. Kanagaraj

FABRICATION OF CNT BASED GAS SENSOR USING INTERDIGITATED GOLD ELECTRODES...... 1976 Niraj Kumar, Parikshit Sahatiya, Pranay Dubey

REAL-TIME THERMAL ERROR COMPENSATION MODULE FOR INTELLIGENT ULTRA PRECISION TURNING MACHINE (IUPTM)...... 1981 T. Narendra Reddy, V. Shanmugaraj, Vinod Prakash, S. Gopi Krishna, S. Narendranath, P. V. Shashi Kumar

MECHANICAL AND TRIBOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF PMMA-SEA SHELL BASED BIOCOMPOSITE FOR DENTAL APPLICATION ...... 1989 R. Karthick, P. Sirisha, M. Ravi Sankar

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