Dr. Abhishek Kumar


Dr. Abhishek Kumar

Professor
Department of Applied Mechanics
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Prayagraj, India-211004
E-mail: abhishek[at]mnnit[dot]ac[dot]in
Telephone: 05322271209(O) 05322271708(R)

Other Academic Achievements

Keynote Address/Invited Talks in Conferences & Workshops:

Delivered an invited talk on “Some Experimental Studies on Materials Development for Microwave Absorption and Structural Application” in VAMMAM-2018 at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee during August 24-25, 2018.
Delivered an invited talk on “Influence of multiaxial compression on corrosion behaviour of pure copper” in VAMMAM-2020 through online mode during August 23-24, 2020.
Delivered an invited talk on “Development of Coatings for Radar Absorbing Materials at X-band” International Conference on Recent Advances in Materials, Mechanical and Civil Engineering (ICRAMMCE-2017) held at Marri Laxman Reddy Institute of Technology and Management, Hyderabad during June 01-02, 2017.
Delivered an invited talk on “Corrosion behavior of severely deformed Al 5083”, in CAMP-2015, MNIT Jaipur, Rajasthan, during December 2-4, 2015.

Conferences Attended for Presenting Paper:

Attended in international conference CHEM-CONFLUX20 at MNNIT Allahabad during February 14-16, 2020.
Attended and participated in national conference IANN-2019 at MNNIT Allahabad during November 15-16, 2019.
Attended and participated in an International conference at Nanyang Technical University, Singapore during July 12-14, 2017.
Attended and participated in INCAM 2017 at MNNIT Allahabad during July 5-7, 2017.
Attended and participated in International conference ICRAMMCE-2017 held at Marri Laxman Reddy Institute of Technology and Management, Hyderabad during June 01-02, 2017
Attended and participated in national conference CAMP-2015 at MNIT Jaipur, Rajasthan, during December 2-4, 2015
Attended and participated in national conference on “Product Design and Development” at MNNIT Allahabad, during November 21-22, 2015.
Attended and participated in an international conference “The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, 143rd Annual Meeting & Exhibition” held during February 16-20, 2014 at San Diego, California, USA
Attended and participated in the international conference “Advances in Materials and Processing: Challenges and Opportunities (AMPCO 2012)” held during November 2-4, 2012 at IIT Roorkee
Attended 4th International Conference on Theoretical, Applied, Computational and Experimental Mechanics (ICTACEM-2007) and Reunion of the Aerospace Engineering Graduates of IIT Kharagpur, from 27th -29th December, 2007 at IIT Kharagpur

Award and Honors:

Best Poster Award on the research article- Abir Roy, Rishi Shukla and Abhishek Kumar, “Mechanical behavior of Al 1xxx processed by Torsion” NMD-ATM 2016 held at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur during 11-14 November, 2016
Recipient of QIP fellowship for PhD at IIT Roorkee, 2010-2013.
Recipient of GATE fellowship for M.Tech. at MNNIT Allahabad, 2002-2004.
Recipient of National Scholarship during 10+2, 1993-1995.
IInd Best Paper Presentation on the research article- Rahul Singh, Gaurav Rajan and Abhishek Kumar, “Parameter optimization of sliding wear of Cryogenically-rolled Austenitic steel using Taguchi method” in conference AEMSD – 2018 organized by NML-Jamshedpur, to be held on 18-19 January 2019.
Best Paper Award on the research article- Sushil Kumar Singh, Amit Kumar, Samarjit Singh, Abhishek Kumar and Anuj Jain “Investigation of thermo-mechanical properties of surface-treated SiO2/epoxy nanocomposite”, in the International Conference & Exposition on Mechanical, Material and Manufacturing Technology” (ICE3MT2020) organized by CVR College of Engineering Hyderabad, held on 9-10 October 2020.

Conferences/ Workshops/Symposium/ Short-term Courses Organized:

GIAN sponsored a Two-week short-term course on “Thermal Sprayed Coatings and Composites: Science, Engineering and Applications (TSCC)” during June 20 – July 1, 2016, in the Department of Applied Mechanics at Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad. (Instructor: Prof. Arvind Agarwal, Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at the Florida International University, Miami, USA; Other Coordinator: Prof. Anuj Jain)
GIAN sponsored One-week short-term course on “Modeling and Simulations at Nanoscale and Nanostructures (MSNN)” during 7th-11th March 2016, in the Department of Applied Mechanics at Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad. (Instructor: Prof Ram V. Mohan Professor, The Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC, USA; Other Coordinator: Prof. Anuj Jain)
Self-financed short term course on “Synthesis, Characterization and Applications of Nanomaterials” from 7th-12th July 2014, jointly organized by departments of Chemistry, Physics and Applied Mechanics (Other Coordinators: Dr. R P Tewai (AMD), Dr Animesh Ojha (Physics), Dr. Naresh Kumar (Physics) and Dr. Ashutosh Pandey (Chemistry)).
Organized two-day national conference “4th Prof. Vijaya Agarwala Memorial National Conference on Microwave Absorbing Materials (VAMMAM-2020)” Jointly with Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, during August 23rd -24th, 2020.
Organized one-day national conference “5th Prof. Vijaya Agarwala Memorial National Conference on Microwave Absorbing Materials (VAMMAM-2021)” Jointly with Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, during August 24th, 2021.

On-going Projects:

“Design and Development of a Proof-of-Concept Model of a Self-Deployable Ultra-Light Weight Adaptive Inflatable Structures”, funded by DST-SERB CORE research grant in January 2023 (File Number: CRG/2022/000671), Funding amount: Indian Rupees 27.06 Lakhs. Project duration: 3 years, Status: Running; P.I.: Dr. Satish Kumar, Role in the Project: Co-P.I.
Received a project for collaborative Ph.D. supervision under MHRD-DRDO research scholar scheme entitled “Development of Multi-layer Radar Absorber Surfaces for Infrared and Microwave dual spectrum regions” in January 2022, Status: Running; Cosupervisor: Dr. Ashish Dubey, DMSRDE Kanpur
Received a research project entitled “Development of novel shape memory polymer composites for shape fixity, recovery and functional properties”, funded by Council of Science & Technology, U.P. October 2023 (Project ID-2277), Funding amount: Indian Rupees 9.72 Lakhs. Project duration: 2 years, Status: Running; Co-P.I.s: Dr. Satish Kumar and Dr. R Sujithra, Role in the Project: P.I

Consultancy(Ongoing):

Testing and consultancy projects can be rendered in the following areas: 1. Testing for mechanical properties of metals and alloys 2. Mechanical and corrosion behaviour of metals and alloys 3. Design and development of microwave absorbers 4. Synthesis and Characterization of nano-materials 5. Thermo-mechanical behavior of nano-filler dispersed polymers

Expert Lectures:

Delivered an invited talk on “Effect of Multi-Axial Compression on Mechanical Behavior of Al-Mg-Si Alloy”, in the Online Short-Term Training Program on Advances in Mechanical Engineering for Sustainability at Bikaner Engineering College Bikaner, Rajasthan, during May 27-31, 2021.
Delivered an invited talk on “Development of materials with improved characteristics” in a TEQIP-III sponsored five days e-Faculty Development Programme on "Application of Thermal Engineering in Manufacturing Industry" jointly organized by Government Engineering College, Raipur (Chhattisgarh) and Rustamji Institute of Technology BSF Academy Tekanpur, Gwalior, (M.P.) during December 21st-25th, 2020.
Delivered an invited talk on “Characterization of Materials for 3D Printing” in a AICTE sponsored Short Term Training Programme on ‘Current Biomedical Applications of 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing’ organized by G H Raisoni College of Engineering, Nagpur during November 02-07, 2020.
Delivered an invited talk on “Materials Characterization” in a TEQIP-III sponsored online Short Term Training Programme on ‘Structural Integrity and Reliability’ organized by MNNIT Allahabad during October 28, 2020 to November 01, 2020.
Delivered guest lecture online on “Mechanical behavior of materials” to the students of G. H. Raisoni College of Engineering, Nagpur on October 24, 2020.
Delivered webinar on “Mechanical Behaviour of nano-filler dispersed epoxy composites” to participants from LDC Institute of Technical Studies on May 27, 2020
Delivered an invited talk on “Characterization Techniques and Fractography” in a Short Term Training Programme on ‘Structural Integrity and Reliability’ at MNNIT Allahabad during December 23-27, 2019
Delivered an invited talk on “Materials Development for Microwave Absorption; Case Study: Electromagnetic Wave Absorption Performance of Ni/SiC and Ni/SiC Graphene Nano-platelets Based Composites” in VAMMAM-2019 at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee on August 24, 2019
Delivered an invited talk on “Development of materials with improved microwave absorption and mechanical properties” International Conference on Recent Advances in Materials, Mechanical and Civil Engineering (ICRAMMCE-2018) held at Marri Laxman Reddy Institute of Technology and Management, Hyderabad during November 19-20, 2018.
Delivered an invited talk on “Lecture cum laboratory demonstration on the development of nano-materials for nanofluids” in NanoFluids-2018 organized by Department of Applied Mechanics at MNNIT Allahabad during October 23-28, 2018.
Delivered an invited talk on “Lecture cum live demonstration on Synthesis of Nano-particles” in Industrial Applications of Heat Transfer Operations (IAHTO-I:2018) organized by Department of Chemical Engineering at MNNIT Allahabad during October 10- 14, 2018.
Delivered an invited talk on “Development of materials with improved mechanical and microwave absorption properties” one day workshop on Industry-Academia Partnership on Current Challenges in Aviation under the aegis of Aeronautical Society of India at HAL, TAD, Kanpur on 6th Oct 2018.
Delivered an expert talk on 15th March 2018 in one week faculty development programme on Emerging Trends in Mechanical Engineering on “Development of microwave absorbing coatings” being organized by Department of Mechanical Engineering, B.I.E.T, Jhansi from March 13-17, 2018.
Delivered an invited talk on “Advanced Materials, Processing and Developments”, at Bikaner Engineering College Bikaner, Rajasthan, during September 21-23, 2016.
Delivered an invited talk on “Mechanical Behaviour of Materials”, in national seminar on Advanced Materials and Processing (AMP-2016) at Bikaner Engineering College Bikaner, Rajasthan, during April 22-23, 2016.
Delivered an invited talk on “Microwave Absorbers” at self-financed short term course on “Synthesis, Characterization and Applications of Nanomaterials” organized during 7th-12th July 2014 at Applied Mechanics Department, MNNIT, Allahabad.
Delivered an invited talk on 10th March, 2022 on the topic “Advancement in Nano Composite Materials”, in the Online Faculty Development Program on FEM & its Applications in Recent Materials Technology at Engineering College Bikaner, Rajasthan during March 10th -14th, 2022.
Delivered an invited talk on 22nd March, 2022 on the topic “Study of severe plastic deformations of metallic materials”, in the Online Faculty Development Program on Innovative Technologies in Department of Mechanical Engineering at Engineering College Bikaner, Rajasthan during March 22th -26th, 2022.
Delivered a keynote talk on 24th, August 2022 on the topic “Development of materials with improved microwave absorption properties”, at 6th Prof. Vijaya Agarwala Memorial International Conference on Microwave Absorbing Materials (VAMMAM-2022) at NIT Patna during Auguest 24th -25th, 2022.
Delivered an invited talk on “Characterization Techniques” in the Self-Financed Short-Term Course on Advances in Composite Materials: Design Manufacturing, & Applications (ACM-DMA: 2023) organized by Department of Mechanical Engineering of MNNIT Allahabad, Prayagraj during June 28-July 02, 2023.

Other Significant Achievements:

Member, Board of Studies of Department of Nano Science and Engineering at Centre for Advanced Studies at Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Technical University (AKTU), Lucknow. (2018-2021)
Served as Reviewer to peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Alloys and Compounds (Elsevier), Materials Science and Engineering B (Elsevier), Advanced Powder Technology (Elsevier), Journal of Materials Science (Springer), Journal of the American Ceramic Society (Wiley) etc.
Summer intern Mr. Satish Kumar, (B.Tech. in Manufacturing Engineering) from Delhi Technical Campus, MDU Rohtak (2016)
Summer intern Mr. Ravi Pratap Singh, (B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering) from National Institute of Foundry and Forge Technology, Ranchi (2016).
Summer Intern Mr. Nisha Ranjan, (Integrated M.Tech. in Nanotechnology Central University of Jharkhand) Summer (2014).