Dr. Anirban Bhattacharya

Dr. Anirban Bhattacharya
Asst. Professor
Ph.D, IIT Kanpur
Ph: +91-612-302 8117
Fax: +91-612-227 7383
abhatta[*AT]iitp.ac.in

Research Areas

  • Incremental sheet metal forming, Rapid prototyping
  • Conventional machining, Grinding, Non-conventional machining, Welding
  • Modeling and simulation of Manufacturing processes
Courses taught At Indian Institute of Technology Patna
  • ME742: Advanced Manufacturing Processes
  • ME526: Metal Forming and Analysis
  • ME110: Workshop
  • ME203: Advanced Solid Mechanics
  • ME210: Workshop - II
Thesis guidance At Indian Institute of Technology Patna
  • Ph.D – 04 (Ongoing)
  • M.Tech – 02 (Ongoing)
  • B.Tech – 03 (Completed)
Professional Experience
  • Indian Institute of Technology Patna (since December 2015).

Previous Organizations worked:

  • Thapar University, Patiala, Punjab (presently known as Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology (Deemed to be University)).
  • Kalyani Government Engineering College, WB.
Awards & Honours
  • Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing, Journal of Manufacturing Processes, September 2017.
  • Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing, Materials and Manufacturing Processes, December 2014.
  • Visited Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA for collaborative research on Incremental Sheet Metal Forming with funding and scholarship received from Indo-US Centre for Research Excellence in Fabrionics, New Delhi (for 3 months, 2010).
Research Sponsored projects
  • Ongoing
    ‘Influence of Secondary Heat in Friction Stir Welding: Mechanical Properties and Metallurgical Observations’ sponsored by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) of DST, New Delhi.
  • Completed
    Five projects (as PI or Co-PI, implemented at previous organization worked)
Publications International Journal: (Selected recent publications)
  • Ashu Garg, Madhav Raturi, Anirban Bhattacharya, ‘Metallurgical and Vibro-Acoustic Signal Behavior in Preheating Assisted Friction Stir Welding between AA6061-T6 and AA7075-T651’, Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China, 2019 (Accepted).
  • Ashu Garg, Anirban Bhattacharya, ‘Influence of Cu powder on strength, failure and metallurgical characterization of single, double pass friction stir welded AA6061-AA7075 joints’, Materials Science & Engineering A, Vol. 759, pp.661–679, 2019.
  • Madhav Raturi, Ashu Garg, Anirban Bhattacharya, ‘Joint strength and failure studies of dissimilar AA6061-AA7075 friction stir welds: Effects of tool pin, process parameters and preheating’ Engineering Failure Analysis, Vol. 96 pp. 570–588, 2019.
  • Ashu Garg, Anirban Bhattacharya, ‘Strength and failure analysis of similar and dissimilar friction stir spot welds: Influence of different tools and pin geometries’, Materials and Design, Vol. 127, pp. 272-286, 2017.
  • Ashu Garg, Anirban Bhattacharya, ‘Similar and Dissimilar Joining of AA6061-T6 and Copper by Single and Multi-spot Friction Stirring’ Journal of Materials Processing Technology, Vol. 250, pp. 330 – 344, 2017.
  • Ashu Garg, Anirban Bhattacharya, ‘On Lap Shear Strength of Friction Stir Spot Welded AA6061 Alloy’, Journal of Manufacturing Processes, Vol. 26, 2017, pp. 203–215.
  • Ashu Garg, Anirban Bhattacharya, ‘An insight to the failure of FDM parts under tensile loading: finite element analysis and experimental study’, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, Vol. 120, 2017, pp. 225–236.