industry acadamic conclave

1. INDUSTRY ACADEMIA CONCLAVE - 2023
THEME – II
Emerging Materials and Methods for Manufacturing and Construction.
An Implementation Based Approach.

2. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Thrust Areas Challenges Identified Ongoing Research
Statistical Quality Control
Industrial Operations
Management
Operations Research
Educational Quality
Healthcare Management
Sustainability in
Manufacturing
 Process Optimization
Accident Prevention and
Analysis
Quality control and management in process
industries
Six Sigma in Higher Education
Analysis of Composites
Ergonomics and Accidents study in heavy duty
vehicles
 Computational Fluid
Dynamics
Compressible Flow
(Supersonic & Hypersonic
regime of flow)
Supersonic Combustion
Solid-Liquid Mixing
Jet Acoustics
Energy Storage
Combustion
Microfluidic Systems
Heat transfer using phase change materials
Combustion in supersonic regime of flow
Transonic flow through lobed nozzle
Leidenfrost propulsion
Ablation effect – Hypersonic flow
Digital microfludic system for biological
application
Reactive precipitation – Numerical and
ExperimentalAnalysis

3. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Thrust Areas Challenges Identified Ongoing Research
Combustion
Thermo Fluids
IC Engine
High Temperature
Deformations
Effective Surface Coatings
Thermal Barrier Coating
Analysis of Jet line geometry & radiant
heat flux characteristics
Thermal Engineering
EV Thermal Management
Cryogenic Treatment
HVAC
Weldability Issues in
Composites
Magnetic refrigeration
Cryogenic heat treatment
Battery thermal management
Vapour absorption refrigeration
Hybrid thermal energy storage system
using phase change material
Friction Stir Welding of AluminiumAlloys

4. Thrust Areas Challenges Identified Ongoing Research
Renewable Energy
Energy Integration &
Systems to Process
Energy Efficiency heat
exchanger networking
Solar energy utilization
Low Grade Energy
recovery
Waste Energy Recovery
Solar Panel efficiency improvement
Tube solar water heater – heat transfer
characteristics
Two phase thermosyphon for solar
application
Analysis and hydro kinetic turbine
Optimization of efficiency of kalina cycle
with turbine staging
Bio degradable lubricant
Lubricant Testing
Biodegradable Materials
and Fluids
Micromachining
ComputerAided Process Planning
Non-conventional Machining Processes
Tribological Fluids from Biodegradable
Materials
Nano-Particle Infused Bio-Degradable
Dielectric Fluids.
Department of Mechanical Engineering

5. Department of Civil Engineering
Thrust Areas Challenges Identified Ongoing Research
Construction Materials
 Cost effective
materials
 Eco-friendly materials
 Carbon sink and low-
carbon building
materials
 Durability issues
 Unscientific waste
disposal
 Cold bonded aggregate concrete,
 Recycled concrete aggregate concrete,
 Geopolymer concrete
 Pozzolanic materials for cement replacement
 Waste materials for aggregate replacement
 Latex modified concrete
 Geosynthetics and natural geotextiles

6. Department of Civil Engineering
Thrust Areas Challenges Identified Ongoing Research
Structural and Earthquake
Engineering
 Repair and rehabilitation of
existing structures
 Earthquake resistant
structures
 Fire resistant structures
 Stability of substructures
 Land slides
 Offshore constructions
 Strengthening techniques of RC
beams
 Seismic analysis of multi-storey
buildings, bridges and dams.
 Seismic risk assessment
 Soft soil and ground improvement
 Behaviour of structural elements
subjected to elevated temperatures.
 Soil characteristics of Marine clays

7. Department of Mechanical Engineering Department of Civil Engineering
Friction Stir Welding Machine Loading frame -1000 kN
Metallurgical Microscope Accelerated Curing Tank
Cryomed Controlled-Rate Freezer Electric Furnace
 Software Expert Facilities
(ANSYS, MatLab, AutoCAD, Solid Works, Fusion 360)
Cyclic Triaxial
High Performance Computing Lab Digital Mortar mixer
MaterialTesting Laboratories Laboratory Ball mill
 CAD/CAM Vertical Shake Table
3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing Flow Table – electrically operated
Research Facilities

8. Research Highlights
PATENTS
Lead free solder alloy for moderately high temperature applications
( Jayesh S, Jacob Elias - IP India)
Lead free solder alloy Tin-Copper-Bismuth-Silver
( Jayesh S, Jacob Elias - IP India)
Driver Drowsiness Detection and Fatal Accident Prevention System with Speed Control
( Jayesh S,Deepu NK, Naufal A, Vineeth VV, Arun CD, Renjith S, Vijesh PV - IP India)
Fuzzy Logic Based System and Method for Optimization of Thermal Barrier Coating
Thickness In Internal Combustion Engines
( Sankar, Vishnu; Thampi B. S., Gireeshkumaran; Panicker M. R., Radhakrishna, P.B Ramkumar
- IP Australia)

9. “ Surely the hands of collaboration will tailor the gap between the industry and
academia, Impacting the society and the development of our great nation”
Thank You