Strengthening and Joining by Plastic Deformation: Select Papers from Aimtdr 2016

Dr Uday Shanker Dixit received his BE degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Roorkee (now the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee) in 1987, his MTech degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) in 1993, and his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the IIT Kanpur in 1998. He has worked for two companies-HMT, Pinjore and Indomag Steel Technology, New Delhi, where his main responsibility was designing various machines. Dr Dixit joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, where he is currently a professor, in 1998. He was also the Officiating Director of the Central Institute of Technology, Kokrajhar from February 2014 to May 2015. Dr Dixit has been actively engaged in research in various areas of design and manufacturing for the last 25 years. He has authored/co-authored 75 journal papers, 91 conference papers, 20 book chapters and 6 books on mechanical engineering. He has also co-edited 3 books on manufacturing. Currently, he is an associate editor of the Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India), Series C and Vice-President of the AIMTDR conference. Dr R Ganesh Narayanan is currently an associate professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati), India. His areas of research include material forming and joining, and his main contributions have been in the areas of forming sheet materials including laser welded, friction stir welded sheets & adhesive bonded sheets, computational applications in material forming and joining, and end forming of tubes. He has published several articles in respected journals and edited books including Advances in Material Forming and Joining by Springer India and Metal Forming Technology and Process Modeling by McGraw Hill Education, India.