From the Director’s Desk…

Dear Reader,

I am delighted to introduce this third

edition of the Mechanical Department

Newsletter. We intend to maintain this

regular publication and to use it to keep

you in touch with news and developments

related to the Department of Mechanical

Engineering, School of Technology

(SOT).

I take this opportunity to congratulate the

editorial team for bringing out this

newsletter, which in itself is an

achievement considering the effort and

time required. May all our students, staff

and faculty soar high in uncharted skies

and bring glory to the world and their

profession with the wings of education.

Dr. T.P. Singh

Director

School of Technology

Newsletter:

Department of

Mechanical Engineering

January 2019

From the Head of the Department’s

Desk…

It gives me immense pleasure to share

newsletter of the Mechanical Engineering

dept., January 2019. Mechanical

Engineering Dept. is the most happening

dept. of the School Of Technology.

Newsletter gives an overview of the

activities carried out by students, staff and

faculties during the month. You may

please share your feedback, comments &

suggestions to the coordinators.

Dr Vishvesh Badheka

HOD, Mehcanical Engineering

School of Technology

Faculty Zone

Publications

Journals

Dr Vivek Patel published following Journals during January

2019:

1. Surface analysis of stationary shoulder friction stir

processed AZ31B magnesium alloy, materials science

and technology, Jan 2019.

2. Temperature Distribution during Friction Stir Welding

of AA2014 Aluminium Alloy: Experimental and

Statistical Analysis, Transactions of the Indian Institute

of Metals, Jan 2019."

Book Chapters

Dr Vivek Patel published, Chapter: Developments in Friction

Stir Processing—A Near Net Shape Forming Technique in the

Book “Near Net Shape Manufacturing Processes”, Jan 2019

Expert Lectures Delivered

Dr Badheka delivered Expert

talks:

Advances in solid state welding at

BIT Baroda on 4th Jan 2019.

Advance Welding processes at

Marwadi University, Rajkot on

18th Jan 2019, during opening of

IIW-Student chapter at Marwadi

University. Dr Badheka visited

COE- Foundry at University

Innovative welding processes at

ITM universe on 29th Jan 2019

during two days National

Workshop on Innovations in

Welding Technology. He was also

member of the organizing

committee

Professional Meetings

Outside Campus

Industry Institute connect

Dr Badheka attended IIW EC

meeting at Baroda Br on 1st Jan 2019

jointly with official of International

Automobile Centre of Excellence

(IACE) for joint certification.

Faculties of Mechanical Engineering,

Indus University and SVMIT

Bharuch visited for exploring

possibility of collaborative research

jointly with Welding Research Lab,

PDPU on 3rd Jan 2019.

Dr Badheka visited Mr Bharat Doshi

at Vidhata IPR-DAE lab to see

Magnetic pulse welding facility

developed by BARC on 8th Jan 2019

Dr Badheka attended get together

organised by IIW-Baroda Br on the

receipt of four times best performing

branch award in last five years on

13th Jan 2019 at Vadodara

Dr Badheka visited Dr G D Acharya

and his team at Atmiya University,

Rajkot on 18th Jan 2019

Dr Badheka visited Mr Abhishek

Suchak, Scientist-B, Centre In-

Charge, and facilities available at

Central Manufacturing Technology

Institute-Regional Centre,

(Department of Heavy Industry under

the Ministry of Heavy Industries &

Public Enterprises, Govt. of India) on

18th Jan 2019

Dr Kush Mehta attended TDS

Intricast for CP projects along with

Students on 31st January 2019.

Professional Meetings

Outside Campus

Industry Institute connect

Dr Badheka visited following industries

for exploring possibility of industry

connect on 4-5th Jan 2019:

o Anurag Vishwakarma, Modern

Automation & Robotic Systems,

GIDC, Makarpura,

o Mr D K Patel, VP-operation & his

team at Cosmos Engitech Pvt. Ltd.

GIDC, Makarpura, VADODARA

o Mr Manoj Patel, Director, Standard

Belex India Pvt Ltd, GIDC, Por,

Baroda

o Mr Ankit Patel, Director, Rajiv

Machine Tools, A’bad

o Dr Badheka visited Mr Dharmesh

Mahant-VP production, and Mr Ketan

Nirmal, Kalpataru Power Ltd

regarding CP meeting on 30th Jan

2019

Dr Rajesh Patel attended a meeting with

Shishir P. Deshpande, Project Director at

ITER, Gandhinagar to discuss

collaborative research work and

internship/project work for M. Tech.

students

Dr Pankaj Sahlot with PDPU faculties

attended STEM Conference at Vibrant

Gujarat 2019. He also discussed about

special purpose machine.

Mr. Umang R Soni & Mr. Jayesh D

Panchal visited Vibrant Global Trade

Show-2019.

Professional Meetings

Within Campus

Industry Institute connect

Dr Badheka conducted young

professional seminar on 11th Jan

2019 under the banner of IIW-PDPU

student chapter (detail report

enclosed)

Mr Jaydeep Joshi, Mr Ashish Yadav,

Mr Vaibhav Joshi, from ITER India,

Gandhinagar office visited for

technical interaction for ongoing

BRNS project on 17th Jan 2019.

Mr Rajesh Patel attended a session on

the ANSYS 20.0 to understand the

capabilities of ANSYS modules to

simulate fluid flow, heat transfer,

structural, multi- physics, chemical

reaction, etc., problems at PDPU.

ITM university students visited

welding research lab PDPU on 24th

Jan 2019

GEC, Gandhinagar students and

faculty visited Welding research lab

PDPU 25th Jan 2019 & performed

FSP experiments under collaborative

R & D

Faculties and students of Marwadi

University Rajkot visited Welding

Research lab

Dr Badheka attended meeting on Research Proposal Evaluation Committee (PhD) of

Metallurgy Engineering at GTU on2nd Jan 2019.

Dr Badheka attended Faculty selection at L J College as

Subject Expert for GTU Endorsement Interview on 5th Jan 2019.

Dr Badheka conducted welders’ competition (30 nos) under the banner IIW jointly with IIW

official at Indian Dairy Machinery Company Ltd, IDMC, Anand on10th Jan 2019.

Professional Meetings

Students Activities by Dr Badheka

Report on:

IIW-PDPU student chapter organized

Young Professional Seminar on Date: 11th Jan 2019, 2-6pm (E 103, E block, first floor)

Coordinator : Dr Vishvesh J Badheka, PDPU

About Indian Institute of Welding, Baroda Br: The Indian Institute

of Welding, Baroda Branch IIWBaroda Branch is one of the most active

branches covering entire Gujarat State. Branch was founded on 29th

August 1998 and it has strength of about 450 members. It regularly

organizes Seminars, technical lectures, certificate courses on

WPSPQR, Welding Inspector, industrial visits, national events etc.

Baroda Branch has been the centre of AMIIW exam. Baroda branch

executive committee consists of highly dedicated and motivated team

of personnel drawn from various industries and academic institutions.

About IIW-PDPU student chapter: IIW-PDPU student chapter was

established on 19th Jan 2018; during last one year PDPU student

chapter conducted various activities like industrial visits at Kalpataru

Power Transmission Limited and INOXCVA. Invited experts, Dr. G.

Madhusudhan Reddy, Outstanding Scientist, Associate Director,

Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory, Hyderabad.

Mr. Yogeshchandra S Trivedi, Senior Vice President & Member of

Board, L & T. Including experts from Fronius India Private Limited,

Kemppi India and flow 3D by Kaushiks International, Bangalore &

Hand on NDT. PDPU chapter also conducted seminar for final year

students, 26 team participated, 3 teams received best presentation

award.

Reports

IIW- PDPU student chapter

Following Young professional delivered talks on 11st Jan 2019, detail

of the speakers given in below table.

Venue: E 103, E block, first floor, (2-6pm), PDPU

Sr

No

.

Name Qualification Experience Topic

1 Mr.

Raghavendra

Darji

BE- Metallurgy,

M.E- Welding

Technology

3 Years as

Welding

Engineer.

1.5 years as

an Assistant

professor.

Welding of

Copper

2 Mr. Hardik

Vyas

BE- Mechatronics,

M.Tech.-

Advanced

Manufacturing

Techniques

4 Years in

Research and

Development

at IPR

Overview of SS

to Al dissimilar

metal joining.

3 Ms. Deepika

Harwani

BE- Mechanical,

M.E - Production

2 years 3

months as a

lecturer and

1 year as an

Assistant

engineer

Super plasticity

in Mg alloys.

4 Mr. Rakesh

Patel

B Tech –

Mechanical

M.E – CAD/CAM

10 years 6

months as an

Assistant

Professor.

Ultrasonic

welding of

similar and

dissimilar

metal

combination.

Seminar was free for all students, students associated with various

other IIW Chapters participated including five students and one

faculty from BIT Vadodara and 6 students & one faculty Marwadi

University Rajkot. Total 20 Young engineers participated.

Young professional participants

Young professional speakers

Faculties and students of Marwadi University Rajkot visited Welding

Research lab

Report of the Exhibition held at PDPU on 18th January, 2019

Welding Research Lab; Developed under funding received from

various funding agencies like DST, DAE, ISRO, and DRDO. So far 27

M.Tech students have completed M.Tech dissertation using resources

created under lab and 6 PhDs awarded so far. Currently eight

students are pursing PhD at welding research Lab.

On 18th January, 2019, an exhibition was held at Pandit Deendayal

Petroleum University campus, Raisan, Gandhinagar, the Hon’ble

Education Minister of Gujarat, Mr. Bhupendrasinh Chudasma, as well

as other delegates who arrived for the “Vibrant Gujarat Summit 2019”

and of course for the PDPU students too. Total 10 no of stalls were

there in which Stall no 10 was allotted to the “Welding Research Lab”.

Total 9 Posters of various research works were displayed along with

their samples and some of the test performed on the weld joint. The

topics which were highlighted during the exhibition by welding

research were as listed below:

1) Friction Stir Welding,

2) Bobbin tool friction stir welding,

3) Friction stir processing,

4) Friction welding,

5) Cold metal transfer

6) Bend test specimen,

7) Tensile test specimens for super plasticity,

8) Characterization of weld joints

9) Dissimilar metal joining.

The above mentioned topics were explained and discussed with Mr.

Bhupendrasinh Chudasma, Hon’ble Education minister, Government

of Gujarat, and to the delegates who came from India as well as out of

India. Excellent appreciation was received about the work being

done in the field of welding research from all the delegates and from

the Mr. Bhupendrasinh Chudasma. Two persons were there as stall in

charge under the guidance of Dr. Vishvesh J Badheka and Dr. Kush

Mehta.

1. Mr. Raghavendra Darji, Senior research fellow,

Project No.: ORSP/R&D/BRNS/2018/VB00,

2. Mr. Hardik Vyas, Senior research fellow,

Project No.: ORSP/R&D/BRNS/2018/KM00.

“We are thankful to the organizing committee (ORSP Team) of the

exhibition and Mr. Abhinav Kapadia, Chief Financial Officer, Pandit

Deendayal Petroleum University, for giving us the opportunity to

show the research work to the delegates and to the Hon’ble education

minister of Gujarat, Mr. Bhupendrasinh Chudasma. We are also

thankful to Dr. Vishvesh Badheka for giving us the opportunity to

represent the Mechanical engineering Dept.

Glimpse of the welding research lab stall are as below:

Stall no.: 10 (Welding research Welded samples

lab), with all the posters and

samples of the welding

Welding samples on left and stall in charges on right side

Vibrant Global Trade Show-2019

Visited by Mr. Umang R Soni & Mr. Jayesh D Panchal from PDPU,

Gandhinagar

Vibrant Gujarat 2019 is focused on promoting trade, investments and business

from various countries across the globe. In lieu of the same, the summit will

invite key leaders and business leaders from West Asia and the African

continent.

The celebration of these two days will upgrade India's position in the sectors of

medicine, tourism, food and MSME products and also develop bilateral long

term trade relations. This will also expand diplomatic relationships and

strengthen India's position in the global order.

The whole visit is divided into the various sections.

1. National and International Pavilion Including Theme Pavilion

2. Automobiles, Electronic Vehicles, Engineering, Banking, & Finance

3. Education and Skill Development

4. Port, Transport, Logistics, and Construction

5. Ceramics

6. Oil & Gas, Chemical and Petrochemicals

7. Power, Renewable Energy & Environment

8. Agro & Food Processing

9. Corporate Pavilion, Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare & Medical Tourism

10. Textiles, Lifestyle, Gems & Jewelary

11. Corporate, Telecommunications, S&T, IT, Innovation and Startups

12. Travel, Tourism & Hospitality

Few Story of Visit is Explained as follows:

As we started our visit after entering from gate at Power, Renewable Energy

& Environment with future Charging Technology introduced by

Charge+Zone for Electrical Powered Vehicle in India. Charge+Zone is a

tech-driven EV Charging infrastructure company specializing in B2B and B2C

charging services on both dedicated and opportunity based charging using

smart-grid network. Based in India, with indigenous development of the

technology of mobile-app and CMS with firmware/web-socket cloud based

computing, Charge+Zone is on a mission to establish 100,000 charging

stations across important markets of EVs in India for cars, buses and even

trucks.

Other some Power, Renewable Energy & Environment related companies stall

we are visited such as Powerica deals with Power generating by Wind Turbine

by green energy, Solar PV Module, Solar Water Heater, Solar lighting

Manufacturer and seller such as citizen Solar (Solarising the Nation), Solar

KitTesco Energy, GEDA, Power Tree, etc.

As we visited the Automobiles, Electronic Vehicles, Engineering,

Banking, & Finance section, in this the Tunwal E-Vehicles introduced a

various range of Premium Electric Scooter as smart E-Bike with 60V,

Lithium ion Battery operated and ARAI Approved, Which claim No

registration and Lenience Required.

Man Energy Solution Providing one stop solution for the engineering

problem solution with man power in Manufacturing Activities, Field service

Activities, and Featured Engineering. CINK Hydro Energy manufacturer

of turbines deals with cross flow, Pelton, Kaplan, and Francis. Mehta CAD

CAM Systems Pvt. Ltd. Introduced an Innovative concept of Laser

Welding technology Machine, also they deals with various laser engraving

and cutting Machines.

As we visited Port, Transport, Logistics, and Construction Section,

GUJSAIL gateway to aviation in Gujarat which making a sky high projects

in Gujarat which providing regional Air connectivity, MRO facilities,

Aviation park, Aero sport activities, airstrip development, airborne law

enforcement, Aviation Training Institte, and Extensive Helipad

development in Gujarat. Gujarat Infrastructure Development Board

(GIDB) which is designed as Nodal Agency and undertaking certain

projects related to Energy & Power sector, SIR, Industrial parks, Roads,

Ports, Railways, Logistics Parks & Services, Water Supply, Tourism, Agro

Infrastructure, Health, Education, Enviornment, etc. Pegasas Infracon Pvt.

Ltd, Dholera which started the investment facilities in smart city making

at Dholera with making it second highest International Cargo Airport.

In Agro & Food Processing section visited a Kiremko food processing

Equipment which is a dutch company deals with Food processing

equipments for releted to Potatoes such as French fries, potato chips,

potato Flake, fresh cut and preserved potatoes processing lines. Tolsma

storage Technology which deals with food processing and storage based

equipments for potatoes, onions, and carrots in bags, boxes or bulk for

highest storage efficiency. They developed AC/EC Fans, Quadro Air-mix

unit, quadro compact cooler, semi circular ventilation ducts, and

Innovative storage technology. USHA NEUROS developed an Agricultural

drone with compact design to control the spray volume according to the

moving speed of drone, the characteristics of crops, and characteristics of

each pesticide.

Greemanity Industries established in 2016 and making Kalptaru organic

Liquid fertilizer which is internally patented products. ICAR – Directorate

Groundnut Research at Junagadh providing good Agricultural practices

for minimizing Aflatoxin contamination in groundnut. GNFS Neem project

is an initiative for Woman empowerment and rural development which is

making production of Narmada Neem Shop and Neem oil for personal care

and domestic use.

As we visited Education and Skill Development, Well Control school: An

overview developed by ONGC for Industrial Machinery and Machining

Training with online Examination. We also visited our PDPU Stall in this

Section.

We are especially thanks to our Prof & Head Dr. Vishvesh J Badheka to give

the permission for visiting the Global Trade show and also thanks PDPU to

give us an opportunity for it.

Achievements

Team CZAR (M-BAJA team) stood overall AIR 46th among the teams

participated in the mBaja. Team performed well in the statics and

dynamic events and placed as

o 16th position in Suspension and Traction event.

o 18th position in the Rock Crawl event.

o 25th position in cost presentation.

Student Zone

Team Sovereign stood overall AIR 12th among the teams participated in

the E- Baja edition and completed 7th in the final endurance race. Team

performed well in the statics event also bagging

o 3rd position in design evaluation.

o 8th position in sales presentation.

o 17th position in cost presentation.

Jeet Shah- 15BME110, a student

from Mechanical Engineering

Department has been awarded with

the best paper award for the

Business Model Innovation In

Consumable Water Supply Sector –

An Empirical Investigation Of

Sustainable Business Model

Development at ISER- 501th

Conference On Science,

Technology, Engineering And

Management (ICSTEM -2018) , 28

& 29th December held in

Philadelphia , USA

Newsletter Coordinators Faculty Coordinator: Dr Pankaj Sahlot

Staff Coordinator: Mrs Pooja Nimavat