Machining Science and Advanced Manufacturing Lab

Machining Science and Advanced Manufacturing Lab at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, is having a state of the art facilities with an objective to facilitate students to develop a deeper understanding of the science lying behind machining technology. The lab is equipped with Conventional Lathe, Milling Machines, Drilling Machines, Shaper Machines, CNC Lathe, CNC Milling and Pick and Place type Robotic Arm Trainer.

The lab also has metrology tools like Precision Type Surface Roughness Tester, High Power Tool Maker's Microscope, Strain Gauge Type Dynamometer etc. for machining characterization.

The students avail the facility to research about machinability study of DTM materials, Hot machining of DTM materials and developing sustainable coolant delivery techniques.

• Optimization of Micro-Channel on a Cutting Tool

• Sensor based flow controlled coolant delivery technique for sustainability in machining

• Hot machining of difficult to cut materials

• Economic and environmentally safe cutting fluid delivery for enhanced grindability of Titanium alloys

• Identification of unconventional cutting fluids for machining of DTM materials

Online Training on Advanced Abrasive Machining Processes

International Journals

• Naskar, H., Dutta, D. and Mukhopadhyay, M., 2022. A Review on Electrical Micromachining using Silicon Electrodes, in Electro Micromachining and Microfabrication: Principles and Research Advances, Apple Academic Process, USA.

• Ghosh, P., Mondal, D., Dutta, D. and Mukhopadhyay, M. 2022. A Review on Micromachining of Ti-6Al-4V using Micro-EDM, in Electro Micromachining and Microfabrication: Principles and Research Advances, Apple Academic Process, USA.

• Mukhopadhyay, M. and Kundu, P.K., 2021. Ecological and Economical Processing of Ti-6Al-4V with an Augmentation in Grindability, Sadhana, accepted for publication. (SCI)

• Mahata, S., Mukhopadhyay, M., Banerjee, A., Kundu, A., Mandal, B. and Das, S., 2020. Grinding titanium alloys applying small quantity lubrication. SN Applied Sciences, 2(978).

• Ghosh, M., Ghosh, S., Mukhopadhyay, M. and Neogi, B., 2020. On the Formulation and Functioning of a micro Haptics Actuator based Unit Braille Display Cell. Micro and Nanosystems (Accepted).

• Mukhopadhyay, M. and Kundu, P.K., 2019. Enhancing grindability of Ti–6Al–4V applying ecological fluids under SQL using SiC wheel. Springer Nature Applied Sciences, 1(600).

• Mukhopadhyay, M. and Kundu, P.K., 2019. Evaluating Application Potentiality of Unconventional Fluids for Grinding Ti-6Al-4V using Alumina Wheel. Materials and Manufacturing Processes, 34(10), pp.1151-1159.

• Mukhopadhyay, M., Kundu, P.K., Chatterjee, S. and Das, S., 2019. Impact of dressing infeed on SiC wheel for grinding Ti-6Al-4V. Materials and Manufacturing Processes, 34(1), pp.54-60.

• Kundu, A., Mukhopadhyay, M., Banerjee, A., Mahata, S., Mandal, B. and Das, S., 2018. Grinding of Titanium Using Alumina and Silicon Carbide Wheel; Journal of the Association of Engineers, 88(1-2), pp.53-63.

• S. Mahata, M. Mukhopadhyay, A. Banerjee, A. Kundu, B. Mandal and S. Das; Exploring Grindability of Ti-6Al-4V using an Indigenously Developed Environment Friendly Micro Pump based Cooling System; Indian Journal of Engineering Materials and Sciences (Accepted).

• Mukhopadhyay, M., Kundu, P.K. and Das, S., 2018. Experimental investigation on enhancing grindability using alkaline-based fluid for grinding Ti-6Al-4V. Materials and Manufacturing Processes, 33(16), pp.1775-1781.

• Mukhopadhyay, M. and Kundu, P.K., 2018. Optimization of dressing infeed of alumina wheel for grinding Ti-6Al-4V. Materials and Manufacturing Processes, 33(13), pp.1453-1458.

• Mukhopadhyay, M. and Kundu, P.K., 2018. Laser dressing of grinding wheels-a review. International Journal of Mechatronics and Manufacturing Systems, 11(2-3), pp.167-181.

• Mukhopadhyay, M. and Kundu, P.K., 2018. Development of a simple and efficient delivery technique for grinding Ti-6Al-4V. International Journal of Machining and Machinability of Materials, 20(4), pp.345-357.

International and National Conferences

• Santra, A., Mukhopadhyay, M., and Chandra, A., 2021 Analysing Tool Strength of an SPTT with Grooved Micro-channel on Tool Rake for Enhanced Heat Transfer. at 41st MATADOR Conference, University of Manchester, UK.

• Mahata, S., Kundu, A., Mukhopadhyay, M., Banerjee, A., Mandal M., and Das, S., 2018 Exploring Grindability of Inconel 718 using Small Quantity Cooling and Lubrication Technique; Materials Today: Proceedings; 5(2), pp.4523-4530.

• Mukhopadhyay, M. and Kundu, P.K., 2018, June. Performance evaluation of conventional abrasive wheels for grinding Ti-6Al-4V. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 377(1), pp. 012043(1-7).

• Kundu, A., Mahata, S., Mukhopadhyay, M., Banerjee, A., Mandal, B. and Das, S., 2018, Studying the effects of using liquid carbon dioxide and soap water in grinding Inconel 718. In IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 377(1), pp.012060(1-6).

• Kundu, A., Mahata, S., Mukhopadhyay, M., Banerjee, A., Mandal, B., and Das, S., 2018, Grinding of Inconel 718 using soap water jet and liquid carbon dioxide; Book Chapter: Advanced Manufacturing and Materials Science, Springer International Publishing.

• Kundu, A., Mukhopadhyay, M., Mahata, S., Banerjee, A., Mandal, B. and Das, S., 2018. Grinding Titanium grade 1 alloy with an alumina wheel using soap water. Procedia Manufacturing, 20, pp.338-343.

• Mukhopadhyay, M., Chatterjee, S., Kundu A., and Das, S., 2019, Effect of dressing infeed on alumina wheel during grinding ti-6al-4v under varying depth of cut; at AIMTDR 2018, (for Springer Book Chapter, Scopus).

• Rai, B.R., Mukhopadhyay M., and Kundu, P.K., 2019, Evaluating the grinding ratio and surface quality of ti-6al-4v under varying grinding pass count and depth of cut; at NFEST 2019, IOP Conference Series.

• Kundu, P.K., Rai, B.R., and Mukhopadhyay M., 2019, Experimental Investigation on the effect Of Grinding Infeed And Pass Counts On Grindability Of Mild Steel; at CPIE 2019 (for Springer Book Series).

• Mukhopadhyay, M., and Kundu, P.K., 2019 Improving Grindability of Ti-6Al-4V using an Economic and Environmental Friendly Drop by Drop Delivery Technique; Materials Today: Proceedings (Accepted).

• Mazumdar, M., Roy, S., Mukhopadhyay, M., Santra, A. and Ghosh, D., 2020. Simulative analysis for dry grinding of Ti-6Al-4V using silicon carbide wheel. ICAME 2020, Aliah University, Kolkata.

• Mukhopadhyay, M., and Kundu, P.K., 2017, Laser Assisted Conditioning of Aluminium Oxide Grinding Wheel using Nd:YAG Laser: A Review; Proceedings of National Conference on Advanced Functional Materials Processing and Manufacturing; pp.63-66; 2-3 February, 2017.

• Kundu, A., Mahata, S., Mukhopadhyay, M., Banerjee, A., Mandal, B., and Das, S., 2017, Investigating the use of Soap Water in SQL Mode during Grinding Titanium Alloy; Proceedings of National Conference on Advanced Functional Materials Processing and Manufacturing; pp.7-10; 2-3 February, 2017.

• Ghorai, A., Mukhopadhyay, M., Kundu, P.K., and Das, S., 2019, Experimental Investigation on Enhancing Grindability of Ti-6Al-4V Under Varying Coolant Concentration. In: National Conference on Trends and Advances in Mechanical Engineering, Kalyani, India 2019.