Strengthening and Joining by Plastic Deformation

This book focuses on strengthening and joining materials by means of plastic deformation, gathering extended research papers presented at the AIMTDR 2016 conference. Plastic deformation is used in materials processing to improve the strength of the material. For example, the rod/screw used to connect the cooker handle to the main body has to be strong and sustainable; such rods can be strengthened by plastic deformation (using multi-stage forming operations etc.). Similarly, joining by means of plastic deformation is highly valuable since it avoids the material and environmental degradation often caused by fusion welding processes. The book discusses various processing techniques in which plastic deformation is used to strengthen materials – e.g. in equal channel angular extrusion, autofrettage etc., or to join materials without melting them – e.g. in friction stir processing, riveting etc. Offering an extensive guide, the book includes chapters on roll bonding, equal channel angular pressing, autofrettage, friction stir processing/welding, magnetic pulse welding, and riveting – processes used to strengthen and join a variety of materials for lightweight applications and sustainable manufacturing. The contents of this book will be useful to researchers and practitioners alike. 

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 mechanicalengineering. 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.