Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus
Manufacturing, Metal Forming, residual stresses, Lean Manufacturing, Production and operations Management, Finite Element Analysis, Materials Characterization, Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering, Microstructural Evolution, Mechanical Properties, Mechanical behaviour of Materials, X-ray Diffraction, Crystallographic Texture, Quality Control, Total Quality Management, Lean Six Sigma
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani- 333031, Rajasthan. India.
Gulshan Kumar, Balo, A. Dhoble, J. Singh, R. Singh, D. Srivastava, G. K. Dey, and I. Samajdar, “Through thickness deformation gradient in a part-pilgered zirconium tube: Experimental measurements and numerical validation”, Metallurgical and Materials Transaction A (March 2017) 48: 2844-2857, DOI: 10.1007/s11661-017-4032-y.
Gulshan Kumar,K. Kanjrala, A. Lodh, Ramesh Singh, Jaiveer Singh, D. Srivastava, G.K. Dey, N. Saibaba, and I. Samajdar, "Burst Ductility of Zirconium Clad: The Defining Role of Residual Stress”, Metallurgical and Materials Transaction A, Volume 47 (May 2016) 3882-3896. DOI: 10.1007/s11661-016-3526-3.
Gulshan Kumar, Ramesh Singh, Jaiveer Singh, D. Srivastava, G.K. Dey, I. Samajdar, "Defining the stages of annealing in a moderately deformed commercial Zirconium alloy", Journal of Nuclear Materials, 466 (November 2015) 243-252. DOI:1016/j.jnucmat.2015.07.048.
Gulshan Kumar, Arijit Lodh, Jaiveer Singh, Ramesh Singh, D. Srivastava, G.K. Dey, I. Samajdar, "Experimental Characterization and Finite Element Modeling of Through Thickness Deformation Gradient in a Cold Rolled Zirconium Sheet", CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology, 19 (November 2017) 176-190, DOI: 10.1016/j.cirpj.2017.09.002.
Jaiveer Singh, S. Mahesh, Shomik Roy, Gulshan Kumar, Srivastava, G. K. Dey, N. Saibaba, I. Samajdar, “Temperature dependence of work hardening in sparsely twinning zirconium”, Acta Materialia, 123 (January 2017) 337-349. DOI:10.1016/j.actamat.2016.10.049.
Jaiveer Singh, S. Mahesh, Shomic Roy, Gulshan Kumar, Srivastava, G. K. Dey, N. Saibaba, I. Samajdar, "A miniature physical simulator for pilgering", Journal of Materials Processing Technology 237 (November 2016) 126-138, DOI: 10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2016.06.009.
Jaiveer Singh, S. Mahesh, Gulshan Kumar, Prita Pant, D. Srivastava, G. K. Dey, N. Saibaba, I. Samajdar, "Deformation Twinning in Zirconium: Direct Experimental Observations and Polycrystal Plasticity Predictions", Metallurgical and Materials Transaction A, Vol. 46, Issue 11 (August 2015) 5058-5071, DOI: 1007/s11661-015-3085-z.
Jaiveer Singh, S. Mahesh, Gulshan Kumar, Prita Pant, D. Srivastava, G. K. Dey, N. Saibaba, I. Samajdar, “Texture Development and Plastic Deformation in a Pilgered Zircaloy-4 Tube”, Metallurgical and Materials Transaction A, 46 (February 2015) 1927-1947, DOI: 10.1007/s11661-015-2807-6.
Nabaneeta Mukhopadhyay, Ajay S. Panwar, Gulshan Kumar, Samajdar, Arup R. Bhattacharyya, “Influence of non-covalent modification of multiwalled carbon nanotubes on the crystallization behaviour of binary blends of polypropylene and polyamide 6”, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Volume 17(6) (February 2015) 4293-4310, DOI: 10.1039/C4CP05060F.
Amit Kumar, Darshan Chalapathi, Gulshan Kumar, Rajesh Khatirkar, Satyam Suwas, “Microstructure and texture development during cold rolling in UNS 32205 and UNS 32760 duplex stainless steels”, Metallurgical and Materials Transaction A (March 2017) 48: 2349-2362, DOI: 10.1007/s11661-017-4026-9.
S K Sahoo, S Panda;R.K. Sabat; G Kumar; C. Mishra; U.K. mohanty; S Suwas, "Effect of Pre-annealing Strains on Annealing Texture Development in commercially Pure (CP) Titanium", Philosophical Magazine, 95(10) (March 2015) 1105-1124, DOI: 10.1080/14786435.2015.1020905.
S Panda, S K Sahoo, A Dash, M Bagwan, G Kumar, S C Mishra, S Suwas, "Orientation Dependent Mechanical Properties of Commercially Pure (cp) Titanium", Materials Characterization, 98 (December 2014) 93-101, DOI: 1016/j.matchar.2014.10.011.
Aruna Devi, A. P. Srivastava, R. Menon, K. V. Mani Krishna, S. Neogy, G. Kumar, P. Y. Nabhiraj, D. Srivastava and G. K. Dey, “Study on the effect of Ar9+ ion irradiation of Zr–2.5 wt.% Nb alloy pressure tube”, Philosophical Magazine, 99(4) (November 2018) 438-467, DOI: 1080/14786435.2018.1543963.
Biswanath Bhoi, N. Venkataramani, Shiva Prasad, R.P.R.C. Aiyar, Gulshan Kumar, I. Samajdar, M. Kostylev, “Observation of enhanced magnetic anisotropy in PLD YIG thin film on GGG (1 1 1) substrate”, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 483 (August 2019) 191-195, DOI: 1016/j.jmmm.2019.03.111.
Arijit Lodh; Prita Pant; Gulshan Kumar; Indradev Samajdar, “Orientation Dependent Solid Solution Strengthening in Zirconium: A Nanoindentation Study” Journal of Materials Science, 55 (December 2019, 2020) 4493-4503. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-019-04280-3.
Harshavardhana, Sunder Singh, Gulshan Kumar and Ashish Kumar Saxena,” A Comparative study on misorientations to determine the extent of recrystallization in pure ETP Copper”, Physics of Metals and Metallography, 122 (September 2021) 1279-1287, https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031918X20140094.
Priya Sudha K; K. S. Tun; Manoj Gupta; Gulshan Kumar; Vincent Kumar, Biocorrosion studies of a Novel Mg70Al18Zn6Ca4Y2 low entropy multicomponent alloy in different simulated body fluids, Journal of Applied Electrochemistry, 52 (February 2022) 1109-1120, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10800-022-01685-y.
Natarajan, Harshavardhana; sivam, sundar; Kumar , Gulshan ; Saxena, Ashish Kumar, A study on microstructure and recrystallization Kinetics on low deformed pure ETP copper, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part L: Journal of Materials: Design and Applications, 236 (12) (May 2022) 2493-2505, https://doi.org/10.1177/14644207221096543.
Natarajan, Harshavardhana; Sivam, S.P Sundar Singh; Savio, Rahul; Kumar, Gulshan; Saxena, Ashish Kumar, Effect of Heat Treatment on Wire + Arc Additive Manufactured Aluminum 5356 Alloy: Mechanical Properties and Microstructure Correlation, Physics of Metals and Metallography (February 2024), https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031918X22601846.
Ibrahim, A. and Kumar, G., Selection of Industry 4.0 technologies for Lean Six Sigma integration using fuzzy DEMATEL approach, International Journal of Lean Six Sigma, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print (January 2024). https://doi.org/10.1108/IJLSS-05-2023-0090.
I Samajdar, Gulshan Kumar, Jaiveer Singh, Arijit Lodh, D Srivastava, R Tewari, GK Dey, N Saibaba, “Zirconium microstructures: uncharted possibilities”, Proceedings of the international conference on electron microscopy and thirty sixth annual meeting of the Electron Microscope Society of India: abstract book and souvenir, 47(2) (2015).
Panda, G. Kumar, S.C. Mishra, S. Suwas,S. K. Sahoo, “Recrystallization Texture in Commercially Pure (CP) Titanium”, 17th International Conference on Textures of Materials, August 24 - 29, 2014, Dresden.
Rohit Kumar, Gulshan Kumar, Arshpreet Singh, “An Assessment of Residual Stresses and Micro-Structure during Single Point Incremental Forming of Commercially Pure Titanium Used in Biomedical Applications”, 2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Materials and Manufacturing Technologies, Materials Today Proceedings, 28-Part 2 (2020) 1261-1266. 20th-22nd November 2019, Dubai, U.A.E. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2020.04.147. (BEST PAPER AWARD, YOUNG RESEARCHER AWARD 2020)
Gianender Kajal, M R Tyagi, Gulshan Kumar, “A review on the effect of residual stresses in incremental sheet metal forming used in automotive and medical sectors”, 3rd Biennial International Conference on Future Learning Aspects of Mechanical Engineering (FLAME 2022), Materials Today: Proceedings, Vol. 78, Part-3 (2023), 524-534, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2022.11.235.
Kajal, G., Tyagi, M.R., Kumar, G. (2023). Finite Element Analysis of Residual Stresses During Incremental Sheet Forming of Ti-6Al-4V Alloys Using Different Tool Path Profiles. In: Sharma, R., Kannojiya, R., Garg, N., Gautam, S.S. (eds) Advances in Engineering Design, 3rd Biennial International Conference on Future Learning Aspects of Mechanical Engineering (FLAME 2022), Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3033-3_42.
Arish Ibrahim, Gulshan Kumar, “Enhancing Welding Quality Control: Integrating Lean Six Sigma With Computer Vision and Machine Learning for Defect Detection”, 7th International Conference on Emerging Research Paradigms in business and Social Sciences (ERPBSS 2024), 13th-15th May 2024, Dubai, UAE (BEST PAPER AWARD)
BOOK CHAPTERS
Kumar R., Kumar G., Gautam V., Konar S., Experimental and Numerical Assessment of Residual Stresses in AA6061 After Surface Treatment by Deep Cold Rolling. In: Narayanan R., Joshi S., Dixit U. (eds) Advances in Computational Methods in Manufacturing, (October 2019) 95-108, Lecture Notes on Multidisciplinary Industrial Engineering, Springer, Singapore, Online ISBN- 978-981-32-9072-3. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9072-3_9
Gulshan Kumar, Rohit Kumar, Arshpreet Singh, “Residual Stress Analysis in Titanium Alloys Used for Biomedical Applications." Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Techniques for Biomedical Applications”(2023) 325-344, Online ISBN:9781394166985, Wiley-Scrivener press (USA), https://doi.org/10.1002/9781394166985.ch13