Introduction to Solidification Processing

The broad area of instructor is teaching and research interest of materials and manufacturing processes through computational models using finite element method and experiments. The instructor completed his Ph.D on “Development of bi-directional heat transfer and fluid flow model for reliable design of GTA and laser welding processes” from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Later he has worked at the Center for Material Forming (CEMEF), MINES Paris Tech, France in Metallurgy, Structure and Rheology (MSR) group. Soon after post-doctoral research experience, he joined in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati as a faculty member. His primary area of research is fundamental process modeling of welding and joining technologies, optimization of manufacturing processes and recrystallization in metal forming processes. Dr. Bag has published about 56 journal papers, 45 Conference papers, and 18 book chapters related to welding and joining processes. He is the author of the book ‘Computational models for GTA and laser welding processes’ and recipient of ‘Royal Arc Award 2009’ from Indian Institute of Welding for the best PhD thesis in welding. The instructor is involved in teaching the subjects like ‘Physics of Manufacturing Processes’, ‘Engineering Materials’, ‘Advanced Welding Processes’, ‘Mechanical Behavior of Materials’, ‘Solidification Processes’ and ‘Manufacturing Technology’ at IIT Guwahati. The subjects broadly covers the fundamentals of manufacturing processes, mechanical metallurgy, theory of plasticity, heat transfer in manufacturing processes, crystallography, dislocation mechanism, phase transformation and solidification.