CMERI - Research Papers - Conference Presentations

CONFERENCE PUBLLICATIONS DURING THE PERIOD 2000-2004
1. .A finite element approach for residual stress determination in rollerstraightened
rail; Dr. S.L. Srimani, Dr. J. Basu, D.S. Gupta. Accepted for
presentation in the Second International Conference on Theoretical,
Applied, Computational & Experimental Mechanics (ICTACEM) 2001 held
during December 2001.
2. A novel device for filling frames with splints for the manufacture of
safety matches; G. Balamurugan, N.P. Mukherjee, Avijit Singha
3. A practical approach to assess the damage process of heat resistant
materials for power engineering, B.B. Jha, ‘Feedback’ journal published by
BHEL.
4. A practical approach to residual life assessment of power plant
components in service; B.B. Jha, S. Roy, Proceedings of the International
Symposium on materials ageing and life assessment, October 3-6, 2000,
Kalpakkam, India, Allied Publishers Limited, Chennai, Volume 3, pp 1188 -
1193.
5. An ingenious machine for the manufacture of globoidal cam, G.
Balamurugan & N.P. Mukherjee, Proceedings of the 10th. National
Conference on Machines & Mechanisms, IIT, Kharagpur, pp 343-350.
6. An unsuccessful story of an ID fan balancing - a case study; R.K. Biswas,
Dr. R. Sen, Dr. A. Mukhopadhyay, Proceedings of the National Seminar on
‘Maintenance Engineering – the Recent Trends’ pp 171-178.
7. Analysis of heat transfer from a moving surface due to impinging
laminar jets; H. Chattopadhyay, Sujay K. Saha; January 3-5, 2002,
Proceedings of the 5th. ISHME-ASME Heat & Mass Transfer Conference,
pp 289-294, Tata McGraw Hill.
8. Application of design tools with computer simulation in solving foundry
problems – a case study; B Sampath Kumar, MK Jas & SK Samanta.
Presented in the CARTM 2003, Kalyani Government Engineering College,
November 2003.
9. Automated system for card generation for a Jacquard loom used in the
production of Baluchari sarees; Partha Bhattacharjee, Anjali Chatterjee,
Proceedings of the TIMA 2001.
10. Bridge tooling as a rapid injection mould tooling process; K.P.
Roysarkar, A. Sinha, Proceedings of the 19th AIMTDR Conference 2000,
Narosa Publishing House, pp 715 – 721.
11. CFD- A tool for engineering analysis; H. Chattopadhyay, Proceedings of
the 36th. Annual Convention of Computer Society of India, November 2001, pp
C-1 to C-6.
12. CFD studies on enhanced transport using vectored jets; H.
Chattopadhyay; Presented in the International Seminar on Grain Drying in
South Asia.
13. CO2-free hydrogen from hydrocarbon for fuel cell applications, A.B.
Datta, P.K. Chatterjee & K.M. Kundu, CD Proceedings of the Two Day
Conference on Fuel Cell Technology – Emerging Trends, Gurgaon.

4. Collision-free, near-optimal path planning of a manipulator using a GAFuzzy
approach, Shibendu Sekhar Roy, Scientist, CMERI, D.K. Pratihar &
Arnab Mukherjee, R.E. College, Durgapur, Proceedings of the 10th. National
Conference on Machines & Mechanisms, IIT, Kharagpur, pp 201-208.
15. Combustion of a single coal particle - an analysis; Dr. K. M. Kundu, Dr. R.
Das, Dr. A.B. Datta & Dr. P.K. Chatterjee. January 3-5, 2002, Proceedings of
the 5th. ISHMT-ASME Heat & Mass Transfer Conference, pp 964-970, Tata
McGraw Hill.
16. Continuous spouted bed drying of paddy; A.B. Dutta, P.K. Chatterjee, K.M.
Kundu, S.S. Nandi & B. Chaudhury; Presented in the International Seminar on
Grain Drying in South Asia.
17. Design & development of a remotely operated vehicle (ROV); G.
Purakayastha, S. Datta, S. Nandy, S.N. Shome
18. Design & development of underwater thruster for 1000m depth at sea; S.
Nandy, D. Banerjee, S.N. Shome
19. Development of a 60kg payload 4-axes SCARA configuration
manipulator; G. Purakayastha, S. Datta, S.N. Nandy, S.N. Shome
20. Development of process technology and manufacturing of austempered
ductile iron components for engineering applications; AC Ganguly, MK
Jas, SK Samanta. Presented in the National Conference on Investment
Casting 2003.
21. Development of single-chip microcontroller based position control
system for stitching cricket/hockey balls; J. Roychoudhury, U. Datta, G.
Balamurugan, Dr. N.P. Mukherjee, Proceedings of the TIMA 2001.
22. Diagnostics in maintenance of equipment; Dr. S. Dasgupta, P.
Bhattacharjee, Presented in the National Seminar on ‘Maintenance
Engineering – the Recent Trends’.
23. Direct Metal Casting from RP mould using QuickCast technique - CMERI
experience; P.S. Banerjee, M.K. Banerjee, Palash Maji, Proceedings of the
19th AIMTDR Conference 2000, Narosa Publishing House, pp 707 – 713.
24. Effect of plating on torque load bearing capacity of shrink fitted
assemblies, by D. Ramesh Rajakumar, B. Ramamoorthy & S. Natarajan,
Proceedings of the National Conference on Recent Advances in Materials
Processing, September 2001, Annamalai University, pp 116-121.
25. Efficient performance appraisal and optimal use of crossflow
evaporative multi cell water cooling tower; Dr. M. Prasad. January 3-5,
2002, Proceedings of the 5th. ISHMT-ASME Heat & Mass Transfer
Conference, pp 1364-1369, Tata McGraw Hill.
26. Emerging technologies for development of pressure die casting dies &
injection moulds, Nagahanumaiah, B. Ravi, N.P. Mukherjee & T. Mahata,
Proceedings of the Symposium on Manufacturing Excellence, January 7-8
2002, IIT, Madras, pp 85-86.
27. Epoxy concrete – an alternative material for development of machine
tool structures, K.P. Roysarkar, Proceedings of the 10th. National
Conference on Machines & Mechanisms, IIT, Kharagpur, pp 297-304.
28. Evaluation of process parameters of epoxy concrete: a structural
material for precision machines, K.P. Roysarkar, Proceedings of the 2nd.
National Conference on Precision Engineering, PSG College of
Technology, pp 41-49.

29. Exploration of colour removal from waste water through adsorption and
photocatalysis using flyash and sunlight, by Debabrata Chatterjee,
Biswajit Ruj, Anima Mahata and SK Maulick, Proceedings of the International
Congress of Chemistry & Environment, December 16-18, 2001, Indore, pp
42.
30. Failure analysis of HP turbine casing stud; A Saha, D Ghosh & AK Shukla.
Presented in the National Symposium on ‘Towards Self Reliance in Power’,
April 2003.
31. Fluidised bed drying; K.M. Kundu, R. Das, A.B. Dutta & P.K. Chatterjee;
Presented in the International Seminar on Grain Drying in South Asia.
32. Improvement of engineering system through quality assurance, FMCEA
and reliability approach; T Sarkar, TK Paul & TK Chatterjee. Presented in
the International Symposium on Emerging Strategies for Improving
Productivity, Quality & Reliability, December 12-14 2003.
33. Innovation and competitiveness; G.P. Sinha
34. Intelligent comfort level sensing through multi-sensor integration using
embedded fuzzy approximation technique; J. Roy Chaudhuri
35. Investigation into platen superheater tube failure of a power boiler;
D.Ghosh, P. Roy & B.N. Singh. Presented in the National Symposium on
‘Towards Self Reliance in Power’, April 2003, CMERI, Durgapur.
36. Investigation on effective sensing space for different sensor locations
inside the barbette; S. Nandy, D. Banerjee, S.N. Shome.
37. Investment casting: world overview; BN Mandal, GS Reddy. Presented in
the National Conference on Investment Casting 2003.
38. Issues associated with conventional tooling applications in investment
casting; A Mantry, Nagahanumaiah, RK Padhi, BRK Ventakapathy.
Presented in the National Conference on Investment Casting 2003.
39. Metal casting process optimization through computer simulation; MK
Jas, SK Samanta, DP Chattopadhyay. Presented in the National Conference
on Investment Casting 2003.
40. Microwave drying; M.K. Karmakar, K.M. Kundu, A.B. Dutta, P.K. Chatterjee
& S.S. Nandi; Presented in the International Seminar on Grain Drying in South
Asia.
41. Numerical simulation based on turbulence closure for two-phase gas
particle transport in confined systems & certain experimental studies; A.
Mitter, J.P. Malhotra, H.T. Jadeja, Proceedings of the Second International
Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, I.I.T., Roorkee, 12-14
December 2002.
42. On the drying kinetics in drying process, K.M. Kundu, R. Das, A.B. Datta &
P.K. Chatterjee, Proceedings of the Asia-Oceania Drying Conference
(ADC-01), pp 657-659, ed. Daud et. Al., The Institution of Chemical
Engineers.
43. On the energy aspects in drying; Dipak Verma, K.M. Kundu, A.B. Dutta &
P.K. Chatterjee; Presented in the International Seminar on Grain Drying in
South Asia.
44. Optimum design of railway wheel profile; Dr. G.S. Roy, Dr. S.L. Srimani,
Dr. J. Basu, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on
Theoretical, Applied, Computational & Experimental Mechanics
(ICTACEM) 2001 to be held during December 2001.

45. Prediction of grinding power using a GA-Fuzzy approach, A.K. Nandi,
D.K. Pratihar & M.K. Banerjee, Proceedings of the 16th. National Conference
on Emerging Trends in Manufacturing, January 19-20, 2002, pp 75-81.
46. Quality evaluation of rolling element bearings, S.C. Nidhi & Ranjan Sen,
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Industrial Tribology.
47. Rapid tooling for producing plastic prototype through vacuum casting
technology - a case study; M.K. Banerjee, K.P. Roysarkar, Proceedings of
the 19th AIMTDR Conference 2000, Narosa Publishing House, pp 693 – 697.
48. Remedial measure for removal of iron from groundwater; A.K.
Bandopadhyay, B. Ruj, S.K. Chatterjee
49. Removal of iron from drinking water – an easy and appropriate
technology; A.K. Bandopadhyay, B. Ruj, S.K. Chatterjee
50. Residual life estimation of the superheater & reheater tubes based on
oxide scale thickness measurement; B.B. Jha, S.C. Nidhi
51. Reverse engineering for art castings – preliminary investigations with
case study by B. Sampath Kumar, S.M. Sutar and Nagahanumaiah,
Scientists, CMERI, Proceedings of the 50th Indian Foundry Congress 2002.
52. Role of CFD in today’s context; H. Chattopadhyay
53. Simulation of joint position response of 60 kg payload 4-axes SCARA
configuration manipulator taking dynamical effects into consideration,
by G. Purakayastha, S. Datta, S.N. Nandy & S.N. Shome, Scientists, CMERI.
Proceedings of the WSEAS International Conference, Cancun, Mexico.
54. Solar beam energy input effectiveness of intermittently tracking flat
plate collector with south facing reflector; Dr. M. Prasad, S.K. Majumdar,
Proceedings of the 24th National Renewable Energy Convention 2000,
Allied Publishers Limited, pp 26 – 32.
55. Solid modeling as a driving tool in compression of development time - a
case study of an impeller; B. Sampath Kumar, Anupam Sinha, M.K.
Banerjee. Proceedings of the SDRC Users Meet.
56. Stepper motor driven micro-indexing mechanism using microcontroller,
by U. Datta, J. Roychaudhuri, N.P. Mukherjee & G. Balamurugan,
Proceedings of the Symposium on Manufacturing Excellence, January 7-8
2002, IIT, Madras, pp 69-70.
57. Study on development of cast components through rapid prototype soft
tooling process by B. Mondal, A.K. Lohar, S.K. Samanta and M.K. Jas,
Scientists, CMERI, Proceedings of the 50th Indian Foundry Congress 2002.
58. Study on strength and warpage of stereolithography models; P.S.
Banerjee, P.K. Maji, M.K. Banerjee, R.N. Banerjee, T.K. Chatterjee
59. Synthetic composite: a non-conventional material for machine tool
structures; K.P. Roysarkar, M.K. Banerjee
60. Technological aspects of particulates reinforced investment cast
composites; AK Lohar, SK Das, D Chakraborty, BN Mandal. Presented in the
National Conference on Investment Casting 2003.
61. Terrain aided autonomous navigation of subsea robots using natural
features; Somjyoti Majumder
62. Three-fold periodic tracking of flat plate solar collector with specular
reflector at top edge; M. Prasad
63. Tool path planning for investment casting functional prototypes /
production moulds; Nagahanumaiah, NP Mukherjee. Presented in the
National Conference on Investment Casting 2003.

64. Torque-load prediction in shrink fitted assemblies using artificial neural
network, D. Ramesh Raja Kumar, B. Ramamoorthy, S. Natarajan,
Proceedings of the 2nd. National Conference on Precision Engineering,
PSG College of Technology, pp 237-244.
65. Towards self reliance in power; GP Sinha & SK Neogi. Presented in the
National Symposium on ‘Towards Self Reliance in Power’, April 2003.
66. Trend prediction from steam turbine responses of vibration &
eccentricity; Dr. B.K. Sinha. Journal of Power & Energy.
67. Turbulence modelling using large-eddy simulation; H. Chattopadhyay
68. Turbulent flow structure due to a jet impinging on a moving plate; H.
Chattopadhyay
69. Viewing the IP Domain of Food Processing, K.K. Sanyal, Invention
Intelligence, March-April 2001.