Dr. Ravindra K. Saxena

Basic Details

Name

Dr. Ravindra K. Saxena

Designation

Professor

Department

Mechanical Engineering

Contact

Phone (O)

91 1672 253296

Phone(R)

91 1672 253297

e-mail

rks@sliet.ac.in

Educational Details

Educational Qualification

B.Tech. (GBPUA&T), M.Tech. (IIT Delhi), Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)

Experience

Experience

1996-2009 : Assistant Professor
2009-2014 : Associate Professor
2014-till date : Professor

Book Authored

Book authored

06

Patent

Patent

01

Professional Memebership

Professional Membership

Indian Society for Technical Education, India
SLIET Mechanical Engineering Society, India
International Association of Engineers (IAENG), Hong Kong

Award

Award

1. Awarded Vice-Chancellor’s Gold Medal for standing 1st in the Mechanical Engineering Branch at B. Tech.
2. Received Merit Scholarship during B. Tech.
3. Received GATE Scholarship to pursue M. Tech. Program at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi from August 1993 to February 1995.
4. Received QIP Scholarship to pursue Ph. D program at IIT, Kanpur by MHRD, Delhi from July 2002 to July 2005.

Publications

Publications

International Journals:

Ravindra K. Saxena and P. M. Dixit, (2009) “Finite Element Simulation of Earing Defect in Deep Drawing“, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Volume 45, pp 219-233.
Ravindra K. Saxena, Sachin S. Gautam, P. M. Dixit, (2010) “Numerical Simulation of Fracture in Cup Drawing”, Int. J of Material Forming, Volume 3, pp 117-120.
Ravindra K. Saxena and P. M. Dixit, (2010) “Prediction of Flange Wrinkling in Deep Drawing Process using Bifurcation Criterion“, Journal of Manufacturing Processes, Volume 12, pp 19-29.
Ravindra K. Saxena and P. M. Dixit, (2011) “Numerical Analysis of Damage for prediction of Fracture Initiation in Deep Drawing“, Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, Volume 47, pp 1104–1117.
Sachin S. Gautam and Ravindra K Saxena, (2012) “A Numerical Study on effect of Strain Rate and Temperature in the Taylor Rod Impact Problem”, International Journal of Structural Changes in Solids, Volume 4, pp.
Rahul Kumar, Harish K Arya, Ravindra K Saxena (2014) “Effect of Cooling Rate on Microstructure of Saw Welded Mild Steel Plate (Grade C 25 as Per IS 1570)”. International Journal of Modern Engineering Research (IJMER) vol. 4(1), pp. 222-228, (ISSN: 2249–6645).
Rahul Kumar, Harish K Arya, Ravindra K Saxena (2014) “Experimental Determination of Cooling Rate and its Effect on Micro-hardness in Submerged Arc Welding of Mild Steel Plate (Grade c-25 as per IS 1570)”. J Material Sci Eng. Vol. 3(2). (ISSN: 2169-0022). (DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2169-0022.1000138).
Sachin S. Gautam and Ravindra K Saxena, (2014) “A Finite Element Study on effect of Frictional Heating in the Taylor Rod Impact Problem”, World Journal of Engineering 11(6) 529-542.
Harish K Arya, Kulwant Singh, Ravindra K Saxena (2015) “Effect of Welding Parameters on Penetration and Bead Width for Variable Plate Thickness in Submerged Arc Welding”. International Journal of Mechanical, Aerospace, Industrial, Mechatronic and Manufacturing Engineering, vol. 9(9), pp. 1694-1700, (scholar.waset.org/1999.8/10006657).
V. Kumar, G. Singh and R. K. Saxena, “Investigation on fatigue life of Rail-Wheel assembly using Finite Element Analysis,” 2016 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Rail Transportation (ICIRT), 2016, pp. 401-408.
Hreetabh Kishore and Ravindra K. Saxena, 2017, “Experimental and numerical method to predict the Micro-hardness of SS316”, International Journal of Engineering, Technology, Science and Research (IJETSR), vol 4(5), pp. 211-224, ISSN 2394-3386.
Aniruddh S. Negi, and Ravindra K. Saxena, (2017) “Effect of Groove Angle Configuration on Temperature Distribution during Multipass SMAW Process of AISI 304 Stainless Steel Plates using Finite Element Analysis”, International Journal of Mechanical and Production Engineering (IJMPE), pp. 1-7, Volume-5, Issue-9, ISSN: 2320-2092.
Sunny Chakrawarty, and Ravindra K. Saxena, (2017) “Effect of Flux Accumulation on Weld Bead during Single Pass Submerged ARC Welding Process of Mild Steel Plate using Finite Element Approach”, International Journal of Mechanical and Production Engineering (IJMPE), pp. 33-39, Volume-5, Issue-9, ISSN: 2320-2092.
Kumar Arya H, Singh K, Saxena RK. Cooling Time (t8/5) Model for Submerged Arc Welded Pressure Vessel Steel Using Dimensional Analysis. ASME. J. Pressure Vessel Technol. 2017;139(6):061404-061404-6. doi:10.1115/1.4038018.
Harish K Arya, Kulwant Singh, Ravindra K Saxena (2015) “Modeling the Effect of Plate Thickness on Dilution and Bead Height in SAW Process”. Indian Journal of Science and Technology, vol 10(5), pp. 1-10, ISSN (Print) : 0974-6846, ISSN (Online) : 0974-5645 , (DOI: 10.17485/ijst/2017/v10i5/103554).
Gurdeep Singh, Ravindra K. Saxena, and Sunil Pandey, A Three-Dimensional Thermal Finite Element Analysis of AISI 304 Stainless Steel and Copper Dissimilar Weldment, Advances in Mechanical Design, Materials and Manufacture, AIP Conf. Proc. 1943, 020032-1–020032-10; https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5029608, Published by AIP Publishing. 978-0-7354-1638-3, 20 April 2018.
Kumar Arya H, Singh K, Saxena RK. 2018, Effect of weld cooling rates on mechanical and metallurgical properties of submerged arc welded pressure vessel steel. ASME. J. Pressure Vessel Technol. 2018; 140(4): 041406 (7 pages), doi:10.1115/1.4040274.
Rajinder Singh, Ravindra K. Saxena, Kishore Khanna and V.K. Gupta, “Modelling Creep Response of a Functionally Graded Rotating Disc with Exponential Reinforcement Gradient”, Materials Today: Proceedings, 18(7) (2019), DOI: 10.1016j.matpr.2019.07.328.
Tarun Bindal, Ravindra K. Saxena, and Sunil Pandey. “Design and Development of Spin Welding Machine for Thermoplastics.” Journal of Physics: Conference Series. Vol. 1240. No. 1. IOP Publishing, 2019.
Ashwani Verma, and Ravindra K. Saxena. “Determination of Lemaitre damage parameters for DP590 steel using Teacher-Learner based optimization.” Journal of Physics: Conference Series. Vol. 1240. No. 1. IOP Publishing, 2019.
Ashwani Verma and Ravindra K. Saxena, “A new method to generate artificial microstructure of dual phase steel using Teacher-Learner Based Optimization”, Sadhna, Springer, 2019, Vol 44:85, pp-1-18.  (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12046-019-1054-8) Online ISSN 0973-7677, Print ISSN 0256-2499.
Bharat Singh, Piyush Singhal, Kuldeep K. Saxena, Ravindra K. Saxena, “Influences of Latent Heat on Temperature Field, Weld Bead Dimensions and Melting Efficiency During Welding Simulation”, Metals and Materials International, 2020, pp 1-19. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12540-020-00638-4.
Rajinder Singh, Ravindra K. Saxena, Kishore Khanna and V. K. Gupta, “Assessment of Creep in Composite Disc having Exponential, Hyperbolic and Uniform Thickness Profiles”, Materials Today: Proceedings, 2020, 26(2), 1972-1976.
Yogeshwar Jasra, Sorabh Singhal, Rohit Upman, Ravindra K. Saxena “Finite element simulation of Stress Corrosion cracking in Austenitic Stainless Steel using Modified Lemaitre Damage Model” Materials Today: Proceedings, 2020, 26(2), 2314-2322.
Gurdeep Singh, Ravindra K. Saxena and Sunil Pandey, “An examination of mechanical properties of dissimilar AISI 304 stainless steel and copper weldment obtained using GTAW”, Materials Today: Proceedings, 2020, 26(2), 2783-2789.
Tarun Bindal, Ravindra K. Saxena and Sunil Pandey, “Analysis of joint overlap during friction spin welding of plastics”, Materials Today: Proceedings, 2020, 26(2), 2798-2804.
Rajinder Singh, Ravindra K. Saxena, Kishore Khanna, Vinay Kumar Gupta, “Creep Response of Rotating Composite Discs having Exponential, Hyperbolic, Linear and Constant Thickness Profiles” Defence Science Journal, 2020, 70(3):292-298.
Sandeep Yadav, Sorabh Singhal, Yogeshwar Jasra and Ravindra K. Saxena, “Determination of Johnson-Cook material model for weldment of mild steel”, Materials Today: Proceedings, 2020, 28(3), 1801-1808.
Khogesh K Rathore, Yogeshwar Jasra, Ravindra K Saxena, “Numerical simulation of fracture behavior under high-velocity impact for Aluminium alloy 6060 Target plate”, Materials Today: Proceedings, 2020, 28(3), 1809-1815.
Anmol Rattan, Yogeshwar Jasra, Ravindra K. Saxena, “Prediction of bending behavior for Laser Forming of Lime coated plain Carbon steel using Finite Element Method”, Materials Today: Proceedings, 2020, 28(3), 1943-1950.
Tarun Bindal, Ravindra K. Saxena and Sunil Pandey, “Investigating friction spin welding of thermoplastics in shear joint configuration”, SN Appl. Sci. 2021, 3, 178. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-021-04217-z

Gurdeep Singh, Ravindra K. Saxena and Sunil Pandey, “Investigating the Effect of Arc Offsetting in AISI 304 Stainless Steel and Copper Welding using Gas Tungsten Arc Welding”, Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, 2021, accepted.

International Conferences: 40

National Conferences:         03

Research/Projects

Research

He has guided 6 PhD Thesis, and few are in progress. He has also guided around 30 M.Tech. Thesis.