Optimization and characterization of friction surfaced coatings of ferrous alloys

Mohammed Shariq is a senior research fellow at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, India. At present, he is carrying out his PhD work under the Erasmus Doctoral Mobility Exchange between the University of Maribor, Slovenia and the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, India. His research area is “Synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials”. He has completed the Masters in mechanical engineering with specialization in manufacturing and carried out the master's project on the topic of ”friction surfacing”. The present work is part of his master thesis.

Madhulika Srivastava is a senior research fellow at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, India. At present, she is carrying out her PhD work under the joint collaboration between the Institute of Geonics, Ostrava, Czech Republic and the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, India. Her research area is “Surface treatment by pulsating water jet peening”. She has completed her Masters in Mechanical Engineering with specialization in manufacturing and carried out her master's project on the topic of ”friction surfacing”. The present work is part of her master thesis.

Rupam Tripathi is a senior research fellow at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, India. She is carrying out her research work on the topic of ”Rock disintegration by pulsating water jet” under the joint collaboration of the Institute of Geonics, Ostrava, Czech Republic and the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, India. She has completed her Masters in Mechanical Engineering with specialization in manufacturing and carried out her master's project on the topic of ”friction surfacing”. The present work is part of her master thesis.

Dr. Somnath Chattopadhyaya is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad, India. He completed his graduation in production engineering at Jadavpur University in the year 1992. He finished his PhD in production engineering at BIT-Mesra, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India on the topic of “Transfer of agile manufacturing technology to rural medium and small scale industries“. He joined as an assistant professor (Production Engineering) at BIT-Mesra in 1999. Since then he has made his contribution in research areas such as welding technology, advanced manufacturing and supply chain management. At present, he also works in the project related to the development of a selection methodology for road header and tunnel boring machine and road header for different geological characters for road tunneling in collaboration with CIMFR – Nagpur.

Dr. Pedro Vilaca is an associate professor in the department of Engineering Design and Production at Aalto University in Espoo, Finnland. He obtained his PhD in 2003 from Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Hamburg, Germany. His main field of research and development is “thermomechanical manufacturing technologies” focusing on joining materials by fusion and solid state welding techniques. Other fields of activity are an integral part of the investigations undertaken by an engineering materials research group. These fields are technologies related to welding, e. g. cutting, marking, surfacing, processing and channeling, as well as non-destructive testing technology. The joining of materials by adhesive technology and hybrid techniques are also his fields of interest.

Prof. Nenad Gubeljak Ph.D., born in 1963, graduated with a B.Sc. degree at the University of Maribor, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Slovenia, in 1988. He continued to study at the same faculty and completed his Ph.D in 1998. He spent a year at GKKS Research Centre Geesthacht in Germany as a guest researcher from 2000 to 2001. He is employed as head of the Institute of Mechanics and holds the chair of mechanics at the faculty of mechanical engineering of the University of Maribor. His main research areas are fatigue and fracture testing, analysis of fracture behavior of welded joints and structure integrity assessment.

Prof. Grzegorz Krolczyk is a professor at Opole University of Technology, Poland. He is an originator and a Project Manager of OUTech's new Surface Integrity Laboratory. In his career, he held positions such as head of unit design and technology, product engineer, production manager, product development engineer and production director. He is a co-author and leader of a project looking into an innovative, energy-efficient diaphragm flow device of a new generation. He is also an author and co-author of over 80 scientific publications and nearly 20 studies and implementation in industry. His main areas of scientific activity are optimization of geometrical and physical parameters of surface integrity, optimization of production and cutting tool wear analysis.