K. Shunmugesh's research while affiliated with National Institute of Technology Srinagar and other places

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The high demand for machining process automation has placed real-time tool condition monitoring as one of the top priorities of academic and industrial scholars in the past decade. But the presence of numerous known and unknown machining variables and challenging operating conditions such as high temperature and pressure makes it a daunting task. H...
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Multi response optimization is a tool for decision making when a number of characters are to be simultaneously considered. Multicriteria analysis helps in choosing the most feasible outcome from a from a finite set of available data. It is concerned with ranking of various alternatives for a particular case across all criteria. The use of organic m...
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Coir Fibre Reinforced Composite (CFRC) materials have possible applications in different areas like auto, aviation, structural designing, sports, wind energy and so forth. Yet, CFRC drilling stances numerous issues that decline the nature of openings. The issues which influence the nature of boring are the over measuring, delamination factor, and t...
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Carbon fiber is considered as a material of future. It has better mechanical properties when compared to metals like steel and aluminium. And its high strength to weight ratio makes it a promising component for modern buildings, spacecrafts etc. Carbon fiber has a low compressive to tensile strength ratio. Carbon fiber can't operate under high temp...
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The use of synthetic polymers in composite materials found a great impact on the environment. So nowadays manufacturer concentrates on the development of green composites because of their properties such as biodegradability, strength to weight ratio, durability, less cost, etc. Jute is one of the cheapest and strongest natural fibers. Machining of...
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Coir fiber reinforced epoxy composites plays a vital role for the assembly of eco-friendly materials as a result of their high modulus, smart strength, less carbon footprints on the surroundings. Drilling could be a machining methodthat is a very important method for the ultimate production stage before application. This paper mentioned a good appr...
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Glass fiber-reinforced polymer composite (GFRP) is widely used in aerospace industries due to its high strength-to-weight ratio. The analysis aims to evaluate the machinability of the GFRP composite and optimize the machining parameters like feed rate, cutting speed and point angle. Drilling test was carried on CNC drilling machine using drill bits...
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Cryogenic machining is a green manufacturing technique which eliminates conventional coolant use and related health issues. Present work optimizes cryogenic machining parameters by means of grey relational analysis in super-duplex stainless steel. The experiment is designed by means of Taguchi L27 orthogonal array. The input parameters considered f...
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The paper presents the optimization of micro drilling parameters in the Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastics (CFRP), using different drill bits of measurement 0.7mm, 0.8mm, and 0.9mm by the Taguchi Grey Relational analysis (TGRA). For the Micro drilling test, the process parameters chosen are spindle speed, feed rate and drill diameter. The experiments...
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Friction Stir Welding is set apart from other fusion welding techniques because of its ability to produce very high-quality welds even in high strength aluminium alloys. The process forges the weld region locally to produce the joint and hence is solid state in nature as it does not involve full melting. In this experimental research work an invest...
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A new design and development of a bumper are proposed for a Hyundai i10 car. The developed bumper is analysed for crash worthiness. The performance is compared with different bumper materials, such as ABS, E-glass epoxy resin, and polyamide-30% glass fibres. In this work, impact and collision of a car are simulated and analysed using ANSYS explicit...
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Organizations focus on the process capacity index (Cpi) to assess the quality of their components for the purpose of improving and assessing quality and reducing operational costs that improve productivity and remain competitive. In this work, the analysis of the capacity of the process is performed for the rotation operation, to analyze the perfor...
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Finding the greatest or least value of a function for some constrain, that is correct regardless of the solution, this process is optimization. Inorder to lift up or improve the quality of machining products, to reduce the machining costs and for the raise of production rate, there is an important issue, ie the selection of optimum cutting paramete...
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Optimization is the process of finding an alternative with the most profitable or highest performance possible within the specified limits, maximizing the desired factors and minimizing the unwanted ones. In this project, the multi-objective optimization, ie the simultaneous optimization of several factors, is performed on the parameters in the dri...
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Electro-codeposition process is considered to be an advanced technique for development of composite coatings. In this study, Ni-weld slag composite coatings are prepared from nickel Watts bath using electrodeposition process. It is a novel approach under the utilization of weld slag particles for the preparation of composite coatings which are comp...
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The CFRP composite materials are widely used in aircraft, automobiles, infrastructures, 3D printing and many more areas where light weight and high strength is a major factor. This study outlines the implementation of Taguchi technique combined with the membership function to optimize the drilling process parameters using Taguchi L27 array with mul...
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This study aims at investigating the influence of the machining parameters, such as cutting speed, feed and depth of cut on the output parameters (surface roughness and material removal rate) during dry turning operation of 11SMn30, free cutting steel. The tool used was WIDIA CNMG 120408-49-TN 2000 tool. L27 orthogonal array design of experiments w...
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The study behind this paper is in finding out optimization on drilling the Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP), using various drill bits of diameter 0.7 mm, 0.8 mm and 0.9 mm by the Taguchi Grey Relational analysis (TGRA). For the Micro-drilling experiment, the input process parameters selected are spindle speed, feed rate and drill diameter. Th...
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This article depicts the optimization of the three prominent turning process parameters, cutting speed, fede rate and depth of cut respectively for obtaining better process capability index(Cpk) of turning operation performed on the 11SMn30 alloy using carbide tool in dry condition.Surface roughness (Ra and Rz) is the output parameter identified in...
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Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymers (GFRP) are widely used composite in the arena of automobile and aircraft body fabrication. Aim of this paper is to optimizedrilling parameters for GFRP with multi-objective of Delamination Factor (DF) and Surface Roughness (Ra and Rz) using Grey Relational Analysis (GRA) and Taguchi method. The drilling experiment is...
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Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) composites are popularly used in aerospace industry in lieu of its high strength to weight ratio. This paper that is reported herein is an attempt to use Grey relational analysis (GRA) coupled with Taguchi Technique for the optimization of cutting parameters like cutting speed, feed rate and drill bit type wit...
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Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) are widely used in many engineering applications as replacement for various other elements to make use of the advantage of its high strength-weight ratio, durability and high corrosion resistance. The paper herein is an attempt to evaluate the drilling characteristics of CFRP by means of three different drill...
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Carbon fiber reinforced epoxy composites are having greater acceptance in industries as well as for researches and engineers due to the inherent properties. In this paper the change in mechanical properties like tensile strength and hardness are studied by changing the percentage composition of carbon by 30%, 35%and 45% in the carbon epoxy composit...
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In this emerging world the importance of the research on the material science is increasing because of its wide application in the field of aerospace industry, automotive industry, medical fields, military applications etc. The hybrid composites give a balanced mechanical properties when compared to conventional composites. Epoxy composites having...
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Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) is the most preferred composite material due to its high strength, high modulus, corrosion resistance and rigidity and which has wide applications in aerospace engineering, automobile sector, sports instrumentation, light trucks, airframes. This paper is an attempt to carry out drilling experiments as per Tagu...
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Purpose This paper aims to attempt to use grey relational analysis (GRA) coupled with Taguchi technique for the optimization of machining parameters (cutting speed, feed rate and drill bit type) with multiple performance characteristics of delamination factor, surface roughness and circularity in drilling of carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP)...
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Now-a-days drilling became one of the most important machining processes used for joining of Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer (GFRP) composite. Machining of composite need great attention due to phenomena like delamination and cutting edge failure. In present work, optimization of process parameters in drilling of GFRP was conducted by using grey rel...
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LM13 Aluminium alloy of variable section sizes have been extensively used in the automotive and aerospace industry. This paper reports the influence of heat Treatment and aging process on the microstructure, mechanical properties of LM13 aluminium alloy sections. Experiment is performed by melting of Aluminium ingot using heat treatment furnace and...
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This paper aims to optimize the drilling process parameters using artificial neural network (ANN) linked with the most popular meta-heuristics technique such as Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization Gravitational Search Algorithm (PSOGSA) and Genetic Algorithm (GA). An aerospace grade T300 Carbon Fiber-Epoxy composite laminate of 8 mm thick was made o...
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This paper studies the mechanical properties of the aramid fiber reinforced epoxy resin composite by varying the percentage composition. Three different compositions of aramid fiber are 30 %, 35 % and 45 % by weight. The aramid epoxy composite was manufactured by the vacuum suction method. The manufactured composites are then cured by the hot air o...
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Carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) are said to be an excellent replacement for conventional materials with high strength and modulus and are widely used in aircraft, automobiles, infrastructures, 3D printing etc. In this micro-drilling experimental study, through holes are drilled on a CFRP laminates of 2 mm thick using conventional HSS drill b...
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Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) composites are widely used in aerospace industry in lieu of its high strength to weight ratio. This study is an attempt to evaluate the machinability of Bi-Directional Carbon Fiber–Epoxy composite and optimize the process parameters of cutting speed, feed rate and drill tool material. Machining trials were car...

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... 22,23 There is an increasing trend in the automotive and aerospace industries toward using inorganic composites, and natural fiber composites are gaining popularity due to their high-specific strength, modulus-to-weight ratio, and incredibly low cost compared to synthetic counterparts. 24,25 Rajendran et al. 26 optimized the cutting parameters, surface roughness, material removal rate, and tool wear rate during the CNC milling process of jute fiber-reinforced epoxy composites, which were prepared using the hand lay-up technique. Muche et al. 27 optimized the cutting parameters for the end milling process of Enset fiberreinforced epoxy composites and found that depth of cut, spindle speed, and feed rate were the most significant factors. ...
... The DIC method can be used in other engineering scientific works allied with mechanical engineering. For example, they can be related to railways [28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36], highways [37][38][39][40], air transport [41,42], shipping [43], astronautics [44,45], transportation [46,47], and so on. In this research, the authors applied an approach regarding railway and automotive vehicles and their car body sheets. ...
... 22,23 There is an increasing trend in the automotive and aerospace industries toward using inorganic composites, and natural fiber composites are gaining popularity due to their high-specific strength, modulus-to-weight ratio, and incredibly low cost compared to synthetic counterparts. 24,25 Rajendran et al. 26 optimized the cutting parameters, surface roughness, material removal rate, and tool wear rate during the CNC milling process of jute fiber-reinforced epoxy composites, which were prepared using the hand lay-up technique. Muche et al. 27 optimized the cutting parameters for the end milling process of Enset fiberreinforced epoxy composites and found that depth of cut, spindle speed, and feed rate were the most significant factors. ...
... Comparatively small differences in shoulder diameter and weld speed make enormous changes in ultimate strength and joint efficiency [19]. Though the ratio is 2, the rotational speed and welding speed produced an adequate heat for the sound joining [20]. ...
... The researchers also provided insights into future perspectives on tool wear. Shunmugesh et al. [37] employed Taguchi Grey Research Analysis for various drill bits and conducted trials in order to increase machining conditions and reduce delamination factor. Results were concluded by comparing percentage parts of selected factors. ...
... It had less structural harm and fewer wrinkled areas. Karthikeyan et al. [60] studied the performance of different bumper materials and proposed the development of the bumper for the i10 vehicle. Such as the ABE, E glass fiber epoxy resin, and polyamide-30% glass fibres, they utilized ANSYS Explicit for the simulation analysis and considered two cases: a full-frontal impact and a half-impact on the baulk. ...
... There are many previous studies that dealt with this topic where numerous experiments and numerical simulations [13] have been conducted to study how FRP-wrapped components fail. Researchers have studied FRP-wrapped concrete rectangular and circular columns extensively on the basis of those test studies, and numerous stress-strain curves and strength models have been put forth [14,15]. ...
... Dini et al. successfully lifted the skin layers, which had delicate surfaces, without any contact with grippers of various retaining surfaces and deflector angles [11]. The Taguchi method is widely used in many areas of the scientific literature to reduce the number of experiments and to optimize test parameters and employed for the similar purposes in the present study [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]. When literature is examined, it is seen that different types of grippers are used especially in medical robots. ...
... Shunmugesh and Panneerselvam [154] used Taguchi method to optimize the process parameters of thrust force and torque of CFRP dry drilling. Taguchi optimization is to use multi-objective Taguchi membership function to convert multiple objectives into one objective. ...