Dissimilar Metal Joining

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Dwivedi, Dheerendra Kumar

Dr. Dheerendra Kumar Dwivedi is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee. He is the recipient of Indian and American National Awards, namely the Binani Gold Medal Award by IIM (2001), the W. H. Hobart Memorial Award by AWS (2022), and the INSA Teachers Award by INSA (2022), and has been recognized amongst the top 2% Global Scientists in Materials Domain by Elsevier-Stanford (2020, 2021, 2022). He has been involved in teaching, research and development, and industrial consultancy for the last 28 years broadly in the area of manufacturing technologies in general and solid state joining and fusion welding processes in particular. He supervised 17 Ph.D. thesis and over 50 M. Tech. Dissertations. He has published in over 130 research papers in peer-reviewed SCI and SCIE-indexed international journals with h-factor 41 and i-10 index 104. He has been granted two Indian patents in the area of dissimilar steel joining. He has undertaken nine bilateral international collaborative research projects with reputed universities, namely Chemnitz University, Germany, University of Coimbra, Portugal, University of Uberlandia, Brazil, University of Zacatecas, Mexico and Physical Technical Institute, Belarus. Dr. Dwivedi has undertaken more than 24 research projects in the area of weld-bonding, friction stir welding, flux-assisted gas tungsten arc welding, laser cladding, and friction stir processing-Bronzes from funding agencies such as DST, BRNS, ARDB, CSIR etc.