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16.
Research thrust areas as recognized by major funding agencies
The school emphasis research on the following major areas:
Metal joining, Composite Materials, Machining, , Materials Engineering, Vibration and
control, Dynamic Stability, IC Engines and Heat Transfer, Machine vision system,
Biomass power generation, Downdraft Gasifier, Fluidized Bed Combustion, Pyrolysis -
Production of Bio-Oil, Solar Photo-Voltaic System Fly Ash Concretes, , Physico-
Chemical treatment of water and Bio-process Engineering
17. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) national b) international funding
agencies and c) Total grants received. Give the names of the funding agencies, project
title and grants received project-wise.
S. No
Name of the Project
Amount
Rs. in
lakhs
Funding
Agency
Principal Investigator / Co-
Principal investigator
1.
Study of the High Cycle Fatigue
(HCF)
Behaviour of
Beta
Titanium Alloy Til 5-3
15.09
DRDO
PI: Prof. Geetha
Manivasagam
Co-PI: Prof. M. Nageswara
Rao
2.
Pyrolysis of waste agro biomass
by thermocatalytic process using
microwave inpebble / fluidized
bed reactor
103
MNRE
PI: Prof. R. Natarajan
3.
Experimental investigations in
high
efficiency
compound
augmented
doubly
enhanced
micronfin recuperations.
25
DST
PI: Prof. Yagna Mukkamula
4.
Sponsored collaborative R&D
project on “Utilization of bottom
ash of thermal power stations for
construction activities as substitute
of fine aggregates (Sand) (MoU)
45.76
NLC 31
VIT14.76
NLC
PI: Prof. A. S. Santhi
Co-PI: Prof. G. Mohan
Ganesh
5.
Studies on the Curing Regime,
Rate of Hardening, Toughness
Properties and Long Term
Durability
of
Glass
Fibre
Reinforced Geopolymer Concrete
6.48
DST
PI: Prof. A. Sivakumar
6.
Effect of Pond ash and steel fibre
in concrete
4.32
DST
PI: Prof. A. Sofi
7.
Improving the Performance of
Wire cut EDM by developing the
Wire Electrodes
14.75
DST
PI: Prof. Rajyalakshmi
8.
Studies on Pulsed Current GTA
Welding and Friction Stir Welding
of Superalloy C276
14.86
ER & IPR,
DRDO
PI: Prof. N. Arivazhagan
Co-PI: Prof. M. Nageswara
Rao
9.
Flowing and depository profiling
of contaminants through domestic
water supply system and health
risks assessment
2
TNSCST – S&T PI: Prof. Shanth Kumar
Co-PI: Prof. A. N. Brijesh
Nair
10.
Development of Titanium based
implants for osteoporotic bone by
14.62
DST - SERB
PI: Prof. Geetha
Manivasagam