Research Areas:

·        Welding Processes, Welding Metallurgy, Friction Stir Welding, Inspection and Testing of Welds

·        Materials Engineering, New Manufacturing Processes

Confrence Presentataions

1.      Dinesh Kumar Shukla, Manoj Kumar, Zaheer Khan Yusufzai*, & Sunil Pandey , “Effect of Preheating on Stainless Steel Wires In Submerged Arc Welding ” proceedings of the International Welding Symposium, 11-13 Dec 2008, at BHEL  Tiruchirappalli , India.

2.      Mohd Zaheer Khan Yusufzai*, Sunil Pandey, Rajesh Prasad & L Prasanna, “Friction Stir Welding of Steel” National Confrence on Welding Technology, 13th - 14th Feb 2009, organized by  IWS & SLIET, Longawal, Punjab.

3.      Presented a poster on “Friction Stir welding of Steel” on National Science Day 28^th February 2009.

4.      Dinesh Kumar Shukla, Manoj Kumar, Zaheer Khan Yusufzai, & Sunil Pandey , “Welding current behavior in advanced submerged arc welding,” NWS-2009, National Welding Seminar, 4th - 6th Feb 2009, organized by Indian Institute of  Welding.

5.      Mohd Zaheer Khan Yusufzai*, Sunil Pandey, Rajesh Prasad & Karamjit Singh, “Defects in Friction Stir Welding of Steel” CD proceeding of the 24^th Engineering congress at NIT Surathkal, Mangalore from 10th - 13th December 2009.

6.      Delivered a talk on “Friction stir welding of steel” in QIP short term course held at NIT Jalandhar in December 2009

7.      Presented a poster on “Microstructural evolution during Friction Stir welding of Steel” on National Metallurgical Day December 2010.

Awards

1.      Second prize in poster presentation in International conference on metals and alloys (METALLO 2007) at IIT-Kanpur in December 2007.

      2.  Best paper award in National Conference on welding Technology at SLIET, Longowal in February 2009.

      3. Best project award by Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi Alumni association in I² tech 2009.