Dr. Rajnesh Tyagi

Academic Qualification:

Ph. D. (Materials Tribology), M. Tech. (Industrial Metallurgy), B.E. (Mech. Engg.) IIT Roorkee

Contact Details:

Department of Mechanical Engineering,

Indian Institute of Technology, BHU,

VARANASI – 221 005, INDIA

Tel.: (+91) 542-67028523, Fax: (+91) 542-2368428

E-mail: rtyagi.mec@itbhu.ac.in; rajneesh10tyagi@gmail.com

 Area of Interest:

 Materials Aspect of Tribology, Composite Materials, High Temperature Wear, Solid Lubrication, Wear Protective Coatings

Post Doctoral Research Experience:

Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing PR China Dec 2008 to Sept 2010.

Recent Research Publications from Last 5 Years:

1)                R. K. Gautam, S. Ray, Satish C. Sharma, S. S. Jain, R. Tyagi, (2011) “Dry sliding wear behavior of hot forged and annealed Cu–Cr–graphite in-situ composites” Wear 271, 658– 664.

 2)            Rajnesh Tyagi, Dangsheng Xiong, Jianliang Li, Jihuai Dai, (2011) “Effect of Load and Sliding Speed on Friction and Wear Behavior of Silver/h-BN Containing Ni -base P/M Composites,  Wear,270, pp.423-30.

3)              Rajnesh Tyagi, Dangsheng Xiong, Jianliang Li, Jihuai Dai, (2011) , Dry Sliding Wear Behavior of Silver Containing Ni Based composite-Steel Tribo-Pair, online Jan 7, 2011, J. of Shanghai Jiotong University (Sci), Springer-Verlag.

4)                 Rajnesh Tyagi, Dangsheng Xiong, Jianliang Li, Jihuai Dai, (2010) “Elevated Temperature Tribological Behavior of Ni Based Composites Containing nano Silver and hBN” Wear 269, pp. 884-890.

5)        Rajnesh Tyagi,  Dangsheng Xiong, Jianliang Li, Jihuai Dai, (2010) “High-Temperature Friction and Wear of Ag/h-BN-Containing Ni Based Composites against steel”,Tribology letters, Vol. 40., No. 1, pp.181-186 .

6)           Jianling Li,  Dangsheng Xiong, Hongyan Wu, Zhongjia huang, Jihui Dai, and Rajnesh Tyagi, (2010), Tribological Properties of Laser Surface Texturing and Molybdenizing Duplex-Treated Ni-Base Alloy, Tribology Transactions, 53:2, 195-202.

7)            Jianliang Li, Dangsheng Xiong, Jihui Dai, Zhongjia Huang, Rajnesh Tyagi, (2009) Effect of Surface Laser Texture on Friction Properties of Nickel-based Composite, Tribology International, Vol. 43, Issue 5-6, 1193-1199.

8)            Jian Kong, Dangsheng Xiong, Jianliang Li, Qunxing Yuan, Rajnesh Tyagi, (2009), " Effect of Flash temperature on Tribological Properties of Bulk Metallic Glasses" Trib. Letters, Vol. 35. No. 3. pp. 151-158.

9)            M.T. Mathew, M.A. Wimmer, P.Srinivasa Pal, R. Tyagi, R.Pourzal, A.Fischer, (2009), “Tribocorrosion-Some Fundamentals, Overview and Current Status”, Indian J. of Tribology, Vol. 4(2), pp.25-36.