Rate My Professor D Rajamani

Dr. D. Rajamani is a Professor (Research) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and serves as the Centre Head of the Centre for Advanced Materials Processing at Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai. He holds a Ph.D. in Advanced Materials Processing from Vel Tech University, Chennai, focusing on non-traditional machining of superalloys, optimization techniques, and composite structures. His international research experience encompasses collaborations at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, for plasma processing of nickel superalloys; University of Naples Federico II, Italy, for developing tailored alloys for additive manufacturing; Helwan University, Egypt, for optimizing advanced machining processes; King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, applying metaheuristic algorithms to advanced engineering materials; and Central Manufacturing Technology Institute, India, for high strain rate characterization of additively manufactured materials.

Dr. Rajamani specializes in additive manufacturing, intelligent modeling and multi-response optimization of advanced processes, development of multi-material structures via metal additive manufacturing, machinability studies of fibre metal laminates, and high strain rate characterization for ballistic applications. He has secured funding for projects including a SERB-TARE grant worth Rs. 18,30,000 for high strain rate characterization of additive manufactured materials in collaboration with CMTI (2021-24), and a Vel Tech Seed Fund project of Rs. 1,90,000 on development and machinability characteristics of fibre intermetallic laminates (2018-19). His publication record features 15 SCI/SCOPUS-indexed papers, with prominent works such as 'Experimental Investigations on Dry Sliding Wear Behavior of Kevlar and Natural Fiber-Reinforced Hybrid Composites through an RSM GRA Hybrid Approach' (Materials, 2022), 'Nd: YAG laser cutting of Hastelloy C276: ANFIS modeling and optimization through WOA' (Materials and Manufacturing Processes, 2021), 'Parametric Optimization on Impact Strength of Selective Inhibition Sintering Fabricated PA-12 Parts Based on Evolutionary Optimization Algorithms' (Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, 2021), and 'A hybrid approach of ANFIS-Artificial bee colony algorithm for intelligent modeling and optimization of plasma arc cutting on Monel 400 alloy' (Materials, 2021). Garnering 254 Scopus citations and an h-index of 7 (Scopus)/9 (Google Scholar), his contributions influence advanced manufacturing. He has guided one completed Ph.D. on mechanical vibration and wear behavior of hybrid polymer matrix composites (2020) and one ongoing. Awards include the Early Career Academic Grant from the Association of Commonwealth Universities, UK (2017); International Travel Grant from DST-SERB (2018); and Junior Research Fellowship from ARMREB-DRDO (2016-2017). Dr. Rajamani reviews for journals like Measurement (Elsevier), Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology (Springer), and Materials (MDPI).