NADIMUL HAQUE FAISAL

PhD Student

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Department of Mechanical Engineering

School of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Heriot-Watt University

Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, UK

 

E-mail: N.H.Faisal@hw.ac.uk   

N.H.Faisal@gmail.com

Tel:   + 44 (0) 131-451 3593

Fax:  + 44 (0) 131-451 3129

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Introduction

Nadimul Haque Faisal is a PhD student in Micromechanics Research Group (Acoustic Emission testing) at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. He started his PhD studies in August 2004 and working under the supervision of Prof. R. L. Reuben, Dr. Rehan Ahmed and Prof. John A. Steel. Mr. Faisal completed his first degree (B.Sc. Engineering-Mechanical) with distinction in 2001 from MACET, Magadh University, Bihar, India.

 

Research Interests & Experience

Since August 2004, he is working towards an interdisciplinary PhD thesis titled ‘Acoustic Emission (AE) Analysis for Quality Assessment of Thermally Sprayed Ceramic Coatings’.

 

Research interests and experience:

·          AE based Vickers instrumented indentation testing of metals, ceramic coatings and composites

·          AE based adhesive bond strength measurement

·          AE monitoring during various thermal spraying processes (e.g. HVOF/Air Plasma Spray)

·          AE monitoring during other mechanical testing and corrosion

·          Neutron diffraction residual strain measurement (ISIS ENGIN-X, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK) of thermally sprayed ceramic coatings and metals

·          Engineering forensic investigation of materials failure

·          Materials characterization and tribological studies of thick and thin film coatings

·          LAMMPS molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, MATLAB Signal Processing

·          Electro spark coating (ESC) for enhanced performance of metal cutting tools

·          Statistical Taguchi’s Design of Experiments

 

Employment

Aug 2008 – Mar 2009: Research Associate

                                    School of Engineering & Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Jun 2005 - Aug 2005:  Research Assistant

                                    School of Engineering & Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Nov 2001 - Jun 2003:  Junior Research Fellow

Surface Engineering Division, International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy & New Materials (ARCI), Hyderabad, AP, India

 

Academic Activities

Since Oct 2004, he is also working as Tutor (part-time) at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University. His current academic activity includes: Statics & Dynamics Tutorial, Strength of Materials Tutorial, Materials Labs on Micro-strain Measurement of Metal Sheets, Materials Labs on Tensile Testing of Metals, Process Planning Tutorial, ABAQUS Labs (finite element modelling & analysis)

 

Academic Awards

·          2nd year Post-graduate Researcher award (Mechanical Engineering) from the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, UK: Oct 2006

·          1st year Post-graduate Researcher award (Mechanical Engineering) from the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, UK: Oct 2005

 

Journal Publications

·          R. Ahmed, N. H. Faisal, R. L. Reuben, A. Paradowska, M. Fitzpatrick, J. Kitamura, S. Osawa: “Residual Strain in Thermally Sprayed Alumina Coatings Deposited Via Air Plasma and High Velocity Oxy-Fuel Techniques”, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, June 2009 (submitted)

·          N. H. Faisal, J. A. Steel, R. Ahmed, R. L. Reuben: “The use of acoustic emission to characterize fracture behaviour during Vickers indentation of HVOF thermally sprayed WC-Co coatings”, Journal of Thermal Spray Technology, Preprint DOI: 10.1007/s11666-009-9334-1, May 2009

·          K. R. C. Soma Raju, N. H. Faisal, D. S. Rao, S. V. Joshi, G. Sundararajan: “Electrospark coatings for enhanced performance of twist drills”, Surface and Coatings Technology, Vol. 202, Issue 9, 2008, pp. 1636-1644

·          N. H. Faisal, J. A. Steel, R. Ahmed, R. L. Reuben, G. Heaton, B. Allcock: “Application of acoustic emission for monitoring the HVOF thermal spraying process”, Advanced Materials Research, 13-14, 2006, pp. 291-297

 

International Conferences (oral/poster)

·          N. H. Faisal, R. Ahmed, R. L. Reuben, S. Balasubramanian: “Implementing MD simulation with focus on thermally sprayed particle impact”, EPSRC Symposium Workshop on Molecular Dynamics, 1st-5th June 2009, The University of Warwick, UK (poster presentation)

·          R. Ahmed, N. H. Faisal, R. L. Reuben, A. Paradowska, M. Fitzpatrick, J. Kitamura, S. Osawa: “Residual Strain in Thermally Sprayed Alumina Coatings Deposited Via Air Plasma and High Velocity Oxy-Fuel Techniques”, International Conference on Neutron Scattering 2009, May 3 - 7, 2009, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

·          N. H. Faisal, J. A. Steel, R. Ahmed, R. L. Reuben, G. Heaton, B. Allcock: “Application of acoustic emission for monitoring the HVOF thermal spraying process”, The 27th European Conference on Acoustic Emission (EWGAE-2006), 20-22nd Sept 2006, Cardiff, UK (oral and poster presentation)

 

Professional Societies Membership

·          Associate Member, Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK

·          Student Member, Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IoM3), UK

 

Other Interests

He has a keen interest in Computers, Current affairs, Travelling, Music, Mentoring and playing Cricket and Badminton. He is also the owner of some of the on-line discussion forums related to Surface Engineering & Acoustic Emission testing: Surface Engineering, Acoustic Emission.

 

He also works on research contracts, collaborations and industrial consultancy projects in association with his PhD supervisors in topics related to Materials, Mechanical & NDT.

 

 

 

 

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Last updated: 24th June 2009