This work is in collaboration with Prof. N. Siva Prasad (retired from Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Madras) (ME) and was sponsored by a project from DST. The work is part of doctoral theses of Shirish and Lakshminarayanan and M.Tech theses of J. Dhananjeyan and Santhosh. The M.S.(by research) thesis of M.R. Rahul was on combining SYSWELD® simulations with physical simulations using Gleeble® 3800.

Studies on multipass welding with trailing heat sink considering phase transformation 
Kala, S.R., Siva Prasad, N., Phanikumar, G.  
Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 214 (6) PP. 1228 - 1235 
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Numerical Study of Welding with Trailing Heat Sink Considering Phase Transformation Effects 
Shirish R. Kala, N. Siva Prasad and G. Phanikumar  
Advanced Materials Research, Vols. 875-877 (2014) pp 2118-2122  
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Investigation of fusion weldments of semi-solid aluminium A356 alloy: pool geometry and microstructure 
S. Sandhya and G. Phanikumar  
Materials Science Forum, vol. 756, pp. 751-755  (2013) 
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Numerical studies on effect of interpass time on distortion and residual stresses in multipass welding 
Kala, S.R., Prasad, N.S., Phanikumar, G.   
Advanced Materials Research, vol. 601, pp. 31-36, (2013) 
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