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Annual General Meeting 28 May 2004
Auditorium, Aeronautical Society Building, Bangalore
Secretary's Report
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Dear members,
It gives me great pleasure to present you the annual report
of the Indian Society for Advancement of Materials and Process
Engineering, Bangalore Chapter for the period April 2003 - March
2004.
The second AGM of the chapter was held on 22 May 2003, which
was well attended. The deliberations of the AGM were followed
by a Technical Lecture on "Nano Materials" by Prof.
K. Chattopadhyay, Chairman, Materials Research Centre, IISc,
Bangalore.
Dr.T.Pradeep Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemistry and Regional
Sophisticated Instrumentation Centre, IIT, Madras delivered
a Lecture on 'Metal Nonoparticles: Chemistry, Novel Materials
and Sensors', on 27th June 2003. This talk covered the work
in the recent past on metal nano particles and related systems.
Recent work on flow sensors with nano particles was outlined.
A lecture on 'The Performance Evaluation and Modeling of Braided
Composites' was delivered by Prof. Ajit D. Kelkar, Dept. of
Mechanical Engineering, Centre for Advanced Material and Smart
Structures, North Carolina A&T State University Greensboro,
USA on 22nd July 2003.
Dr. Peter Sittner Institute of Czech Republic presented a lecture
on 17th Nov.2003 on 'Non Contact Technologies for Evaluation
of Shape Memory Alloy Behavior'.
A Technical Discussion & Presentation was scheduled on 24th
November 2003 with Mr. Leonard Major, Head of Technical Services
from M/s. Rohn GmbH & Co., Germany at the HRD Conference
Hall, ISAC.
The chapter in collaboration with the Department of Aerospace
Engineering, IISc and AR&DB successfully conducted the INCCOM-II
and XII NASAS with the theme of "Advances in Composites"
at J.N.Tata Auditorium Complex, IISc, Bangalore on 5th &
6th of September 2003. The conference was co-sponsored by HAL,
Dept. of Atomic Energy, NUMURA Foundation Japan and Indian Space
Research Organisation.
Shri N.R. Mohanty, Chairman, HAL was the Chief Guest and Prof.M.L.
Munjal, IISc presided over the inaugural function. In this session
the prestigious C.V.Joga Rao Memorial Lecture and Sri.Vijay
Zaveri Memorial Lecture titled, 'Towards Advanced Composite
Technology'. and 'Composite Application in UAV Airframes', were
delivered by Shri Prahlada, Director, DRDL, Hyderabad and Dr
K.A. Jacob, Scientist ADE, Bangalore respectively. The conference
included fifty contributed papers from Aerospace and Non Aerospace
Agencies. These lectures were presented in six sessions scheduled
in three parallel sections over two days. The conference featured
an exclusive plenary and interactive student sessions both of
which were well received.
The wealth of information contained in the proceedings of the
Conference will serve the technical community actively involved
in the area of composites as a useful reference and provide
direction for future development in this important area. Besides
this, during the conference a successful exhibition was organized
so as to provide for interaction of the participants with industries,
suppliers, dealers and marketing agencies. Overall, the conference
was a highly successful event. During this event, the chapter
set a trend in organizing the AGM of the Executive Board, ISAMPE
in cohesion with the main Board.
A sensational talk on 'Dielectric Elastomer Artificial Muscles
for Actuators, Generators and Sensors' was delivered by Dr.
Harsha Prahlad of SRI International Mento Park, California USA
on 12th January 2004.
With constant encouragement by the main board and leading organizations
like NAL, HAL, ADA, CEMILAC, CABS, IISc, TIFAC and with the
new executive committee in place, the Chapter is poised to look
forward for yet another eventful year. |
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