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Dear Members,
It gives me great pleasure to present to you the annual report of the Indian Society for Advancement of Materials and Process Engineering for the year 2007-2008.
Election to Executive Board
In pursuance of the Election Procedure, (vide Sec 5.3 of the Rules and Regulations), elections were required to be held this year to the offices of Vice President, Director, secretary and Joint secretary 1 in the Executive Council of the Society for the official years 2007-2009. As no other nominations were received, the following were elected, and this was approved in the last AGM, held on 22nd June 2007.
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For Vice President |
Dr.S Sankaran,
Head Composite technology Centre,
Aeronautical Development Establishment,
CV Raman Nagar, Bangalore 560097 |
| ii |
For Director |
Mr. C.R. Sathya, Senior Vice President,
Tata Advanced Materials Limited
Jigani, Bangalore 562106 |
| iii |
For Secretary |
Dr. Ramesh Sundaram, Scientist,
Advanced Composites Division
National Aerospace Laboratories
Bangalore - 560 017 |
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For Joint Secretary – 1 |
Mr. D. Saji
Scientist, Advanced Composites Division
National Aerospace Laboratories
Bangalore - 560 01 |
Conferences, Seminars and Workshops:
INCCOM VI
Continuing with the tradition of organizing conferences every year, ISAMPE Kanpur Chapter successfully organized INCCOM-VI Conference from December 12-14, 2007 at IIT Kanpur. The conference had international participation and had the theme of "Innovations in Composites for the New Century". This conference attracted both researchers and practitioners across the globe. The conference had 15 special/invited lectures by eminent scientists and researchers on different topics like fabrication to machining of advanced composites. This event attracted 250 participants, which included about 25 from abroad. The next conference in this series, INCCOM 7 is being organized by ISAMPE Bangalore Chapter and NAL from
December 4-5 2008.
Professor AK Rao Memorial Lecture – 2nd lecture
In memory of founder president Prof AK Rao, the Executive Board has decided to institute a lecture every year. As it is a difficult task to hold the talk on the exact date of birth, it has been decided that the lecture will be held in the month of September, the month he was born. The second Professor AK Rao memorial lecture was delivered by Dr Ivatury S Raju, NASA Technical Fellow for Structures, NASA Engineering and Safety Center, NASA Langley Research Center, Virginia, USA. Dr Raju spoke on the recent advances in computing engines and computing architectures, which have allowed comprehensive analyses to be performed in a relatively short amount of time. He brought out that advances in computers, analysis methods, and testing methods have interacted synergistically to create explosive growth in each of these areas. In his presentation, challenges faced by the structures community were discussed and technology barriers for future analysis methods were outlined.
ISAMPE Awards
- Vijay Zaveri Award for Best Technician –2007 was not given, as suitable nominations were not received.
- ISAMPE Outstanding Design and/or Process Development Award-2007was given to Late Dr. R Sheshadri and Mr. A Arul Paligan of Material Science Division, National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore, for their work on “Casting of Metals and Ceramics using Thermit type Reactions Under the effect of Centrifugal Force”
- K Suryanarain Rau Memorial Award For Smart Technology Development-2007: This was jointly shared by two teams:
- Mr. Dayananda GN, Mr Senthil Kumar P, Mr Kamalakannan GM and Mr M Subba Rao, Scientists of Advanced Composites Division, National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore, for their work on “Aircraft Structural Repair Technology using Smart Actuators”. And
- Dr .K Ravishankar, Mr. S Parivallal, Mr. K Kesavan, Mr. P Sreeshylam, Mr. S Sridhar and Mr. SGN Murthy, Scientists Experimental Mechanics Laboratory, Structural Engineering Research Centre, Chennai for their work on “Smart Sensor Based Remote Structural Health Monitoring for Civil Engineering Applications”.
- K Suryanarain Rau Memorial Senior Student Award For Research and Development In Smart Technology-2007: This was jointly shared by two scientists:
- Dr BS Munjal Senior Scientist/Engineer, Space Applications Centre, ISRO, Ahmedabad for his work on “Finite Element Analysis, Design, and Development of Smart Skin
Spacecraft Antenna Reflectors using Intelligent/Smart Materials & Structural Systems. And
- Mr. Anshuman Seal, Research Associate, Sensor and Actuator Section, Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata, for his work on“ Studies on the materials and fabrication aspects of multilayer actuator”.
- K Suryanarain Rau Memorial Junior Student Award For Research And Development In Smart Technology -2007: was awarded to Mr Vigel Raj R, Timken Engineering and Research
India (P) Ltd, Bangalore for his work on “Design and Optimization of PVDF Hydrophone”.
These awards were distributed at the 21st AGM
NAL- ISAMPE MOU
Advanced Composites Division (ACD), one of the major divisions of NAL conducted many conferences, workshops and events in the field of composites during the period from 1991 to 2001 and surplus funds received from these events were kept as deposits. The amount had subsequently grown to an amount of about Rs. 40,000,00/- (Rs. Forty Lakhs). After discussions and deliberations with the appropriate authorities of NAL, it was felt that the money kept in deposits would be best utilized if handed over to a professional society, which inter-alia promotes the cause of composites in the country. A decision was taken that the amount could be handed over to ISAMPE as an NAL endowment fund for a well defined specific purpose. The Executive Board of ISAMPE has, after due deliberations, agreed to accept the funds and conduct activities as agreed upon in the MOU. The fund has been named as “NAL Endowment for Composites Technology, Advancement and Research” or in the abbreviated form as ‘NECTAR’ The main OBJECTIVES are to Promote R&D activities in computational, experimental and theoretical aspects of composite materials and technologies and allied disciplines including smart materials and structures. In this connection, persons of great repute, of international stature, shall be invited to deliver lectures or conduct workshops/courses/seminars in the area of composites including smart materials and structures.
It has been a fruitful year for ISAMPE and all it’s Chapter’s. On behalf of the Executive Board, I would like to thank you all for your support and co-operation, and hope the same would be forthcoming this year and in the years to come. I wish you all a professionally satisfying association with the Society during the coming year.
Thanking You
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