Center for Materials Processing and Manufacturing





Ramnath Krishnamurthy: (graduated in 2002).
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Wayne State University.
Thesis: “An Initial Study On Hot Metal Gas Forming Process".


Anshul Kaushal: (graduated in Fall 2004).
M.E. in Mechanical Engineering, Wayne State University.
Thesis: “A Comparative Study on Hydroforming and Hot Metal Gas Forming of A Long Rail Manufacturing and its Crashworthiness Performance”.


Wei Luo: (graduated in Fall 2004)
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Wayne State University.
Thesis: "An Analysis on Tube Expansion and A New Technique on Obtaining Creep Equation of Tube Materials Under A Multi-Axis Loading"


Haojun Zhang: (graduated in Fall 2005)
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Wayne State University.
Thesis: “A numerical study on the impact response and energy absorption of thin-wall tubes with different geometries”


Surampudi Venkat Satya Prashanth: (graduated in Spring 2006).
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Wayne State University.
Thesis: “Experimental Study on tensile Plasticity of Light Metals for Automotive Application”.


Pushkar Ulhas Vaidya: (graduated in Fall 2006).
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Wayne State University.
Thesis: “Formability Enhancement in Deep Drawing of Laser Welded Tailored Blank By Means of Combined Binder Force and Binder Temperature Control”.


Yuxiu Zhang: (graduated in Fall 2009).
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Wayne State University.
Thesis: "Microstructural and Micro-mechanical Characterization and Modeling of Advanced High Strength Dual-Phase Steels"


Swanand Sharad Palange: (graduated in Fall 2010).
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Wayne State University.
Thesis: “Inner surface fracture of small radius bending of sheet metals.”


Yuan Gan: (graduated in Winter 2011) .
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Wayne State University.
Thesis: "A simple shear test and its comparison with uniaxial test of two engineering metals”


Cuifen Yan: (graduated in Fall 2011).
M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Wayne State University.
Thesis: “Processing and characterization of smart materials for energy harvest”