Papers Publications in Journals:

1. Microstructure Analysis of Cold Worked Holes. N. Shanmukha, M Krishna. Trans Tech Publications, Material Science Forum, vols. 539-543 (2007) pp.2222-2227.

International Conference:

1. “cold expansion studies – by finite element method” at 12th annual international conference on composites/nano engineering [ICCE-12] at Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, August 1st to 6th August 2005.
   
2. “Stress analysis and Evaluation of fatigue properties using cold hole expansion process” in FATIGUE 2006 - 9th International Fatigue congress held at Omni hotel, CNN center, Atlanta, USA, 14th to 19th May 2006.
   
3. “Evaluation of tensile properties of cold expanded hole for improved fatigue life” in FATIGUE 2006 - 9th international fatigue congress held at omni hotel, CNN Center, Atlanta, USA, 14th to 19th may 2006.
   
4. “Microstructure analysis of cold worked holes” in THERMEC’2006, International Conference on “processing & manufacturing of advanced materials” held at Vancouver, Canada 04-08 July 2006.
   
5. “Finite element analysis of pre-stressed fastener holes for enhanced fatigue performance for automotive applications” accepted for presentation in the International Conference ICAMP-4, Advanced materials & processing conference, Department of materials and process Engineering, university of Waikato, Hamilton, New-Zealand to be held December 10-13, 2006.
   
6. “Finite Element Analysis of Pre-stressed fastener holes for Optimum Fatigue Performance for Automotive Applications” International Conference on Modeling & Optimization of Structures, Processes & Systems, ICMOSPS’07, DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA, 22-24 - January, 2007.
   
7. “Optimization of C/D ratio of adjacent pre-stressed holes using Finite Element Analysis” at International Conference on Modeling & Optimization of Structures, Processes & Systems, ICMOSPS’07, DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA, 22-24 - January, 2007.
   
8. Research paper entitled “Optimization of c/d ratio of adjacent pre stressed fastener holes in HCF using finite element analysis” accepted for presentation in the Fourth International Conference on Very High Cycle Fatigue [VHCF-4], university of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, August 19-22, 2007.
   
9. Research paper entitled “Photo Elastic stress measurement on Pre-stressed fastener holes for improved high-cycle fatigue performance” accepted for presentation in the Fourth International Conference on Very High Cycle Fatigue [VHCF-4], university of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, August 19-22, 2007.
   
10. Research paper entitled “Fatigue performance of cold expanded holes in Al7050 aluminum alloys” accepted for presentation at Sixteenth International Conference on Processing & Fabrication of Advanced Materials [PFAM-XVI] to be held in Singapore from 17-19 December 2007.
    

National Conference:

1. “Analysis of cold expanded hole under tension for improved Fatigue life” in OPTEST-2006 – National conference on optimization techniques in Engineering Sciences & Technologies held at Department of Mechanical Engineering, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam, Tamilnadu, India 11th & 12th April 2006.
   
2. “Micro structure studies of pre-stressed holes” in National Conference on Failure Analysis (NCFA-2006), organized by Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory (DMRL), Hyderabad, India, 22-24 December 2006.
   
3. “Optimization of C/D ratio of Adjacent Pre-stressed holes using Finite Element Analysis” accepted for presentation in National Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering, organized by Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India, 22-24 March 2007.
   
4. “Finite Element Analysis of Pre-Stressed holes for Optimum Fatigue performance for Automotive Applications” accepted for presentation in National Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering, organized by Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India 22-24 March 2007.
   
5. Research paper on “Fatigue performance of cold expanded holes in al7050 aluminum alloy” accepted for presentation in the International Conference on Advanced Materials and Composites (ICAMC-2007) to be held in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala from 24-26 October 2007.

Projects:

1. “Training program in testing and analyzing of exhaust emission from vehicles”, 2007, Awarded by DST, Principal Investigator- N. Shanmukha
   
2. “Experimental and Analytical Studies of Residual Stress Fields & Fatigue Crack Growth of Pre-stressed Fastener Holes” ”, 2007, Awarded by IPR, Principal Investigator- N. Shanmukha
   
3. “Study and Design & Development of High Strength Ultra Fine-grained Alloys through Equal Channel Angular Extrusion ”, 2007, Awarded by NRB, Principal Investigator- N. Shanmukha