Dr Supriyo Ganguly
Lecturer in Welding Science
Location: Building 46, Cranfield campus
E: s.ganguly@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 750111 x5054
Manufacturing and Materials
Current activities
Dr Supriyo Ganguly’s research activities currently focus on the following:
- Understanding of weld pool behaviour and weld penetration characteristics with changing composition and heat input in for LASER and TIG welding
- Understanding of residual stress generation and its dependence on welding temperature and travel speed.
- Thermal and mechanical ways of mitigating residual stress generation during welding.
In addition to research, he is supporting the MSc course in Welding Engineering conducted by the Welding Engineering Research Centre.
Clients
- EPSRC
- AWE
- British Energy
- Airbus, UK
- ALCOA.
Background
Dr Supriyo Ganguly obtained his bachelors in Metallurgical Engineering from the Bengal Engineering College and Science University, India, in 1994. He read his DPhil degree from 2001-2004 at the Open University, on the “Non-destructive Measurement of Residual Stresses in Welded Aluminum 2024 Airframe Alloy”. His PhD study constituted a part of the multi-disciplinary WELDES project sponsored by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) studying the durability of welded aircraft assemblies. In between 1994 and 2001, heworked in two integrated steel plants in the ‘Quality Assurance Departments' of steel melting and primary rolling units, high speed Wire, Bar and structural rolling units.
After his PhD, he joined the Manchester Materials Science Centre as a post-doctoral research associate to work on an EPSRC sponsored project on the development of fusion welding processes for wing primary structures ( DEFUSE ). After completing his first post doctoral studies, he worked as a Research Fellow in the Open University as a part of two large consortia: Keeping Nuclear Options Open (KNOO) and Mechanistic Understanding of Corrosion of Zirconium (MUZIC) funded through the ‘Towards a Sustainable Energy Economy Programme' by the EPSRC.
In November 2008, Supriyo joined the Welding Engineering and Laser Processing Centre as a lecturer in Welding Sciences. His research is now focused on developing deeper understanding on microstructural evolution during welding and the effect of thermal and mechanical processing during welding on residual stress mitigation.
