Contact Dr Saurav Goel
Areas of expertise
- Manufacturing of Functional Materials
- Nanomaterials
- Nanotechnology
- Smart Materials
- Surface Engineering
- Sustainable Manufacturing
- Welding and Laser Processing
Background
I have dual affiliations. My primary position is at London South Bank University where I am working as a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Division and my secondary position is at the Surface and Precision Centre of Cranfield University where I am supporting my PhD students. My current research lies on the footings of Material Oriented manufacturing and I inform my research using Multi-scale modelling techniques involving the use of finite element as well as atomic simulations.
To date, my research is supported by the funding I've acquired through industries and funding bodies such as the EPSRC, Royal Academy of Engineering, Royal Society, British Counsil to name a few.
I began my academic journey with a rich Industrial experience of 3 years as a Senior Engineer in India's largest construction Conglomerate, Larsen and Toubro Limited following completion of my undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from NERIST, India in 2007. I obtained a PhD from Heriot-Watt University, Scotland in the year 2013. I became a Full Professor by 2022.
During my career, I earned the nomination for best teaching at Queen's Belfast and an award of best supervision at Cranfield. At LSBU, I am leading a research group of 10 people with 4 Post Docs having equal gender balance.
I've worked closely with students from 'China, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, India, Japan, Poland, Germany, France, UK, Kuwait, Sweden, Denmark, Spain etc'. To conclude, I would welcome any student who is motivated to join the exciting opportunity of doing amazing research in the field of Ultra-Precision Engineering.
Research opportunities
I've several PhD studentships in my research group in subjects related to machining, simulations, tribology, measurements and materials. Please contact me to find out which one suits you the most.
Current activities
I am Associate Director of the EPSRC's NetworkPlus in "Digitalised Surface Manufacturing" (https://digitalisedsurfacemanufacturing.com/) which is a collaborative network originating from the University of Manchester and now spreading to almost every continent. I am also the Co-Director of the EPSRC's Centre for Doctoral Training in Ultra Precision Engineering (EP/K503241/1 and EP/L016567/1) where I support the University of Cambridge following staff changes in 2017. Recently, I've used my skills to develop newer projects while using my experimental Precision Engineering knowledge to combat the current challenges associated with Detector materials to improve the performance of PET imaging systems (EP/S013652/1) that will benefit mankind. Additionally, I am working on modelling the mesoscale boundaries to model coastal erosion (EP/T001100/1) and to develop next-generation of self-sensing coatings (EP/T024607/1).
I specialises in Precision processing of 'difficult to cut materials', free form shapes, coating deposition techniques such as the Diamond like carbon films, surface metrology, and material characterisation and in creating 'digital twins' of these processes. I've been working on developing hybrid and sequential techniques to machine challenging materials like steel, silicon, glass, silicon carbide, tungsten etc with the highest possible precision attainable by bulk techniques. Recently, we are working on Responsive Roll to Roll Manufacturing systems and the next-generation bio3dprinting systems as well.
I was also an active part of the EU Cost Action CA18125 where we developed Critical raw materials subjected to extreme conditions (http://crm-extreme.eu/).
I am currently leading the lab on "Nature-inspired Precision Responsive Manufacturing Group" at LSBU from where we are working closely with a team of Doctors to develop antibacterial, virucidal surfaces using a wide range of techniques while suitably instrumenting the processes to record in-process data for monitoring and diagnosis of the manufacturing operations. To date. I have published 70+ Journal articles with h-index> 25 and cumulative citations > 2000. I am the Associate Editor of the Journal "Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Systems".
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Clients
1. National Physical Laboratory (http://www.npl.co.uk/)
2. Science and Technologies Facilities Council (https://stfc.ukri.org/)
3. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (https://epsrc.ukri.org/)
4. Milton Keynes University Hospital (www.mkhospital.nhs.uk/)
5. Sophion BioScience, Denmark
6. Cost Action (Horizon 2020)
7. Kennametal, Germany
8. Bruker
9. Adama Innovations, Ireland
10. Micromaterials, UK
11. AWE, UK
12. Cranfield Precision (Five Landis)
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Hakim Khalili M, Zhang R, Wilson S, Goel S, Impey SA, .... (2023). Additive Manufacturing and Physicomechanical Characteristics of PEGDA Hydrogels: Recent Advances and Perspective for Tissue Engineering. Polymers, 15(10)
- Mishra RK, Li D, Chianella I, Goel S, Lotfian S, .... (2023). Low electric field induction in BaTiO3-epoxy nanocomposites. Functional Composite Materials, 4(1)
- Fan P, Goel S, Luo X & Upadhyaya HM. (2022). Atomic-scale friction studies on single-crystal gallium arsenide using atomic force microscope and molecular dynamics simulation. Nanomanufacturing and Metrology, 5(1)
- Khalili MH, Afsar A, Zhang R, Wilson S, Dossi E, .... (2022). Thermal response of multi-layer UV crosslinked PEGDA hydrogels. Polymer Degradation and Stability, 195(January)
- Hawi S, Goel S, Kumar V, Pearce O, Ayre WN, .... (2022). Critical Review of Nanopillar-Based Mechanobactericidal Systems. ACS Applied Nano Materials, 5(1)
- Popov V, Fleisher A, Muller-Kamskii G, Shishkin A, Katz-Demyanetz A, .... (2021). Novel hybrid method to additively manufacture denser graphite structures using Binder jetting. Scientific Reports, 11(1)
- Popov VV, Grilli ML, Koptyug A, Jaworska L, Katz-Demyanetz A, .... (2021). Powder bed fusion additive manufacturing using critical raw materials: a review. Journal of Advanced Materials -Covina-, 14(4)
- Shishkin A, Goel G, Baronins J, Ozolins J, Hoskins C, .... (2021). Using circular economy principles to recycle materials in guiding the design of a wet scrubber-reactor for indoor air disinfection from coronavirus and other pathogens. Environmental Technology and Innovation, 22(May)
- Novák P, Bellezze T, Cabibbo M, Gamsjäger E, Wiessner M, .... (2021). Solutions of critical raw materials issues regarding iron-based alloys. Materials, 14(4)
- Zlatanovic DL, Balos S, Bergmann JP, Rasche S, Zavsnik J, .... (2021). In-depth microscopic characterisation of the weld faying interface revealing stress-induced metallurgical transformations during friction stir spot welding. International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture, 164(May)
- Zlatanovic DL, Balos S, Bergmann JP, Rasche S, Pecanac M, .... (2021). Influence of tool geometry and process parameters on the properties of friction stir spot welded multiple (AA 5754 H111) aluminium sheets. Bio-Medical Materials and Engineering, 14(5)
- Fan P, Goel S, Luo X, Yan Y, Geng Y, .... (2021). Origins of ductile plasticity in a polycrystalline gallium arsenide during scratching: MD simulation study. Applied Surface Science, 552(June)
- Fan P, Goel S, Luo X, Yan Y, Geng Y, .... (2021). Molecular dynamics simulation of AFM tip-based hot scratching of nanocrystalline GaAs. Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, 130(August)
- Yin J, Bai Q, Goel S, Zhou P & Zhang B. (2021). An analytical model to predict the depth of sub-surface damage for grinding of brittle materials. CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology, 33(May)
- Katiyar NK, Goel G, Hawi S & Goel S. (2021). Nature-inspired materials: Emerging trends and prospects. NPG Asia Materials, 13(1)
- Katiyar NK, Goel G & Goel S. (2021). Emergence of machine learning in the development of high entropy alloy and their prospects in advanced engineering applications. Emergent Materials, 4(6)
- Faisal NH, Sellami N, Venturi F, Hussain F, Hussain T, .... (2021). Large-scale manufacturing route to metamaterial coatings using thermal spray techniques and their response to solar radiation. Emergent Materials, Available online 4 July 2021(6)
- Narisetty V, Amraoui Y, Abdullah A, Ahmad E, Agrawal D, .... (2021). High yield recovery of 2,3-butanediol from fermented broth accumulated on xylose rich sugarcane bagasse hydrolysate using aqueous two-phase extraction system. Bioresource Technology, 337(October)
- Hawi S, Gharavian S, Burda M, Goel S, Loftian S, .... (2021). Development of carbonaceous tin-based solder composite achieving unprecedented joint performance. Emergent Materials, 4(6)
- Goel S & Stukowski A. (2018). Comment on “Incipient plasticity of diamond during nanoindentation” by Xu C, Liu C and Wang H, RSC Advances, 2017, 7, 36093. RSC Advances, 8(10)
Conference Papers
- Hawi S, Dickins A, Pardal GR, Giusca C, Pearce O, .... (2019). Fabrication of functionalised surfaces on Gum metal (Ti-30Nb) using micromachining
- Zhao J, Giusca C & Goel S. (2018). Manufacturing uncertainty: How reproducible is the depth of cut during turning of OFHC copper? (Extended abstract)
- Goel S, Rashid WB, Mir A, Zeng S, Sun J, .... (2013). Development of the surface defect machining method for micro/nano scale material removal processes
- Goel S, Luo X, Stukowski A & Reuben RL. (2012). Influence of nanoparticle coolant and crystal structure of the workpiece during nanometric cutting of silicon carbide
Books
- Kumar N, Goel G & Goel S. (2022). Chapter 3: Nanomaterials based biosensing: methods and principle of detection In Joshi SN & Chandra P (eds), Advanced Micro and Nano Manufacturing Technologies: Applications in Biochemical and Biomedical Engineering. Springer Nature.
- Goel S, Chavoshi SZ & Murphy A. (2017). Molecular dynamics simulation (MDS) to study nanoscale machining processes In Jain VK(ed.), Nanofinishing Science and Technology: Basic and Advanced Finishing and Polishing Processes (Chapter 19). CRC press.