| Department | Mechanical Engineering |
| Designation | Assistant Professor Grade-I |
| Educational Qualification | Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur, 2019); M.Tech (NIT Rourkela, 2012); B.Tech (BPUT Rourkela, 2010) |
| ksbal.me@nitrr.ac.in | |
| Contact Number | 9800134001 |
Kalinga Simant Bal
Areas of Interest
Laser beam and electron beam welding, Finite element modeling, Micro-structural characterization of metals and alloys, Corrosion, Optimization, Coating
Publications
Journals
1) Kalinga Simant Bal, Jyotsna Dutta Majumdar, Asimava Roy Choudhury. Elemental micro-segregation characteristic of fiber laser welded Hastelloy C-276 sheet. Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China 28 (2018) 2236–2247.
2) Kalinga Simant Bal, Jyotsna Dutta Majumdar, Asimava Roy Choudhury. Study on uni-axial tensile strength properties of Ytterbium fiber laser welded Hastelloy C-276 sheet. Optics & Laser Technology 108 (2018) 392–403.
3) Kalinga Simant Bal, Jyotsna Dutta Majumdar, Asimava Roy Choudhury. Minimization of bead geometry by optimization of regression equations for laser-beam bead-on-plate welded Hastelloy C-276 sheet. Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering (2018) 40:451.
4) Kalinga Simant Bal, Jyotsna Dutta Majumdar, Asimava Roy Choudhury. Optimization of melt zone area for electron beam welded Hastelloy C-276 sheet and study of corrosion resistance of the optimized melt zone in 3.5 wt% NaCl aqueous solution. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering 44 (2019) 1617–1630.
5) Kalinga Simant Bal, Jyotsna Dutta Majumdar, Asimava Roy Choudhury. Effect of post-weld heat treatment on the tensile strength of laser beam welded Hastelloy C-276 sheets at different heat inputs. Journal of Manufacturing Processes 37 (2019) 578–594.
6) Kalinga Simant Bal, Jyotsna Dutta Majumdar, Asimava Roy Choudhury. Effect of electron beam accelerating voltage on the melt zone area, secondary-dendrite arm spacing and fusion line microstructure of bead-on-plate welded Hastelloy C-276 sheet. Optik - International Journal for Light and Electron Optics 183 (2019) 355–366.
7) Kalinga Simant Bal, Jyotsna Dutta Majumdar, Asimava Roy Choudhury. Investigation into the intergranular corrosion behaviour of electron beam welded Hastelloy C-276 sheet using laser displacement sensor. Measurement 144 (2019) 345–365.
8) Kalinga Simant Bal, Jyotsna Dutta Majumdar, Asimava Roy Choudhury. Study of intergranular corrosion mechanism of fiber laser welded 3-mm-thick Hastelloy C-276 sheet. Corrosion Science 157 (2019) 406–419.
9) Kalinga Simant Bal, Abhijit Sadhu, Jyotsna Dutta Majumdar, Asimava Roy Choudhury. Study of melting efficiency, micro-segregation, and corrosion resistance of Ytterbium fiber laser welded Hastelloy C-276 sheet in Pulsed wave mode. Advances in Materials and Processing Technologies 5 (2019) 568–581.
10) Dipanjan Dey, Kalinga Simant Bal, Anitesh Kumar Singh, Asimava Roy Choudhury. Hardness and wear behaviour of multiple component coating on Ti-6Al-4V substrate by laser application. Optik - International Journal for Light and Electron Optics 202 (2020) 163555.
11) Kalinga Simant Bal, Jyotsna Dutta Majumdar, Asimava Roy Choudhury. Study of Variation in Fracture Location of Electron Beam-Welded Hastelloy C-276 Sheets under Uniaxial Tension. Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance 29 (2020) 8370–8394.
12) Anitesh Kumar Singh, Kalinga Simant Bal, Abhishek Rudra Pal, Dipanjan Dey, Asimava Roy Choudhury. A novel method to reduce dross in laser beam cutting of Ti-6Al-4 V alloy sheet. Journal of Manufacturing Processes 64 (2021) 95–112.
13) Anitesh Kumar Singh, Kalinga Simant Bal, Dipanjan Dey, Amit Kumar Das, Abhishek Rudra Pal, Dilip Kumar Pratihar, Asimava Roy Choudhury. Experimental investigation and parametric optimization for minimization of dilution during direct laser metal deposition of tungsten carbide and cobalt powder mixture on SS304 substrate. Powder Technology 390 (2021) 339–353.
14) Debasish Das, Kalinga Simant Bal, Dilip Kumar Pratihar, Gour Gopal Roy. Correlating the weld-bead's ‘macro-, micro-features’ with the weld-pool's ‘fluid flow’ for electron beam welded SS 201 plates. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences 106734 (2021).
15) Dipanjan Dey, Sagar Sarkar, Sunil Rawal, Anitesh Kumar Singh, Kalinga Simant Bal, Manideep Khande, Ashish Kumar Nath, Asimava Roy Choudhury. Correlation of real-time thermal history with tribological properties of laser coated NiCrBSi with Ag and WS2 addition. Surface and Coatings Technology 431 (2022) 128034.
16) Dipanjan Dey, Kalinga Simant Bal, Imran Khan, Ishan Bangia, Anitesh Kumar Singh, Asimava Roy Choudhury. Study of tribo-mechanical properties of laser clad Al2O3-TiB2-TiN-BN║Ti-6Al-4V alloy. Optics & Laser Technology 150 (2022) 107982.
17) Kalinga Simant Bal, Jyotsna Dutta Majumdar, Asimava Roy Choudhury. Melting efficiency calculation of “finite-element-modeled” weld-bead and “experimental” weld-bead for laser-irradiated Hastelloy C-276 sheet. Welding in the World 67 (2023) 1509–1526.
18) Vikash Kumar Rawani, Kalinga Simant Bal. Determination of Plastic Properties of Hastelloy C-276 Sheet and AISI 1012 Steel Round Bar Using Finite Element Analysis. Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance (2024).
Conferences and Book Chapter
1) Kalinga Simant Bal, Jyotsna Dutta Majumdar, Asimava Roy Choudhury. Studies on the electron beam melting of Hastelloy C-276 sheet. The 4th International Conference on Advances in Materials and Materials Processing, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, November 2016.
2) Kalinga Simant Bal, Debasish Das, Anitesh Kumar Singh, Dipanjan Dey, Jyotsna Dutta Majumdar, Asimava Roy Choudhury. Experimental and finite element modeling of residual stress developed in laser-beam bead-on-plate welded Hastelloy C-276 sheet. Second International Conference on Advancements in Automation, Robotics and Sensing, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, December 2018.
3) Kalinga Simant Bal, Anitesh Kumar Singh, Dipanjan Dey, Asimava Roy Choudhury. Optimization of process parameters for Wire-EDM cutting of Ti6Al4V alloy by Grey Taguchi method. Second International Conference on Advancements in Automation, Robotics and Sensing, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, December 2018.
4) Kalinga Simant Bal, Dipanjan Dey, Anitesh Kumar Singh, Asimava Roy Choudhury. Study of micro-structure, microhardness, wear rate, and residual stress of laser remelted Ti-6Al-4V superalloy. Second International Conference on Advancements in Automation, Robotics and Sensing, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, December 2018.
5) Kalinga Simant Bal, Amal Madhavan Nair, Dipanjan Dey, Anitesh Kumar Singh, Asimava Roy Choudhury. Multiobjective optimisation of Electro Jet Drilling process parameters for machining of crater in High Speed Steel using Grey Relational Analysis. Advances in Unconventional Machining and Composites (2020), doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9471-4_31.
6) Anitesh Kumar Singh, Kalinga Simant Bal, Suman Sharma, Aditya Harbajanka, Mukesh Prasad, Dipanjan Dey, Asimava Roy Choudhury. Effect of beam offset on dissimilar laser beam welding of Ti6Al4V and Inconel 718 superalloy. Advances in Micro and Nano Manufacturing and Surface Engineering (2020), doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9433-2_46.
7) Dipanjan Dey, Kalinga Simant Bal, Imran Khan, Ishan Bangia, Anitesh Kumar Singh, Asimava Roy Choudhury. Increase in hardness and wear resistance of Ti-6Al-4V surface by in-situ laser coating of Ti and Al based hard ceramics. Advances in Additive Manufacturing and Joining (2019), doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9425-7_61.
8) Anitesh Kumar Singh, Kalinga Simant Bal, Dipanjan Dey, AbhishekRudra Pal, Dilip Kumar Pratihar, Asimava Roy Choudhury. Optimization of Wire-EDM Process Parameters for Ti6Al4V Alloy Cutting Using Mayfly Algorithm. Advances in Modern Machining Processes (2023), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7150-1_20.
9) Anitesh Kumar Singh, Kalinga Simant Bal, Dilip Kumar Pratihar, Asimava Roy Choudhury. An Empirical-Statistical and Experimental Analysis of Direct Laser Metal Deposition of WC-12Co Mixed Powder on SS 304 Substrate. Advances in Micro and Nano Manufacturing and Surface Engineering (2023), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4571-7_17.
10) Anish K. Raj, Bikash Ranjan Moharana, Kalinga Simant Bal. A Review of TIG Welding Processes: Experimentation and Finite Element Analysis for Sustainable Operational Practices. Evolutionary Manufacturing, Design and Operational Practices for Resource and Environmental Sustainability (2024), https://doi.org/10.1002/9781394198221.ch23.
Other Info.
Received Er. Bimal Kumar Das Memorial Award-2021 from Indian Institute of Welding, Kolkata Branch for presenting research paper