Ravishankar,S.Dr.

Area of Expertise

"i) Aerospace Manufacturing.
ii) Precision Manufacturing.
iii) Reverse Engineering activities and Point cloud generation.
iv) Large Volume Metrology.
v) Aircraft Tooling activities.
vi) Computer Aided Manufacturing.
vii) Aerospace Skill Development activities."

Research Interests

Manufacturing technologies, Additive Manufacturing, Registration, Inspection & Computational Metrology.

Academic_Qualification

B.E, M.S (Engg.), Ph.D (IISc.)

Professional Experience

Over 35 years of experience in the areas of Aircraft Manufacturing, Computational Metrology, Precision Engineering, Aircraft Tool Design, Registration and Inspection of aircraft parts and assemblies.

Publication (ORCID ID/ Googal Scholar ID/ IRINS ID/ Vidwan ID

"Partial List of Publications:
1. S Ravishankar, H N V Dutt, B Gurumoorthy, “ AIWIN- A fast and Jigless Inspection Technique for Machined Parts”, pp 231-240, The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Vol.62, Issue 1, September 2012, ISSN 0268-3768.
2.M Chandranath, Raghavendra, R Suresh, S Ravishankar, “Part Localization for CNC Machining using Discrete Point Set Approach”, pp.719-723, ARPN Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 9, No.5, May 2014, ISSN 1819-6608.
3.L Gopinath, S Ravishankar, “Manufacturability of Aircraft Winglet for Wind Tunnel Testing”, pp 100-103, Material Science Forum Vol. 830-831, 2015, doi: 10.4028
4.Niharika Swain, Vijay Venkatesh, Praveen Kumar, S Ravishankar, Harish Barshilia,” An experimental investigation on the machining characteristics of Nimonic 75 using uncoated and TiAlN coated tungsten carbide micro-end mills”, CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology, Volume 16, January 2017. Pages 34-42."

Awards and Honors

i)Received “Young Scientist of the Year” award under the Outstanding Performance Award Category for “Very Significant Contribution to CAD/CAM Activities for Saras Aircraft Prototypes”- 2000.ii)Conferred with Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) in recognition of the research work on “Robust Registration of Measured Point Set for Computer Aided Inspection”, by Faculty of Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore- 2013.iii)Invited by British High Commission as Member of the delegation to visit R&D Centers in UK focused on High Value Manufacturing 2018.iv)CSIR-NAL Technology Shield for Outstanding Group Achievement presented to Team “Hansa-NG” for “Design, Development, Realization, Ground testing & Flight Testing of Hansa-3 (NG) Aircraft towards Type Certification,2022.v)CSIR-NAL Outstanding Performance Award under Category “Outstanding Team Performance” for the work “Development and CEMILAC Certification of Zinc-Nickel Plating process as an alternate to toxic cadmium",2023.

Patents

Patent titled “An Apparatus for Manufacturing of Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) Stent Rings and manufacturing methods thereof.” Indian Patent Application Number 0262NF2024 ahs been filed and is under process. Names of other inventors: Saikrishna CN, Ramaiah KV, Krishna S, Chandranath M & Pradeep M S from CSIR-NAL.