Dr G D Thakre

Research Interest

• Modeling and simulation of tribo-contact phenomena under dry, boundary/mixed, EHL and Hydrodynamic regimes
• Design and development of tribo components
• Prognosis oft tribological failures in industrial environment
• Surface characterization and interaction studies between lubricant additives and surfaces
• Design and development of lubricants for industrial, MEMS and strategic sector applications
• Tribo-testing and evaluation of lubricants, materials and surfaces
• Nano-tribology, tribology of coatings, ceramics and alloys
• Wear mode and mechanism and its mitigation

Work Experience

Awards and Honours

• M Tech Gold Medallist, I S M Dhanbad, 2004
• Awarded Indo-US joint centre on EHL studies by IUSSTF
• BRNS grant for use of TLA technique of gear box wear measurement
• Member Board of Studies at DIT University, India
• Expert on ISO TC 28 WGs on Greases & Dynamic measurement of LPG
• Reviewer for the Journal, Proceedings of Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part J, Engineering Tribology, Tribology International, Acta Mechanica, Tribology Letters, Engineering Failure Analysis, Applied Surface Sciences, Industrial Lubrication and Tribology
• Member of BIS committee PCD 3 and PGD 19
• Member selection committee for the review of research projects to be funded by PCRA, CSIR-HRDG, IUSSTF etc
• Life Member of Tribology Society of India

Patents

• Ecofriendly and biodegradable lubricant formulation and process for preparation thereof
  Ponnekanti Nagendramma, Anjan Ray, Gananath Doulat Thakre and Neeraj Atray
  Application No. 201711039235, PTC, 2017
• A process for the conversion of low polymer wax to paraffin wax, microcrystalline wax, lube and grease base stocks using organic peroxides or hydro peroxides and metal oxide
  B M Shukla, M O Garg, T P Antony, A K Chaturvedi, Ajay Kumar, Savita Kaul, H U Khan, Manisha Sahai, Sanat Kumar, G D Thakre and S M Nanoti
  US Patent
• Bio degradable base stock as neat cutting oil
  Savita Kaul, P Nagendramma, G D Thakre, R P S Bisht and M R Tyagi
  Application No. 3483/DEL/2012
• A process for the conversion of low polymer wax to paraffin wax, microcrystalline wax, lube and grease base stocks using organic peroxides or hydro peroxides and metal oxide
  B M Shukla, M O Garg, T P Antony, A K Chaturvedi, Ajay Kumar, Savita Kaul, H U Khan, Manisha Sahai, Sanat Kumar, G D Thakre and S M Nanoti
  Application No. 55/DEL/2015
• A microwave assisted process for the preparation of graphene based polyacrylanide composits
  S S Ray, Arvind Kumar, Babita behera, Nineeta Panwar, Ankushi Bansal, G D Thakre and A K Chatterjee
  Application No. 2597/DEL/2015
• Bio-degradable multipurpose gear oil composition for industrial and automotive application and its process thereof
  Jyoti Porwal, G D Thakre, Babita Behera and Savita Kaul
  Application No. 3664/DEL/2013
• Metal working fluid composition and a process for the preparation thereof
  Savita Kaul, Jyoti parwal, G D Thakre, Babita Behera and D K Adhikari
  Application No. 55/DEL/2015
• A process preparation of eco-friendly and biodegradable ester base stocks for gear lubricant of enclosed industrial gear drives and reference samples of biolubricant
  P Nagendramma, G D Thakre, Neeraj Atray and Babita Behera
  Application No. 3953/DEL/2015

Selected Publications

• A Study of ionic liquid lubricated μ-EHL line contacts considering surface texture
  Thakre G D, Sharma Satish C, Harsha S P, Tyagi M R
  Tribology International, Volume 94, Pages 39-51, January, 2016
• Tribological failure analysis of gear contacts of Exciter Sieve gear boxes
  Thakre G D, Sharma Satish C, Harsha S P, Tyagi M R
  Engineering Failure Analysis, Volume 36, 2014, Pages 75-91
• Influence of operating parameters on the tribological performance of Oleic acid functionalized Cu nano-fluids
  Ajay Kumar, Gananath D Thakre, P K Arya, A K Jain
  Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, Vol. 56 (13), March 2017, Pg. 3527-3541
• Investigation of anti-wear performance of automobile lubricants using thin layer activation analysis technique
  Jayashree Biswal, G D Thakre, H J Pant, J S Samantray, P K Arya, S C Sharma, A K Gupta
  Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, Vol. 399, May 2017, Pg. 69-73
• Lubricant for heavily loaded slow speed Journal bearing
  Muzzakir S M, Hirani H, Thakre G D
  Tribology Transactions, Volume 56, 2013, Pages 1060-1068