Santosh Kumar
Assistant Professor
Department of Industrial and Production Engineering
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Email: | santoshkumar.ip@nie.ac.in |
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Phone No: | 0821 2480475 |
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About Me: |
My primary research interests are in composite materials. However, I am also quite interested in design and manufacturing as most of my Masters students tend to work in these areas. Other than my own research and student supervision, |

- B.E, in Industrial and Production Engineering (VTU)
- M.Tech, in Machine Design (Kuvempu University)
- Santosh Kumar, Suhas K S “Scrap Loss Reduction using Root Cause Analysis” International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology (IJIRSET) Volume 9, Issue 5, Pages 3373-3381, May 2020.
- Santosh Kumar, MS Shamprasad, YS Varadarajan, MA Sangamesha “Coconut coir fiber reinforced polypropylene composites: Investigation on fracture toughness and mechanical properties” Materials Today: Proceedings 46, 2471-2476, 2021
- MS Shamprasad, YS Varadarajan, Santosh kumar “Mechanical properties of natural fiber reinforced polylactide composites: A review” IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 1065 (1), 012001, 2022
- Santosh Kumar, L Mahadevaswamy, HR Hemaraju, YS Varadarajan “Experimental investigation of three-body abrasive wear behavior of rice husk filled polylactic acid (PLA) composites” Materials Today: Proceedings 52, 599-603, 2022
- Santosh Kumar, MS Shamprasad, YS Varadarajan “Experimental investigation of impact strength and hardness value of rice straw reinforced polylactide composites” Materials Today: Proceedings 52, 604-607, 2022
- Santosh Kumar, YS Varadarajan, MS Shamprasad “Three-body abrasive wear behavior of rice straw fibers reinforced PLA composites” Materials Today: Proceedings 2023
- S. Manjunath Yadav ,K. V. Arun,S. Basavarajappa,Narendranath S. & Santosh Kumar (2011) :“Collapse Mechanism of Foam Cored Sandwich Structures Under Compressive Load”, in Polymer-Plastics Technology and Engineering 50(13):1351-1356
- S. Basavarajappa,S. Manjunath Yadav , Santosh Kumar,K. V. Arun &Narendranath S.(2011) :“ Abrasive Wear Behavior of Granite-Filled Glass-Epoxy Composites by SiC Particles Using Statistical Analysis” in Polymer-Plastics Technology and Engineering 50(5):516-524
- S. Basavarajappa,S. Manjunath Yadav , Chakrasali Chandrakumar,,K. V. Arun & Santosh Kumar.(2011):“ The effect of filler on the friction performance of automotive brake friction materials”, Journal of Tribology and Surface Engineering, Volume 2 Issue 3-4
- Mechanics of materials
- Composite materials
- Finite element method
- Computer aided machine drawing
- Kinematics of machine