Advanced Structural Ceramics and their High-Temperature Performance  

Spark Plasma Sintering  

Tribology of Materials  

Structure-Property Correlation

Cricket and hiking

Introduction to Mineral Processing and Raw Materials (MM203)

Metallurgical Thermodynamics and Kinetics (MM205)

Mechanical Metallurgy (MM206)

Joining of Materials (MM514)

Mineral Processing and Process Metallurgy (MM2102)

Thermodynamics and Phase Equilibria (MM2103)

Assistant professor at Punjab Engineering College (Deemed to be University), Chandigarh, India from 20/01/2020 to 31/05/2023.  

Research Associate at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, in the laboratory of Professor Mitjan Kalin from 03/12/2018 to 17/01/2020.  

PGET at ‘Grindwell Norton Ltd., Saint-Gobain Abrasive India’ from 22/02/2018 to 18/08/2018.  

Research Associate at IIT Roorkee under the Indo-German research project sponsored by “Max Plank India partner group, Germany” since 26/10/2017 to 03/01/2018  

Assistant professor (Adhoc) at Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT), Bhopal, India from July 2012 to December 2012.

• Young Scientist international travel grant from DST, Delhi, for attending the International conference PACRIM 11 held at JEJU, South Korea. 
• President of METES-2014-15 (A Metallurgical Society of India), a student organization in the Metallurgical and Materials of Engineering Department, I.I.T. Roorkee. 
• Member of the gold medal-winning team for a cricket tournament organized by I.I.T. Roorkee (2014-1015). 
• Member of Gold medal-winning cricket team for inter-year cricket tournament held in I.I.T. Roorkee (2013-2014). 
• Elected member of Bhawan Council and Wing Secretary for wing-5 in Azad Bhawan, I.I.T. Roorkee (2013-14).

Tribological Society of India

Indian Institute of Metals

Divyansh Mittal, Daljeet Singh, and Sandan Kumar Sharma*. 2023. ‘Thermal Characteristics and Tribological Performances of Solid Lubricants: A Mini Review’. Advanced Rheology and Its Applications. IntechOpen. doi:10.5772/intechopen.109982.

DISSIMILAR METALLIC COATING ON STEEL BY ACTIVATED DIFFUSION: Patent no. 390919.

1. Mittal, Divyansh, Amrita Kumari, Jan Hostaša, Prabhat Chand Yadav, Chandan Pandey, Ankur Gupta, and Sandan Kumar Sharma*. "Dry sliding behavior of transparent yttrium aluminum garnet against 100Cr6 steel balls." International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology (2024).
2. Kalin, Mitjan, Jure Jerina, Sandan Kumar Sharma, and Janez Kovač. "The effect of temperature on the transfer layer of an aluminium alloy on tool steel and the effect of CrN coating." Tribology-Materials, Surfaces & Interfaces 18, no. 1 (2024): 11-19.
3. Gupta, Anoop, Manpreet Singh, Uma Batra, and Sandan Kumar Sharma*, "Sliding wear behaviour of austempered ductile iron, boron steel and AISI 1045 steel of similar hardness: effect of microstructure, yield strength, and strain hardening." Tribology-Materials, Surfaces & Interfaces 17, no. 4 (2023): 397-411.
4. Pinahin, I. A., Sandan Kumar Sharma, M. A. Yagmurov, S. S. Vrublevskaya, and M. A. Shpack. "Correlation between Wear Resistance of High-Speed Steel R6M5 and Deformations Arising during Laser Hardening." Journal of Friction and Wear 44, no. 2 (2023): 102-107.
5. Shriya E, Manpreet Singh, Uma Batra, Sandan Kumar Sharma*, Dry sliding wear of ductile and austempered ductile iron: effect of load and sliding speed, Tribology - Materials, Surfaces & Interfaces (2023) (Accepted)
6. Divyansh Mittal, Jan Hostaša, Laura Silvestroni, Laura Esposito, Anita Mohan, Rajiv Kumar, Sandan Kumar Sharma*, Tribological Behaviour of Transparent Ceramics: A Review, Journal of the European Ceramic Society (2022). Impact Factor: 6.364
7. Uma Batra, Manpreet Singh, Sandan Kumar Sharma, Effect of austempering temperature on microstructure and tribological behaviour of hypoeutectic austempered ductile iron alloyed with copper, Tribology - Materials, Surfaces & Interfaces (2022) 16, 4 (2022): 342-355.
8. Sandan Kumar Sharma, Luv Gurnani, Manoj K. Jangid, K. V. Mani Krishna, Amartya Mukhopadhyay, Young-Wook Kim, B. Venkata Manoj Kumar*, Sub-surface microstructural investigation for establishing micro-mechanisms of wear in sliding of SiC and SiC-WC ceramics, Wear, (2022): 204236. Impact Factor: 4.695
9. Sandan Kumar Sharma, Kapil Chaudhary, Yashpal Gupta, Mitjan Kalin, B. Venkata Manoj Kumar*, Erosive wear behavior of spark plasma sintered SiC-TaC composites, International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology, (2022): 1-11. Impact Factor: 2.328
10. S. Sirohi, P. K. Taraphdar, Gaurav Dak, Chandan Pandey*, Sandan Kumar Sharma, Amit Goyal, Study on evaluation of through-thickness residual stresses and microstructure-mechanical property relation for dissimilar welded joint of modified 9Cr–1Mo and SS304H steel, International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping, 194 (2021): 104557. Impact Factor: 2.56
11. Sandan Kumar Sharma*, Martin Fides, Pavol Hvizdos, Michael J Reece, Salvatore Grasso, Flash Spark Plasma Sintering of SiC: Impact of Additives, Silicon, 85 (2021): 1-6. Impact Factor: 2.941
12. S. K. Kumar, V.K. Yadav, Sandan Kumar Sharma, C. Pandey*. A. Goyal, P. Kumar, Role of dissimilar Ni-based ERNiCrMo-3 filler on the microstructure, mechanical properties and weld induced residual stresses of the ferritic/martensitic P91 steel welds joint, International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping, 193 (2021): 104443. Impact Factor: 2.56
13. Himanshu Sharma, A Bhardwaj, D. Singh, D. Mittal, R. Kumar, A. W. Selokar, M. Bilal, S. Akabri, Sandan Kumar Sharma*, Corrorsion behavior of nitronic steel in acidic environment, Journal of NanoScience Technology 1, (2021) 12-17.
14. Sandan Kumar Sharma, B. Venkata Manoj Kumar*, Young-Wook Kim, Tribology of WC reinforced SiC ceramics: Influence of counterbody, Friction 2019; 7[2]:129-142. Impact Factor: 4.924
15. Prabhat Chand Yadav, Sandan Kumar Sharma*, B. V. Manoj Kumar, Sinhoo Kang, Effect of linear velocity on sliding wear behavior of TiCN based cermets, Materials Today: Proceedings 2018; 5.9:17342-17349.
16. Sandan Kumar Sharma, B. Venkata Manoj Kumar*, Young-Wook Kim, Effect of impingement angle and WC content on high temperature erosion behavior of SiC-WC composites, International journal of refractory metals & hard materials 68 (2017) 166-171. Impact Factor: 4.804
17. Sandan Kumar Sharma, B. Venkata Manoj Kumar*, Blaz Brodnik Zugelj, Mitjan Kalin, Young-Wook Kim, Room and high temperature reciprocated sliding wear behavior of SiC-WC composites, Ceramics International 43 (2017) 16827-16834. Impact Factor: 5.532
18. Sandan Kumar Sharma, Yashpal, Ashish W. Selokar, B. Venkata Manoj Kumar*, T. Venkateswaran, High Temperature Erosion behavior of ZrB2-SiC composites, Ceramics International 43 (2017) 8982–8988. Impact Factor: 5.532
19. Atul Kumar, Sandan Kumar Sharma, Kaushik Pal, Suhrit Mula*, Effect of process parameters on microstructural evolution, mechanical properties and corrosion behaviour of friction stir processed Al 7075 alloy, Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, 2017; 26.3: 1122-1134. Impact Factor: 2.036
20. Manoj Kumar R, Pallavi Gupta, Sandan Kumar Sharma, Akshat Mittal, Manish Shekhar, Vijayesh Kumar, B.V. Manoj Kumar, Partha Roy, Debrupa Lahiri*, Sustained Drug Release from Surface Modified UHMWPE for Acetabular Cup Lining in Total Hip Implant, Materials Science & Engineering C, (2017) 77:649-661. Impact Factor: 7.328
21. Sandan Kumar Sharma, B. Venkata Manoj Kumar*, Young-Wook Kim, Tribological Behavior of Silicon Carbide Ceramics - A Review, Journal of the Korean ceramic society, 2016; 53 [6]:581-596. Impact Factor: 2.506
22. Sandan Kumar Sharma, B. Venkata Manoj Kumar*, Young-Wook Kim, Effect of WC addition on sliding wear behavior of SiC ceramics, Ceramics International 2015;41:3427-3437. Impact Factor: 5.532
23. Supriya Gupta, Sandan Kumar Sharma, B. Venkata Manoj Kumar*, Young-Wook Kim, Tribological characteristics of SiC ceramics sintered with a small amount of yttria, Ceramics International 2015;41:14780-14789. Impact Factor: 5.532
24. Manoj Kumar R, Sandan Kumar Sharma, B. V. Manoj Kumar, Debrupa Lahiri*, Effects of Carbon Nanotube Aspect Ratio on Strengthening and Tribological Behaviour of Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene Composite, Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing 2015; 76:62-72. Impact Factor: 9.463
25. Vipin Goyal, Sandan Kumar Sharma, B. Venkata Manoj Kumar*, Effect of lubrication on tribological behaviour of martensitic stainless steel, Materials Today: Proceedings 2015;2[4-5]:1082-1091.
26. Sandan Kumar Sharma, B. Venkata Manoj Kumar*, Kwang-Young Lim, Young-Wook Kim, S.K. Nath, Erosion behaviour of SiC-WC composites, Ceramics International 2014;40[5]:6829-6839. Impact Factor: 5.532

• Sandan Kumar Sharma, B. V. Manoj Kumar, Mitjan Kalin, “Effect of temperature and tungsten carbide content on reciprocated sliding wear of silicon carbide ceramics” IndiaTrib 2019 (30th November – 4th of December 2019) IISc Bangalore, India.  
• Sandan Kumar Sharma, Kapil, Yashpal, B. V. Manoj Kumar, Mitjan Kalin, “Influence of tantalum carbide content, angle of impingement and temperature on erosive wear behaviour of silicon carbide composites”, 46th Leeds-Lyon Symposium 2019: Symposium on Tribology 2019, (2-4 Sep 2019) Lyon, France, Europe.  
• Sandan Kumar Sharma, Dinesh Singh, Yashpal, B. V. Manoj Kumar, Blaz Brodnik Zugelj, Mitjan Kalin, “Reciprocated sliding wear behaviour of SPSed TiCN-based cermet”, 7th European Conference on Tribology (ECOTRIB’19) (12- 14 June 2019) Vienna, Austria, Europe.  
• Sandan Kumar Sharma, Kapil, Yashpal, B. V. Manoj Kumar, Mitjan Kalin, “Solid particle erosion of SPSed SiC-TaC composites”, 7th European Conference on Tribology (ECOTRIB’19) (12- 14 June 2019) Vienna, Austria, Europe.  
• Sandan Kumar Sharma, Lucija Čoga, Mitjan Kalin, “Tribological behaviour of different electrical steel during stamping process”, 7th European Conference on Tribology (ECOTRIB’19) (12- 14 June 2019) Vienna, Austria, Europe.  
• Sandan Kumar Sharma, B. V. Manoj Kumar, Young-Wook Kim, “High-temperature erosion behavior of SiC-WC composites”, 6th European Conference on Tribology (ECOTRIB’17) (07- 09 June 2017) Ljubljana, Slovenia, Europe.  
• Sandan Kumar Sharma, Venkata Manoj Kumar B., Young-Wook Kim, “Friction and wear characteristics of SiC-WC composites”, International Conference on Ceramic & advanced materials for Energy and Environment (December 14-17, 2015), Christ University, Bengaluru (Bangalore), India. 
• Sandan Kumar Sharma, B. V. Manoj Kumar, Young-Wook Kim, “Mechanical and tribological characteristics of SiC-WC Composites”, The 11th Pacific Rim Conference of Ceramic Societies (30 August- 04 September 2015) ICC JEJU, JEJU Korea, Korea.  
• Sandan Kumar Sharma, B.Venkata Manoj Kumar, Young-Wook Kim, “Fabrication and Solid Particle Erosion of SiC-WC Composites”, NMD-ATM 2013 (12-15 November 2013) I.I.T. BHU, Varanasi, India.  
• Sandan Kumar Sharma, Sameer Upadhyay, B.V. Manoj Kumar, S.K. Nath, Kwang-Young Lim, Young-Wook Kim, “Processing and Erosion Wear of SiC-WC Composites”, ISASC 2012 (25-28 March 2012), Koreana Hotel, Seoul, Korea.

• Delivered an Invited Talk at the International Conference on Energy and Environmental Materials (E2M-2024)", organized by the Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, IIT Indore, in association with IIT Kanpur and Guahati University, during July 11-13, 2024 at IIT Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India. 
• Delivered an Invited Talk at the 4^th Global Ceramic Leadership Roundtable on 'Ceramics for Frontier Sectors: Emerging Advances and Prospects' (CerAP2024) during March 11-12, 2024 at IIT Roorkee, India.
• Delivered an Expert Talk in a SYMPOSIA  on “Graphene: The Wonder Material of the Future” sponsored by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) from 10-07-2023 to 16-07-2023at NIT Patna
• Invited as Elevator Pitch Judge for ASME Elevator Pitch Competition held at NIT Patna on 12^th January 2024.
• Delivered a talk on First Five-Day Faculty Development Programme on Electric Vehicles: Tribology and Additive Manufacturing (EVTAM 2024) on June 24, 2024.