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Name: Anil Saigal
Title: 2007 to present: Director of International Programs, School of Engineering
1997 to present: Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Tufts University
1/2002 to 6/2007: Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tufts University
Departmental Affiliation: Mechanical Engineering Department
Degrees: Ph.D. Gerogia Institute of Technology; M.S. Georgia Institute of Technology; B.S. Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Expertise: Finite Element Analysis; Engineering Materials; Structure-Property Relations; Machining; Forging Simulation; Process Modeling
Major Awards: Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award, Society of Automobile Engineers (1986), U.S. Patents 4,666,042 (1987) and 5,887,854 (1999), Who's Who in Technology, 5th Edition, Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society (1994), ASME Curriculum Innovation Award (2002), Fellow of ASME (2004)
E-mail: anil.saigal@tufts.edu

Other websites: http://ase.tufts.edu/mechanical/faculty/main.asp
http://www.tufts.edu/~asaigal/anil.html
Scholarship & Research: “Analysis of Milling of Iron Aluminides,” A. Saigal and W. Yang, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 132(1-3), January 10, 2003, pp. 149-156.

“Residual Stress and Strain in Tungsten Fiber Reinforced Kanthal Metal Matrix Composites,” P. Rangaswamy, I.J. Beyerlein, M.A.M. Bourke M.B. Prime, A. Saigal and T.O. Williams, Philosophical Magazine A, 83(19), July 2003, pp. 2267-2292.

“Modeling Extrusion of Alumina and Silicon Carbide Reinforced Aluminum Metal Matrix Composites,” A. Saigal and B. Bogale, Light Metals and Metal Matrix Composites, 43rd Annual Conference of Metallurgists, Hamilton, Ontario, August 22-25, 2004, pp. 155-165.

“Passive Vibration Damping of Aluminum by 1-3 Piezocomposites,” A. Saigal, R. Greif and S. Nakhwa,, Recent Advances in Solids and Structures, H.H. Chung and Y.W. Kwon (Eds.), International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Anaheim, CA, November 13-19, 2004, IMECE2004-59433.

“Silicon Carbide Wafer Polishing with Gas Cluster Ion Beams,” V. DiFilippo, J.A. Bennet, D.B Fenner, J.K. Hirvonen, L.C. Feldman and A. Saigal, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Systems, 7(2), 2004, pp. 49-56.

“Effect of Workpiece Temperature on the Machinability of Alumina/Aluminum Metal Matrix Composites,” A. Saigal and H. Shand, Light Metals 2005, 44th Annual Conference of Metallurgists, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, August 21-24, 2005, pp. 457-465.

“Optimizing the Design and Impact Behavior of a Polymeric Enclosure,” R. Singh, A. Mattoo and A. Saigal, Materials and Design 27, 2006, pp. 955-967.

“Case Study: Mechanical Characterization of Silk Scaffolds,” D. Sundaresh and A. Saigal, February 2007, http://www.simpleware.com/applications/casestudies/silk.php.

“Characterization of Wire Bonds Subjected to Ultrasonic Welding and Thermal Cycling,” P. Silva, A. Saigal, R. Greif and M.A. Zimmerman, Proceedings of TMS2007, Electronic, Magnetic and Photonics Materials, Feb. 25 – Mar. 1, 2007, pp. 23-31.

“Miillimeter Wave Spectroscopy and Materials Characterization of Refractive Liquid Crystal Polymer/Titania Composites,” B. Dantal, A. Saigal, M.A. Zimmerman, K. Korolev, M. Afsar and U. Khan, Proceedings of Third International Conference on Computational Methods and Experiments in Material Characterization, A.A. Mammoli & C.A. Brebbia (Eds.), Bologna, Italy, 13-15 June 2007, pp. 281-289.

“Crash Behavior of a 3-D S-Shape Space Frame Structure,” C. Zhang and A. Saigal, Journal of Materials and Processing Technology, 191, August 2007, pp. 256-259.

“Effect of Size and Spatial Distribution of Titania Pigments in Injection Molded Parts on Surface Reflectance,” B. Dantal, A. Saigal and M.A. Zimmerman, Proceedings of International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Seattle, WA, November 10-16, 2007, IMECE2007-43516.

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