Dr. Pratik Shukla

It is a great pleasure, to see the following paper now published:

“Enhanced surface and mechanical properties of bioinspired nanolaminate graphene-aluminium alloy nanocomposites through laser shock processing for biomedical implant and engineering applications”. 

Congra...

Innovation to Commercialisation of Universcity Research (ICURe) was a fantastic journey for me, travelling 32294 miles across 3 continents, to contact experts from 12 different countries to conduct a broad and rigorous market survey as well as new product validation.

Th...

My recent article can be found in "The Laser User" Issue 87, 2018 Winter edition. It focused on Laser Shock Peening of Metals and Ceramics that we are doing at Coventry University. Thanks to Dr. Subhasisa Nath and Xiojun Shen from Coventry University for your contribut...

It is a pleasure to finally announce the publication of the first volume, first issue of the International Journal of Peening Science and Technology. The Journal is focused on the wide range of peening techniques for strengthening conventional and new materials from th...

It was a busy start to the year already! On 4th January 2018, Dr Pratik Shukla and colleague Dr. Subhasisa Nath, Xiaojun Shen from Coventry University and Osama Alkhawaldeh (Loughborough University) attended and presented at the “Advances in Science, Engineering and Te...

2017 was a difficult year, but it was a real joy to have heard the following news just before the close of play:

“I am writing to you to confirm that your application for ICURe Innovation to Commercialisation (funded by BEIS through Innovate UK) has been successful and...

It is a pleasure to announce the 7th International conference in Laser Peening and Related Phenomena (LSP2018). The event will be held from 17th June to 22nd June 2018 in Singapore. It is organized by Prof. Michael Fitzpatrick and the team from Coventry University and...

Congratulations to S. Prabhakaran for publishing a recent paper entitled “Laser shock peening without coating induced residual stress distribution, wettability characteristics and enhanced pitting corrosion resistance of austenitic stainless steel”.

This paper is focuse...

It brings a great pleasure to publish a new journal paper, on our recent work entitled “Surface Engineering Alumina Armour Ceramics with Laser Shock Peening”, in the Material and Design journal. This journal is a highly reputed in the area of material science and relat...

Congratulations and well done to Xioajun Shen for publishing the first paper from his PhD research. This paper is focused on a preliminary study of Laser Shock Peening orthopaedic grade Ti-6Al-7Nb. If not the, we believe it is one of the, first papers in the field to e...