Abhijit Majumdar
Associate Professor
Textile Technology
The Indian Institutes of Technology, Delhi
India
Biography
Dr Abhijit Majumdar joined the department in 2007 as assistant professor. Currently he is associate professor in textile engineering group. He graduated from Calcutta University in 1995 with first class first position in Textile Technology program. Subsequently, he acquired M.Tech degree in Textile Engineering from IIT Delhi and Ph.D in Production and Operations Management from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He also holds an MBA from IIT Delhi with specialization in Operations Management. He has worked in industries like Voltas Limited and Vardhman Group. He has published 75 research papers in international refereed journals and guided six Ph.D students. His research areas include protective textile materials, soft computing applications, operations and supply chain management. He has authored a textbook entitled 'Principles of Woven Fabric Manufacturing' published by CRC press. He has also edited two books published by Woodhead Publisher, U. K. and authored one monograph (Textile Progress) published by Taylor and Francis. He is the associate editor of Journal of the Institution of Engineers (India) Series E (Chemical and Textile Engineering) published by Springer. He is a recipient of Outstanding Young Faculty Fellowship (2009-2014) of IIT Delhi, Teaching Excellence Award (2015) of IIT Delhi and Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award (2017). Apart from academics, he is an ardent follower of cricket.
Research Interest
Ballistic Protection and Soft Body Armour Development. 3D Woven Structures. Ultraviolet Radiation Protection by Woven Fabrics. Soft Computing based Modelling of Textile Materials Green Supply Chain Management
Publications
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Abhijit Majumdar, Bhupendra Singh Butola, Ankita Srivastava, Optimal designing of soft body armour materials using shear thickening fluid, Materials and Design , 46 (2013) 191-198.
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Piyali Hatua, Abhijit Majumdar, Apurba Das, Predicting the ultraviolet radiation protection by polyester-cotton blended woven fabrics using nonlinear regression and artificial neural network models, Photodermatology, Photoimmunology and Photomedicine, 29 (2013) 182-189.
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Abhijit Majumdar, Bhupendra Singh Butola, Ankita Srivastava, An analysis of deformation and energy absorption modes of shear thickening fluid treated Kevlar fabrics as soft body armour materials, Materials and Design, 51 (2013) 148–153.
