• International Travel Grant from DST, SERB, Government of India
• International Travel Grant from Alumini Association, IIT Roorkee

Book Publications

Journal Publications (published)

1. Sunny Zafar and Apurbba Kumar Sharma; Microstructure and Wear Performance of Heat Treated WC-12Co Microwave Clad, Vacuum, Elsevier, 131, 2016, 213-222 (IF: 1.8, 5-year IF: 1.6).
2.  Amit Bansal, Sunny Zafar and Apurbba Kumar Sharma; Influence of Heat treatment on Microstructure of Inconel 718 Microwave Clads, Surface Engineering, Taylor and Francis (IF: 1.2) doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02670844.2016.1197559
3. Sunny Zafar and Apurbba Kumar Sharma; Investigations on Flexural Performance and Residual Stresses in Nanometric WC-12Co Microwave Clads, Surface and Coatings Technology, Elsevier, 291, 2016, 413-422.(IF: 2.139, 5-year IF: 2.417).
4. Sunny Zafar and Apurbba Kumar Sharma; Prediction of Tribological Behaviour of WC-12Co Nanostructured Microwave Clad through ANN, Tribology Online, Japanese Society of Tribologists, 11, 2016, 333-340.
5. Sunny Zafar and Apurbba Kumar Sharma; Structure-Property Correlations In Nanostructured WC-12Co Microwave Clad, Applied Surface Science, Elsevier, 370, 2016, 92-101. (IF: 3.150, 5-year IF: 2.982).
6. Sunny Zafar and Apurbba Kumar Sharma; Abrasive and Erosive Wear Behaviour of Nanometric WC-12Co Microwave Clads, Wear, Elsevier, 346-347, 2016, 29-45. (IF: 2.323, 5-year IF: 2.395).
7.  Amit Bansal, Sunny Zafar and Apurbba Kumar Sharma; Microstructure and Abrasive Wear Performance of Ni-WC Composite Microwave Clad, Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, Springer, 24, 2015, 3708-3716. (IF: 1.094).
8. Sunny Zafar and Apurbba Kumar Sharma; Abrasive Wear Behaviour of Inconel 718 Microwave Clad, Indian Journal of Tribology, Tribology Society of India, 7, 2015, 11-15.
9. Sunny Zafar and Apurbba Kumar Sharma; Dry Sliding Wear Performance of Nanostructured WC-12Co deposited through Microwave Cladding, Tribology International, Elsevier, 91, 2015, 14-22. (IF: 2.259, 5-year IF: 2.352)
10. Sunny Zafar and Apurbba Kumar Sharma; On Friction and Wear Behaviour of WC-12Co Microwave Clad, Tribology Transactions, Taylor and Francis, 58(4), 2015, 584-591. (IF: 1.409).
11. Sunny Zafar, Amit Bansal, Apurbba Kumar Sharma, Navneet Arora, C.S. Ramesh; Dry Erosion Wear Performance of Inconel 718 Microwave Clad, Surface Engineering, Taylor and Francis, 30(11), 2014, 852-859. (IF: 1.2)
12. Sunny Zafar and Apurbba Kumar Sharma; Development and Characterisations of WC–12Co Microwave Clad, Materials Characterization, Elsevier, 96, 2014, 241-248. (IF: 2.383, 5-year IF: 2.605).
13. Sunny Zafar, Apurbba Kumar Sharma and Navneet Arora; Development and Microstructural Characterisation of Inconel Cladding on Stainless Steel through Microwave Irradiation, Journal on Mechanical Engineering, i-manager’s publications, 3(1), 2013, 9-16.

1. Sunny Zafarand Apurbba Kumar Sharma; FE Simulation of Microwave Heating of
   Characteristically Different Materials, Proceedings of International Conference on Latest Developments in Material, Manufacturing and Quality Control, Giani Zail Singh College of Engineering &Technology, Bathinda, Punjab India, February 2016.
2. Mudimallana Goud, Apurbba Kumar Sharma, Sunny Zafar; A Taguchi Approach to Optimize Electrochemical Discharge Machining of Alumina, Proceedings of International Conference on Latest Developments in Material, Manufacturing and Quality Control, Giani Zail Singh College of Engineering & Technology, Bathinda, Punjab India, February 2016.
3. Sunny Zafar and Apurbba Kumar Sharma*; An ANN Approach for Prediction of Wear Behaviour of WC-12Co Nanostructured Microwave Clad, Proceedings of International Tribology Conference-2015, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan, September 2015
4. Sunny Zafarand Apurbba Kumar Sharma; Response of Nanometric WC-12Co Microwave Clads to Abrasive Wear, Proceedings of 29^th International Conference on Surface Modification Technologies, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 2015, 127-134.
5. Sunny Zafar, Apurbba Kumar Sharma, C.S. Ramesh; Abrasive Wear Behaviour of Inconel 718 Microwave Clad, Proceedings of the National Tribology Conference-2014, PES University, Bengaluru, India, December 2014, 255-264.
6. N. Santosh*, V.K.S. Jain, K.N. Vinayak, Sunny Zafar; Characteristic Evaluation of Wear Properties of NiTiAl Based Shape Memory Alloys for Different Composition, Proceedings of the National Tribology Conference-2014, PES University, Bengaluru, India, December 2014, 145-157.
7. Sunny Zafar, Apurbba Kumar Sharma; Influence of Post Clad Heat Treatment of WC based Composite Microwave Clad, Proceedings of Processing and Fabrications of Advanced Materials: XXIII, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India, December 2014, 397-403.
   
8. Sunny Zafar, Apurbba Kumar Sharma, Navneet Arora; Microwaves in Surface Engineering, Proceedings of STME-2013, International Conference on Smart Technologies for Mechanical Engineering, Delhi Technological University, Delhi, India, October 2013, 698-704.