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Salil Bapat

Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Mid career · publishing since 2009Rising activity
Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing TechnologiesAdhesion, Friction, and Surface InteractionsTribology and Lubrication EngineeringSpace Satellite Systems and ControlInnovation and Socioeconomic Development

Publications

35

Citations

614

Est. group size

~2

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

18

Publishing since 2009

Research summary
AI-generated

Salil Bapat's research focuses on engineering topics related to surface interactions, including how materials wear and deform under friction and lubrication (a field called tribology), as well as connections to additive manufacturing (3D printing) and space satellite systems. The available bibliographic data is limited, with only one specific publication title provided, so the exact scope and direction of the work is not fully clear from this record alone.

Tribology and lubricationSurface texture and wearAdditive manufacturing (3D printing)Space satellite systemsAdhesion and friction

Publication output has grown over the last decade, rising from occasional single publications in 2017-2019 to a more consistent output of 5-7 per year from 2022 onward, after a gap in 2021.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 4.4/year recently
2017: 1 publication172018: 2 publications182019: 1 publication192020: 6 publications20212022: 5 publications222023: 5 publications232024: 7 publications7242025: 4 publications252026: 1 publication26
Recent publications
  • Understanding the Evolution of Surface Texture Under Boundary Lubrication

    Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science · 2018

Publishes in
  • CIRP Annals×6
  • Procedia CIRP×6
  • Manufacturing Letters×3
  • Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing Systems×3
  • Procedia Manufacturing×2
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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