Krishnan Veluswamy is a Senior
Research Engineer/Scientist at the Composite and Polymer Engineering (CAPE)
Laboratory at South Dakota Mines. He is also part of the Composite and Nanocomposite
Advanced Manufacturing Center (CNAM). His PhD work focused on understanding and
developing a process/technique in thermoplastics to align discontinuous fibers
in a preferred direction while maintaining the fiber length and dispersion to
enhance the mechanical properties via scalable manufacturing process to
maximize product value. Dr. Veluswamy specializes in polymer extrusion
compounding, extruder screw design, process-structure-property relationships in
composites and nanocomposites, polymer rheology studies, and composite molding
techniques. Dr. Veluswamy is group leader on various multidisciplinary R&D
projects at the CAPE Lab and the CNAM Center, and he has been involved in
significant technology scale-up activities.