• Advanced Joining and Manufacturing Technology
• Materials Manufacturing and Characterization
• Additive Manufacturing

• Shankar Sehgal, Velaphi Msomi, Omar S. Dahhan, Anatoliy Petrovich Surzhikov, Research on Engineering Materials, Trans Tech Publications LTD, 242 pages, 2022, ISBN: 978-3036401119.
• Shankar Sehgal, Velaphi Msomi, Omar S. Dahhan, Anif Jamaluddin, Materials and Technologies in Modern Production, Trans Tech Publications LTD, 284 pages, 2022, ISBN: 978-3036401072.
• Shankar Sehgal, Velaphi Msomi, Advanced Materials Processing and Manufacturing Processes, Trans Tech Publications LTD, 282 pages, 2022, ISBN: 978-3035716993.

• Mabuwa S, Msomi V, Mehdi H, Ngonda T. A study on the metallurgical characterisation of the longitudinally sampled friction stir processed TIG welded dissimilar aluminum joints. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E: Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering. 2025;239(1):5-15. doi:10.1177/09544089231169589
• Muribwathoho O, Msomi V and Mabuwa S, Optimization of FSP parameters in fabricating AA5083/Coal composites using Taguchi method, 2025 Eng. Res. Express 7 015536
• Pangwa N, Msomi V, An Experimental Investigation on the Performance of a Double Slope Single-Stage Solar Still tested in Cape Town, South Africa, 2025, Engineering, Technology, and Applied Science Research 15(2), 21284 - 21293
• Muribwathoho, O.; Msomi, V.; Mabuwa, S. Optimization and Regression Analysis of Friction Stir Processing Parameters of AA5083/Coal Composites for Marine Applications. Crystals 2025, 15, 34. https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst15010034
• Msomi and S. Mabuwa, “Analyzing the Influence of Microstructure on the Mechanical Properties of TIG Welded Joints processed by Friction Stir considering the sampling Orientation”, Eng. Technol. Appl. Sci. Res., vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 12470–12475, 2024

• Editorial Board Member for Journal of Engineering Science and Technology

• 2023 NRF Award Winner: Research Excellence Award Early Career/Emerging Researchers

• Founder of International Conference on Applied Research and Engineering (ICARAE)

• Cape Peninsula University of Technology Research Excellence Winner: Gold Award for Research Publications (2020)

• Cape Peninsula University of Technology Research Excellence Winner: Gold Award for Research Publications (2021)

• Keynote Address at International Conference on Multifunctional Materials (ICMM-2022

• Member of International Advisory Board for International Conference on Aspects of Material Science and Engineering (2021 - 2022)

• Technical Session Chair for International Conference on Aspects of Material Science and Engineering (2021-2022)

• Member of International Advisory Board for International Conference on Computational Modelling in Materials & Structures (2022)

• Keynote Speaker at International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Materials and Mechatronics Systems (AIAMMS-2023) – 03-04 November 2023

• Mendeley Advisor, Elsevier (2020 – present)

• Member of CPUT Council, Academic Rep (2018 – 2022)

• Leading Guest Editor for various SCIE and Scopus-indexed journals
• Associate Editor for International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing (Springer)

• Project title: Development of lightweight AA5083/AA2618 metal matrix using friction stir additive manufacturing (2023 – 2025). Funding Amount: R 165 000
• Project Title: Development of Solar Thermal Desalination System (2019-2020). Funding Amount: R 518 000
• Project Title: Development of solar based desalination systems (2018). Funding Amount: R 75 000
• Project Title: Mechanical properties of friction stir welded dissimilar aluminium alloys (1050 and 5083 aluminium alloy plates) (2017 -2018) Funding Amount: R160 000
• Project Title: The influence of rotational speed in the Friction Stir Welding of 6082-T6 aluminium alloy joints (2017 -2018). Funding Amount: R160 000
• Project Title: Development and testing of a renewable energy based thermal desalination system (2019 – 2021). Funding Amount: R360 000
• Project Title: Development of a vapour based multistage solar desalination system (2020 – 2021). Funding Amount: R240 000.

Prof. Velaphi Msomi obtained his Doctor of Technology at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology in 2015. He started supervising postgraduate students soon after obtaining his doctoral degree. He was involved in Materials Science-based projects, and a few students joined his research projects in 2016. He started the friction stir welding research group in 2017, and the group grew then, a few years later, the group was recognized by the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. He started producing friction stir welding-based research articles in 2019 to date. He has produced over 60 research papers on friction-stir-based technology in less than five years. His research output has given him a Y rating by the National Research Foundation for six years (2021 – 2026). He is currently the institution's head of the Friction Stir Technology Research Group. He has also been a reviewer for numerous international journals. This includes Heliyon, Materials Characterization, Vacuum, Materials Research Express, Journal of Materials Research and Technology, and many more. He is a founder and Coordinator of the International Conference on Applied Research and Engineering, which started in 2021. He has also been the Guest Editor for Materials Today: Proceedings, International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing, Materials Science Forum, Key Engineering Materials, AIP Conference Proceedings, Applied Science, Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering, and many more. He recently won a prestigious award in 2023 funded by the National Research Foundation and Elsevier called the Research Excellent Award Early Career/ Emerging Researchers.

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