This reference text covers advanced materials, their properties, processing and applications in a single volume. It will serve as a useful text for graduate students and academic researchers in areas including materials science, manufacturing engineering, mechanical engineering, and industrial engineering.
Dr. Ashwani Kumar received Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering) in the area of Mechanical Vibration and Design. He is currently working as Senior Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering (Gazetted Officer Class II) at Technical Education Department, Uttar Pradesh (Government of Uttar Pradesh) India since December 2013. He has worked as Assistant Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering, Graphic Era University Dehradun India from July 2010 to November 2013. He has more than 11 years of research and academic experience in mechanical and materials engineering. He is Series Editor of book series "Advances in Manufacturing, Design and Computational Intelligence Techniques" published by CRC Press (Taylor & Francis) USA. He is Associate Editor for International Journal of Mathematical, Engineering and Management Sciences (IJMEMS) Indexed in ESCI/Scopus and DOAJ. He is editorial board member of 4 international journals and acts as review board member of 20 prestigious (Indexed in SCI/SCIE/Scopus) international journals with high impact factor i.e. Applied Acoustics, Measurement, JESTEC, AJSE, SV-JME, and LAJSS. In addition he has published 85 research articles in journals, book chapters and conferences. He has authored/co-authored cum edited 13 books of Mechanical and Materials Engineering. He is associated with International Conferences as Invited Speaker/ Advisory Board/Review Board member. He has delivered many invited talks in webinar, FDP and Workshops. He has been awarded as Best Teacher for excellence in academic and research. He has successfully guided 12 B.Tech., M.Tech and Ph.D. thesis. In administration he is working as coordinator for AICTE, E.O.A., Nodal officer for PMKVY-TI Scheme (Government of India) and internal coordinator for CDTP scheme (Government of Uttar Pradesh).He is currently involved in the research area of Machine Learning, Advanced Materials, Machining & Manufacturing Techniques, Biodegradable Composites, Heavy Vehicle Dynamics and Coriolis Mass Flow Sensor.
Prof. Mangey Ram received the Ph.D. degree major in Mathematics and minor in Computer Science from G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India. He has been a Faculty Member for around thirteen years and has taught several core courses in pure and applied mathematics at undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctorate levels. He is currently the Research Professor at Graphic Era (Deemed to be University), Dehradun, India & Visiting Professor at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Saint Petersburg, Russia. Before joining the Graphic Era, he was a Deputy Manager (Probationary Officer) with Syndicate Bank for a short period. He is Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Mathematical, Engineering and Management Sciences; Journal of Reliability and Statistical Studies; Journal of Graphic Era University; Series Editor of six Book Series with Elsevier, CRC Press-A Taylor and Frances Group, Walter De Gruyter Publisher Germany, River Publisher and the Guest Editor & Associate Editor with various journals. He has published 250 plus publications (journal articles/books/book chapters/conference articles) in IEEE, Taylor & Francis, Springer Nature, Elsevier, Emerald, World Scientific and many other national and international journals and conferences. Also, he has published more than 50 books (authored/edited) with international publishers like Elsevier, Springer Nature, CRC Press-A Taylor and Frances Group, Walter De Gruyter Publisher Germany, River Publisher. His fields of research are reliability theory and applied mathematics. Dr. Ram is a Senior Member of the IEEE, Senior Life Member of Operational Research Society of India, Society for Reliability Engineering, Quality and Operations Management in India, Indian Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, He has been a member of the organizing committee of a number of international and national conferences, seminars, and workshops. He has been conferred with "Young Scientist Award" by the Uttarakhand State Council for Science and Technology, Dehradun, in 2009. He has been awarded the "Best Faculty Award" in 2011; "Research Excellence Award" in 2015; "Outstanding Researcher Award" in 2018 for his significant contribution in academics and research at Graphic Era Deemed to be University, Dehradun, India. Recently, he has been received the "Excellence in Research of the Year-2021 Award" by the Honourable Chief Minister of Uttarakhand State, India.
Dr. Yogesh Kumar Singla associated with Case Western Reserve University, USA has done his Ph.D. from IIT Roorkee. He has more than 6 years of research and teaching experience. He is working in the area of Manufacturing, Welding, Surface Engineering, Tribology, Materials Characterization, Welding Metallurgy and Mechanical Behavior of Metals. He has 10 SCI publications and 05 Scopus Indexed publications. Apart from this, 4 SCI papers are in-process. In his career, he has successfully guided 1 Ph.D. and 4 M.E. theses. He is a reviewer of many SCI journals of Elsevier and Springer having impact factor ranging from 0.7-5.289. He is about to submit one patent on solar dryer. He has given many expert talks at State and Central Level Institutes/Universities. He also has the experience of conducting 10 days Faculty Development Program. In addition to this, he is an Editor of two International Books entitled "Advanced Computational Methods in Mechanical and Materials Engineering" and "Advanced Materials for Bio-Mechanical Applications" to be published by CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group https: //taylorandfrancis.com/books/) in 2021.
