Advances in Mechanical and Materials Technology: Select Proceedings of EMSME 2020 (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering) 1st ed. 2022 Edition

This book presents select papers from the International Conference on Energy, Material Sciences and Mechanical Engineering (EMSME) - 2020. The book covers the three core areas of energy, material sciences and mechanical engineering.  The topics covered include non-conventional energy resources, energy harvesting, polymers, composites, 2D materials, systems engineering, materials engineering, micro-machining, renewable energy, industrial engineering and additive manufacturing. This book will be useful to researchers and professionals working in the areas of mechanical and industrial engineering, materials applications, and energy technology.

Prof. Kannan Govindan is currently a Professor and head of the Center for Sustainable Supply Chain Engineering, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark. He received 2018, 2019 highly cited researcher award from Thomson-Reuters/Clarivate Analytics ("one of only 204 researchers to be listed in the engineering category"). He received the Fyens Stiftstidende research award for 2019. He received the High-Level Overseas Innovative Talent to Tianjin award (Under 1000 talents program for High-Level Overseas Innovative Talent experts of Tianjin Province) from Tianjin Province, China. His research interests include digital supply chain, industry 4.0 on supply chain, sustainable development goals, reverse logistics, closed loop supply chain, digitalized sustainable circular economy, green supply chain management, and sustainable supply chain management. He has published more than 250 international journal articles (with total 21400 + citations and H-index of 82) in leading journals such as Nature, Omega, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Journal of Environmental management, Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Cleaner Production, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Ecological Indicators, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A: Systems and Humans, European Management Journal, Computers and OR, International Journal of Production Economics and International Journal of Production Research.

Dr. Harish Kumar is currently working as Assistant Professor in National Institute of Technology Delhi. He has more than 15 years of research and academic experience and served as Scientist at different grades in CSIR - National Physical Laboratory, India (NPLI). He has been an active researcher in the area of mechanical measurement and metrology. He has worked as Guest Researcher at National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA in 2016. He has been instrumental in ongoing redefinition of kilogram in India. He has authored more than 70 publications in peer reviewed journals and conferences. He has served as Guest Editors of different journals and conference proceedings volumes including Mapan - Journal of Metrology Society of India.

Dr Sanjay Yadav is a Senior Principal Scientist & Head of the Pressure, Vacuum and Ultrasonic Metrology Section and Prof. Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR - National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Meerut University in 1990. He has published more than 270 papers in international journals and conference proceedings and is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal "MAPAN -Journal of Metrology Society of India," published by Springer. He is reviewer of many reputed journals including Measurement Science and Technology, Metrologia, Measurement, Review of Scientific Instruments etc.