Materials, Design and Manufacturing for Sustainable Environment

The book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Materials, Design and Manufacturing (ICMDMSE 2022). The book covers recent trends in design and manufacturing practices relating to sustainability. Various topics covered in this book include materials design for sustainability, material characterization, tribology, finite element methods (FEM), computational fluid dynamics in designing materials, manufacturing techniques inclined to sustainability, additive manufacturing, energy, Industry 4.0, MEMS, green manufacturing, and optimization techniques. This book will be useful for researchers and professionals working in various fields of mechanical engineering.

Autorentext

Dr. Elango Natarajan is working as an associate professor in Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering Department, UCSI University, Malaysia. He received his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and his master's degree in CAD from University of Madras and PhD from Anna University, India. He received C.Eng from Engineering Council, UK. Dr Elango worked as B.E Programme Coordinator in Kolej Universiti Linton Coventry University. Malaysia. His research interests include manufacturing and machining of composites, optimization and artificial intelligence, soft actuator and biomedical applications, finite element analysis (CAE) and engineering design. He has published 66 research articles in Scopus/WoS. He is supervising 8 PhD scholars and has 5 funded projects to a tune of RM 637527. He has given many guest lectures and keynote addresses and is an official reviewer in 27 journals.

Dr. S. Vinod is an associate professor in the Department of Production Engineering, NIT National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India. He completed his Ph.D. degree under AICTE National Doctoral Fellowship scheme from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India. He was a Gold Medallist in his undergraduate study. He has published over 175 papers in International Journals. He received Highly Commended Paper Award from Emerald Publishers for the year 2016. He is the recipient of Innovative Student Project Award 2010 based on his Ph.D. Thesis from Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), New Delhi, India. His research interests include Sustainable Manufacturing, Lean Manufacturing, Agile Manufacturing, Rapid Manufacturing, Product Development and Industry 4.0.

Dr. V. Rajkumar he is working as associate professor in Mechanical Engineering Department at PSG Institute of Technology and Applied Research, India. He did his undergraduate studies in mechanical engineering at PSG College of Technology andpostgraduate studies from School of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. He holds his PhD in Manufacturing from School of Mechanical Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore. His research interests are in metal joining, materials characterization and additive manufacturing. He is a reviewer in more than 10 international journals.