About the Book
This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Processing and Fabrication of Advanced Materials (PFAM 2023). It covers the latest research in the areas of processing, fabrication, characterization and evaluation of traditional, advanced and emerging materials. The topics covered include various properties and performance attributes of modern-age materials. It further covers their applications in areas such as aerospace and other space-related industries, automobile, marine and defense, biomedical and healthcare, electronics and communications, energy storage/harvesting, heavy equipment, machinery and goods and semiconductor materials manufacturing. The book is a valuable reference for researchers and professionals interested in processing and fabrication of advanced materials and allied fields.
Table of Contents:
Friction Stir Processing Of As-Cast Magnesium Alloy Nanocomposites: Microstructure and Mechanical Properties.- Temperature Estimation and Validation During Spot Welding of Thin AA6063-T6 and CRCA/IS-513 Sheets using a Consumable Additive Layer and a Pin Less FSSW tool.- Effect of Process Parameters on Mechanical Performances of 3D Printed ABS Parts.- Probing the Influence of Waveforms on the Submerged Arc Weld Characteristics and Residual Stress Distribution.- State of the Art on Additive Manufacturing of Moulding Dies with Conformal Cooling Channels.- Numerical and Experimental Study on the Effect Of Tool Pin Profile of Friction Stir Additive Manufactured AA6061/AA7075 Joints.- Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing of Pelton Wheel Bucket.- Review on Challenges and Methods for Habitat Construction on Mars.- Additively Manufactured Ceramic Lattice Structures: Fabrication, Challenges, and Applications.- Biocompatible Nanohydroxyapatite from Cuttlefish Bone by Mechano Chemical Method for Bone Tissue Engineering Applications.- Influence of Processing Conditions on Thermal Insulation Characteristics of 3D-Printed Thermoplastic Polyurethane.- Analysis of Hole Quality of Copper Oxide Nanostructured CFRP Composite.- Machinability of Ti6Al4V in High Speed Micro Turning Under Dry Condition.- Performance Evaluation of Electrical Discharge Machining of Commercially Pure Titanium using Two Different Dielectrics.- Experimental Study on Machining Super Alloy using m-EDM with Nano-Powder Blended Dielectric.
About the Author :
Dr. Ajay Kumar is the assistant professor at Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Tirupati, India. Prior to joining IIT Tirupati, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Washington State University (WSU) Pullman, USA, and University of Wisconsin Milwaukee (UWM) USA. He obtained his B.E. (Mechanical) from Madhav Institute of Technology and Science (MITS), Gwalior (MP) India, M.Tech. (Materials Engineering) from Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT), Bhopal (MP), India, and Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore India. He is focusing at constructing a quantitative and predictive understanding of the phenomena underlying the materials development for industrial applications by employing a variety of experimental and computational tools to establish process-structure-property relationships in materials. He has published 2 patents, 30 papers in respected international journals, and 4 book chapters
Dr. T.S. Srivatsan is a professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Akron (Akron, Ohio, USA). He received his Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering (B.E., 1980) from Bangalore University (Bangalore, India) and graduate degrees Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering (M.S. 1981) and Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering (Ph.D. 1984) from Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Georgia, USA). Dr. Srivatsan joined as the faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Akron in August 1987.
Dr. Mamilla Ravi Sankar is the assoc. professor of Mechanical Engineering at Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Tirupati, India. Prior to joining IIT Tirupati, he served at IIT Guwahati for about 7 years. He obtained his B.Tech. (Mechanical) from S. V. University College of Engineering, Tirupati, and M.Tech. and Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT Kanpur), Uttar Pradesh, India. Dr. M. Ravi Sankar received IEI Young Engineer Award in 2015 (Production Engineering), ISAMPE Young Researcher Award in 2011, Skill India-Indo Global Research Excellence Award, Gold Medal in Weightlifting at Inter IIT Sports Meet 2007. Currently, he is an editorial board member: Journal of Micro Manufacturing (SAGE).
Dr. N. Venkaiah is the assoc. professor of Mechanical Engineering at Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Tirupati, India. Prior to joining IIT Tirupati, he served at NIT Warangal for about 10 years. He obtained his B.Tech. (Mechanical) from S. V. University College of Engineering, Tirupati, M.E. (Manufacturing Technology) from NIT, Tiruchirappalli, and Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. His major areas of research interests include engineering metrology, electric discharge machining, additive manufacturing (3D printing), modeling and optimization techniques, computational geometric techniques. He has published 30 papers in reputed Journals and Conferences. Dr. N. Venkaiah received Young Scientist Project Award in 2013 from Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. Currently, he is a reviewer for Int. J. Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Journal of Engineering Manufacture, Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, Journal of Process Mech. Engineering.
Dr. S. Seetharamu joined CPRI in 1985 after serving in L&T and Best and Crompton Engineering and retired as Director of CPRI in June 2015. He is a chartered engineer and has served as a faculty at Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan. Power engineering with special reference to energy efficiency, environmental engineering, materials technology, and condition assessment and diagnostics (RLA and Asset Management) are his areas of expertise. Special thrust is toward coordination/networking with professional working groups for collaboration, accreditation, and implementable work programs.
