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Functional Materials and Advanced Manufacturing

In Book series Manufacturing Design and Technology, CRC Press Taylor

Editors:

Dr. Chander Prakash, Associate Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara

Dr. Sunpreet Singh, Assistant Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara

Prof. J.P. Davim, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Aveiro, Campus Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal

As the field of materials and manufacturing has progressed tremendously there is a need for the updation of this knowledge with respect to the novelties and technique, which has surfaced. This Conference would update the researchers, scientists, whether in the early years of their career or the established one in regards the current challenges and blooms in materials science and advanced manufacturing for various industrial applications like aerospace, automobile, marine, and biomedical. The conference also including the advanced manufacturing techniques include: Additive manufacturing/3D printing, Bio-manufacturing, smart manufacturing systems, Nanotechnologies, Design-led innovation for the processing of smart and functional materials. The conference will provide a platform for presenting research papers by internationally recognized experts and young scientists working in the field of Materials Science of Functional and Smart Materials and their advanced Manufacturing.

Important Dates:

Book Chapter Proposal Submission: 31st March 2019

Full Length Book Chapter Submission: 30th June 2019

Notification of review: 31th August 2019

Final Full Length Book Chapter Submission: 30th September 2019

Book Submission: 30th November 2019

Book has 5 Volumes:

Vol-I: “Functional and Smart Materials”

Preface

The book vol-I entitled “Functional and Smart Materials”, aims to present a comprehensive and broad-spectrum picture of the state-of-the-art research, development, and commercial prospective of various discoveries conducted in the real-world materials science applications. The book is prompted by universal applications of several functional and smart materials, their processing, and evaluations through the conduct of standard procedures. Here, the authors provide graduate, postgraduate, doctorate students, faculty, and scientists with an in-depth account of the evolutionary behavior of functional and smart materials for engineering applications.

· Materials Science and Engineering

· Materials Property and Characterization

· Materials Applications, Performance, and Life Cycle

· Ferrous and non-ferrous materials

· Composites

· Micro / Nano Materials

· Ceramics and Glasses

· Feature Engineering Polymers

· Hard/Soft Magnetic Materials

· Metallic Alloys

· Magnetic Materials

· Multi Functional Magnetic Materials

· Biomaterials

· Smart/Intelligent Materials

· Polymeric Materials

· Thin Films

· Nanostructured Materials

· Sensors and structural identification

· Active polymers, materials, and actuators

· Smart Biomaterials and Bio-inspired Smart Materials and Systems

· Energy Storage Materials and Energy Harvesting

· Quantum Materials and Metamaterials

· Piezoelectric and Piezomagnetic

· Materials for Sensor Technology

Vol-II: “Advanced Manufacturing and Processing Technology”

Preface

The book vol-II entitled “advanced manufacturing and processing technology”, disseminate recent research, theories, and practices relevant to areas of advanced manufacturing and processing technology. This volume will particularly focus the hidden technologies and manufacturing methods which may not be standardized by the research fraternity, however, are greatly benefitting the industrial engineers in different aspects. Therefore, it has been aimed to provide such projects, research activities, and innovations a global platform to strengthen the knowledge of the concerned community. Being interdisciplinary volume, it will aim to compile excellence in intelligent, advanced manufacturing, production, processing systems and technology.

Table of Content

· Conventional, Non-conventional machining processes and their hybridizations

· Sustainable and Green manufacturing

· Material Forming & Joining Processes: Casting, welding, Brazing, Soldering, etc.

· Materials Machining

· Jig and Fixtures

· Material Design and development

· Microwave Processing of Materials

· Micro-Machining

· Laser Machining and Sintering

· Bio-manufacturing

· Additive manufacturing

· New kinds of manufacturing: Based on new processes or materials

· Advances in machine tools

· Cryogenic Machining Process

· MQL/MQCL Assisted Machining Process

· Dry machining Process

· Machining with high pressure cooling

· Nanofluid based machining

· Machining with Solid Lubricants

· Life Cycle Analysis of Manufacturing Processes

Vol-III: “Innovative Surface Engineering”

Preface

The book vol-III entitled “Innovative surface engineering”, disseminate the surface engineering technologies that use to protect and enhance the life of engineering devices and products: diffusion technologies, deposition technologies, and other less commonly acknowledged surface engineering (SE) techniques. Surface engineering is the sub-discipline of materials science which deals with the surface of solid matter. It has applications to chemistry, mechanical engineering, and electrical engineering. A spectrum of topics that represent the diverse nature of the field of surface engineering includes Plating technologies, Nanotechnology and emerging technologies and Surface engineering, characterization and testing. In particular, surface engineering caters directly to the tooling, automotive, electrotechnical, biomedical, energy, and electronic industry sectors

Table of Content

· Surface Engineering/Coatings/Deposition

· Surface Control of Additive Manufacturing Processes

· Surface Topography: Metrology, measurements and Properties

· Chemical and Electro-chemical surface treatment of Additive manufactured parts

· Ultra-precision Machining and finishing

· Cladding

· Advanced finishing Processes

· Spray Technologies and Advanced Coatings Techniques

Vol-IV: “Modelling, Analysis, and Optimization of Manufacturing Processes”

Preface

The book Vol-IV entitled “modelling, analysis, and optimization of manufacturing processes”, presents the current research trends in the advanced modelling, analysis, and optimization techniques for manufacturing processes. Basic and advanced concepts are presented for various manufacturing processes, mathematical models, traditional and non-traditional optimization techniques, and real case studies. The results of the application of the proposed methodology are also covered and the book highlights the most useful modeling and optimization strategies for achieving best process performance. In addition to these, the vol also covering the process design, automation, robotics, and environmental aspects in sustainable machining.

Table of Content

· Computing in Applied Mechanics

· CAD/CAM/CIM/HVAC/CAE and Product Design

· Dynamics and Control of Structures/ Systems

· Fracture and Failure Mechanics

· Solid Mechanics: Differential / Dynamical systems

· Modeling and Simulation

· Artificial Intelligence: Fuzzy Logic, Neural Network, Genetic Algorithm etc.

· Finite Element Analysis

· Advanced Numerical Techniques

· Advancements in Tribology

· Nano-mechanics and MEMS

· Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Manufacturing Processes

· Multi-objective optimization

· Applications of mathematical modeling and optimization theory and methods in various areas

· Process design, automation, mechatronics, robotics and assembly

Vol-V: “Characterization, Testing, Measurement and Metrology”

Preface

The book Vol-V entitled “Characterization, Testing, Measurement and Metrology”, presents the broad aspects of measurement, performance analysis, and characterization for materials and devices by advanced manufacturing processes. The field of measurement and metrology as a pre-condition for maintaining high quality products/devices/systems in materials and advanced manufacturing process applications has grown, strongly, over the past years in numerous technological sectors, including smart materials, automotive, bio-manufacturing, chemicals, electronics, energy, and constructional materials. The advanced materials, which are progressing nowadays, have novel properties, thus must be fully characterized and studied, in-depth, so that these could be incorporated into products that out-perform existing problems. As such, meteorological and mechanical properties of advanced materials require cutting-edge instruments, methods, and standards, which is the focus of this vol.

Table of Content

· Mechanical Property characterization of construction materials

· Evaluation of material surface integrity

· Characterizations: SEM/FESEM, EDS, XRD, XPS, AFM, TEM, STEM, FTIR, DSC, TGA, DMA

· Mechanical Behaviour: Fracture, damage, fatigue

· Tribology and wear

· Interfaces and interphases,

· Creep and aggressive environment

· Corrosion

· Measurement, performance analysis, and characterization of materials, devices, and systems using advanced technologies

· Characterization of surfaces and the relationship between surface properties and their applications

· Surface metrology - measurement and characterization of surface topography including functional properties of surfaces

· Measurement & Metrology in Materials and Advanced Manufacturing: roughness, forces, corrosion, wear, crack propagaion and fatigue, etc.

· Monitoring and control of machining/manufacturing processing of advanced materials;

· Optimization of machining/manufacturing processing;

· Computational Intelligence: Neural, fuzzy, Genetic, and swarm particle optimization, etc.;

· Vision-based control and Control Engineering

Contact:

Dr. Chander Prakash: [email protected]

Dr. Sunpreet Singh: [email protected]

Prof. J. P. Davim: [email protected]