About the Author: Dr. Ramesh Kumar Nayak is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, India. He graduated (M.Tech.) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, in 2005. He has worked in several reputed organizations such as General Motors India Technical Centre, Bangalore; Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Bangalore; and DENSO International India Pvt. Limited, Gurgaon in various roles. His research interest is FRP composites/nanocomposites, metal casting, solidifications, and process simulations. He teaches polymer engineering, solidification and casting, composite materials, and corrosion engineering to undergraduate and graduate scholars at MANIT, Bhopal. He has guided several PhD. and M.Tech scholars in the area of composite materials and metal casting. He has published his work in peer-review international journals, reference books, and book chapters in the areas of manufacturing, metallurgy and materials science. He has been listed in World´s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University-Elsevier study, 2022.
Dr. M. K. Pradhan completed his M.Tech and PhD (mechanical engineering) from NIT Rourkela. He is working as Associate Professor, in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Raipur. Pripor to this Assistant Professor in Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal (An Institute of National Importance). He has over 25 years of teaching and research experience in manufacturing. His areas of teaching and research interest are Additive Manufacturing, non-traditional machining, metrology, micromachining, MEMS, hybrid machining, composites, and process modeling and optimization. He has more than 75 international journal publications, more than 65 technically edited papers, which were published in conference proceedings, 2 edited books, more than 5 conference proceedings volumes and more than 20 book chapters. He is on the editorial board and review panel of more than 5 international journals of repute. He has total 193 publications/h-index 16+, SCOPUS/h-index 12+, Google Scholar/h-index 18+). He is charted engineer, a life fellow of IIPE, and a life member of ISTE, IACSIT, IAENG, and MIE (I).He has been listed in World´s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University-Elsevier study, consecutively in 2021 and 2022.
Dr. Animesh Mandal is working as Associate Professor at School of Minerals, Metallurgical & Materials Engineering, IIT Bhubaneswar, since 2010. He obtained his M.Tech and Ph.D degree from IIT Kharagpur and worked as postdoctoral fellow in Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts, USA. His areas of research interest include aluminium alloys, magnesium alloys, recycling of aluminium alloys, metal matrix composites, semisolid processing of metals and tribology of metals. He has guided several PhD and M.Tech scholars at IIT Bhubaneswar. He has completed different R&D projects sponsored by DST and other funding agencies. He has published his research outcomes in different reputed peer-reviewed journals on the topics of manufacturing, metallurgy and materials science.
Professor J. Paulo Davim is a Full Professor at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He is also distinguished as honorary professor in several universities/colleges/institutes in China, India and Spain. He received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1997; M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering (materials and manufacturing processes) in 1991, Mechanical Engineering degree (5 years) in 1986, from the University of Porto (FEUP), the Aggregate title (Full Habilitation) from the University of Coimbra in 2005 and the D.Sc. (Higher Doctorate) from London Metropolitan University in 2013. He is Senior Chartered Engineer by the Portuguese Institution of Engineers with an MBA and Specialist titles in Engineering and Industrial Management as well as in Metrology. He is also Eur Ing by FEANI-Brussels and Fellow (FIET) of IET-London. He has more than 35 years of teaching and research experience in manufacturing, materials, mechanical and industrial engineering, with special emphasis in machining & tribology. He has guided large numbers of postdoc, Ph.D. and master's students as well as has coordinated and participated in several financed research projects. He has received several scientific awards and honors. He has worked as evaluator of projects for ERC-European Research Council and other international research agencies as well as examiner of Ph.D. thesis for many universities in different countries. He is the editor-in-chief of several international journals, guest editor of journals, books editor, book series editor and scientific advisory for many international journals and conferences. Presently, he is an editorial board member of 30 international journals and acts as reviewer for more than 100 prestigious Web of Science journals. In addition, he has also published as editor (and co-editor) more than 200 books and as author (and co-author) more than 15 books, 100 book chapters and 500 articles in journals and conferences (more than 300 articles in journals indexed in Web of Science core collection/h-index 61+/12500+ citations, SCOPUS/h-index 66+/15500+ citations, Google Scholar/h-index 84+/25000+ citations). He has been listed in World´s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University-Elsevier study (Ranked 2021 single year at 1773 out of 190063 scientists, ranked at 16 in the field of industrial engineering and automation and ranked at 38 in the field of materials).
