Joining Processes for Dissimilar and Advanced Materials

ISBN-13: 9780323853996 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 694 str.

Pawan Kumar Rakesh; J. Paulo Davim

Spis treści

1. Introduction to the Joining Process 2. Investigation on Microwave Joining of Mild Steel Plates at 2.45 GHz and Joint Characterization 3. Joint Design for Adhesive Joining of Sisal/Epoxy Composite Laminates 4. Electric current-assisted joining of similar/dissimilar materials 5. Use of combustion synthesis/self-propagating high-temperature synthesis (SHS) for the joining of similar/dissimilar materials 6. A Review on Friction Stir Spot Welding of Similar and Dissimilar Materials 7. Current and Future Trends in Micro Joining and Nano Joining 8. Joint Characterization/ Testing 9. Modelling and Simulations 10. Digitalization of Joining 

O autorze

Pawan Kumar Rakesh is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the National Institute of Technology, Uttarakhand, India. He was previously the first Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department at IIT Roorkee, where he completed his PhD. He lectures on Advanced Joining Processes at NIT Uttarkhand to both undergraduate and graduate students. His main research interests are Primary and Secondary Processing of Polymer Matrix Composites, Finite Element Approach in Design and Analysis of Composite Materials, Green Composites. J. Paulo Davim is a Full Professor at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He is also an honorary professor in several universities/colleges in China, India and Spain. He has more than 30 years of teaching and research experience in manufacturing, materials, mechanical and industrial engineering, with special emphasis in machining and tribology. He has worked as an evaluator of projects for the European Research Council (ERC) and other international research agencies as well as an examiner of Ph.D. theses for many universities in different countries. He is the editor-in-chief of several international journals, guest editor of several journals, series editor for Elsevier's Woodhead Publishing Reviews: Mechanical Engineering book series, and scientific advisor 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 journals. In addition, he has also published as editor (and co-editor) more than 150 books and as author (and co-author) more than 15 books, 100 book chapters and 500 articles in journals and conferences. He has published more than 280 articles in prestigious journals.