1. Current tools and methodology for a sustainable product life cycle and design
2. Additive manufacturing for a dematerialised economy
Section B: Sustainability in manufacturing
3. Sustainable friction stir welding of metals
4. Heat pipe-embedded tooling for sustainable manufacturing
5. Sustainable manufacturing of plastic packaging material: An innovative approach
Section C: Sustainability in product design
6. Performance of microwave-irradiated WC-Co insert during dry machining of inconel 718 superalloys
7. Experimental studies on friction stir welding of AA6061 aluminum alloy
8. Machinability study of Inconel 825 superalloy under nanofluid MQL: application of sunflower oil as base cutting fluid with MWCNTs and nano-Al2O3 as additives
Section D: Optimization
9. Performance enhancement approaches for Mahua biodiesel blend on diesel engine
10. Optimization of wear parameters of aluminium hybrid metal matrix composites by squeeze casting using Taguchi and artificial neural network
Dr Kaushik Kumar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, India. He has 14 years of experience in teaching and research, and over 11 years of industrial experience working for a global manufacturing company. He has 9 patents, has authored/edited 20 books and has 120 international journal publications, and 18 International and 8 National Conference publications to his credit.
Divya Zindani, is presently pursuing his Ph.D. at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Silchar. He has over 2 years of Industrial experience. His areas of research interest are optimization, product and process design, CAD/CAM/CAE and rapid prototyping. He has 1 Patent, 6 Books, 1 Edited Book, 14 Book Chapters, and 8 international journal publications to his credit.
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.