Advances in Sustainable Machining and Manufacturing Processes

This text provides an in-depth overview of sustainability in machining processes, challenges during machining of difficult-to-cut materials and different ways of green machining in achieving sustainability.

It discusses important topics including green and sustainable machining, dry machining, textured cutting coated tools for machining, solid lubricants-based machining, gas-cooled machining, cryogenic cooling for intelligent machining, artificial neural network for machining, big data based machining, and hybrid intelligent machining.

This book-

• Covers advances in sustainable machining such as gas-cooled machining, near dry machining, and minimum quantity lubrication.
• Explores use of big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence for machining processes.
• Provides case studies and experimental design as well as results with analysis focusing on achieving sustainability.
• Discusses artificial intelligence and machine learning based machining processes.
• Cover the latest applications of sustainable manufacturing for a better understanding of the concepts.

The text is primarily written for senior undergraduate, graduate students, and researchers in the fields of mechanical, manufacturing, industrial, production engineering and materials science.

Dr.Kishor Kumar Gajrani is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Kancheepuram, Chennai, India. He has done M.Tech and Ph.D. degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. Thereafter, he worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He has published 27 international journals and book chapters of repute as well as attended numerous conferences. His research interests are broadly related to the advancement of sustainable machining processes, advanced materials, tribology, coatings, green lubricants and coolants and food packaging.

Dr. Arbind Prasad has completed his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India. He has filled 4 patents out of his research work. He has numerous international Journal papers, book chapters and reputed conference papers to his credit. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor and Head (Mechanical Engineering) in the Department of Science and Technology, Government of Bihar, Posted at Katihar Engineering College, Katihar, Bihar, India. His main areas of interest include manufacturing, machining, polymer composites, biomaterials, and orthopedic biomedical applications.

Dr. Ashwani Kumar received Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering) in the area of Mechanical Vibration and Design. He is currently working at Technical Education Department, Uttar Pradesh (under Government of Uttar Pradesh) India. He has twelve years of research and academic experience in mechanical and materials engineering. He is editorial board member of 5 international journals. He has published 90 research articles in journals, book chapters and conferences. He has authored/co-authored cum edited 15 books of Mechanical and Materials Engineering. He is currently involved in the research area of Advanced Materials, Heavy Vehicle Dynamics, Mechanical Vibration and Coriolis Mass Flow Sensor.