Sustainable Manufacturing and Design

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. Prof. (Dr.) J. Paulo Davim is a Full Professor at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, with over 35 years of experience in Mechanical, Materials, and Industrial Engineering. He holds multiple distinguished academic titles, including a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and a DSc from London Metropolitan University. He has published over 300 books and 600 articles, with an h-index of 99+ on Google Scholar and more than 36,500 citations. He is ranked among the world's top 2% scientists by Stanford University and holds leadership positions in numerous international journals, conferences, and research projects.

Section A: Sustainability methodology

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