Sustainable Hard Machining: Implementation and Assessment

Sustainable Hard Machining: Implementation and Assessment analyzes the various methodologies of cooling and lubrication employed during hard machining operations, along with their potential contributions towards achieving sustainable machining. It includes the needs, challenges and trends towards sustainable hard machining of difficult-to-cut materials through the application of dry, minimum quantity lubrication (MQL), cryogenic and nanofluid assisted MQL for environmental, economic, ecological and societal benefits, leading to environmentally cleaner sustainable machining.

Features:

• Provides an introduction to hard machining, sustainability and environmentally conscious machining
• Discusses dry and minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) based hard machining
• Includes computational methods and optimization in hard machining
• Reviews nano-cutting fluids in hard machining
• Explores cryogenic cooling in hard machining

This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in mechanical engineering, manufacturing and materials science.

Dr Ashok Kumar Sahoo, Professor, Mechanical Engineering & Director, R&D (Technology), KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India has extensive teaching, research and administrative experience of 25 years. He has published more than 160 research articles with h-index 19 (Web of Science), h-index 26 (Scopus), h-index 27 (Google Scholar), i10-index 73 (Google Scholar) with 2200+ and 2700+ Scopus & Google Scholar Citations. Science Direct Top 25 Hottest Articles, Five sponsored research projects from DST, SERB and RPS, AICTE, New Delhi and Ten Patents, author of book on “Machining of Nanocomposites” by CRC Press, Taylor & Francis are in his credit. He has supervised already 23 M.Tech & 08 PhD Thesis. He was the recipient of “Top 2% Scientists in the world” and “Best Staff Award”, and he is a reviewer board member in many reputed journals. He is actively engaged in research area of Sustainable Machining & Machinability of Advanced materials, Hard machining, MQL & Nanofluid assisted machining, Composite development & machinability, condition monitoring, Surface characterization and Thin film coatings (CVD & PVD) & modeling & optimization etc. He is a fellow of IE(I) and life member of IET (UK), ISTE & ISCA.

Dr Ramanuj Kumar is currently working as Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering, KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. He obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from KITS Ramtek, Nagpur University, India in the year 2009 and M.Tech. in Manufacturing Engineering from NIT Warangal, India in the year 2012. He obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the KIIT Deemed to be University in 2018. He is a member of the International Association of Advanced Materials and Indian Science Congress. His research areas are hard machining, Titanium and Nickel base alloy machining, non-conventional machining, MMC, MQL, NFMQL, Cryogenics, optimization and Soft computing. He has published more than 110 research articles with h-index 17 (Scopus), h-index 20 (Google Scholar), i10-index 39 (Google Scholar) with 1070+ and 1210+ Scopus & Google Scholar Citations. He has published more than 110+ International Journals and conferences papers.

Dr Amlana Panda is an Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering, KIIT Deemed to be University. He received his M. Tech in Manufacturing Processes & Systems from KIIT Deemed to be University in 2009. He obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the KIIT Deemed to be University in 2016. His research interests are focused on sustainable machining process, tribological analysis in metal cutting, Nano fluid MQL, Fabrication and Machining of nano composites. He has more than 80 research publications in journals and conference proceedings with more than 700 citations and an h-index of 15. He is a reviewer for many reputed Journals.