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Advances in Mechanical and Materials Technology

Select Proceedings of EMSME 2020

  • Covers the three core areas of energy, material sciences and mechanical engineering
  • Discusses topics such as non-conventional energy resources, energy harvesting, polymers, composites, 2D materials and many more
  • Presents select proceedings of EMSME 2020

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Table of contents (123 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
  2. A Mini State of Art Survey on Photovoltaic/Thermal Desalination Systems

    • Subbarama Kousik Suraparaju, Arivazhagan Sampathkumar, Sendhil Kumar Natarajan
    Pages 1-15
  3. Mathematical Modelling and Performance Analysis of Single Slope Solar Desalination System

    • Subbarama Kousik Suraparaju, Nirmal Jha, S. Manoj, Sendhil Kumar Natarajan
    Pages 17-33
  4. Grasping Force Analysis of 3-Fingered Gripper

    • Rohan Malik, Yashasvi Verma, Abhishek Verma, Vikas Rastogi
    Pages 47-57
  5. Optimization Techniques Used to Optimize Process Parameters of Submerged Arc Welding: A Review

    • Sameer Vishwakarma, V. K. Dwivedi, Manoj Kumar Agrawal
    Pages 67-81
  6. Free Vibration Analysis of FGM Conical Shell

    • Prabhat Mahawar, Pankaj Sharma
    Pages 83-91
  7. Performance Improvement of Microsurfacing Machine: A Case Study

    • Kratika Ravekar, Santosh Jaju
    Pages 93-101
  8. Squeeze Film Operation of Thrust Bearing Operating with Shear-Thinning Lubricants

    • Vivek Kumar, Vatsalkumar Ashokkumar Shah, Kuldeep Narwat, Satish C. Sharma
    Pages 103-114
  9. Feasibility and Performance Analysis of Earth-Tube Heat Exchanger

    • Rampal Singh, V. K. Dwivedi
    Pages 115-124
  10. Combined Objective Optimization of FMS Scheduling by a Hybrid Genetic Algorithm

    • K. Gayathri Devi, R. S. Mishra, A. K. Madan
    Pages 125-139
  11. New Locking Mechanism for Safe Landing

    • N. Rakshith
    Pages 161-169
  12. Experimental Investigation of Drying Tomato in a Double Slope Solar Dryer Under Natural Convection

    • E. Elavarasan, Yogesh kumar, R. Mouresh, Sendhil Kumar Natarajan
    Pages 179-190
  13. Design of Zig-Zag 1–3 Viscoelastic Composite Layer for the Improved Passive Damping Treatment of Beam

    • Abhay Gupta, Rajidi Shashidhar Reddy, Satyajit Panda
    Pages 191-200
  14. Influence of Number of Lobe on Dynamic Performance of Hydrodynamic Journal Bearing

    • Vivek Kumar, Kush Shrivastava, Kuldeep Narwat, Satish C. Sharma
    Pages 211-224

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About this book

This book presents select papers from the International Conference on Energy, Material Sciences and Mechanical Engineering (EMSME) - 2020. The book covers the three core areas of energy, material sciences and mechanical engineering.  The topics covered include non-conventional energy resources, energy harvesting, polymers, composites, 2D materials, systems engineering, materials engineering, micro-machining, renewable energy, industrial engineering and additive manufacturing. This book will be useful to researchers and professionals working in the areas of mechanical and industrial engineering, materials applications, and energy technology.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Technology and Innovation, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

    Kannan Govindan

  • Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India

    Harish Kumar

  • Physico-Mechanical Metrology, CSIR—National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India

    Sanjay Yadav

About the editors

Prof. Kannan Govindan is currently a Professor and head of the Center for Sustainable Supply Chain Engineering, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark. He received 2018, 2019 highly cited researcher award from Thomson-Reuters/Clarivate Analytics (“one of only 204 researchers to be listed in the engineering category”). He received the Fyens Stiftstidende research award for 2019. He received the High-Level Overseas Innovative Talent to Tianjin award (Under 1000 talents program for High-Level Overseas Innovative Talent experts of Tianjin Province) from Tianjin Province, China. His research interests include digital supply chain, industry 4.0 on supply chain, sustainable development goals, reverse logistics, closed loop supply chain, digitalized sustainable circular economy, green supply chain management, and sustainable supply chain management.  He has published more than 250 international journal articles (with total 21400 + citations and H-index of 82) in leading journals such as Nature, Omega, Journal of the Operational Research Society,  Journal of Environmental management, Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews,  European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Cleaner Production, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Ecological Indicators, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A: Systems and Humans, European Management Journal, Computers and OR, International Journal of Production Economics and International Journal of Production Research. 

Dr. Harish Kumar is currently working as Assistant Professor in National Institute of Technology Delhi. He has more than 15 years of research and academic experience and served as Scientist at different grades in CSIR - National Physical Laboratory, India (NPLI). He has been an active researcher in the area of mechanical measurement and metrology. He has worked as Guest Researcher at National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA in 2016. He has been instrumental in ongoing redefinition of kilogram in India. He has authored more than 70 publications in peer reviewed journals and conferences. He has served as Guest Editors of different journals and conference proceedings volumes including Mapan - Journal of Metrology Society of India.

Dr Sanjay Yadav is a Senior Principal Scientist & Head of the Pressure, Vacuum and Ultrasonic Metrology Section and Prof. Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR - National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Meerut University in 1990. He has published more than 270 papers in international journals and conference proceedings and is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal “MAPAN -Journal of Metrology Society of India,” published by Springer. He is reviewer of many reputed journals including Measurement Science and Technology, Metrologia, Measurement, Review of Scientific Instruments etc.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Advances in Mechanical and Materials Technology

  • Book Subtitle: Select Proceedings of EMSME 2020

  • Editors: Kannan Govindan, Harish Kumar, Sanjay Yadav

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2794-1

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-2793-4Published: 18 December 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-2796-5Published: 19 December 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-2794-1Published: 01 January 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2195-4356

  • Series E-ISSN: 2195-4364

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 1467

  • Number of Illustrations: 181 b/w illustrations, 638 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Mechanical Engineering, Industrial and Production Engineering, Materials Engineering

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