Additive Manufactured Materials

Akant Kumar Singh graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.He has finished his master's and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, India. His Ph.D. research is on the topic of "tribological aspects of the fiber augmented functionally graded material-based polymer spur gears" in his research work. He has evolved a novel mathematical equation to calculate the wear rate of the polymer gears. He has fourteen years of teaching and research experience. He has thirty-seven research publications in international journals and twelve publications in international conferences. He has published seven book chapters with reputed international publishers. He has also published one Indian patent. He is a reviewer of various international journals. His research interest lies in the area of FGMs, polymer gears, and materials tribology. He has guided one master's thesis. Five students are pursuing their master's thesis work under his guidance. Currently, He is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Chandigarh University Mohali, Punjab, India.

Naveen Mani Tripathi is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Jais, Amethi, MoPNG, Gov. of India. He completed his PhD from the Mechanical Engineering Department of Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. After his Ph.D., he worked as a Particle Scientist in the material characterization Instrument manufacturing company, GranuTools sprl, Belgium. His post-doctoral research is from the Chair of Process System Engineering of Technical University of Munich, Germany. He is awarded with many fellowships, such as GATE, GRE, Kriteman, TUFF, Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, etc. His area of research is Material Characterization, Additive and Smart Manufacturing, and multiphase flow. He has three granted and two published patents and more than 50 Journals/conference publications and editor of three books from international publishers. He is voluntarily working as an editorial board member and review editor for more than 20 journals. He is also the Editor of Scopus indexed journals such as Materials Process Engineering, Frontiers in Chemical Engineering, Recent Patents on Mechanical Engineering, Betham Science, Wear, etc.

Ankit Sharma holds the position of Associate Director (Research) of the Research and Innovation Network (CURIN) Department, Chitkara University, Punjab, India. He received his doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from the Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India. He has more than 10 years of experience in academics, research, consulting, training, and industry. Dr. Sharma is also organizing an international conference-ICEMSMCI 2023 & serving as the General chair and convenor. He has authored numerous national and international publications in SCI, Scopus, and Web of Science-indexed journals. He has filed/published 30+ International patents. He is the editor of several CRC Press, Taylor and Francis related to advanced manufacturing processes and several are under pipeline.

Don McGlinchey is the academic leader of the Digital Transformation and Intelligent Maintenance Research Group and the former Head of the Centre for Industrial Bulk Solids Handling at Glasgow Caledonian University. He is an academic of international standing within the particulate solids handling community with over 30 years' experience. He has undertaken contract research and consultancy projects for both Multinational Companies and Small to Medium Enterprises (SME's), and delivered short courses in Europe, USA and the UK. He is a Chartered Physicist, with a PhD in the particle technology area. Don is the editor of three books and has authored over 50 research articles. His current research interests include multiphase flow pipeline transport measurement and modelling, and pneumatic conveying system modelling.