Springer Recent Trends in Mechanical Engineering: Select Proceedings of ICOFTIME 2020

This book presents the select peer-reviewed proceedings of the International Conference on Futuristic Trends in Mechanical Engineering (ICOFTIME 2020). The contents focus on latest research in different areas of mechanical engineering such as additive manufacturing, vibrations, robotics and automation, nano and smart materials, green energy, supply chain management, aviation, and biomechanics. The book also includes numerical and optimization methods relevant for several real-life mechanical engineering problems. Given its contents, this book will prove useful for researchers and professionals alike.  From the Back Cover This book presents the select peer-reviewed proceedings of the International Conference on Futuristic Trends in Mechanical Engineering (ICOFTIME 2020). The contents focus on latest research in different areas of mechanical engineering such as additive manufacturing, vibrations, robotics and automation, nano and smart materials, green energy, supply chain management, aviation, and biomechanics. The book also includes numerical and optimization methods relevant for several real-life mechanical engineering problems. Given its contents, this book will prove useful for researchers and professionals alike.  About the Author Dr. C.S. Ramesh obtained his PhD in Metallurgical Engineering with academic distinction from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Chennai, India, in 1992 in the area of composite coatings with Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from U.V.C.E, Bangalore and Masters in Metal Casting from Bangalore University. He has over 22 years of experience in teaching and research. His current research interests are thermal spray coatings, metal matrix composites, finite element methods related to bio-implants. Being passionate about research, he has executed projects of national and international importance funded by several government and private agencies such as Naval Research Board, Aeronautical Research Board, Combat Vehicles Research & Development Establishment, Department of Science & Technology, Indian Space Research Organisation, GE- India, Allegion, BHEL, and AICTE. A state-of-the-art facilities in rapid prototyping, metal forming, tribology, thermal spray & CAE has been set up by him at PESIT, Bangalore. He has contributed over 150 papers in international, national journals & conferences, 05 book chapters and authored 06 technical reports. He has to his credit guided 14 PhDs and over 50 postgraduate students. Recognizing the research activities, Government of Karnataka has conferred Dr. Ramesh with Professor Satish Dhawan Award for Young Engineers for Outstanding Contribution to Engineering Science in 2008. He received the Best Research Publication Award by Vision Group of Science & Technology, Karnataka, 2010 and Sudharshan Bhat Award from IIT Madras, 1992, for Best PhD thesis. Under Fusion Fund International Exchange Programme Prof. Ramesh was a Visiting Professor at School of Design, Engineering & Computing, Bournemouth University, UK (2012). Dr. Pradyumna Ghosh is Professor at Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT-BHU, Varanasi, India. He did his Ph.D from Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, India; M.Tech from IIT Bombay; and B.E (Mechanical Engineering) from Bengal Engineering College, Shibpur, West Bengal. Before joining academics he had five years of experience in research and industry at TERI, New Delhi; University of Maryland, College Park, USA; and Infosys Technologies Ltd. His area of research is microgravity fluid physics, flow through porous media, nanofluids. He has authored 40 international journal publications and one book, “Thermal Convection in Microgravity” and one book chapter in “Heat Transfer in Humans”, John Willey, UK. Prof. Ghosh is a reviewer of many international journals like ASME heat transfer, IJHMT, Transport in Porous Media, Energy, Inte