Overview
- Provides an overview of the state-of-the-art research in light weighting solutions
- Discusses challenges faced in the complete assimilation of light weighting solutions at industry level
- Describes new and emerging solution
Part of the book series: Indian Institute of Metals Series (IIMS)
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N. Eswara Prasad B. Tech. and Ph.D. from IIT-BHU (Metallurgical Engineering Department) is currently serving as Outstanding Scientist and Director, Defense Materials and Stores Research and Development Establishment (DMSRDE), DRDO at Kanpur, India. He has made significant contributions to the design, development, characterization and airworthiness certified production of alloys for the Indian Space and Missile Programmes and aided Defence Materials Airwothy Production of several hundred Crores with >10 Type Approvals and 240 Certifications. Dr. Eswara Prasad now specializes in several functional and special materials such as Stealth and Camouflage, SiC Fibre, Personal and Vehicle Armour based on Modular Structures and CNT-Based Materials and Components for Indian Defense. Dr. Prasad’s prolific research resulted over 260 research articles in peer-reviewed national and international journals and conference proceedings, apart from 35 patents, 16 written/edited books and 32 book chapters as well as 68 classified and unclassified, as also peer reviewed technical reports and Editor of the only International monograph on Al-Li alloys and a widely-referred 2-Volume Vade Mecum on Aerospace Materials and Material Technologies. Dr. Prasad is the Chairman of NITI Aayog Committees on Personnel Protection Systems & Their Materials, DRDO Committee for National Materials Policy and Materials Standarisation Sub-Committee of MOD; Vice-President, SFA; Senate Member, IIT-Kanpur and IIT-BHU, Varanasi; AvH Research Fellow and MPI-Stuttgart Visiting Scientist; Fellow of IE(I), IIM, TAS, AeSI, APAM and InSIS; and, recipient of 10 other National awards, including the prestigious GD Birla Gold Medal of IIM and National Aeronautical Prize of AeSI.
Biswajit Basu is Dy. Chief Technology Officer and Head of Aditya Birla Science & Technology Co. Pvt Ltd (ABSTCPL). He is the key architect in the foundation of the ABSTCPL as the R&D Hub of the Aditya Birla Group and led ABSTCPL as a unique multi-business R&D campus – one of its kind in India and inaugurated in 2012. He is also responsible for providing R&D strategic direction based on the identified centres of excellence to explore new avenues for growth. He has over 30 years of experience in R&D, digital engineering and innovation management and joined the Aditya Birla Group in 2003. Prior to joining the AB Group, he was Senior Consultant in Tata Consultancy Services leading a R&D group on Engineering Simulation in the Tata Research Development & Design Centre which is the Corporate R&D centre. He was a Visiting Scientist at the Institute of Fluid Mechanics in Erlangen, Germany, from 1998-99. Dr. Basu successfully led & partnered numerous technology & product development programs for a range of industries in Metals and Chemical sectors. He completed his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata and master's degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He completed PhD in Fluid Mechanics and Materials Processing from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1991. He was the President of Indian Institute of Metals during 2017-18. He has over 30 Journal Publications, 45 Conference presentations and few patents. He is recipient of Young Metallurgist Award from Indian Institute of Metals and Young Associate Award from Indian Academy of Sciences. Dr. Basu has been key note speaker at several National and International Conferences.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Light Weighting for Defense, Aerospace, and Transportation
Editors: Amol A. Gokhale, N. Eswara Prasad, Biswajit Basu
Series Title: Indian Institute of Metals Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1263-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-1262-9Published: 09 December 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-1265-0Published: 09 December 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-1263-6Published: 27 November 2019
Series ISSN: 2509-6400
Series E-ISSN: 2509-6419
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 126
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 55 illustrations in colour
Topics: Structural Materials, Aerospace Technology and Astronautics, Automotive Engineering, Materials Engineering, Manufacturing, Machines, Tools, Processes, Military and Defence Studies