Sustainability of Green and Eco-Friendly Composites

The book explores the pertinent aspects of sustainability of green and eco-friendly composites including their development methods and processing, characterization, properties, and applications. Significance for the design and engineering of high-performance green and eco-friendly composites is discussed in the present book. Insights on a wide spectrum of potential advanced applications ranging from automotive and aerospace to biomedical and packaging, etc. using these are highlighted. Further, it discusses life cycle and carbon footprint assessment of sustainable materials.

Features:

• Explores different processing methods of green and eco-friendly composites
• Discusses development and optimization of green nanocomposites for sustainable manufacturing
• Collates modern green and eco-friendly composites research from theory to application
• Covers hybridization of reinforced fibers on the performance of green and eco-friendly composites
• Analyzes and discusses calculation of carbon footprint and Life Cycle Assessment of composites

This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in materials science and engineering, sustainable materials, composites, and nanomaterials.

Dr. Sumit Gupta is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Amity School of Engineering and Technology, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India. Prior to this he has also served as an Assistant Professor, School of Engineering, G. D. Goenka University, Gurugram, India. He graduated in Mechanical Engineering from University of Rajasthan in 2008 and earned Master’s as well as Doctorate degree from Malaviya National Institute of Technology-Jaipur, India in 2010 and 2016 respectively. His areas of research are sustainable manufacturing, lean manufacturing, reverse logistics, sustainable product design and sustainable supply chain management. Dr. Gupta has over 10 years of teaching and research experience. He has published over 50 research papers in peer reviewed international journals as well as in reputed international and national conferences. A large number of students have completed their Summer Internships and B.Tech. Projects under his guidance. He has guided 10 M.Tech. Dissertations and is presently guiding 02 Ph.D. Scholars as well. He is Reviewer of various national and International Journals. He is a member of various International & National professional Societies.

Dr. Vijay Chaudhary is currently working as an Assistant Professor (Grade-I) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Amity School of Engineering and Technology (A.S.E.T.), Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida (INDIA). He has completed his B. Tech. in 2011 from Department of Mechanical Engineering, Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow, India and then completed M. Tech (Hons) in 2013 from Department of Mechanical Engineering, Madan Mohan Malviya Engineering College, Gorakhpur, India.He has completed his Ph.D. in 2019 from Department of Mechanical Engineering, Netaji Subhas University of Technology, University of Delhi, India. His research area of interest lies in the area of Processing and characterization of Polymer composites, Tribological analysis of bio-fiber based polymer composites, water absorption of bio-fiber based polymer composites, and surface modification techniques related to polymer composite materials. Dr. Chaudhary has over 08 years of teaching and research experience. He has published more than 40 research papers in peer reviewed international journals as well as in reputed international and national conferences. He has published 16 book chapters with reputed publishers. More than 25 students has completed their Summer Internships, B.Tech. Projects and M.Tech. Dissertations under his guidance. Currently, he is working in the field of bio-composites, nano-composites and smart materials. Dr Chaudhary has 07 h-index and i10-index of 07 as per Google Scholar indexing.

Dr.Pallav Gupta is presently working as an Assistant Professor (Grade-II) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Amity School of Engineering and Technology, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida (INDIA). He completed his B.Tech. (Honors) from Department of Mechanical Engineering, Integral University, Lucknow, INDIA in the year 2009, Qualified GATE in 2009 with AIR-3291 and then completed his M.Tech. (Honors) from I.I.T. (B.H.U.), INDIA in the year 2011 followed by Ph.D. in the year 2015 from I.I.T.(B.H.U.), INDIA. His area of research includes Material Processing; Composite Materials; Mechanical Behaviour and Corrosion. He also has a good command over teaching subjects like Material Science; Engineering Materials; Manufacturing Processes; Measurement and Metrology & Composite Materials. Dr. Gupta has over 08 years of teaching and research experience. He has published over 90 research papers in peer reviewed international journals as well as in reputed international and national conferences in India as well as in abroad. Apart from this he has also published 07 chapters in books published by other publishers. A large number of students have completed their Summer Internships, B.Tech. Projects and M.Tech. Dissertations under his guidance. 02 scholars have completed and 06 are presently registered for their Ph.D. research work under his Supervision in the area of ＂Coatings, Metal Matrix Composites and Polymer Matrix Composites＂. On the basis of his research profile, Dr. Gupta presently holds h-index of 23 and i10-index of 35 as per Google Scholar.