Advanced Machining Science

As machining processes become more advanced, so does the science behind them. This book emphasizes these scientific developments, in addition to the more widely covered technological aspects, providing a full understanding of how machining has adapted to material constraints and moved beyond conventional methods in recent years.

Numerous machining processes have been developed to allow the use of increasingly tough, corrosion-resistant, and temperature-resistant materials for different applications. The advanced machining processes covered in this book range from mechanical, thermoelectric, and electrochemical, including abrasive water jet machining, electric discharge machining and micromachining, ion beam machining, and hybrid processes. It also addresses the sustainability issues raised by these processes. The underlying science of machining is centered throughout, as none of these processes can reach their full potential without both technical expertise and scientific understanding.

Advanced Machining Science and its scientific approach will be of particular interest to students, researchers, and shop floor engineers.

Vijay K. Jain, PhD, earned his BE from Vikram University, Ujjain (MACT, Bhopal), and M. E. and Ph.D. from University of Roorkee (now, IIT Roorkee). He has 47 years of teaching and research experience. He has served as a Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley (USA) and University of Nebraska at Lincoln (USA). He retired as a Professor from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 2016. He has also served as a faculty member at other Indian Institutions, namely, MREC Jaipur, BITS Pilani, MNREC, Allahabad and MACT Bhopal.

Dr. Jain has won three gold medals, two silver medals and one best paper award as recognition to his research work. The Institution of Engineers (India), Khosla Research Awards committee and AIMTDR conference organizing committee have given this honor to him. He has been awarded Life Time Achievement Award by the AIMTDR (NAC). He has written 9+ books (including edited books) and 16+ chapters for different books published by different publishers.

Dr. Jain has been appointed as Editor-in-chief for three international journals (IJPTech, JAMS, JMF), and Associate Editor of two International Journals (JEM and IJMST). He has also served as a Guest-Editor for 20+ special issues of different International Journals and as a member of the editorial board of 12+ International Journals. Dr. Jain has guided 20 PhD, 96+ MTech and ME theses, and many BTech / BE Projects. He has around 400+ research publications to his credit. He has 13+ Indian patents and 1 USA patent to his credit. Dr. Jain has organized 24+ summer / winter / short term schools on various topics such as Micromanufacturing, Micromachining, Advanced Machining, Precision Engineering, CIM Systems, Design of Machine Tools, N. C. Machine Tools, Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Tools and Die making etc.