Innovative Design and Development Practices in Aerospace and Automotive Engineering

Chapter 1. Promising Configurations for Future Passenger Aircraft.- Chapter 2. Ultrasonic Material Characterization and Testing of Anisotropic Components.- Chapter 3. Measurement of Some Special Parameters of Engines.- Chapter 4. The Wind-Tunnel Test and Unsteady CFD of an Ornithopter Formation.- Chapter 5. Strategies for Better Fuel Economy, Light Weighting & Friction Reduction in Cylinder Components of IC Engines.- Chapter 6. Fatigue and Fracture Reliability of Additively Manufactured Al-4047 and Ti-6Al-4V Alloys for Automotive and Aerospace Applications.- Chapter 7. Recent Advances in High Temperature Structural Integrity.- Chapter 8. Future Technology Scenarios for Urban Mobility in India.- Chapter 9. Wiring the Tin-Silver-Copper Alloy by Fused Deposition Modeling.- Chapter 10. Design and Study of Aerodynamics of Wind-Solar Hybrid System for Domestic Application by Using Balsa Wood.- Chapter 11. An Automated System for Motioning the Cargo for Ground and Air Operations.- Chapter 12. Analytical Studies on TIG Welding of Ti-6al-4v Alloy Plates Using CAE.- Chapter 13. Shape Parameterization of Airfoil Shapes Using Bezier Curves.- Chapter 14. Flow Configuration Influence on Darcian and Forchheimer Permeabilities Determination.- Chapter 15. An Experimental Study on Flow of Micronized Silicon Carbide Particles through Sintered Porous Materials.- Chapter 16. Design and Fabrication of a Quick Dismantlable Remotely Controlled Semi-rigid Finless Airship.- Chapter 17. Experimental and Simulation Study of Modified Acoustic Horn Design for Sonic Soot Cleaning.- Chapter 18. Fuzzy Logic Simulation for Brake by Wire Control System.- Chapter 19. Effect of Permeability on the Rayleigh Type Acoustic Streaming.- Chapter 20. Effect of Print Angle on Mechanical Properties of FDM 3D Structures Printed with POM Material.-

Dr. Ram P. Bajpai, Ph.D. (IIT-Delhi), D.Sc. (Hokkaido University, Japan) is presently the Chancellor of Vel Tech Dr.RR & Dr.SR Technical University, Chennai. He has also been the Director General of MM Group of Institution, MM University, Mullana and Vice-Chancellor of MM University Solan till November 30, 2011. At the time, he was also holding charge of three universities as Vice-Chancellor, namely (1) Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra; (2) Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar and (3) Deen Bandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and Technology, Murthal simultaneously. Before joining GJU, Hisar, Dr. Bajpai was Director/Distinguished Scientist/Scientist at Central Scientific Instrument Organization, Chandigarh, one of the pioneering Research laboratories under CSIR, Government of India, New Delhi. He has excellent knowledge of Japanese and German languages, having a large number of publications in national and international journals of repute and a good number of patents. Dr. Bajpai has guided a large number of Ph.D. and M.S./M.Tech/B.Tech students in their thesis work for the award of degrees in various areas of electronics/microelectronics, materials science, nanoelectronics, optoelectronics, etc. Dr. Bajpai was UNDP Project Co-ordinator/ Director for the Microelectronics Instrumentation Development programme started in 1984 at CSIO, Chandigarh. He has filed and registered a large number of patents. Dr. Ram P. Bajpai has been Scientist/Visiting Professor in several universities at Japan, Germany, Switzerland, France, and USA.