Machining of Nanocomposites (PDF)

Dr. Ramesh Kumar Nayak works as Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials and
Metallurgical Engineering, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, India (an
Institute of National Importance). He graduated (MTech) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, in 2005. He has sound exposure to industries and has worked in reputed organizations such as General Motors India Technical Centre, Bangalore; Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Bangalore; and DENSO International India Pvt. Limited, Gurgaon, in different capacities. He has been working in developing composite materials and casting technology for the last 16 years.
He teaches polymer engineering, solidification and casting, composite materials, and corrosion engineering to undergraduate and graduate scholars at MANIT, Bhopal. He has guided one PhD and several MTech scholars in the area of composite materials. He has published his work in international peer-reviewed journals, reference books, and book chapters and has contributed to the world literature on metallurgy and materials science. His passion is to work closely on industrial problems and develop new technologies/processes to benefit society.

Dr. Mohan Kumar Pradhan, MTech (Mechanical Engineering, REC (now NIT), Rourkela), and PhD (Engineering, NIT Rourkela) is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal (an Institute of National Importance). He has over 25 years of teaching and research experience in manufacturing. His areas of teaching and research interest are manufacturing, nontraditional machining, metrology, micromachining, MEMS, hybrid machining, composites, and process modeling and optimization.
He has 75+ international journal publications; 65+ technically edited papers, which were published in conference proceedings, two edited books, 5+ edited conference proceedings, 5+ journals as guest editor, and 20+ book chapters.