Laser Applications in Manufacturing
暫譯: 製造業中的雷射應用

這本書介紹了基於激光的製造新興領域，例如金屬基複合材料（MMCs）的增材製造（AM）、難以焊接的超合金的連接、纖維增強複合材料的無損加工、使用覆層技術增強表面性能，以及激光束製造技術的建模與模擬。《激光在製造中的應用》為研究人員和學術界提供了有關使用增材製造技術製造的粉末基MMCs的最新進展的快速指南。

這本書：
- 展示了功能梯度板或層壓板的最新發展，以及使用板材層壓印刷製造纖維增強複合材料的技術
- 列出了在多種應用中不同材料連接的最新進展，例如混合結構和輕量化元件，以提高性能和功能
- 包含了許多在碳纖維、玻璃纖維和天然纖維複合材料層壓板加工方面的最新發展，以研究分層和表面質量特性
- 展示了微型元件的表面合金化、硬質和軟質複合材料塗層在各種應用中的不同方面

《激光在製造中的應用》推薦給從事多種新型材料製造的研究人員。這本書是希望了解最新研究的科學家和工程師在基於激光的製造技術方面的資源。

Dr Pankaj Kumar is Director of Center for Materials and Manufacturing Department of Mechanical Engineering, SR University, Warangal. In 2011, he received a Teaching Assistant Fellowship from the Ministry of Human Resource Development of India. He received his Ph.D. from IIT(ISM) Dhanbad. Dr. Pankaj has more than 10 years of experience in design, fabrication, and characterization of micro to nano scale components using unconventional techniques. His current research includes additive manufacturing, micromachining, composite materials processing technology, nano-materials, and sustainable manufacturing.

Dr Manowar Hussain is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Production and Industrial Engineering, BIT Sindri, Dhanbad (A Govt. Engineering Institute) with five years of teaching experience. He has completed his Master's and Ph.D. degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad. His area of Specialization is Laser material processing and Non-Conventional Processes. He has more than 30 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals with 494 citations to his credit and 2 patents published in the Indian Patent Office. He is a Life Member of professional bodies like the Indian Society for Technical Education and the Indian Laser Association.

Dr Amit Kumar Jain is a Lecturer within the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the School of Computing, Engineering and Built Environment at the Glasgow Caledonian University, UK. Before this, he primarily worked at the University of Cambridge, UK, for his postdoctoral research in predictive maintenance. He received a PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India, for his contributions to prognostics in intelligent manufacturing systems. He holds a master's degree in maintenance engineering from NIT Bhopal and a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering. He is presently researching on data-centric and risk-informed asset management. He focuses on how asset information and artificial intelligence can considerably improve asset performance. His primary research interests are reliability engineering, industry 4.0 for SMEs, manufacturing analytics, and operations management.

Amit has over 20 papers published in reputed academic journals and conferences. Many of these papers appeared in leading engineering and management journals such as Reliability Engineering and Systems Safety, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, and the Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing. In 2011, he received a Teaching Assistant Fellowship from the Ministry of Human Resource Development of India; in 2018, he received a Visiting Researcher Grant from the Royal Academy of Engineering London; and in 2019, he won the Best Paper Award at the Int. Conf. on Precision, Meso, Micro, and Nano Engineering. Through research and consulting projects, he actively engages with the industry viz. British Telecommunications, UK. He is the Guest Associate Editor of the Life Cycle Engineering speciality section of Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology. He is also associated with CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group as a Series Editor. He is a member of the international advisory board of conferences and has chaired various sessions. He has also given over a dozen invited talks at universities and faculty development programmes of national and international stature, including the University of Johannesburg, NIT Bhopal, etc. He is a member of the Prognostics and Health Management Society, USA.

He also serves as the Assistant Dean - Research for Alliance School of Business.

Sunil Pathak was awarded his PhD (2016) in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Indore (MP) India. He is currently a researcher under MSCA-IV International Mobility at HiLASE Centre, Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic. He has conducted extensive research on the advanced finishing of gears. Presently he has been working on laser shock peening of intricately shaped geometries, nanomaterials synthesis by electrical discharge machining (EDM) and improving the cylindrical gear tooth profile by electrochemical machining (ECM).

潘卡傑·庫馬博士是印度華蘭卡爾SR大學機械工程系材料與製造中心的主任。2011年，他獲得了印度人力資源發展部的教學助理獎學金。他在印度科技學院（IIT(ISM)）丹哈巴德獲得博士學位。潘卡傑博士在設計、製造和表徵微米到納米尺度元件方面擁有超過10年的經驗，並使用非常規技術進行研究。他目前的研究包括增材製造、微加工、複合材料加工技術、納米材料和可持續製造。

馬諾瓦爾·侯賽因博士目前在印度丹哈巴德的BIT Sindri（政府工程學院）生產與工業工程系擔任助理教授，擁有五年的教學經驗。他在印度科技學院（Indian Institute of Technology，Indian School of Mines）丹哈巴德完成碩士和博士學位。他的專業領域是激光材料加工和非常規工藝。他在同行評審的期刊上發表了超過30篇科學文章，引用次數達494次，並在印度專利局獲得了2項專利。他是印度技術教育學會和印度激光協會等專業機構的終身會員。

阿米特·庫馬·賈因博士是英國格拉斯哥卡利多尼亞大學計算、工程與建築環境學院機械工程系的講師。在此之前，他主要在英國劍橋大學從事預測性維護的博士後研究。他在印度科技學院印多爾獲得博士學位，因其在智能製造系統預測方面的貢獻而受到認可。他擁有NIT博帕爾的維護工程碩士學位和機械工程學士學位。他目前的研究集中在以數據為中心和風險導向的資產管理上，專注於資產信息和人工智慧如何顯著改善資產性能。他的主要研究興趣包括可靠性工程、中小企業的工業4.0、製造分析和運營管理。

阿米特在知名學術期刊和會議上發表了超過20篇論文。其中許多論文發表在《可靠性工程與系統安全》、《IEEE可靠性期刊》和《智能製造期刊》等領先的工程和管理期刊上。2011年，他獲得了印度人力資源發展部的教學助理獎學金；2018年，他獲得了倫敦皇家工程學院的訪問研究者獎助金；2019年，他在國際精密、介觀、微米和納米工程會議上獲得最佳論文獎。通過研究和諮詢項目，他積極與英國電信等行業進行合作。他是《前沿製造技術》期刊生命週期工程專題部分的客座副編輯，並與CRC Press、泰勒與法蘭西斯集團擔任系列編輯。他是國際會議顧問委員會的成員，並主持過多個會議。他還在約翰尼斯堡大學、NIT博帕爾等國內外知名大學和教師發展計劃中發表了十多場受邀演講。他是美國預測與健康管理學會的成員。

他還擔任聯盟商學院的助理院長 - 研究。

蘇尼爾·帕塔克於2016年在印度科技學院印多爾獲得機械工程博士學位。他目前是捷克科學院物理研究所HiLASE中心的MSCA-IV國際流動性研究員。他在齒輪的先進加工方面進行了廣泛的研究。目前，他正在研究激光沖擊壓縮複雜形狀幾何體、通過電火花加工（EDM）合成納米材料，以及通過電化學加工（ECM）改善圓柱齒輪齒形。