Harish Hirani

Corrosion, Environmental Degradation and Surface Engineering: Understanding, Mitigation, and Prevention offers an insightful exploration into the causes, mechanisms, and mitigation strategies of material degradation. This comprehensive work unravels the complexities of corrosion, wear, and fatigue, while showcasing cutting-edge techniques like surface engineering and predictive analytics. Packed with real-world case studies and innovative solutions, the book bridges the gap between theoretical concepts and practical applications.This book:Explores surface degradation mechanisms and commercial perspectives on surface degradation. Discusses dimensionless parameters in wear phenomena, fracture surface degradation, and the influence of heat and radiation on surface degradation. Covers environmental assisted surface deterioration, and factors affecting the atmospheric corrosion. Highlights the importance of digitization and data-driven approaches in engineering. Assesses the economic losses caused by corrosion degradation, and quantifies economic losses attributed to corrosion degradation. Ideal for students, researchers, and industry professionals, the book provides the tools and knowledge necessary to combat surface degradation and promote sustainability across critical sectors.

This reference text discusses the potential of efficient R&D management during times of pandemic crisis and how it can provide time-bound real-life deliverables to ward-off the contamination-linked vulnerability aspects of social interaction.It discusses important topics including mechanical ventilator with oxygen enrichment, hospital waste management facility, hospital care assistive robotic devices, implementation of smart manufacturing, special purpose machines, micro machining, 3D printing, disposal of plastic waste utilizing high temperature plasma, automatic biomass briquetting plant, and fully automatic biodiesel plant.Features: Discusses novel technological innovations developed especially to effectively counter pandemics such as COVID 19. Explores how R&D modelling of technology can be interspersed with socio-economic values. Covers how innovative technological solutions can be developed as per the situational requisites and deployed in the least possible time to make maximum impact. Discusses industrial manufacturing and automation techniques. The text will be useful for graduate students, and academic researchers working in diverse areas such as mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, production engineering, manufacturing science, and automobile engineering. It covers influences of Pandemics on water and sanitation services, floating capsule-based biofilm reactor (FCBBR) methodology, and innovative segregation of waste through a mechanized model.

This reference text discusses the potential of efficient R&D management during times of pandemic crisis and how it can provide time-bound real-life deliverables to ward-off the contamination-linked vulnerability aspects of social interaction.It discusses important topics including mechanical ventilator with oxygen enrichment, hospital waste management facility, hospital care assistive robotic devices, implementation of smart manufacturing, special purpose machines, micro machining, 3D printing, disposal of plastic waste utilizing high temperature plasma, automatic biomass briquetting plant, and fully automatic biodiesel plant.Features: Discusses novel technological innovations developed especially to effectively counter pandemics such as COVID 19. Explores how R&D modelling of technology can be interspersed with socio-economic values. Covers how innovative technological solutions can be developed as per the situational requisites and deployed in the least possible time to make maximum impact. Discusses industrial manufacturing and automation techniques. The text will be useful for graduate students, and academic researchers working in diverse areas such as mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, production engineering, manufacturing science, and automobile engineering. It covers influences of Pandemics on water and sanitation services, floating capsule-based biofilm reactor (FCBBR) methodology, and innovative segregation of waste through a mechanized model.

Tribology is related to friction, wear and lubrication of machine elements. Tribology not only deals with the design of fluid containment systems like seals and gasket but also with the lubrication of surfaces in relative motion. This book comprehensively discusses the theories and applications of hydrodynamic thrust bearing, gas (air) lubricated bearing and elasto-hydrodynamic lubrication. It elucidates the concepts related to friction, including coefficient of friction, friction instability and stick-slip motion. It clarifies the misconception that harder and cleaner surfaces produce better results in wear. Recent developments, including online condition monitoring (an integration of moisture sensor, wear debris and oil quality sensors) and multigrid technique, are discussed in detail. The book also offers design problems and their real-life applications for cams, followers, gears and bearings. MATLAB programs, frequently asked questions and multiple choice questions are interspersed throughout for easy understanding of the topics.