Advanced Manufacturing and Joining Technologies for Composite Materials

Pawan Kumar Rakesh is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the National Institute of Technology, Uttarakhand, India. He was previously the first Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department at IIT Roorkee, where he completed his PhD. He lectures on Advanced Joining Processes at NIT Uttarkhand to both undergraduate and graduate students. His main research interests are Primary and Secondary Processing of Polymer Matrix Composites, Finite Element Approach in Design and Analysis of Composite Materials, Green Composites. Prof. (Dr.) J. Paulo Davim is a Full Professor at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, with over 35 years of experience in Mechanical, Materials, and Industrial Engineering. He holds multiple distinguished academic titles, including a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and a DSc from London Metropolitan University. He has published over 300 books and 600 articles, with more than 36,500 citations. He is ranked among the world's top 2% scientists by Stanford University and holds leadership positions in numerous international journals, conferences, and research projects.

• 1. Introduction2. Composite Manufacturing and their properties3. Technological advancement in composite Manufacturing4: Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing) of Composites – Case study5. Drilling of Polymer matrix Composites - Case study6. Currents trends, challenges and prospects of polylactic acid processing7. Biomedical applications of Polylactic acid-based composites8. An overview on the joining processes of polymer composites - Case study9. Modelling and simulations10. Nanotechnology and its applications in composites11. Advanced Machining Processes of composite materials12. Numerical Simulation of composite machining processes13. Role of artificial intelligence in composite machining processes

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