High-Performance Textile Composites Characteristics and Applications

Dr. Anurag Dixit is working as an Assistant Professor in Department of Mechanical & Automation Engineering at G.B. Pant DSEU Okhla Campus, New Delhi (Formerly: G.B. Pant Govt. Engineering College, New Delhi). He has about fifteen years of teaching and research experience. He has research interest in the area of Biomaterials, Finite Element Analysis of Textile Composites, Large Deformation of Metals and Composites at low, medium, and high rates of Loading. His researches find application in design for safety in defence applications, aerospace, mobility, marine industries, and in the design of metal forming processes. He has published more than 25 Science Citation Indexed (SCI) Journal research articles in various international journals of repute. He has been granted a research project in the capacity of Co-Principal Investigator, funded by DRDO, Govt. of India, of Rs. 36 Lacs. He is also serving as the editor for the Springer book series Biomedical Materials for Multifunctional Applications .

Dr. Pawan Sharma has completed his Post-Doctoral Research from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, Rajasthan. He did his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, M.Tech in Machine Design Engineering, and B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from RTU, Kota, Rajasthan. He has over 12 years of teaching and research experience. His research interests include numerical modeling and experimental characterizations of polymer textile composites, weave modeling, finite element analysis, fracture mechanics of composite materials, vibration engineering, and computer-integrated manufacturing systems. He has published more than 30 research articles in various SCI/Scopus-indexed journals and international conferences, published a patent, and is also the author of two books. He is a reviewer for several international journals and has received many academic awards for his commendable contributions.

Prof. Harlal Singh Mali has experience of 18 years in academics and 10 years in the aviation industry. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh, M.E. in Computer Integrated Manufacturing from Panjab University, Chandigarh, and B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from The Institution of Engineers (India). He has been awarded five patents. He is working/worked on various research grants from Indian and international funding agencies, including BIG of BIRAC (DBT), ECR, EMR of DST (SERB), DRDO (ARMREB), DRDO-DMSRDE, NSF (USA), and various industries. He has supervised 14 PhD and 30 M.Tech. theses and has more than 200 peer-reviewed journal publications with 73, i10-index, and 2852 citations in Google Scholar and 1400 citations in SCOPUS, out of the product development research involving mechanical engineering and other allied domains, namely abrasive flow and hybrid finishing, micro-machining, hybrid textile composite, prosthetics, orthotics and design thinking. He is also a founder-director of a start-up called Jaipur Club Foot Pvt. Ltd., which is an outcome of NISP 2019 to solve a complex socio-medico-technological problem called Club Foot treatment. He set up an AMM Lab and founded the CAM Society at MNIT Jaipur. He delivered the in-person session in AU-2023, The Design & Make Conference, of Autodesk University, USA, at The Venetian Convention & Expo Centre, Las Vegas, USA.