Название: Laser-based Technologies for Sustainable Manufacturing
Автор: Avinash Kumar, Ashwani Kumar, Abhishek Kumar
Издательство: CRC Press
Год: 2023
Страниц: 271
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 15.4 MB

This book provides scientific and technological insights on novel techniques of design and manufacturing using laser technologies. It showcases applications of laser micromachining in the biomedical industry, laser-based manufacturing processes in aerospace engineering, and high-precision laser-cutting in the home appliance sector.

The main objective of the book is to provide researchers and students an intensive study material in the book Laser-Based Technologies for Sustainable Manufacturing. The book explains the Lasers applications in advanced materials, cutting-edge manufacturing techniques, innovative design, etc. It covers new evolving trends in engineering related to green technologies, biomedical, computer-aided design, smart manufacturing, AI systems, and sustainability in manufacturing. The present book adopts a balanced approach between academics research and industrial applications.

In the present scenario, manufacturing Industries established a unique place in the community in making the products for home and commercial uses. A lot of manufacturing techniques have been used for producing the engineering products such as milling, grinding, forging, machining, casting, forming, etc., but these techniques are subjected to some factors such as wastage of input material, manpower, and investment. However, improvements in technology over the last few years provided sustainability in most of the manufacturing techniques. In addition, engineers and manufacturing companies also show a strong desire to make products that are capable to provide good service life with an excellent surface finish. In addition, industries that produce these materials face huge pressure to protect the environment during the manufacturing techniques. To address these problems, Laser researchers and other photonics research communities provided novel laser-based technologies for sustainable manufacturing by reducing costs and wastage along with improving the output efficiency and quality of the product. Most importantly, novel and improved laser-based technologies expect to meet community problems and industrial needs. It is most important to show these laser-based technologies must be more flexible, novel, and sustainable.

Laser-based technologies are a non-contact manufacturing process that provides a lot of benefits when compared to the traditional manufacturing process. It has greatly contributed to the modernization of the manufacturing processes. Even though a lot of research efforts are being done to enhance laser-based technologies and explore their applications with sustainable manufacturing. In the future, laser-based technologies need to be automated by reducing men’s interface with the system, and the flexibility of the laser-based technologies need to be improved so that it can be easily integrated with other manufacturing processes. Laser-based technologies don’t produce any toxic agents. Hence, it is environmentally friendly and safe for all applications.

Features:

Each chapter discusses a specific engineering problem and showcases its numerical, and experimental solution
Provides scientific and technological insights on novel routes of design and manufacturing using laser technologies
Synergizes exploration related to the various properties and functionalities through extensive theoretical and numerical modeling
Highlights current issues, developments, and constraints in additive manufacturing
Discusses applications of laser cutting machines in the manufacturing industry and laser micromachining for the biomedical industry

The text discusses optical, and laser-based green manufacturing technologies and their application in diverse engineering fields including mechanical, electrical, biomedical, and computer. It further covers sustainability issues in laser-based manufacturing technologies and the development of laser-based ultra-precision manufacturing techniques. The text also discusses the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in laser-based manufacturing techniques. It will serve as an ideal reference text for senior undergraduate, graduate students, and researchers in fields including mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, manufacturing engineering, and production engineering.