Pradeep Kumar Krishnan Editor

R. Thanigaivelan is the principal at AKA Memorial College of Engineering and Technology, Tamilnadu, India. His interest fields include micromachining, surface engineering, composites, and biomaterials. He has published 93 papers in SCI and SCOPUS-indexed journals and edited 2 books from IGI Global. Thanigavelan is a member of the Institution of Engineers and the India Society of Technical Education.

Pradeep Kumar Krishnan is a senior faculty member of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, National University of Science and Technology, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman. His research focuses on production processes, characterization, and mechanical behavior of engineering materials. He has authored several publications in international journals and national and international conferences.

Kamalakanta Muduli, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Papua New Guinea University of Technology, Lae, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. He has a PhD from the School of Mechanical Sciences, Orissa, India. His research interests focus on materials science, manufacturing, sustainable supply chain management, and industry 4.0 applications in operations and supply chains. He is the recipient of the ERASMUS award by the European Union, published 64 papers in peer-reviewed international journals, and he is a senior member of the Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering.

Santosh Kumar Tamang is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, North Eastern Regional Institute of Science & Technology (Deemed to be University), Arunachal Pradesh, India. His research focuses on laser-based manufacturing processes, machining technologies, molecular dynamics simulations, machine learning, and optimization and soft computing. Tamang has published 50+ research papers in peer-reviewed journals.