Light Weighting for Defense, Aerospace, and Transportation

Chapter 1: Opportunities For Lighter Weight And Lower Total Cost Component Manufacturing.- Chapter 2: Lightweighting and the Future of Aerospace Metals.- Chapter 3: Exploring the Trends, Opportunities and Aluminum Solutions Behind Automotive Material Innovation.- Chapter 4: The role of Materials Engineer in the product cycle- A new Outlook.- Chapter 5: Light-Weighting In Transportation And Defense Using Aluminium Foam Sandwich Structures.- Chapter 6: Innovations In Materials & Engineering For Light-Weighting Aircraft.- Chapter 7: Trends In Automotive Light Weighting.- Chapter 8: Advances in Test Techniques to Characterize Fatigue and Fracture Properties for Safety Critical Applications.

Amol A. Gokhale is currently a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in IIT Bombay, where he teaches courses related to 'Aerospace Materials' and pursuing research in shock and blast mitigation by foams and sandwich structures, processing and oxidation of niobium alloys, aluminium alloy thick products for air frames etc. He did his B Tech from IIT Bombay in 1978, and M S and Ph D from University of Pittsburgh, USA in Metallurgical Engineering in 1980 and 1985, respectively. He served in DRDO for 30 years, retiring as Distinguished Scientist and Director, Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory, Hyderabad in July 2015. At DMRL, he led research on aluminium lithium alloys for Light Combat Aircraft and INSAT series satellites; aluminium alloy components for torpedoes; crash resistant metallic foams; additive manufacturing; and very high temperature materials for hypersonic vehicles. He has been recipient of several awards from the University of Pittsburgh, DRDO, National Research and Development Corporation and the Indian Institute of Metals, and is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering. He serves on national committees of NITI Aayog, the Ministry of Defence, Department of Science and Technology, IITs, Indian Institute of Metals, Indian National Academy of Engineering etc. Since January 2017, he is the Convener, Technical Committee, Aeronautical Research and Development Board, DRDO. He is the Chairman of Research Council of National Metallurgical Laboratory Jamshedpur and Vice President of Indian Institute of Metals.
N. Eswara Prasad B. Tech. and Ph.D. from IIT-BHU (Metallurgical Engineering Department) is currently serving as Outstanding Scientist and Director, Defense Materials and Stores Research and Development Establishment (DMSRDE), DRDO at Kanpur, India. He has made significant contributions to the design, development, characterization and airworthiness certified production of alloys for the Indian Space and Missile Programmes