Recent Advances in Industrial Machines and Mechanisms

Vibration Analysis of a Thin Elliptical Plate Resting on Winkler Foundation in Hygrothermal Environment Conditions.- Current and Vibration Signal Feature Engineering for Defect Classification in Rotary Machines.- A Causal Representation Scheme for Capturing Topological Changes in Multi-state Mechanical Devices.- Design, Testing, and Qualification of Multiple Sub-assembly Handling Tool.- RailAnalyzer: 3D Model-Based Railway Simulation Software for Wheel-Rail Interaction.

Sanjoy K. Ghoshal is a full professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Dhanbad, and in-charge of dynamics of machinery laboratory in mechanical engineering department of IIT (ISM), Dhanbad. He did his undergraduation in 1996 from Jadavpur University (JU), Kolkata, and then served three different industries such as ESAB India, Texmaco, and Kesoram Industries as a maintenance engineer till the year 2001. Thereafter, he received master's degree in machine design specialization from the same University (JU) in 2003 and Ph.D. degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, in 2007. He joined Indian Institute of Technology, Dhanbad, in the year 2007 as an assistant professor, where he teaches courses like engineering mechanics, solid mechanics, kinematics of machines, dynamics of machinery, mechanical vibration, and mechatronics in undergraduate level and automation and control, simulation of dynamical systems in postgraduate level. Apart from that he has also taken some lectures on executive development programs on power hydraulics. He has authored many journal articles and one chapter. His current research interests are system modeling, simulation and control, fault diagnosis, automation, condition monitoring, and uid power. Currently, he is serving as an Associate Editor in the journal, Sadhana.
Arun K. Samantaray is a full professor in the mechanical engineering department of IIT Kharagpur since 2014. He received undergraduate mechanical engineering degree in 1989 from CET Bhubaneswar and master's and Ph.D. degrees from IIT Kharagpur in 1991 and 1996, respectively. He worked as a project manager at HighTech consultants from 1996 to 2000 and as a CNRS researcher in France from 2001 to 2004. He joined IIT Kharagpur in 2004. His research interests are systems and control, fault diagnosis and prognosis, industrial automation, nonlinear mechanics, legged and soft robotics, rotor dynamics, and road and rail vehicle