Advanced Composite Materials and Structures (ePub)

international journals of his domain. He is a life member of Indian Society for Applied Mechanics and few other international engineering societies. His h-index is more than 20 in Google scholar and Scopus.

Dr. Subrata Kumar Panda has defended his PhD thesis in the year of 2009 from IIT Kharagpur Department of Aerospace Engineering in the field of Smart Composite Structures. Currently, he is Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIT Rourkela, India. His research area comprises of multiscale-multi-physics material modelling and experimental mechanics. He has already published more than 150 articles in peer reviewed international journal including the conference proceeding. He handled three sponsored projects from different Govt. agencies (DRDO, DST and AICTE) as Principal Investigator and two as Co-PI (BRNS, IMPRINT). He has also worked as one of Collaborator from Mechanical Engineering for Centre of Excellence Orthopaedic Tissue Engineering and Rehabilitation. He has already guided eight PhD scholars (six as main/sole supervisor) in different problems relevant to the Smart Composite Structural Modelling and Analysis, Acoustics, Biomechanics. He has also received award of recognition for his contribution in Mechanical Sciences from NIT Rourkela. His h-index is more than 30 in Google Scholar and Scopus.

Dr. Jayakrishna is an Associate professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering at the Vellore Institute of Technology University, India. Dr. Jayakrishna's research is focused on the design and management of manufacturing systems and supply chains to enhance efficiency, productivity and sustainability performance. More recent research is in the area of developing tools and techniques to enable value creation through sustainable manufacturing, including methods to facilitate more sustainable product design for closed-loop material flow in industrial symbiotic setup, and developing sustainable products using hybrid bio composites. He has mentored undergraduate and graduate students (2 M.Tech Thesis and 24 B.Tech Thesis) which have so far led to 40 journal publications in leading SCI/ SCOPUS Indexed journals, 17 book chapters, and 85 refereed conference proceedings. Dr. Jayakrishna's team has received numerous awards in recognition for the quality of the work that has been produced. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the manufacturing and industrial systems area and his initiatives to improve teaching effectiveness have been recognized through national awards. He has also been awarded Institution of Engineers (India)-Young Engineer Award in 2019 and Distinguished Researcher Award in the field of Sustainable Systems Engineering in 2019 by International Institute of Organized Research.