Incremental Sheet Forming Technologies: Principles, Merits, Limitations, and Applications
暫譯: 漸進式板材成形技術：原理、優點、限制與應用

增量板材成形（Incremental Sheet Forming, ISF）免除了模具的使用，並降低了製造複雜零件的成本。板金成形被廣泛應用於汽車、航空航天和醫療產業，以生產高品質的元件。本書涵蓋了這項新技術的優勢，包括過程參數及各種技術。

本書討論了這一新穎過程的每個變體，以及對機械和硬體的要求。此外，還建議了有關過程參數與ISF過程各方面之間關係的適當指導方針，以確保該過程在工業規模上的適用性。

本書將對研究人員、製造業工程師以及研究所課程的學生提供有用的資源。

Ajay is currently serving as an associate professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, SGT University, Gurugram, Haryana, India. He received his Ph.D. in the field of Incremental Sheet Forming from Guru Jambheswer University of Science & Technology, Hisar, India. He completed his B.Tech. (Hons.) and M.Tech. (Distinction) from Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, India. His areas of research include Incremental Sheet Forming, Additive Manufacturing, advanced manufacturing, and optimization techniques. He has over 25 publications in international journals of repute and refereed international conferences. He is supervising 3 Ph.D. and 2 M.Tech. scholars. He has a total of 8 years of experience in teaching and research. He has won several proficiency awards during the course of his career, including merit awards, best teacher awards, and so on.

AT SGT University, he is advisor of Association of Engineers and Technocrats (AET) and has also authored many in-house course notes, lab manuals, monographs and invited chapters in books. He has organized a series of Faculty Development Programmes, workshops, and seminar for researchers, UG and PG level students. He teaches the following courses at the graduate and post graduated level: Manufacturing Technology, Advanced Manufacturing Processes, Material Science, CAM, Operations Research, Optimization Techniques, Engineering Mechanics, Computer Graphics, Design of Experiments and research Methodology and so on. He is associated with many research, academic, and professional societies in various capacities.

R.K. Mittal began his academic career at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (BITS Pilani), India, one of the top universities of India, in 1975 and retired from there as Senior Professor in 2018. He headed the offshore campus of BITS Pilani at Dubai, UAE, as Director and was also the Vice-Chancellor of a private university, K.R.Mangalam University, Gurugram, India for a term. In his academic endeavour, he has introduced, developed and taught a wide spectrum of courses in Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science and new courses in emerging and interdisciplinary areas, at the graduate and postgraduate levels, including product design, mechanical design, reliability engineering, control systems, systems modelling, robotics & intelligent systems, mechatronics, MEMS and nanotechnology. He is life member of IEEE and ACM.

Prof. Mittal is author/co-author of over 80 technical papers and has co-authored two popular textbooks: Elements of Manufacturing Processes, PHI Learning; and Robotics & Control, McGraw-Hill. He was editor of two international conference proceedings and has also authored many in-house course notes, lab manuals, monographs and invited chapters in books. Seven students have completed Ph.D. under his supervision and His research interests include robust robot design, robot-path planning, micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), nanotechnology, software engineering, software testing and e-waste. He has guided more than sixty M.E./ M.S. Dissertations and numerous undergraduate projects/ thesis.

At BITS Pilani, he had held a series of leadership positions including, Director (Special Projects); Deputy Director Administration; Dean, Academic Registration and Counselling Division and founder Chief, Computer Assisted Housekeeping Unit, IEEE Student Branch Counsellor, amongst others. He was instrumental in establishing BITS Alumni Association (BITSAA) and was its Founder President. He received B.E. (Hons.) & M.E. in Mechanical Engineering, and Ph.D. degrees from BITS Pilani, India. He obtained the highest rank in order of merit in M.E. and was awarded the Institute's Gold Medal.

Ajay 目前擔任印度哈里亞納邦古魯格拉姆SGT大學工程與技術學院機械工程系的副教授。他在印度希沙爾的古魯詹比斯瓦爾科技大學獲得了增量板材成形領域的博士學位。他在印度羅塔克的馬哈希大亞南德大學完成了榮譽學士學位（B.Tech. (Hons.)）和優異碩士學位（M.Tech. (Distinction)）。他的研究領域包括增量板材成形、增材製造、先進製造和優化技術。他在國際知名期刊和經過審核的國際會議上發表了超過25篇論文。他目前指導3名博士生和2名碩士生，擁有8年的教學和研究經驗。在他的職業生涯中，他獲得了多項專業獎項，包括優異獎、最佳教師獎等。

在SGT大學，他是工程師與技術專家協會（Association of Engineers and Technocrats, AET）的顧問，並撰寫了許多內部課程筆記、實驗手冊、專著和書籍中的邀請章節。他組織了一系列的教師發展計劃、研討會和工作坊，針對研究人員、學士和碩士生。他在研究生和碩士生層級教授以下課程：製造技術、先進製造過程、材料科學、計算機輔助製造（CAM）、運籌學、優化技術、工程力學、計算機圖形學、實驗設計和研究方法論等。他與許多研究、學術和專業社團以不同身份有關聯。

R.K. Mittal 於1975年在印度比拉科技與科學學院（Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, BITS Pilani）開始他的學術生涯，並於2018年以高級教授身份退休。他曾擔任位於阿聯酋迪拜的BITS Pilani海外校區的主任，並曾任印度古魯格拉姆K.R. Mangalam大學的副校長。在他的學術生涯中，他引入、開發並教授了廣泛的機械工程、計算機科學及新興和跨學科領域的課程，涵蓋產品設計、機械設計、可靠性工程、控制系統、系統建模、機器人與智能系統、機電一體化、微機電系統（MEMS）和納米技術等研究生和碩士生課程。他是IEEE和ACM的終身會員。

Mittal教授是80多篇技術論文的作者或合著者，並共同編寫了兩本受歡迎的教科書：《製造過程要素》（Elements of Manufacturing Processes, PHI Learning）和《機器人與控制》（Robotics & Control, McGraw-Hill）。他曾擔任兩個國際會議論文集的編輯，並撰寫了許多內部課程筆記、實驗手冊、專著和書籍中的邀請章節。在他的指導下，有七名學生完成了博士學位。他的研究興趣包括穩健的機器人設計、機器人路徑規劃、微機電系統（MEMS）、納米技術、軟體工程、軟體測試和電子廢物。他指導了超過六十篇碩士論文和眾多本科專案/論文。

在BITS Pilani，他曾擔任一系列領導職位，包括特殊項目主任、行政副主任、學術註冊與諮詢部院長，以及計算機輔助家政單位創始主任、IEEE學生分會顧問等。他在建立BITS校友會（BITS Alumni Association, BITSAA）方面發揮了重要作用，並擔任其創始會長。他獲得了機械工程的榮譽學士學位（B.E. (Hons.)）、碩士學位（M.E.）和博士學位，均來自BITS Pilani，並在碩士學位中獲得了最高的優異成績，並獲得了學院金獎。