Editorial Acknowledgments
We sincerely thank all the authors for contributing the state-of-the-art articles. The
idea for bringing out this compendium was provided by Professor Amitabha Ghosh.
We are very grateful to him. We also thank other members of the Editorial Advisory
Board, viz., Professors A. K. Mallik, Gautam Biswas, A. K. Dass, U. K. Saha,
R. Ganesh Narayanan, M. S. Shunmugam, G. K. Ananthasuresh, P. K. Das, Sanjay
Mittal, S. S. Pande, Amit Agrawal, P. M. Pandey, J. Paulo Davim, and
Vadim V. Silberschmidt. We are very grateful to Prof. T. G. Sitharam, Director, IIT
Guwahati, for encouraging us to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of Mechanical
Engineering Department; this book is a part of that celebration. We are also thankful
to all faculty members of the department. We thank Mr. Kaustabh Chatterjee,
Research Scholar, for assisting the editorial task. Finally, we sincerely acknowledge
the dedicated support provided by Ms. Swati Meherishi and other editorial staff
members of Springer Nature.
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