Experiments and Simulations in Advanced Manufacturing / Materials Forming, Machining and Tribology (PDF)

¿Dr. Panagiotis Kyratsis (www.kyratsis.com) is Associate Professor in the Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering, University of Western Macedonia, Greece. He is Director of the Institute of Traditional Architecture and Cultural Heritage, University Research Center "TEMENUS" (urc.uowm.gr). Dr Panagiotis Kyratsis received his Ph.D. in the area of CAD-based manufacturing process simulations from the Department of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete, Greece. He holds a diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the Aristotle's University of Thessaloniki - Greece, and he received his M.Sc. in Automotive Product Engineering and M.Sc. in CAD/CAM from Cranfield University - UK, in 1997 and 1999, respectively. He has been involved in a number of industrial projects, and he has a great deal of expertise in both the design and the manufacturing aspects of product development. His main research interests include manufacturing, machining, CAD/CAM/CAE systems, product design, reverse engineering and prototyping. He has published 18 books and more than 110 papers in scientific journals and international conferences. He acts as Member of the Editorial Board and Reviewer to numerous scientific journals and holds 12 industrial designs and one patent registered within the Greek Patent Office.
Prof. J. Paulo Davim received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1997, M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering (materials and manufacturing processes) in 1991, Mechanical Engineering degree (5 years) in 1986, from the University of Porto (FEUP), the Aggregate title (Full Habilitation) from the University of Coimbra in 2005 and the D.Sc. (Higher Doctorate) from London Metropolitan University in 2013. He is Senior Chartered Engineer by the Portuguese Institution of Engineers with an MBA and Specialist titles in Engineering and Industrial Management as well as in Metrology. He is also Eur Ing by FEANI Brussels and Fellow (FIET) of IET London.