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The lab initially focus on the following research areas:
Sustainability and its assessment/evaluation → Measurement science is vital in evaluating environmental impacts to assess sustainability. There are several types of frameworks, analytical tools and metrics that have been developed to assess the achievement of sustainability. The purpose of such frameworks, tools and metrics is to evaluate impact to the environment at different scales depending on project boundaries. This paper provides a detailed review and in-depth mapping of a variety of sustainability frameworks, analysis tools and metrics currently in use related to building and environment. Such a mapping offers clarity to modelers on the hierarchy of measurement sciences in the yet-to-beformulated “science of sustainability.”
Sustainable manufacturing → Sustainable manufacturing is the creation of manufactured products through economically-sound processes that minimize negative environmental impacts while conserving energy and natural resources. Sustainable manufacturing also enhances employee, community, and product safety.
Eco-design, innovation → Eco-innovation is the development of products and processes that contribute to sustainable development, applying the commercial application of knowledge to elicit direct or indirect ecological improvements. This includes a range of related ideas, from environmentally friendly technological advances to socially acceptable innovative paths towards sustainability.
Design research → Design research was originally constituted as primarily research into the process of design, developing from work in design methods, but the concept has been expanded to include research embedded within the process of design, including work concerned with the context of designing and research-based design practice.
Design Research emerged as a recognisable field of study in the 1960s, initially marked by a conference on Design methods at Imperial College London, in 1962. It led to the founding of the Design Research Society (DRS) in 1966. John Christopher Jones (one of the initiators of the 1962 conference) founded a postgraduate Design Research Laboratory at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, and L. Bruce Archer founded the postgraduate Department of Design Research at the Royal College of Art, London, becoming the first Professor of Design Research.
Environmental policies and standards → An environmental standard is a policy guideline that regulates the effect of human activity upon the environment. Standards may specify a desired state (e.g. lake pH should be between 6.5 and 7.5) or limit alterations (e.g. no more than 50% of natural forest may be damaged).
Environmental standards are a set of quality conditions that are adhered or maintained for a particular environmental component and function. The different environmental activities have different concerns and therefore different standards
Energy issues related to sustainability → Many environmental problems confronting mankind at present is connected one way or the other, to the extraction, conversion, transformation or use of the energy. This is the reason why a through understanding of energy and environment is a prerequisite for planning and implementing sustainable energy program. Therefore, the role of energy is to be understood from both soci-economic and environmental perspectives. Sustainable energy technology is the one, which brings about socio-economic and cultural development without compromising on environmental quality and future of natural resources.
In a typical machining process a large amount of cutting fluid is used for lubrication and heat removal from the cutting tool and workpiece. However, the use of cutting fluids causes serious health issues for operators exposed to cutting fluids, such as skin disorders and pulmonary disorders. Additionally, there are increasing economic and environmental costs associated with managing cutting fluid systems and cutting fluid disposal. To improve the sustainability of machining processes researchers are making efforts to eliminate or reduce the use of cutting fluids during machining through several means: improvement of tool coatings and materials, development of hybrid machining processes, process optimization, etc.
We are trying to study the surface micro textures present on cutting tool surfaces to improve machining performance through alteration of tribological conditions at the tool-chip and tool-workpiece interfaces. Investigations indicate that these micro textures on the cutting reduce friction at the interface zones of the tool and workpiece by easing the access of lubricating agents present in the machining environment. Thus, by using surface textures, we are trying to eliminate or reduce the use of cutting fluids in machining process.
- Dhage Sagar Bhimraj, PhD student SDM lab
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