Proceedings of International Conference on Advances in Tribology and Engineering Systems ICATES 2013

Dr. Himanshu C. Patel is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Mathematics at L. D. College of Engineering, Ahmedabad, India. He has been teaching for 13 years and has over 10 years of research experience. He has published several research papers in various international journals. He has also participated in several international conferences, including the ASME/STLE conference in 2012 at Denver, Colorado. He is Advisor – Research and Development in Science and Humanities, Gujarat Technological University.

Dr. Gunamani Deheri is Associate Professor of Mathematics at Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidhyanagar, Gujarat, India. He has 27 years of teaching/research experience. His research interests include tribology and functional analysis. He has over 100 research papers to his credit in various international journals. He has won the Hariom Ashram Award for the best research paper five times. He is also the winner of the Balkanji Bari Science Trust Award and the Excellence in Research Award, Saurashtra University.

Dr. H.S. Patel is Professor of Applied Mechanics at Government Engineering College, Patan, Gujarat, India. His areas of expertise include structural engineering, tsunami engineering and advanced computing in structural engineering. He has published more than 40 papers in international and national journals and three books in area of structural engineering. He has over 28 years of teaching experience and has conducted several training programs on computer aided design.

Dr. Shreya M. Mehta is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at L. D. College of Engineering, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. She holds a doctorate from S.V. National Institute of Technology, Surat. She has been teaching for over 16 years. She has published several research papers at both the national and the international level. She had guided several students in their dissertation work.