Preface

Abstract

The 6th biennial International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering Science and Technology; ICETEST 2020 has been organized by Government Engineering College Thrissur, Kerala, India, from 17 to 19 December 2020. The three sub-conferences organized under the aegis of ICETEST 2020 are; International Conference on Civil engineering Advances for Sustainable Infrastructure Development & Environment (CEASIDE 2020), International Conference on Recent Advances in Materials Processing and Technology for Sustainability (RAMPTS 2020) and International Conference on Power Instrumentation Control and Computing (PICC 2020) sponsored by IEEE.Government Engineering College Thrissur (GEC Thrissur), Kerala, is an ISO 9001: 2015 QMS certified institution and also one of the most prestigious and reputed technical education institutions in India. The College was established in the year 1957 with under graduate programs in Civil, Mechanical and Electrical engineering disciplines. From the humble beginning in 1957, the institution has made substantial progress in all areas and, at present, offering eight undergraduate programs, twelve post-graduate programs and doctoral programs in various engineering disciplines and architecture with an intake of more than 1000 students per annum. Most of the UG and PG programs offered by the college have been accredited by the National Board of Accreditation (NBA), India.Government Engineering College Thrissur has been organizing the biennial International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering, Science and Technology (ICETEST) from the year 2009 onwards. The conference was then organized with the title theme ‘Materials for the Future’, focusing on research and development in the field of advanced metallic, ceramic, refractory, polymer, and composite materials and their processing. In the fourth edition of the biennial conference, organized during 2015, the title theme have been revised to a more broader ‘Emerging Trends in Engineering, Science and Technology’ and introduced multiple tracks with the track, Power Instrumentation Control and Computing (PICC) sponsored by IEEE. Ever since the first edition, the conference has received overwhelming response from academicians, scientists, researchers and scholars all over the world and has become a global platform to present, share and discuss their research findings in various fields of science, engineering and technology.Though, ICETEST 2020 has been organized under the shadow of Covid 19, the conference has received overwhelming response from scientific community all over the world. Altogether there were nearly five hundred contributory paper submissions to the conference. All the submitted papers have been subjected to stringent closed peer review by at least two reviewers and subsequently, ICETEST 2020 features more than two hundred contributory oral presentations in addition to eighteen Keynote and Invited Lectures. All the accepted full length contributory papers of CEASIDE 2020 and RAMPTS 2020 have been published in the journal, Materials Science and Engineering published by IOP Publishing, United Kingdom. Whereas, the accepted papers of PICC 2020 being published in the IEEE Xplore digital library.On behalf of the Organizing committee and Government Engineering College Thrissur, we would like to place on record our sincere gratitude to the patrons, advisors, coordinators, various committee members, faculty and staff members, reviewers, session chairs, speakers, delegates and publishers for their whole hearted support and cooperation for the successful conduct of the conference including the publishing of contributory papers. Conference Chairs: Dr. Haris Naduthodi & Dr. K K RamachandranList of titles Conference Secretariat, Organizing Committee, Editorial Board are available in this Pdf.