Alok Nayar Alok Nayar is Chief Manager, Materials Engineering and Metrology at the Escorts R&D Centre, Faridabad, India. He holds a B Tech (Hons.) degree in metallurgical engineering from IIT-Kharagpur, India, and an MS degree in materials science from theUniversity of Minnesota, USA. He is a member of ASM International, the Tribology Society of India, and the Bureau of Indian Standards’ Sectional Committees on Wrought Steel Products, Pig Iron and Cast Iron, and Alloy Steels and Forgings. He is the author of The Metals Databook (1997) and The Steel Handbook (2002), published by Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company Limited. He is also the co-editor of the proceedings on Continuous Casting of Steel (1984), published by the Indian Institute of Metals. Read More Read Less